Middletown transcript., 1881-08-19
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

uTuR SUOTO uIlu6T Blb 1OW0 f1dlls
- Middletown was visited by a refresh.
ing little shower Wednesday night.
- The committee on water has not yet
fully decided on the site for the works.
A number Of our people visited Col
Inns Beach yesterday and had a pleasant
time.
- Middletown viii have at least one
large cannery ready for operations next
season.
An interesting description of New
Jersey creamery will be found on our
first page.
IT. w. Buckle put the electrict alarm
at the Citizens National Bank in order
yesterday.
= 1t is rumored that a new firm will
commence the manufacture Of phosphate
here at an early day.
Watermelons are plentiful. Middle
town receives about a ear load day from
the lower Peninsula.
= John NJ. Vandenbraak, son of John
G. Vandenbraak, Of NIiddletown, died on
Saturday last of consumption.
81 The Maryland estate of the late Will
liam Wilson will be sid at public sale at
Elkton, Md, on Thursday next.
There will be services a. st. Anne's
p. E. Church on Sunday morning at the
usual hour. Preaching by the rector.
The privilege Of the large dining
slloon, at the coming Peninsular fair, has
baen disposed to w. G. Longfellow, of
Wyoming.
- Mrs. r. w. Cochran has purchased
the dwelling of Mrs. Annie West. on
Green street The price paid, we learn,
was g, 100.
A basket of peaches is a great Gu
riosity now in Middletown. At this time
last season we were shipping about
twenty-five car loads per day.
- Town Commissioner Moore is getting
to be quite a sportsman. He is taking
lessons from Joe Gary. They went on an
extended expidition on Monday and
bagged a killdee.
= Arrangements for the Peninsular
Fair opening at Middletown, on the 10th
OF OfSeptember, are being made as rapidly
as possible. The prospect for big exhibit
ton is encouraging. The Secretary is
receiving notice of many proposed ex-
hibits already.
= Every farmer to whom we have
mentioned the subject Of building a
creamery here expresses the belief that
one would pay, and be source of much
benefit to the large agricultural commu-
nifty by which we are surrounded. Then
let us have the creamery.
- A severe wind storm passed over the
upper part of the county on Saturday,
doing considerable damage. In Mill
Creek hundred trees were stripped of
fruit. In Mr.. Peters fiity-acre pear orch
ard the storm left nearly one hundred
barrels of fruit on the ground.
An advance in the price of bone
phosphate is not relished by the farmers,
particularly on the heels Of short wheat
crop. The heavy advance in bones is the
cause of the advance in the price OF
manufactured fertilizers, amounting, we
believe, to about five dollars ton.
= At the regular monthly meeting of
the Mutual Loan Association, on Tuesday
evening, the surplus funds of the associa-
ton, amounting to about 50, 500, were sold
in sums ranging from 5000 to $500, all at
par. D. L. Dunning was elected direc-
tor in place Of j. r. Hoffecker, resigned.
: The self-binding harvesters have
been overhauled and put away by men
from the factories, and before next seasons
harvest, are to be fitted with all improve
ments that may be made on them in the
meantime. They will probably never
have a more trying harvest than that Of
the present season.
= List of letters remaining in the post
office, at Middletown, Del, for the week
ending August Goth, 1881: Mrs. Eliza
Brister, James Butcher, Bichard Gale,
John Dawsy, COL, Mary Hall, Miss Hattie
Lewis, Benz. Strong, Mrs. Annie Wright.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say that they are advertised. D.
L. Dunning, P. NJ.
- The last excursion Of the season to
Cape May, by way Of the railroad to Bonn
bay Hook and thence by steamer " Clyde"
is announced for Wednesday next, 9th
inst. 4 number Of our townspeople talk
ofgoing. An announcement in our adver-
tising columns gives full particulars in
regard to time Of starting and rate Of fare.
A big excursion is expected over the Kent
county road, from Chestertown.
Saturday last was probably the
warmest day Middletown has experienced
this summer. At several points the mer-
cury went above 1000 in the shade, and
those who had to stir around felt that a
few degrees more Of heat would melt them
down. At Tatman's corner at Il O'Clock
m, the mercury was at 81. On Monday
the cold wave came and the record oftem-
perature since, made at u O'Clock of each
day, is as follows: Monday, 80; Tuesday,
7s; Wednesday, "a; Thursday, 76; Fri
day, 76.
- Middletown manufacturers have sup
piled many Peninsular towns with ice
cream this season, and the demand from
nicnics and excursions has been heavier
than ever before. Our manufacturers
have gained an enviable reputation for
making gilt-edged cream, and they are
constantly gaining new patrons. Over
one thousand gtl1OHs Vi cTodm Mor6
manufactured into ice cream here in June,
nearly fifteen hundred gallons in July,
and about one thousands thus far in
August.
The MIDDLETowN TRANSCRIPT sus-
4ains a baldheaded editor. The loss of
hair was probably occasioned by mental
effort. in concocting the dreadful jokes,
which the TRANSCRIPT sometimes works
off on an innocent public.-C -CheStertoton
Transcript Yes, that is the way it was
a .casioned. Connecting jokes affects differ
ant people in different ways. For in
stance, when the junior editor of the Ches-
tertown Transcript coneocts joke it does
mt cause loss OF hair; it only wears out
the seat of his pants.
The new comet is said to be visible
,ritbout the aid of a telescope. It is close
90 the borizon-so close that the local
,.ditor has not yet been able to see it and