Middletown transcript., 1881-04-08
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

- Northern commission men are pros
pecting through the peach orchards.
NV Makens has commenced to give tn
Citizens National Bank spring coat.
MN The Spring advertisements of Benz
Benson and w. Fl. Moore & Co, will ar
pear next week.
- Miss Howell has opened a new baker!
in the building recently occupied by w
Fl. Johnson, Main street.
NJ. L. Hardcastle has been attendin:
court at Denton, Md, this week, as wit
ness. He returned home yesterday.
We learn that that the Board of Edu
cation have decided to put new seats il
the fifth department at the Academy.
- The "Mutual Minstrels" are practi
seing faithfully, and expect TO give an en-
tertainment on the 4th of next month.
= Business is lively at Cox & Bros
carriage factory, and part Of the force arr
doing night work, so as to keep up witt
the orders.
- Mr.. K. II. Eliason has moved two
houses and torn down third, on Main
street, His new dwelling will soon be
underway.
= Mr.. 4. 6. Cox has been confined tc
his home with an attack Of pneumonia,
for the past week. We are glad to hear
he is recovering
- The friends of Robert A. Cochran,
Esq, will be pleased to hear that he is
rapidly recovering from his recent severe
attack Of pneumonia.
Winter has been "lingering in the
lap of Spring little too considerably
much, since Spring arrival. She'd better
stick llair-pinj in him.
Col. Hanson and Lord q Polk will
probably remove to their new offices on
Raflr6ad avenue next week, where they
viii soon i1eacosily fixed up.
M. Cummings announces that he will
have peach ice cream on Saturday. from
which we infer that the peach crop is not
altogether failure. At least his peach
crop has escaped.
A parIor Entertainment at the resi-
dence of Albert Pennington, in aid Of the
Women S Temperance Society, is in con
temptation. Il win probably be given
about the first of next month.
- The building formerly occupied by
Col. Billy Hates was put on wheels,
Thursday, and started for the classic
shades Of HantowIl, where its purchaser,
n colored man, will turn it into adwelling.
- John Green, who is much Of success
as 4 horse trainist, is now training hand
some colt belonging to John M. Naudain,
Of Mount Pleasant. The colt is thorough
bred, and bids f4irtelnake a fast tHaveler.
a barge loaded with stone, for the
foundation of Mr.. R. A. Cochran's new
buildings, sunk at the mouthi of Apo
quininink creek, Wednesday of last
week. She was got afioat again on We'd
nesday.
Vim. n. Wilson, Esq, has been appoint
ed by the Maryland Life Insurance Com
panv. of Baltimore, General Agent for that
company for Delaware and the Eastern
shore of Maryland. His office, for the
present, will be at Middletown.
The real estate of the late Mary Arm
strong, sixty-one acres, situated at Arm
strong's Corner, was sold at Administra-
tors sale, at the National Hotel, on
wednesday. Benjamin Armstrong, one
Of the heirs, was the purchaser; price
5000.
Prof. Geo. w. North, of Philadelphia,
choister and organist, will visit Middle
town on the 10th inst. for the purpose of
securing a class in vocal and instrumental
music. A card in our advertising columns
states where he may be seen by those who
desire instruction.
At the school eleetiony Saturday last,
Messrs j. r. Hall and D. L. Dunning were
reelected members of the Board Of Edu-
cation for three years. The Board organic
ed on Monday morning. William Green
was elected President; M. n. Willets,
Clerk, and A. G. Cox, Treasurer.
irving Lyeeum, at its last two meet
ings. was honored by large number OF
visitors, many of whom, it is hoped, will
hand in their names for membership, and
thus help to make worthy institution
successful and permanent; and one that
our community may well feel proud OF.
Mrs. d. Pennington, in the capacity
of State organizer, has recently organized
" q. #. Unions at Christiana, Newark,
SeaFord, Georgetown and Bewes, and ex-
meets soon to organize another at Milford.
Unions at Camden, Wyoming, FELTON, and
Harrington were organized in December
VIM. A. Ladd will start milk wagon
IN Monday, which will be the third milk
line for Middletown. We do not know
what effect this new competing line will
have on the milk industry of this section,
but we presume that the earliest milk man
fwho sells the best milk, will get the
cream, figuratlyely speaking.
1t is stated that Odessa Is to have but
one mail a day after July Ist, the evening
mail to be discontinued after that date.
Such an arrangement will be a great IN
convenience to Odessa people and steps
are to be taken at once to have the present
mail arrangement continued. Odessa is
getting to be entirely to enterprising to
worry along with only one mail a day.
The champion moeking bird Of this
county. we think, is at the Middletown
Hotel. twill not be a year old until about
4be middle Of June, and sings from morn
ino till night. initiating all the known
anecies OF birds, IT has grown to be quite
! s,vorite with tbs guests of the hotel, and
tts owner prizes it very much. Already it
has two or three notes of "Pinafore" to
,,erfection. Fifty dollars would not buy
4 and we doubt if 500 would.
Rev. G. P. Smith, formerly typo in
4be Cecil Democrat Office, and now a
nromising young minister of the N. E.
church. was visiting his Middletown
friends on Saturday and made ths TRAN
SCRIPT a friendly call. Printing offices
don't turn out many ministers, but those
that do rise through printers ink to the
puIpit are apt to be constructed Of pretty
GOOD material, and make good ministers.
Hr smith is now stationed on Princess
Anne circuit.
a young man connected with the
Elkton, Nd, NeWs, who frequently visits
Middletown and basks in thesunshine of a
pair Of dark eyes, gives in the Ncirs neat
diseription Of our town, but winds up by