Middletown transcript., 1881-11-04
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

Gay evening IL open U Gne publlC' -AuiAii'
sion five cents.
Reserved seat tickets fort entertain
lnent in Town Hall Tuesday evening are
going off lively.
= Farmers are warming "trespassers
with dog and gum to stay on the other
side of the fence.
What has become Of the man who
predicted a cool, dry fall?. Has anybody
seen him this week?
= Mr.. Gardner, a student at Princeton
Seminary, conducted the services at For
est church, Sunday last.
= Services will be held at the Chapel at
Armstrong; on Sunday afternoon at
o'clock. Preaching by the pastor.
After an unavoidable absence of five
days, the sun appeared again this morn
ing, bright, beautiful and cheering.
- Malarial disorders have almost entire
ly disappeared throughout this community
and the general health bill is now pretty
clear.
: The foundation walls of Biggs, Clay
ton & Co.'S. new cannery building are fin
ished and the frame will be raised on
Monday.
~ Postmaster Dunning is selling re-
served-seat tickets for the Lyceum's liter
airy and musical entertainment Tuesday
evening.
- The Executive Committee Of the
Irving Lyceum will hereafter meet at the
Lyceum room every Saturday afternoon
at o'clock.
Rev. DR.. Patton, of Philadelphia, will
preach at Forest church Sunday morning
at the usual hour of services. Evening
sermon by the pastor.
- The Teachers Institute, at Odessa,
this week, has been we'll attended by Mid
dletown people, and they have been much
pleased with the exercises.
= Miss Phoebe " ". Gtttziffs is desiHeas ef
making an engagement here to deliver her
lecture, "Old and New in Woman's Edu-
cation" during the present month.
= Those whose vocation requires State
license, and who have not taken one out
for the current year had better call on the
Clerk of the Peace at once. The list is
published this week.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has issued an order to its agents to receive
no more mutilated coin for its face value.
Mutilated silver dollars will be received
for sixty-five cents; half-dollars, thirty
cents; quarters, fifteen cents; nickels,
four cents.
= Garret Ellis gives the best description
we have yet heard of the mouth of the
negro comedian with the Hyers Sisters
Combination. "When he opened those
jaws" says Garret, sit just reminded me
of couple OF big barn doors flying open
suddenly"
- G. E. Hukill is improving and enlarg-
ing his store and office on Railroad ave
nue.. The front and back store rooms
have been thrown into one and other
changes made that will give our enter
prising lumber and hardware dealer more
room for his increasing business.
- The old iron-framed street lamps have
been removed and others gilmore approved
construction put in their places. We shall
expect better light now. The trouble
heretofore experienced with some of the
street lamps is explained by the fact that
they were constructed for coal oil light and
not adapted to gas.
= Owing to the disagreeable weather,
Echenhofer & Longs sale of thoroughbred
cattle on Thursday was not as largely at
tended as was expected, and the Kentucky
stock was not offered at public sale. A
few of them were sold at private sale and
the remainder Of the herd viii be disposed
of in the same way.
= The following is a list of letters re
manning in the post office at Middletown
Del, for the week ending Nov. 5th, 1881
Tilly Black, Ellen Lamdine, John ST
mons, Mrs. Ida A. West, Miss Jane U
Watson. Persons calling for the above
letters will please say that they are adver-
tised. D. L. Dunning, P. NJ.
Welearn that Miss Lule Clay Bigbet
who has for some weeks been giving read
ings and recitations on the Peninsula, will
give an entertainment at Middletown a
some time during the present month
Miss Bigbee is an accomplished lady,
pupil of J. e. Murdock, and if she decides
to come here we hope she will be well re
ceived.
= The musical and literary entertain
ment in the Town Hall, Tuesday evening
next, promises to be one of the most enjoy
able of the season. There are few reader
before the public better qualified to pleas
an audience than Prot. Ford, while tn
musical part Of the program by our loca
talent will, we are sure, be highly enter
tanning.
~ The condition Of the weather durin
the greater part of this week strongly re
minds one of the old darkey preacher
description of the flood. 1t is quite an oil
story but is good enough to bear repeatin
occasionally. Brudderin," said he ida
were great storm! 1t rained forty day
an forty nights, and then it turned to Sc
tied rain"
- Monday being the twentieth ann
versary of the marriage Of Mr.. and Mr.
D. L. Dunning, they were, in the evening
surprised by some thirty or more Of the
friends, who marched in with baskets
refreshments and handsome gifts Of cryst;
and took possession. A season of pleasan
social intercourse followed. A CORE
pondent in another column more full
describes the affair.
- Henry Clayton, Esq, has purchase
of Capt. Samuel Pennington piece
ground containing about one and a thil
acres, lying north Of and fronting on Il
new street that is to be opened from Ca
to Broad streets. The lot will have
frontage of about three hundred feet {
the new street and is an eligible buildir
site. Mr.. Clayton, we believe, intends
build residence on the lot at some tin
I'm the future.