Middletown transcript., 1882-03-31
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

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- The regular monthly meeting OF
Union Lodge A. F. and A. NJ. will be held
on Tuesday evening.
The annual school election occurs this
afternoon at the Academy, between the
hours of two and four.
The walls Of the school rooms at the
Academy have recently been frightened
with coat of alabastine.
= The Board of Education has granted
the children and teachers of the public
schools vacation until April 10th.
Captain Pennington has moved a
dwelling and opened new street from
Broad to Cass, half way between Main and
Lake.
- Services will be held at Armstrong;
Chapel OH Sunday afternoon at 2.90
o'clock. Preaching by the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Alexander.
- The Orphans Court has appointed
NJ. N. Willis guardian of the minor child
rem of the late William Wilson, of Apo
quinimink hundred.
- Come, ballny April of thee we sing.
We hail thee (but don't hail us) with thy
tickle skies, spring poets and herrings,
twenty cents a string.
-A An Altman q Taylor traction farm
engine sold by Foard & Comegys to w.
J. Lofand, was given trial last Saturday
and worked smoothly.
= Prof. Ford's class in voice culture has
been re-organized for a second term and
will meet at the Lyceum room on Thurs
day evening at half past seven.
- John w. Wright has purchased the
building formerly used as an office by the
Town Commissioners, and will move it to-
a lot he has bought Of w. w. Wilson, on
East Lake street.
- Mrs. Deyo, Of New York, addressed
"a fair congregation on the subject of tenn
peranee, in the NJ. E. Church, Sunday
afternoon The lady is an entertaining
and forcible speaker.
- Miss Ella Tilghman's private school,
The Bayard Institute, has been moved to
the second story of the building on Main
street, nearly opposite to Cass, formerly
occupied by T. E. Lindley.
One circus will pass Middletown
without stopping and another will moi
come farther down the Peninsula than
Wilmington. The Town Commissioners
ought to appoint day of thanksgiving.
A meeting of the local board of the
Rochester Mutual Relief Society to elect
"a chairman and secretary to serve one year
will be held at the office Of J. NJ. Cox &
Bro, on Tuesday evening next, at hall
past seven.
= The Middletown terminus of the
Odessa telephone line has been moved to
the Office of Isaac Jones, Jr., who will
hereafter attend to the business interests
of Lord & Polk in Middletown. A son OF
J. w. Jolls will have charge Of the
telephone.
= The Trustees of Forest Church have
appointed a committee on church i'm
provement and instructed them to have
the work OF remodeling and enlarging the
church edifice begun at as early a day as
practicable. The plans have been adopted
and the work will begin about the first 0.
May.
A list of letters remaining in the
post-ofice at Middletown, Delaware, fol
the week ending April 1st, 1882: Harry
Bradley, J. Kennedy, Mrs Mary E.
Jones, Isaac Knowles, L. A. Geardley,
John W. Fillingame. Persons calling for
the above letters will please say that they
are advertised. D. L. Dunning, P. NJ.
Some one distributed circulars through
town to-day, the prospectus of some sort
of picture and gift arrangement, in
which the people are asked to invest one
dollar for a chrome and gift "worth not
less than fifty cents" We would advise
readers of the TRANSCRIPT to invest no
money in such schemes. 1t is good rule
to beware of all "gift'' concerns.
IS. M. Reynolds & Co. have moved
their ready-lnade clothing and tailoring
department into No. Cochran Square,
recently occupied by J. G. Stuart as
shoe store. The room has been retitted
and painted, and a door has been cut be-
tween it and the grocery department, SO
that there is now inside communication
between the firms four departments on
the ground floor.
1t is not H. c., but Charles S. Ellison
who is the new occupant OF the Brady
cottage, near the Fair Ground. The local
editor is responsible for the error in the
initials. Mr.. Ellison moved on Saturday
and is much pleased with his new home.
McComb Clayton has moved from his
farm on the Levels to the house on Cass
street, recently occupied by Miss E.
'Tilghman. Henry Clayton moved to his
new home on Thursday. Mr.. r. I.
Lockwood moved to his Green street home
on Monday.
- Improvements have begun early IN
Niddletown this spring, and the appear
anc,4 of our town will certainly be much
cbang,>d for the better at the close of the
building season. Already more than
twenty dwellings have been painted in
tasteful colors. and many are only waiting
for the work1nen to finish other contracts,
when thew. too, will be frightened up.
New buildings are going up and others
will be begun within the next few weeks
whilst older ones are being modernized
and improved. The prospect of rapid and
substantial growth is certainly bright for
Middletown-
Sandford's "Ten Nights in a Bar
Room, attracted but small audience to
the Hall on Friday evening Of last week.
In the part Of the landlord, Sanford sus-
tanned his reputation as an actor, .and
Alexander Fisher made very amusing
"Salnple Switchell." The others OF the
caste were only "fair to middling," and
the majority were more middling than
fair. The play as presented by Sanford
would doubtless draw larger audiences
if some OF the slang was eliminated from
it. Sanford has been at Middletown often
enough to know that second-rate variety
theatre vulgarity is not the kind OF amuse
ment our people crave.
The front of the Town Hall shoulc
be improved in appearance, and at once
The rickety awning is beginning to looE
like it had been struck by cross-eyec
hurricane, and must present anything bu
q pleasing spectacle to the aesthetic visitor
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