Middletown transcript., 1878-05-18
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY Is, 1878.
Local Affairs.

Street, have been painted and improved with
rev steps.
Eastern Shores article on the Great West
i crowded out this week BY new advertise
ments.
Straw hats have not been 50 noticeable dur
ing the past week as they were about the first
Of the month.
We have strong hopes that MiddIetown will
soon have new manufacturing enterprise Of
considerable Importance
Two travelling musicians passed through
town on Wednesday and fiddled BY the way
side for loose change.
The cool weather Of Saturday and Sunday
made Billy Anthony, Of the National Hotel,
bring ouI bis stove again.
Rev DR.. Patton will preach at the chapel
at Armstrong;, on Sabbath afternoon, at q
O'Clock, P NJ, the 9th instant.
A runaway team from the neighborhood Of
the depot aroused a number Of late sIeepers,
o Monday morning last. No serious damage
number Of prominent peach growers Of
this vicinity are Of the opinion that it would
be well to call peach meeting atan early day.
Few tramps have appeared in this locality
SO far this spring. They are probably tarrying
in the cities awaiting communistic outbreaks.
A Photographic establishment has been
erected between Cummins' Bakery and Ella
son & Bensons Stove store Go and have
your picture taken
Read s. NJ. Reynolds B Cos. new advertise
ment in another column. They contemplate
grand opening Of new and cheap goods in
their double store, to-day.
We publish in this issue the Road Commits
sioners' Report for St. Georges Hundred, which
we suppose will be found interesting to tax
payers.
The reports Of the condition Of the Citizens
National Bank Of Middletown, and Of the New
Castle County National Bank Of Odessa, will
be found in another column.
AS the population Of Middletown has in
creased very rapidly within the past eight
years, would it not be good idea for the
town Commissioners to have the census taken
Winter was trying to sit in the lap Of Spring
during the early part Of this week. The man
who had taken off bis winter clothes was not
happy, and fires were comfortable for several
days.
A Middletown correspondent Of the Phila-
delphia Times gives this vicinity ''oRe-fourth'
Of peach crop and makes a still lower esti-
mate for orchards in rtEG vicinity Of Odessa
and Armstrong;
Mr.. J. B Fenimore, Of odessa has sold his
Mddletown real estate, consisting Of the brick
dwelling on Main Street, with three other
dwellings and several building lots, TO G. F.
Brady, Esq, Of Delaware City. Terms Pri-
yate
The ladies Of Drawer Presbyterian church
will hold Strawberry Festival in the Odessa
Town Hall, Wednesday evening next, for the
benefit Of their church The Diamond State
Cornet Band will be present and enliven the
occasion with a number Of select airs.
''sIy Reynard, !" who has bis retreat about
mile southwest Of town, does not get much
time to prowl at night for the next days pro
visions for himself and family. Uncle Bill and
bis foxhunting friends keep him stirred up
most every evening, and sometimes half the
night, with their musical pack.
The first spring fogging took place at New
Castle, on Saturday last when seven culprits
received The attention Of the Sheriff; among
the number, Eugene and-Ciarence Cooper,
l>~zho roB5ed Reynolds 4 Co.'S clothing store,
IA Till town, last winter. They received
twenty lashes each.
Joseph West, Esq, one Of our Oldest and
most esteemed citizens, died after short i'll
ness, Wednesday morning last in the 74th
year Of bis age He was an active member Of
Forest Presbyterian Church, and respected by
Ill Who knew him. The funeral will take
plaee to-day at 2:3O clock. P. N from For
est Chnrch.
Persons who have been thinking about the
ttSupar Beet business" will find an interesting
article On our first page, entitled aTo Della
wara Farmers .n We see by an exchange that
~ hundred acres Of sugar beet5 will be
r,ontad this season in the vicinity Of Fairfield
Maine ~ the strength Of successful expert
mants last year Beet Sugar faetoriFs have al
roodr been established in that Staie. If the
business will pay in Maine, il will pay here; !;
d a bone farmers in this vicinitywiIl com
nate for the premium offered by the etate.
noticed IN our last issue, a slight change
bas been made in the timetable Of the Deia-
uara Railroad. No change has beel made N
IL time Of the first train going n1rth. lhe
second rain going north, now leav's a. ll;zo'
and The afternoon train at BIG. 9ihs souti'
tbe train that formerly left at 40 ~" leaveS
At 2.os. The time Of other passei Pet 'iaihs
moving south has not been change'T
ph;iaaolnbia Portable photograph
Gallery, opposite Town Hall, \ 4'uGie'own'
nj viii remain for short -timeS pnly. 20
to-dav Don't put it Of till tomorrow 70 get
YOUR Photograph, IvorytyPe' feGoypf Or Or
y.batever kind you may desire. ic.ures IL
nu y Water colors, from small ne-slze'
con;es from small to large size ouiidings'
Sorsos carriages, &C., taken at 8 Pr notlce.
norses' $50 s'r norsons taken with eyes open.
Deos'9 e.a,rbsrrv Festival, ii Tow Hall, had
The oIa"y .aaes wednesday anI Thursday
falr a''en - ~ amount realiz u will, we
evenings - a,liv m to the EXPECTATIONS oi
understand Ths HalT was tas fully deco
the Managers. and everpreens and foun-
rated With lio'N' 4,a centre Of thdroom The
tain Playeu i nrosided over brafair ladies,
numerous 49, arowded during Wednesday
were eons'an =, 4. brave and the fair, seeking
evening Wi1n M shane Of strawberries,
refreshments i III Festival kas cotiaued
cream and cake Ihe fes'''"'
Friday evening