Middletown transcript., 1881-10-21

rtment.
Reynolds & Co. have had the
window shutters Of their new
ad SO that thieves may not
6gh and steal new fall suit.
Executive Committee of Irving
Lyce1m will please meet at the Lyceum
room on Monday afternoon, oath inst, at
4 O'Clock. BY order of the President.
-Bayard Institute, Miss Ella Tilghman's
popular school, is well attended during the
present session, and the Principal is much
encouraged by her success in Middletown.
- The regular meeting of the Mutual
Loan Association was held on Tuesday
evening. Twelve hundred dollars Of the
surplus funds of the Association was sold
at par.
A cherry-tree branch bearing several
blossoms and halfgrown cherries was
brought to the TRANSCRIPT office this
week. The frosts will be apt to cut this
second crop short.
A notice in our advertising columns
tells where the Babcock extinguishers
may be found. They are now in order
and will be found Of great service in
checking fire if used in time.
- One of the Wilmington Morning
Ne,gs correspondents seems to have
deep-rooted spite against the " "Middletown
Fair" as he calls it. He must have bet on
the wrong horse when he was here.
Now that paste has gone up, the
country editor will starve to DEATH"
F'Jth-Assistant Exchange Editor WI
naington Morning NeiOs. viii some one
start a penny subscription for the INDECENT
Wilmington brother?
= The new lodge of "Ancient Order
United Workmen," recently instituted
here, have rented lodge room in the
Town Hall. The regular meetings OF the
lodge will be held on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month.
- The nurserymen anticipate a brisk |
season and are prepared to meet all de-
mands. E. r. Cochran, Of the Middle
town Nurseries, and Polk & Hyatt, of the
Odessa Nurseries have just issued their
annual catalogue and price lists.
- Henry Clayton, Esq, has purchased
Of Mr.. G. E. Hukill, for Miss Mollie Nau-
dain, the dwelling on Cass street occupied
by Rev. w. G. w. Lewis. Mr. Clayton
expects to remove to Middletown next
March and occupy this dwelling.
Rev. w. G. Alexander was, on Tues
day evening, summoned to Lewistown,
Pa, by a telegram announcing that his
grandmother was in a dying condition.
He left NIiddletown by late train, and
reached Lewistown next morning.
Prof. s. T. Ford, of Wilmington, will
visit Middletown on Monday evening
next for the purpose OF organizing a class
in elocution and voice culture. He has
kindly consented to entertain Irving Ly-
ceum at their rooms with several select
readings on the occasion of his visit.
~ NIiddletown's stores now close at
eight o'clock in the evening, giving the
clerks opportunity to put away the yard
stick half an hour earlier than in many
towns on the Peninsula. Doubtless many
of them improve that half hour in some
ones back parlor, talking about the sweet
after while.
- The following is a list of letters re-
naming in the post office, at Middletown,
Del, for the week ending Oct. I'D, 1881:
Mrs. Thos. A. r. Lofland, Miss Sallie
Moody, Miss Matte Smith, P. H. Wilson.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say that they are advertised. D. L.
Dunning P. M.
1T is not often that people in this lati-
tude sit on the piazzas and fan themselves
in the evening at the middle Of October,
but it has been done this season. Win
dows were wide open Sunday and Mon
day evenings last, and the heat was almost
as oppressive as in mid summer. Atnoon
OF Sunday and Monday the mercury reg
istered 81 in the shade.
1t has been suggested by several
farmers that meeting be held at an early
day in Middletown for the purpose of dis
cussing the laborquestion and taking steps
to invite foreign labor to settle here and
occupy the tenent houses of the farmers
We shall be glad to have our people dis
cuss the merits Of this movement through
the columns of the TRANSCRIPT.
= Rev. Mr.. Lewis has purchased OF Mr.
f. r. Cochran, building lot at the corner
of Broad and Cochrans street and will
probably have a dwelling erected on the
same this fall. The lot is 75xl5O feet and
is eligibly located. By the way, lots on
South Broad street are going off in lively
manner and we shall not be surprised if
the street is soou built up on both sides
out to the town line.
- New advertisements in the TRANS
cRIPT this week Wanamaker's Grand
Depot-Oak Hall Clothing House,
Fall announcement, G. w. w. Naudain,
Middletown.-Ph Philip Less Middletown
Clothing gst0re.-Publics sale of thorough
bred cattle, Echenhofer & Long.-Polk
q Hyatt's Odessa Nurseries,. w.
Roberts & Co.'S tin store.-Rice's Oyster
House, Middletown.-Teacher's In
stitute.
- Professor EvanisiIno, of the Middle
town Hotel, is q fine performer on the
Chinese gong. When he strikes up a
improvvista, in four sharps, sort of glad
expression comes over the countenances of
the boarders, and they all draw nearer
to the music, as though they we're afraid
they might miss couple OF yards of it.
The horses do not like this style of enter
tainment, though, and the Professor ON
Tuesday evening, whilst in the midst of
one of his grandest solos, came near caus-
ing VIM. Eliason's horse to run away and
spill William ont.