Middletown transcript., 1881-05-20
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.
; Farmer are busy and happy.


- This has been a bad week on Middle
town building operations.
- See the power of the press: johnson
hasn't got spring grindstone left.
- Foard & Comegys report the sale d
twenty-four self-binding reapers, thus far
The date of the entertainment by tlie
Odessa Dramatic Association has not vet
been announced.
&C. W. w. Naudain has commenced
excavating for the foundation walls of the
new addition to his store.
The annual statement of the Road
Commissioners of Appoquinimink hun
dred is published this week.
Friend George Wilson is ready for the
excursion season. He had a new rib put
in his big umbrella yesterday.
The ball committee, after paying all
their bills, had surplus left, which they
invested in ice cream last night
- Several of our stores have employed
an extra force of clerks in order to meet
the demands of the brisk spring trade.
The Whitlock property, in Middle
town, advertised 70 Eee seia ct SheEiff1s
sale on Friday of last week was not offered.
There are no people in the world who
enjoy joke more than Middletown peo-
ple-when the joke is on some other fell
low.
The demand for new carriages is so
heavy that Cox & Bro, of Middletown,
and Jamison, of Warwick, can hardly sup
ply it.
A few tramps have appeared, but have
not tarried long in this vicinity. Those
that want work are going south to pick
berries.
: We haven't needed a street sprinkler
this week, but we just want to remind the
Town Commissioners that it won't rain all
summer.
The bricks for the new building south
Of the Citizens National Bank are arriv-
ing. Stanger & Givins propose to have the
walls up by the first of July.
= The ladies of Forest Presbyterian
Church will hold a strawberry festival in
the Town Hall early in June. A very en-
ioyable affair may be expected.
- Last Sunday Rev. w. L. s. Murray,
of the NJ. E. Church, exchanged pulpits
with Rev. r. X. Stevenson, of Appoquini.
mink Circuit, both morning and evening.
- The indications are that this section
will harvest an immense wheat crop this
season. There is an unusually large acre
age in, and everything is favorable to big
yield.
= Bay trout have appeared in the local
market, and are selling at ten cents
string. They are mighty nice fish. They
are caught in large quantities at Bombay
Hook.
- The regular meeting of the Mutual
Loan Association was held on Tuesday
evening. About $4,000 Of the surplus funds
were sold at from par up to two per cent.
premium.
= The stump of the large sycamore tree
that stood on the site of Mr.. r. A. Coch-
rams proposed brick block on Main street,
was removed from the cellar this week,
hut with considerable difficulty.
William Flood, who recently moved
from Middletown to Wilmington, died of
smallpox, in that city, on Friday of last
week. While a resident of this town he
was engaged in wheelwrighting at Barr &
Cos shops.
- Some Of the crossings have been in a
miserable condition since the rains began.
It is not right that ladies should be COM
pelled to wade through three inches of
mud when some one is paid to keep the
crossings clean.
We have on our table small peach
tree branch from the farm of Jos. A. and
J. H. Richards, in Sassafras Neck, which
contains twenty-eight healthy looking
peaches about the size of hazel nuts. That
orchard is all right, sure.
j. Z. Hendrickson, Esq, the Phila-
delphia commission man, was in town this
week, ON his way home from tour of the
fruit-growing sections of the Peninsula.
He says the strawberry crop will be un-
precedented.
= Col. Hates has Just top-dressed his
house with a new roof, and has also put
spring coat of Notwithstanding on the
front. The TRANSCRIPT is glad to note
this improvement on East Main street.
There is room for more Of it, too.
On the Delaware Railroad, round-trip
tickets to Philadelphia or Wilmington are
now sold to return on any train, and good
for three days. Excursion tickets to New
York are also issued. The change i'll own
ers of this road does not seem to have hurt
the public much.
Mr.. s. r. Stephens, Of Masseys, Nd,
formerly of MIddletown, was in town on
Thursday, and made the TRANSCRIPT
friendly call. He says there are no peaches
about Massey's, but they are all happy,
nevertheless. The new cannery is getting
ready for operations, and phosphate fac
tory is being built. Trade is good.
Following is the list ofletters remaining
in the postOffice, at Middletown, for the
week ending May 2lst: Henrietta Cham
bers, Miss NJ. E. Fairweather, Miss Ellen
leonard. A. Griffin Mares, Mr.. George
w
calling for the above will please say that
they are advertised. d. i. Dunnlng, PM.
- The following new advertisements
appear in our columns this week: Wanted,
n copy of the works of the Milford Bard;
Agents wanted, Baxter Publishing Co.,
PRiladelphia; Wool wanted, L. p. Nc
Dowell: Wool wanted, Echenhofer q
Long Agricultural implements, &c, u.
P. Hutchinson, Townsend; Door and WIN
dow screens g. W. Cooling; Clothing,
Brownings, Philadelphia.
The store formerly occupied by Thos.
E. Lindley, Esq, is being fitted up and
painted for a new firm-Messrs. II. u.
RiIev and w. w. Cannon, who propose to
herifl. about the first of June, wholesale
and retail -four, feed and grain business.
Roth members of the firm are energetic
and thorough business fellows, and will,
doubtless, establish good business. They
will buy grain for the well-known firm OF
w. G. Pennypacker q Co.
"A correspondent Of the Wilmington
JEoTnillg NeWS, who attended the ball In
fhe Town Hall, Wednesday evening,
writes thus of the pleasant affair: There
yyere a good many visitors from abroad,
ali Of whom seemed highly pleased with
the evenings entertainment. All OF the
Young ladies were finely dressed. Miss
Alice Wood, of Middletown, was pro
nounced by a great number to be the
abelle of the ball, !" and Miss Ida Grubb,
also, was favorite among many"
Messrs Jake Emmerson and G. Il.
Cooling have built up very encouraging
business, and can generally be found hard
ri work at their joint shop on Main street.
Take devotes his time mainly to upholster-
ING. his patent wash-boiler being only
side issue. He is receiving many orders.
Cooling is busy now making window and
door screens to keepout the flies and bugs
and MOSQUITOES. He got an order for
mosquito screen from Rehoboth the other
day, and is making II out of fence wire,
with two-inch meshss, In the clear.
Just now Middletown seems to have
a heavy surplus of ready cash. There is
plenty Of it to loan, but borrowers are
searce. The bank has a little to let out on
GOOD security, and the Loan Association
has a pretty heavy surplus that nobody
seems to want real bad. As people don't
want to borrow, they must be pretty well
fixed themselves, and as this is a season of
wear when an agricultural community is
s,,,,r,nsad IN he short To a considerable ex-