Middletown transcript., 1883-04-06
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APR. 6, 1883.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

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dletown new Southern vegetables next
week.
The Rev. DIR. Tullidge will conduct
the services at st. Anne'sP. E. Church on
Sunday next.
- The school election for this district
will be held tomorrow, at the Academy,
at two o'clock.
The stiff breeze of yesterday blew
down the big bill board of the "Circus
Royal" at the depot.
M. N. Willis will start his ice wagon
about the first OF May. His card of rates
is printed in another column.
The Town Commissioners are looking
about them for suitable site on which to
build house for the fire apparatus.
The little folks are much excited over
the coming circus. And the big folks will
have to 60 to take care of the little folks.
= Biggs, Clayton & Co. have force OF
nine persons busily engaged making cans
for their fruit and vegetable pack of 1888.
The gentlemen composing the Bur-
dette lecture committee are requested to
meet at the postoffice at eight O'Clock on
Saturday evening.
The store-house at Lockwood's corner,
lately occupied by Benjamin Benson, has
been newly papered and is being other
wise improved within.
- Joseph Roberts has had his house at
the corner of Broad and Pennington streets
raised several feet at the foundation, and
Ill AI,ar0r7o.blxy
paired.
= Benjamin Benson has decided to
move from Middletown and will offer his
desirable home and household goods at
public sale on Saturday Of next week,
April 14th.
= At the annual meeting Of the local
board Of the Rochester Mutual Relief
Association, held on Monday evening, the
old officers were reelected and Mr.. J. w.
Jolls was selected as a delegate to the
annual convention at Rochester.
= The Town Commissioners having
been granted authority by the Legislature
to borrow s., 900 to buy fire apparatus and
put in a water system for fire purposes, it
will not be long, probably, until the town
is properly protected in this respect.
= The date of Irving Lyceum's musical
and literary entertainment will probably
be announced on Monday evening. One
of the pleasing things that is to be pre-
sented, we learn, is the charming little
operetta, " King Alfred, which appeared
in the March number of Harper s Monthly.
The Middletown Lecture Committee
has engaged Mr.. R. J. Burdette, the funny
man of the Burlington Hawkeye, for
lecture in Middletown Hall on the even
ing of Friday, April Goth. Our people will
find this lecture a rare treat. Rates OF
admission, ETC., will be announced in our
next issue.
1t would seem that Middletown is to
have a great deal in the amusement line
during April. The Burdette lecture,
Lvceum literary and musical entertain
-.s,er,t, q Hazel Kirke.,, by AbbeY's com
pany, minstrel show and circus are
already promised. And probably the re-
turns are not all in yet.
A list of letters remainingin in the post
office at Middletown, Del, for the week
ending March 30, 1888: William Essex,
Edward Gibbs, Michael Hanifel, Miss Hen
rietta Hopkins, Miss Eugenia Hanifel,
Miss Jenny Harris, Miss Susie Sigards.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say they are advertised.
Rev. Robert Lloyd Goldsborough, of
Burlington, New Jersey, officiated at st.
Anne's P. E. Church on Sunday last at
both the morning and evening services.
The congregation was large at both ser
vices. Rev. Mr.. Goldsborough was rector
of st. Anne's parish from 1858 to 1866, and
of course has many friends in Middle
town and vicinity.
Every business man of Smyrna,
CLAYTON, Townsend, Middletown, Mount
Pleasant, Kirkwood, Odessa, and New
Castle should write to R. G. Jackson, Su-
perintendent of Railway Mail Service,
New York City, protesting against Post
master Swiggett's scheme to rob them OF
their morning and evening mails to ben
eft the lower Peninsula.
If Mr.. Swiggett's pet scheme for I'M
nrovino (?O the Peninsular mail service
were adopted no mail could be sent north
TO points south of Wilmington earlier than
nv the train that leaves Middletown at
II. ~. or south to points north Of Dover
later than by the train that leaves Middle
town at 2.lO. This would be fine i'm
provement % for the upper Peninsula
wouldn't it?
At a meeting held at the Agricultural
societv,s room on Saturday afternoon the
subiect of a new bank in Middletown was
discussed by number of persons, but no
action looking to an organization was
+ol,an There is much street talk about
the new bank, and while some express
the opinion that the community IS already
amply supplied with banks, others think
+bat the new institution is needeu ahu
will pay fair dividends to its stockholders
As vet the movement does not seem "
have active leadership.
william X. Lockwood, OF Warwlck
Md. has purchased Of Fl. 6. Riley tn'
dwelling house on Green street, now oo
.cunied by Mr.. Riley, for $4,000 cash. 1n'
1,rayortv Is one of the most pleasantly
s;tno+od homes in Middletown ana Mr
Tockwood is lucky in being able TO secure
II He will take possession of the properly
obont November first, and will therealte
reside in Nliddletown, though ne vii
continue the management Of his larg'
So, ,,aar warwick. He is native Dela
1Torean but has lived on his Cecil COUNTY
farm for thirty years. Middletown pee
he will be glad to welcome hlln anu ~
family among thein' - ar
There has been a great deal Oh Pneu
,,onia on the Peninsula during tne pa.
three months, but very few cases n thl
neipbborhood, and none in MiddletoWl y
that has proved fatal. Persons should re re
member that they are not out OF the pneu
monia season yet and should not Be IN
hurry to get out Of winter nanneis'
-,ersons under sixty would, in the seaso
wben this dread disease prevails ore are
warmly, take a cold sponge pa'n evet
,,orninq in warm room, eat a plenty
wholesome food, live in rooms not hea'e
80, sleep in well ventilated apar