Middletown transcript., 1882-01-06
Town Notes.

= PinKeye has appeared among the
horses in the vicinity OF Middletown.
- Robert A. Cochran g new brick stores
will not be ready for occupancy for seve
raj weeks.
Under Mr.. Craddock's management
the automatic gas lamps give our town
excellent light.
The annual election Of stockholders
of the Citizens National Bank will be
held on Tuesday next.
The Lyceum's program Of exercises
Monday evening will doubtless be enter
tanning and instructive.
Extra services have been held at For
est church every evening during the week
with agood attendance.
There is a case of varioloid in Apo
quininink hundred, said to have been
contracted in Wilmington.
Lord & Polk are shipping their Trux-
lilo Guano to Jacksonville, Florida, to be-
used as an orange-tree fertilizer.
= Game is scarce now. Joe Gary went
cunning one day last week, walked forty
miles, he says, and killed one rabbit.
Harrison vandegrift, of this hundred,
has been drawn as petit jury at the jan
uary term of the q. S. District Court.
Rev. Mr.. Alexander will preach for
Rev. Mr.. Louderbough, at Drawyer's
church, on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
- The Directors and officers of the Citi-
zens National Bank enjoyed their annual
dinner on New Years Day at the National
Hotel.
One of DR.. Barr's Christmas presents
is handsome adjustable chair, in which
one can fix himself up in any comfortable
position desired.
- The social hop in Reynolds Hall,
Monday evening, was pleasant affair.
An excellent orchestra Of four pieces fur
nished the music
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Peninsular, Agricultural and
Pathological Association will be held on
Saturday, 28th inst.
~ Nothing brings more happiness to the
hearts of the girls and boys than the first
snow. They had grand, good times with
their sleds yesterday.
- Some of the oldest inhabitants say
the weather Of the early part of this winter
resembled that of 1S47, which was SO mild
that people had outdoor excursions in
December.
- The ice harvest began on Thursday,
and those who have ice houses will i'm
prove every opportunity to secure a sup
ply. The ice cut yesterday measured
about three inches in thickness.
: Mr.. 9. H. Ellison, of the cannery
firm Of Biggs, Clayton & Co. will sell his
farm stock, ETC., in February and remove
to Middletown. There is plenty of room
here for all such enterprising citizens.
= Middletown will receive an unusually
large number of new families in the
spring, and building promises to be much
more active than during the past season.
Contracts have already been made TOR
several fine residences.
-R.T. Lockwood will dispose of his
farm stock in February and become a res
ident Of Middletown. He has leased the
house now occupied by Mr.. Miller, on
Green street. Mr.. Miller, we learn, in
tends to remove to Wilmington.
= George Gray, Esq, attorney for the
owners, has sold to William Moore, of
'CoatesviIle, Pa, the farm Of w. W. and
w. r. Rothwell, for S55 per acre. The
farm is situated on the Levels, contains
1888 acres and is improved with good build
ings.
- The milIpond afforded skating for the
n
number of persons have been having the
good of it since. Skating is a grand en-
ioyment, once it is learned, but many
persons lose interest in it after the first
attempt.
- Interesting revival services are being
held at the M. E. Church, and will proba-
bly continue several weeks. The attend
ance has been good since the opening Of
the services. Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, Rev. Mr.. Murray was assisted
by Presiding Elder Martindale.
-Ifthe skating holds good the local
editor thinks be will borrow pair OF
silyer-mounted rockers and 60 down and
show somebody how to cut double front
and back circle. There is nothing you
ever saw as graceful as the local editor on
skates, except it were clothes horse in a
hurricane.
New Years Day was introduced with
several good rounds of firearms but it was
aouiet sort of day and brought no exciting
event beyond the occasional snap Of fire
cracker. The amount Of it is that most
people get a fill Of holiday before they
reach New Years Day, and want nothing
so much as rest and some plain food.
The following is list Of letters re-
manning in the post-ofice at Middletown,
Del, for the week er1ing, January 7th,
1882: Mrs. Harriet Ann BARLEY, Walter
Guy. Fannie Gibbs, Miss Nichy Houseson,
i. s, Hand, T. G. Hambly, Eliza Walker
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say that they are advertised. D. L..
Dunning, P. M.
Union Lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, is one
of the oldest Masonic lodges in the State
Records now in the archives of the Lodge
date back nearly century, and strange to
saw names are found on the earliest min
utes that are still familiar in this section.
At present the lodge is one Of the strong
est and most fiourishing on the Peninsula
and its work is famous among Masons for
being ''correct."
- The year 1881 was remarkable for its
number of marriages, and in Delaware
there is no falling off in the lifetime part
nership business with the advent Of the
new year. Every town reports weekly
an encouraging list of unions, promises
more in the near future, and the ministers
shake the twenty-dollar gold pieces in
their purse and think this aren't such a
bad world after all.
The Board Of Education has dispensed
with the fifth department at the Academy,
and the school will hereafter be graded in
four departments. A falling off in atten-
dance OF large scholars is advanced as
reason for this change. Since Prof.
Wripbts administration, it is said. pupils
finish their education and engage IN Dusl-
ness much earlier than formerly, ana the
oga If nunils in the higher department.