Middletown transcript., 1883-11-02
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

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strong Chapel next Sunday afternoon at
2. 30 O'Clock by Rev. W. G. Alexander.
A. D. Williams, who had charge OF
the Delmarvia evaporating house during
the fruit season, has gone TO Wilmington.
R. H. Eliason has returned to Middle
town from Bryn Mawr, where he spent a
brief season. His health is much inn
proved.
The Rev. S. H. Griffith, Of Philadel-
phia, will preach at St. Annes P. E..
Church on Sunday next, morning and
evening.
A special meeting of the stockholders
Of the Peninsular Agricultural Society
will be held at Middletown tomorrow
afternoon.
The regular monthly meeting of
Union Lodge, A. F. and A. NJ, will be
held on Tuesday evening. There will be
work on the First Degree.
- The real estate agency Of Scott 4
Company, at Middletown, have issued a
circular descriptive OF seventy-tive Penin-
sular farms they have for sale.
- The Grand Lodge officers, l. Q. o. F.,
will visit Middletown next Thursday
evening to install the newly elected of
ficers of Good Samaritan Lodge.
- George D. Peters, Of Spring City, Pa,
late book-keeper for James Spear, Phila-
delphia, has accepted the position of
book-keeper and correspondent with S.
NJ. Reynolds & Co.
~ Those who are required to have a
State license, and haven't taken it out
this year, should take it out before the
Clerk of the Peace sends them polite
note that will cost them fifty cents.
= Mrs. T. E. Martindale, Of Smyrna,
and Mrs. Mary L. Cox, Of Middletown,
set out on Monday for Detroit, Michigan,
to attend the national convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
= The steamer Clio will continue during
November to make semi-weekly trips
between Odessa and Philadelphia, leaving
Odessa every Monday and Thursday, and
Philadelphia every Tuesday and Friday.
: At the Methodist Episcopal Church
next Sunday evening, at seven o'clock,
the pastor will preach a special sermon to
young people in general and to young
men in particular. All are cordially in
vited.
- On Monday evening the Irving
Lyceum will discuss the question: "Are
Agricultural Fairs beneficial to a COM
munity?" The meeting will be open to
the public and an admission fee of five
cents will be charged.
~ Rev. w. G. Alexander will preach
an anniversary sermon next Sunday
morning in Forest Presbyterian Church,
it being the third anniversary Of his enter
ing upon the pastorate of said Church.
The public are cordially invited.
S. S. Holten brought from Philadel-
phia few days ago an onion big enough
to perfume the breath of whole female
seminary. 1t weighed a pound and fifteen
ounces, and we presume that its strength
was about forty-two horse power.
- Middletown ought to be able to give
thanks with special fervor on the 29th
instant. For many long months an Uncle
Toms Cabin troupe has not visited us,
and during all the past year not one base
ball club has arisen in our peaceful
midst.
= The entries for the Tournament on
Thursday next will not be closed until
Monday. Ten to fifteen knights are ex-
pected to participate in the fitting. The
Diamond State Cornet Band has been en-
gagged to enliven the congregation with
brass music.
The Teachers Institute for New Castle
County is to be held at Middletown on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, No
vember 2Ist, 22d and 23d. The Town Hall
has been engaged to hold the exercises in.
The program of lectures, ETC., has not yet
been announced.
j.. NJ. Cox & Bro. intend soon to build
an addition to the south side of their car
riage factory, the addition to front on
Main street and to be used as an Office.
The object of the firm is to remove their
office from their main building and thus
get more floor space for the display Of
carriages.
A piece of real estate at Odessa, con-
tanning a little over two acres and belong
ing to r. G. Hayes was sold on Wednes-
day at public sale to George w. Polk for
$3.50. The lot has a water front of about
$50 feet. Another property in Odessa,
also belonging to Mr.. Hayes, was offered
at public sale and withdrawn.
The three dancing bears that were re-
Gently in Middletown nearly broke up a
Republican mass meeting in Talbot
county. on the Eastern shore, few days
aoo. The audience was composed chiefly
IF colored people, and when the bears
came on the scene the "burning" political
questions we're forgotten. The audience
turned away to see the bear dance, leaving
the sneakers to " crate" to the winds.
There is an increased attendance al
the Middletown public schools and the
nupils in each of the four departments
seem to be making praiseworthy progress
with their studies. The teachers are en-
deavoring to have the provisions OF the
vaccination law carried out, but the Boarc
ofEducation, so far as we are able to learn
are Indifferent about it. The furniture in
tho Fourth Department is badly needed
70 start the fires in the heaters, ana new
furniture has not yet been bought. But /
is promised. a..
We print in another column on TN
,,ooo from a recent issue of the Cect
democrat, paragraph about some per
ambulating venders of merchandise VIII
are going about the Peninsula seeking t.
sell what they represent to be " bankrup
ooods.p It is said they have made man.
sales in Cecil county and that the pur
chasers in most cases have found that the
maid much more for the goods than the
ire worth. Various tricks are resorted {
20 induce persons to buy. You cannot b
too wary about buying goods Of hawK Ker
and peddlers of whom you know nothing
The hawkers and peddlers have smoot
and oily tongues, Of course, and 1t Wer
we'll to accept Of their statements jus
what YOU know to be true, and to receiy
the rest as specimen efforts of graceful
and versatile liar.
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