Middletown transcript., 1922-06-17
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ed friends in town on Wednesday.
Mrs. Joseph Mannering and family
motored to Philadelphia on Sunday
4 Miss Mary Adams, of Wilmington,
spent Thursday with Townsend friends.
Mrs George Knots has returned
home from visiting her sister at Ches-
void.
Mrs John Shea. of Philadelphia, has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. j. o.
Foraker.
George Wiggin, wife and mother,
Mrs. Edna Wiggin, motored to Dover
on Friday.
William Moffit has returned home
from q months visit to relatives at Mt.
Vernon, Ohio.
Dallas N. Hart has returned from
Lancaster, Pa, where he madea busi-
ness trip on Friday.
Thomas Eastwright, of Philadelphia,
was the guest of J. Clarence Hutchinson
and wife on Monday.
Miss Rebecca Bramble attended the
commencement exercises at Denton,
Md. on Monday evening.
Elwood Townsend and family, of
Philadelphia. spent Sunday with his
father Thomas Townsend.
Mrs. Caddie Glnn who mas been quite
Ill for the past two weeks, is reported
as improving slowly at this writing.
Miss Corinne Outten and Earl Lay
man, of Wilmington, were guests of
G. l.. Shockley and wife, on Sunday.
Irving B. Hart and wife, of Viii.
mington, are spending this week at the
home of his parents, j. A. Hart and
wife.
The Townsend Athletic Club will
cross bats with the Delaware Bronze,
of Wilmington, 'on Saturday afternoon
at 3 o'clock.
Mrs. George Daniels who has been
Ill, being threatened with pneumonia,
for several days is now showing slight
improvement.
W. P. Reynolds returned home on
Sunday from Smyrna, after three
days. visit at the home of James Will
son and wife.
Mrs. Richard Hodgson has been pay
ing visit to her daughter. Mrs. Carl
ton MacSorley, at Cambridge, Md, dur
ing the past week.
w. Gilbert Poore, a representative of
the Soldiers Vocational Bureau, of
Baltimore, is spending several days
with relatives and friends here.
Miss Elizabeth Maloney attended a
dance at the University of Delaware,
Newark, and is now the guest of Miss
Florence Martin, of Wilmington.
Miss Ruth Hutchison has returned
home, after spending the past two
months in Cambridge, Md, at the
home of Mrs. Carlton MacSorley.
Mrs. J. c. Hutchison has been suf-
fering from THE effects of sticking a
nail in her foot few days ago, but is
steadily improving from the injury
Mrs. Winfield Lattomus who was i'll
last week. is preparing to go to Reho-
both next week where she and her hus-
band have rented a cottage for the
summer.
James Lattomus and wife, of Will
mington, were guests of Mrs. Eva
Lattomus, and sister Mrs. Sallie Raisin
who have also been visited recently by
Miss Hilda Stevens. of Wilmington.
Mrs. Addie McMullen, of Alvada,
OHIO, is visiting her grandfather, W.
p. Reynolds, and other relatives this
week while few days ago she was the
guest of A. c. P. Reynolds and family
Edward Hart and wife motored to
Baltimore on Sunday to visit their
daughter, Mrs. Norman Clinton whose
husband is improving after undergoing
an operation for appendicitis at Balti-
more hospital.
While cranking his car on Saturday
morning, Paul O'Neil who is the son of
John O'Neil, president of the O'Neil
Construction Company, broke his arm,
as result of the engine back firing.
Dr. Niles reduced the fracture, which
was just above the wrist.
Walter Hutton, of near Delaney's,
while driving his car near Townsend
on Sunday evening. was nearly suffo-
Gated when his automobile overturned
and buried him in muddy ditch HAD
it not been for help coming in short
time he would have been smothered.
The Ladies' Aid Society was enter
tained ut the parsonage on Tuesday
evening, by Mrs. George p. Jones and
her helpers who were Mrs. Edward
Hart, Mrs. Charles Jones, Mrs. Bay
nard Marvel and Mrs. L. L. Maloney
A very pleasant evening was spent by
all present.
The highest price ever received for
cherries including wartime prices was
the returns from crate shipped to
market by George Long, Blackbird
hundred farmer. He received 25 cents
a box or 81 for the crate This was the
first picking and there has been drop
in the price since, but for Morella
cherries this is regarded as a record
price.
Milton S. Andrews. student at the
Garrett Biblical Institute of Evanston,
H., and Miss Zoe Wellesley, of Mt.
Vernon. N. Y, friends of Edward M.
Jones, son of Rev. land Mrs G. p.
Jones, are now on visit to his
parents, preparatory to sailing to CAL
cutta, India, under a three year con-
tract with large manufacturing firm
of Boston, Mass. Young Mr.. Jones
who resides at Springfield, Mass is
graduate of Wesleyan University of
Middletown, Conn, and has been en-
ployed by this firm since his graduation.
A lively contest for the Democratic
nomination of Representative from the
Fourteenth district is promised in the
announcement made few DAYS ago
that former Representative T. B. Sch
watkar will again seek the Legislative
job, while at the same time it was an
nounced by the friends of George
Reihm, well-known farmer. of near
Noxontown Mill, that he would oppose
Mr.. Schwatka for the nomination. Both
candidates being popular with the rank
and file of their party, will poll heavy
vote and the outcome of the contest
will he watched with much interest.
Miss Ethel c. Rothwell, who has been
Principal of the Townsend Public School
for the past four years, has resigned to