Middletown transcript., 1883-03-02
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

Hotel.
~ February shook hands and went out
just as freezingly as though it was mad
about something.
= The sacrament Of the Lords Supper
will be administered in the M. E. Church
on Sunday morning at 1870 o'clock.
= Mrs. V. B. Lewis will offer her dwell
ing and household goods by public sale
on Saturday, the 10th instant.
= Biggs, Clayton & Co. have made a
very large stock of cans for their fruit and
vegetable pack of next summer.
Subscribers who send us notice to
change the address of their paper should
send us the old address as well as the
new.
- The Irving Lyceum promises very
entertaining program for the Monday
evening meeting of next week and invites
the public to come.
- John T. Wilson came home with his
bride on Saturday evening, and the happy
pair are now cozily domiciled in their
pleasant home on the Levels.
Benz. Benson announces that he will
sell his store goods at tauction. He intends
to discontinue business i'll Middletown,
and the store he now occupies is for rent.
Harry Davis sale Of personal prop
erty on Monday was attended by many
bidders. Horses brought s177, SI52, $3.50,
sl42 and S11O; mules, s142.5O; cows, S62,
S5l, S47 and S38.
The remains of Mrs. Mary Davis,
e vic MI
Smyrna on the 2Sth ultimo, will be in
TERED at the MIddletown cemetery to-
morrow at II o'clock.
Middletown has been spared from all
contagious diseases this winter. 1t is prob
able that no town in the country Of equal
population enjoys for the year round
greater immunity from sickness than Mid
dletown.
David A. Knots has taken out letters
Of administration on the estate of the late
Charles A. Knots, of st. Georges hun
dred The personal property of the de-
ceased will be sold at public sale on Thurs
day next.
A valuable town lot, belonging to the
Robert A. Cochran estate, is advertised to
be sold by public sale on the 10th instant.
1t is one OF the very few desirable build
ing sites on Main street that is now or is
likely. soon to be in the market.
- The three-masted schooner Imogene
Divergy, of Camden, n. j., is lying at
Lord & Polk's wharf, Odessa, loading
with "Truxillo Guano' for the South.
This is the first three-masted vessel to
come up the Appoquinimink to Odessa.
West & Carroll, the enterprising
Middletown druggists, are manufacturing
cooking extracts largely and expect to
build up big trade for their goods on the
Peninsula. The TRANSCRIPT has just
printed them large lot Of wrappers and
labels for their bottles.
1t is hoped that the new board Of
town commissioners will promptly pass
an ordinance taxing street hawkers and
peddlers. The greater number OF these
perambuating fakirs are humbugs, and Il
the license was made high enough to keep
them away the town would be the gamer
The town election will be held on
Monday. Three commissioners, urea
surer. an assessor and an alderman will be
elected. The TRANSCRIPT has no interest
IN the contest beyond a desire to have the
affairs of the town faithfully and con-
scientiously administered by progressive
men.
The books for the sale of eleventh
series stock in the Mutual Loan Associa
ton of Middletown will be opened at
O'Clock OF wednesday, March l4th, ont
dav later than reported by the TRAN
SCRIPT last week. The secretary vii
NOT get back from Conference until Tues
day evening.
"A list of letters remaining in the post
office at Middletown, Del, for the weel
ending February 22d, 1888: Miss Emm
Bvwater, John Dooley, Miss Clara Dale
Miss lydia Dare, Newton Elmer, Georg
Altmans. Caroline Wiley. Persons callin
for the above letters will please say the,
are advertised.
Az the stockholders meeting OF tn
Peninsular Agricultural and Pomologlca
Association, held on Saturday last, sever8
members OF the stock subscription coh
mittee made encouraging reports. othei
were not ready to report and asked NOR
time The meeting was therefore &C
iourned till Saturday afternoon, Marc
10th. when all reports will be received
Water, or no water; protection, or n
rrotection against fire. That is about I'll
wav the contest for Town Commlsslonel
will stand on Monday. II any proper
holder should give his aid to defeat me
who favor a water system and etnclei
IRE apparatus, and should during the ne.
wear lose his buildings by tire, ne woui
probably feel like going out Dehino u
ruins and kicking himself.
March came in like the mildest 50
of lamb - Mary's little lamp' LOT
stance. But we have no idea OF the va
assortment Of weather March has potIi'
~ for ms. There is something to plea
evervbodv, no doubt; "if you don 3
,,,bat Won want. ask for it ;" new styles
irving daily; if you don't like our stock
weather. po to another shop. That's lu
tho sort of independent month Marcn
Jerrv Gould, negro, tried to caress l
wife Lizzie with brick, and she nau -
brought before Esquire Vasey on Niono
and committed for assault. But OelO
the train came that was to take jerry Vi
1;.t1o excursion to New Castle, Llzzle
Tented and went back to the squires
free and pleaded so hard for jerry that
squire let him go. Perhaps Lizzie tnoue
a husband in hand, if he does thr'
hricks. is worth two husbands in jail
The annual statement Of receipts
disbursements OF the town Of Middleto'
is published this week. There aPPe
from this statement to be no money u
town treasury, though there are Sl'Sl'
due the town from the tax payers ana
county tax collector. This does not :
as if Middletown were able to pay csish
efficient fire apparatus now. II we art
have the water and the engine ana q
necessary apparatus, two Or three -
sand dollars will be needed, and we To
that any reasonable taxpayer would
fer that this be borrowed and PAID on
the rate of three or four hundred doiI
,aor rather than have it raised by