Middletown transcript., 1883-11-09
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

SBTdy6u VI SLOlSus
= Biggs, Clayton & Co., the Middletown
Gamers, are packing plum pudding.
= Seemingly Middletown folks took
but little interest in election news on
Tuesday.
- The Rev. w. G. Alexander will
preach next Sunday morning in Forest
Presbyterian Church on Luther and the
Reformation.
~ George w. Polk, Of Odessa, was on
Saturday elected director of the Peoples
National Bank of Middletown, in place of
William Green, who recently resigned.
Wyatt and Bratton, of Wilmington,
have leased the Town Hall to give course
of instruction in dancing during the
winter, beginning Friday evening Of next
week.
= The Rev. S. H. Griffith, of Philadel-
phia, who preached at st. Anne's P. E.
Church on Sunday last, will conduct the
services at the same church on next
Sunday.
y Exhibitors who have not received
orders for premiums awarded to them at
the late Peninsular Fair at Middletown
can get them at the office of the CORES
ponding secretary.
A fine new pipe organ that cost
upwards of 81 900 was placed in st. Annes
P. +. Church this week. Prot Hewitt, Of
Philadelphia, will perform on it at the
services next Sunday.
: Orders for reduced fare to the annual
convention Of Delaware W. G. T. o., at
Laurel, on the 18th, 14th and 18th instants
should be sent to Mrs. Mary L. Cox, cor
responding secretary, Middletown.
A part Of the real estate eff the late
Daniel Stevens, at Odessa, will be offered
at public sale on the premises, by the ad-
ministrators, tomorrow afternoon. The
property is advertised in the TRANSCRIPT.
A number of Middletown folks went
to Smyrna on Tuesday evening to see the
oratorio Of Queen Esther, rendered by
local talent under the direction OF Professor
Wyatt, and were pleased with the rendition
in every respect.
= The law requiring children attending
the public schools to be vaccinated has
been generally complied with in Middle
town. The Board of Education did not
appoint vaccine physician because it did
not appear to them that the services of one
were required here.
1T is estimated that Middletown's two
fruit dryeries and cannery paid out $1,000
for labor during the past season. Biggs,
Clayton & Co., paid out about $1,000 Of
this sum, at their cannery, the most Of
which was spent among the merchants and
tradespeople of Middletown.
~ The stores and shops are purchasing
heavy stocks of holiday goods, and the
display, when it is in full bloom, will
probably far surpass that Of last season.
There is going to be very lively competi-
tion among the Middletown tradespeople
in this matterof holiday wares.
The fourth entertainment under the
auspices of the Middletown Lyceum com
mittee will probably be by the Redpath
Concert Company, of Boston, famous
musical organization. The committe is
endeavoring to engage this company for
date in the third week of January.
- Middletown's building record Of this
year will not be up to that Of last year
and the year before, but the few buildings
now in course of erection will be, when
finished, among the handsomest in the
town. 1t seems probable that building
operations will be very lively next year.
1t is said that the cloth peddlers re-
terred to in this column last week have been
hawking the paper of Cecil county farmers
about in Middletown, offering it at heavy
discount. If the half we hear about these
peddlers be true, farmers ought to meet
them at the gate and caress them with a
club about six feet long.
DIR. j. G. Carroll, McComb Clayton
and Eugene Clayton spent a day or two
of last week shooting on the Susquehanna
Flats and returned on Saturday evening
with upwards Of a hundred canvas-back
and red-hed ducks. They killed about
125 ducks during their expedition but a
few were lost on account of rough water.
= The Levy Court Commissioner of st.
Georges hundred has given notice that
repairs will be begun on Drawers
bridge, on the State road, Monday next.
The abutments of the structure are giving
way and it is probable that the work OF
repair will not be finished far enough fol
the bridge to be passable within ten days
= In his lecture on Wednesday evening
Mr.. Burdette will tell his audience how
they may all be humorists and draw
large salary on a newspaper and receive
more offers than they want, to go around
the country and lecture at 500 night
1t is as simple as can be after it is ex
planned. You will wonder why you
never thought of it before.
A list Of letters remaining in the post
office at Middletown, Delaware, for thu
week ending Nov. 8, 1888: Miss Frances
Bard, Thos. Reese Boyer, Perry Brown
Moses Clayville, Mrs. Cordaley, Harry.
Collins, E. E. Dulin, H. c. Carpenter
Miss. BERTHE johnson, Adam Nagle, 2
John n. Tomlinson. Persons calling TO
the above letters will please say they ar
advertised.
An exchange says there are man.
persons, who in looking into a newspa
per, read nothing but locals, marriages an
deaths, and who utterly fail to read tn
outside of the paper where may be fount
the most interesting and useful reading 9
the entire sheet" The editor must hav
a mighty poor opinion of his own worl
He ought to endeavor to make what h
writes himself more interesting and use
full than what he cuts out with his sci'
sors.
= Postmaster Dunning reports no fal
ing off in receipts at the Middletown pos
office as the result of two-cent postag
The stamp sales during October wei
heavier than in July or August but NJ
quite SO heavy as in September. Septen
ber, however, on account of the peach'
and Fair, is usually month of heav
receipts at the Middletown post-offic
The sales Of postal cards have decrease
since the three sent stamp took its hat an
walked out. This is one of the expectt
results Of two-cent postage. There will
more letters and fewer postal cards.
A goodly number of tickets for Il
Burdette lecture on Wednesday evenir
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