Middletown transcript., 1883-11-30
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.


: Work on the new Catholic Church is
progressing rapidly.
About one hundred seats for Mr..
RiIey's lecture, Monday evening, have
been sold.
- Mr.. Riley's lecture will begin on
Monday evening at twenty O'Clock, new
style time.
w The merchants and shop-keepers are
making great preparation for the Christ
mas holidays.
: Repairs to Drawyer's bridge on the
State road, near Odessa, are nearly
finished. The bridge was re-opened for
public travel Thursday morning.
- The monthly meeting Of Union
Lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, of Middletown,
will be held on Tuesday evening. There
will be work on the second degree.
A great number of Thanksgiving pill
grims, returning home to eat OF the fatted
turkey, passed over the Delaware railroad
Wednesday. Travel was brisk the week
through.
- The Sacrament Of the Lords Supper
will be administered in Forest Presbyte-
rian Church next Sabbath morning. Pre-
paratory service on Saturday afternoon at
3 O'Clock.
- Some old weather prophet predicts
that we are to have twenty-eight SHOWS
this winter. We do not advise any person
to buy sleigh on the strength Of this
prediction.
- Those who attended the Teachers
Institute at Middletown last week were
entertained each evening with good music
This music was furnished without money,
but not without Price.
Middletown has seemed unusually
quiet since the school ma'ams left us.
The annual session of the Institute which
closed on Saturday was certainly the most
interesting, and the teachers say the most
profitable, of all that have been held in
the county.
A list of letters remaining in the
post-office at Middletown, Delaware, for
the week ending Nov. %: Tom Brown,
Mrs. Henrietta Chambers, Miss Sadie
Connor, Robert Hall, Miss Mary =.
Tingle. Persons calling for the above
letters will please say they are advertised.
Our readers may depend upon Mr..
Riley being at the Town Hall on time,
Monday evening. They say Out West
that Rilev once mounted bay mule and
SWAN a river half a mile wide, in January,
when a freshet had carried railroad
bridge away, in order to not miss lecture
engagement.
Owing to the rain-storm OF Monday
evening the Irving Lyceum did not have
meeting, and on next Monday evening
the regular meeting will be omitted on
account of Mr.. Riley's lecture. The De-
cember public meeting of the society will
be held on the 10th, when, it is expected
an interesting debate will take place.
The western heavens we're beautiful
snectacle for nearly an hour after the sun
had disappeared below the horizon, Tues
dav evening. Such a sunset is not often
seen in this latitude. The western and
southern skv were lighted as if by the
reflection of some vast conf1agration. A
torchfigf1t procession zNnnld have paled
bv the side of such gloriously beautiful
snactacle. and there was no charge for
front seats.
- Thanksgiving day was generally
observed in Middletown. Business was
susnended and the streets had Sabbath
like appearance. Union services were held
in the morning at Forest Presbyterian
Church, Rev. Mr.. Stengle, pastor OF the M.
Z. Church, preached an appropriate SER
mon from Ephesians V, 20; "Glving
thanks always for all things unto God and
the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ" The congregation was large.
Professor Wyatt's pupils, rehearsing
for the oratorio of "Queen Esther" are
making such creditable progress that thier
instructor is much pleased with them
and thinks the representation Of the ora
torio at Middletown will be equal to any
that has been given under his direction
in Delaware. The rehearsals are helc
every evening at the Town Hall. The
oratorio will not be given before tn
middle of December, perhaps little late
than that.
we hope no TRANSCRIPT reader ma
bod the had luck with his Thanksgiving
turkey that the man had whom they tel
about Ont West. Too poor to buy a turkey
some kind friends had presented him on
few weeks before the day set apart 10
folks to be especially thankful lie ie'
his turkey carefully and watched it ICON
stantly, but it grew poorer and poore
,In+;I t,e dav before Thanksgiving, whel
he had to kill it to keep it from dying
inability to live. Then he dressed it an
hung it without his cabin, and that nigh
some thief came along and stole it.