Middletown transcript., 1883-04-13
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.


Loan Association will be held on Tuesday.
-T The extensive display Of circus posters
near the railroad depot is full of attractions
for the boys.
Many Middletown people are setting
out trees and shrubbery and putting their
grounds in order.
= The Lyceum musical and literary en-
tertainment will probably be held during
the last week in April.
A heavy thunder shower, not down
in Vennor's weather program for April,
came yesterday morning.
e. R. Cochran, proprietor of the Md
dletown Nurseries, is shipping large
quantities of nursery stock.
Many Middetown folks attended the
entertainment at Odessa on Wednesday
evening and were well pleased.
- The town duplicate has been placed
at the Middletown Hotel for the examina-
ton of owners of assessed property.
- The farm OF S. L. Clary, which was
advertised to be offered at public sale at
Townsend on Saturday, was withdrawn.
~ Benjamin Benson, who has adver-
tised to sell his real and personal estate
tomorrow, intends to remove to Will
mington.
"A chart of the Hall for the Burdette
lecture will be found at the post-office,
and Mr.. Dunning will sell you reserved
seat tickets.
~ The Town Commissioners have or
dered double crossings at Broad and Coeh-
ran streets and the tagging is now on the
way from the quarry.
Excursion tickets from Middletown
to the Forepaugh show at Wilmington,
admitting to the show and good to return
on Tuesday, will be Sl.40.
If you want TO get the cobwebs out of
your liver, go hear Burdette tell about
"The Rise and Fall Of the Mustache."
Middletown Hall, April 20.
- The eighth chapter of q George WASH
ington" and much other matter prepared
for this issue Of the TRANSCRIPT is
crowded out by local news matter.
We had the pleasure of meeting Mr.. !
r. J. Burdette on the train Tuesday, and |
ventured to promise him bigger audience
at Middletown on the Goth than he has
ever had up to date in Delaware.
Il our readers should notice a burst |
Of fresh laid humor in the next issue of
the TRANSCRIPT they will know that we |
have been to the circus and have been an
attentive listener to the clowns jokes.
AS far as we can learn, there is no
foundation for the rumor that has been
circulating in Middletown to the effect
that an additional passenger train will
be put on the Delaware railroad May first
= Johnson has made an attractive dis
play of hardware in his big window. He
informs US that there will be no advance
in the price of spring grindstones. The
crop Of last year was fully up to the aver
age.
= E. r. Cochran offers the very desira-
BILE home he recently purchased Of Rev.
Mr.. Lewis, for sale or rent. Anyone who
doesn't object to living alongside of an
editor would find this very pleasant To-
cation.
- Arrangements have been made for
maintaining the strictest order both within
and about the Hall on the evening of the
Burdette lecture. Those annoyances that
have been tee frequent this season need
not be feared on this occasion.
A congregational meeting looking to
the calling of rector and providing means
for his support will be held at st. Anne's
P. E. Church at three o'clock tomorrow
Saturday afternoon. The vestry re-
quests all members of the congregation to
attend.
- List of letters remaining in the post
office at Middletown, Del, for the week end
ing April 5th, 1888: Maggie Jones, John
w. Morris, Mrs. Emeline Storet, Miss
Mary E. Tingle. Persons calling for the
above letters will please say they are ad-
vertised.
~ We learn from good authority that the
Postal Department has no intention of
adopting Postmaster Swiggett's scheme to
rob the upper Peninsula Of its early morn
ing service North and late evening service
South, in order to get two daily mails
through to Crisfield.
= Mr.. John V. Craven, of Salem, n. J.,
has written to number Of his friends here
advising them not to miss the Burdette
lecture on any account. Mr.. Craven has
heard "The Rise and Fall Of the Mus
tache" in Salem, where Bob has lectured
three times to full house.
= The streets are being put in good
order, twenty-five new street lamps are to
displace twenty-five old ones, new cross
ings are to be put down and neat town
building for fire apparatus and council
meetings is to be built. Three cheers for
Middletown's new board of Commits
sioners!
IS. NJ. Reynolds & Co., have fitted up
large room for a carpet department in
the third floor of their Cochran Block
building, with stairway leading from the
dry goods department. The room is well
lighted and it has plenty Of floor space
for exhibiting carpets, rugs, etc. A big
stock of goods will be kept in it, of course.
~ Adam Forepaugh's big show will be
in Wilmington on April 23d and Adam !
will have excursion trains run on the |
Delaware railroad to and from his exhibit
tion, or will arrange for excursion rates
on the regular trains. An advertisement
in another column briefly describes a Few
of the many attractions of Adams aggre-
cation.
- 1ne SCaG0IDenG bndI oPPOeiSN -. ~
issue of the TRANSCRIPT, and also IN one
Of the Wilmington dailies,t to the effect that
Representative Comegys had moved Tor
the reconsideration of the bill to provide
for free scholarships in Delaware College,
was incorrect. Mr.. Comegys opposed the
measure and declined to vote for its re-
consideration.
Longs Odessa stage collided with
carriage driven by an unknown person
last Friday evening, near the Eastern
limits of the town. The collision caused
Longs horses to run away. They took up
against hitching post, and to make long
story short, overturned Longs stage ana
threw Long out in the mud. The mail
was taken to Odessa in peach wagon.
Bob Burdette lectured at Salem, New