Middletown transcript., 1881-11-18
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

prospect Tor a continuance OF the same.
- Morning mails from the north con
tinue to come late with great regularity.
= Money sold at par at the regular meet
ing of the Mutual Loan Association, Tues
day evening.
= The cannery building was rooted this
week, and the workmen expect to have it
soon completed.
~ The 2 o'clock passenger train yester-
day killed cow belonging to W. R. Gar
ton, near Middletown.
= The Lyceums entertainment in the
Town Hall will probably be held during
the week before Christmas.
A special convocation Of Union Lodge,
\. f. and \. NJ, will be held this even
ing. Work on the Second Degree.
: Middletown will no doubt be well
represented at the Thanksgiving enter
tainment of the Odessa Dramatic Asso-
citation.
At the meeting of Irving Lyceum on
Monday evening Rev. Mr.. Alexander will
read part Of an interesting lecture on
"Socialism.'
II. f. Hurn, our tailor, who is doing
an extensive business just now, has Sc
cured the services Of Mr.. Taylor, Of Dover,
as an assistant.
- Union Thanksgiving services will be
held in Forest Presbyterian Church at
IO.30 o'clock, A. NJ. Rev. Mr.. Murray, Of
the NJ. f, Church. will preach the sermon.
- Samples Of the latest styles of ball
programs may be seen at the TRANSCRIPT
office. Special attention and care is
given to this class of work in our iobbing
department
A musical entertainment by the NJ.
Z. Sunday School will probably be given
in the Town Hall during the Christmas
holidays. It will be a pleasing and sue
cessful affair, Of course.
- The Baltimore Sun says all that is nee
essary to secure the completion Of the
Middletown and Ellston railroad is sub
scription Of $4,000 in Baltimore. Well,
if that is necessary, we don't believeit will
ever be built.
= Owing to unfavorable weather, but
few farmers came to Middletown on Sat
urday last to discuss the labor problem,
and the proposed meeting was not held.
Another date for the meeting has not yet
been fixed upon.
: The only bright ray Of satisfaction
that comes into the mind of a man who is
pestered daily by drove of his neighbor's
chickens, is the thought that the NJ. E.
Conference will meet here next March.
n. B.-This is not joke.
= Messrs. Biggs, Clayton & Co. have
purchased $50, 900 cans of S. W. Hall, in
stead Of $1,000, as stated in this column
last week. The omission Of cipher by
printer whose mind was centred on
Thanksgiving turkey caused the error.
- The Globe Comedy Company, Of Del
aware City, will probably appear at the
Town Hall during the season. Its rendi-
ton of " Little Nell'' and Little Daisy"
at New Castle, recently, was very highly
praised, and we presume that the same
selections will be given here.
- The books of the Middletown Library
Association have been moved into the
irving Lyceum room and will be re-cata-
lopued and ready for distribution in a few
davs. AS this valuable library is now in
a central location and the fees for its privi-
leges are to be very reasonable, we have
no doubt but it will be more generally
patronized in the future than in the past.
= Thanksgiving day will probably be
observed in Middletown to about the same
extent as heretofore. Union services will
be held al Forest Presbyterian church in
the morning, and the turkey and accom-
paninents will follow. The bank will be
closed and so will the stores, but an eager
customer, we presume, will be able to get
into the latter at the back door to make a
purchase.
As two young men were racing their
horses through town, Sunday evening, one
of them accidentally collided with the car
rage Of Mr.. William Wilson, who was
driving in an opposite direction, breaking
A wheel and otherwise damaging his We
hiele. Mr.. Wilson was thrown out of his
carriage but was not injured. 1t is high
time a stop was put to fast driving through
the streets of Middletown, as there is an
ordinance to meet the case.
The Elkton NelOS asks: g What kind
of an investment would it be for the Town
Commissioners to dress our principal
streets with layer Of oyster shellsY'
Well, it has been the experience OF those
who have tried it that a layer of oyster
shells from twelve to eighteen inches deep
makes a pretty good road or street, put an
oyster shell here and there for road bed,
as has been tried in some Pemnsular
towns, has proved very much OF IaiIure'
"A number Of railroad officials, inclu-
ding President Roberts, of the Pennsyl-
vania; President Hinckley, OF the +, p.
ar; President FELTON,, of the Delaware I;
General Manager, Frank Thompson, ana
Superintendents Kenney and Mills, Went
down the road Monday on tour q IN
spection. President Biggs, of the O., A. q
Kent road, joined the party here. They
passed over the Delaware, Eastern Shore,
Newtown and Worcester County, Della
ware and Chesapeake, and Queen Annes
and Kent roads, returning Tuesday even
INC. The train was composed of six pas
senger cars.
IN The newspapers are already speeuia-
ting about the peach crop of 'S2, and gen
orally agree that the prospect for crop i
not very bright. The low temperature ol
last winter killed much ofthe young WOOD
and the drought of the summer is thought
to have left the trees in feeble and ex-
bausted condition. This being the case,
poninsnIa will have TO worry through an
other season without peaches, but the
TRANSCRIPT will not begin to look on the
dark side this early. You don't always
know what peach trees are going to &c
seven or eight months ahead OF time. Ihey
have waY of surprising even the most
experienced growers, sometimes