Middletown transcript., 1881-07-01

SoS0PlA p. OlDDSy LAsqsY Oh w n6ellIS
West Virginia, is visiting his Delaware
friends.
s..# = MiddletOwn is making more ice cream
this summer than during any previous
season.
A free use of lemons during the warm
season will frequently ward off bilious
attacks.
- The time has arrived when the law
requires you to put new stamp on your
town dog.
- Craddock will run stage to connect
with the "Clio'' excursion from Odessa,
on the Fourth.
- Members Of Irving Lyceum will
probably give a dramatic entertainment
early in the fall.
: Personal intelligence The bald-head-
ed editor will rusticate for a few days at
Fenimore's mill pond.
= Rev. w. L. S. Murray returned
home to-day from visit to his father, who
resides at Selbeyville, Del.
- We will send the TRANSCRIPT one
year free to the first Middletown man or
woman who shoots burglar.
= City cousins are arriving in our midst
in search of a little country air and an ap-
petite. They can find both here.
Bayard Institute, Miss Tilghman's
popular school for young ladies, will open
for the fall session on Sept. 18th.
The Methodist people expect to have
a very large excursion to the Geological
Garden, Philadelphia, on the Goth.
N Mrs. A. Grubb, Miss Emma Jones
and J. H. Emmerson have gone to Ocean
Grove to remain during the season.
Mr.. r. A. Cochran, after another Sc
GUS cold that kept him to his room for
several days, is able to be about again.
Mrs. H. N. Willis, Mrs. A. B. Derrick
son and Miss Anna Derrickson left Middle
town yesterday for Asbury Park, n. ].
- Rev. w. G. Alexander attended the
Commencement at Lafayette College, Eas-
ton, Pa, this week. He returned home
yesterday.
- Governor Hall has appointed Charles
+. Anderson, of this town, Commissary,
with the rank of Colonel, of the State
Militia.
g. w. Price has gone to Rehoboth to
remain during the season. He will fur
nish music for the dancers at the Bright |
House.
- The comet has been an object of gen. /
eral observation this week. Some Of the |
young people say it is the more brilliant |
after midnight.
= The annual catalogue of the Agricul-
tural Association has been unavoidably |
delayed little, but will be ready for
mailing at an early day.
= Services at Old st. Anne's last Sum
day morning brought out large congre-
cation. Rev. w. G. w. Lewis, the Rector,
preached an able sermon.
H. David Peacock, Ensign, U. s. Navy, |
son of Samuel Peacock, of the AIiddletown |
Hotel, is now at home awaiting orders.
He was last on the steamer "Quinne-
baug.'
A number Of our people are going to
FOrtesque on the q Clio" excursion, Mon
day. 1t will be necessary to make an
early start, as the boat leaves Odessa at
four a. IN.
= Some of our young men say the front
gate is an excellent point from which to
view the new comet. And even there we
notice they usually have to have some one
to help them view it.
= Samuel Townsend is the first to bring
in twig bearing a peach, from tree
growing in the vicinity of NIiddletown.
It is from a limb that lay under the snow
during the cold wave.
= Jake Emerson upholstered a sofa /
this week that is said to be one hundred |
and twenty-five years old. It was the
property of General Forman, and now |
belongs to Geo. III. Hessey, Of Sassafras
Neck, Md.
We have received a note from DIR. |
Bradshaw, physician to Congress Hall,
Ocean City, stating that he is at his old |
post. He is the only Ocean City physician
we ever allow to prescribe for us. We don't |
charge him cent for this testimonial.
We learn that very liberal subscrip- |
tions have already been made for the
Forest Church improvement. More than
halt the amount needed (S6,OOO) was sub
scribed after the morning services, Sun
day last. The work will probably soon
be commenced.
= Following is list ofletters remaining
in the post office at Middletown, Del, for
the week ending, July 1st, 1881: John
A. Faulkner, three; z. T. Guthrie, Geo.
Schockley, Miss Mary Wilson. Persons
calling for the above will please say that
they are advertised. D. L. Dunning, P. NJ.
= Those who have interviewed nosqui-
toes, "down by the sea- this season, say
the specimens are the finest they have
ever seen. Some of the Rehoboth mos
quitoes are reported to be wearing bangs
and apolonaise, cut bias. One of them can
suck all the blood out Of city girl at one
sitting.
"A number of our people have hied
away to the summer resorts and others
are getting ready to go. Middletown is a
pretty good summer resort itself, we
think, and one can have here more fun and
fewer nlosq uitoes, and at less cost, than at
many of the "resorts," rejoicing in "all
the luxuries of the season."
The present harvest is trying one on
selEbinders, and we learn that many per-
sons have been unable to use them on ac-
count of fallen wheat. Farmers probably
never had harvest that tried their pa
thence more, for there has been storm after
storm, and the grain in many fields looked
lust about as flat before it was cut as after
wards.
- Middletown will have no fireworks,
no Declaration Of Independence, and, we
hope, no black eyes on the Fourth. All
will be peaceful and quiet, probably. Some
of our people will excursion to COLCHESTER,
others to Collins Beach, Bombay Hook,
or Fortesque, and still others will 60 to
Dover to see the trotting. Let us give
thanks in advance that we have no old
rusty cannon to blow somebody's arm of.