Middletown transcript., 1886-08-19
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.


There will be service In the PresbJ
terian church this coming Sunday.
The sun rises tomorrow (Friday)
SIS. and sets at 6.51; the moon rises
9.56.
West q Scott started their evapors
tor ON Monday, and evaporated 100 bas
kets.
- Reports Of Of AA4Eiidadalletewn II peach ship
ments begin to read just little like olt
times.
Our entire police force is now uni
formed. He presents very martial ap
pearsnce.
A health authority insists that low
pillows should be used, and that high
ones are hurtful.
The Galena base ball club will play
the Mutuals at their grounds on Friday
Goth, at 2 O'Clock.
The evening service in st. Anne's
Church will commence next Sunday,
at half past seven O'Clock.
Middletown has a good crop OF
peaches this year but her crop Of "plucks''
outdoes all her previous efforts.
List of unclaimed letters in the post
Office at Middletown, DEL, for the week
ending Aug. I4:-Mrs. Hennie Thomas.
The Citizens Cornet Band accom-
panied the st. Georges delegation to the
Democratic State Convention on Tues
day.
DIR. Carroll informs Us he filled
orders for twelve dozen bottles of Ken
nedy's Chill Breaker last Monday in ad-
dition to his retail sales.
- The Presbyterian and Episcopal Sun
day-schools will picnic at Augustine Pier
tomorrow, II clear weather, all reports to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
Joseph Grey, breakman, had his
arm crushed between two cars, on Tues
day morning. DIR. Carroll, the P. W. q
BIS physician dressed the wound.
Care for your food and drink, to see
that it is pure and wholesome in these
latter summer weeks is better preven'
tive of disease than pounds of medicine.
- On Wednesday Mr.. VIM. Rothwell,
sold 500 baskets OF peaches at his orchard
for prices ranging from 60 cents
to 81 per basket. They go to
Chicago parties.
- Those OF our citizens who are Id
5tested in handsome ceiling decorations
had better step into d. L. Dunning's store
aud examine piece Of work just executed
by Mr.. George Rowe. The design is very
beautiful.
- Mr.. G. 8. Rowbotham has rented the
building ON the corner of Main and Scott
streets and will hold auction sales OF all
sorts of novelties every evening. He will
also sell any goods he has in stock at
private sale.
The Rev. J. Beers will commence
next Sunday a series of Sunday morning
meditations on, f" Jesus at Jacobs Well
with the Woman of Samaria." " Service be- |
gins at 1890, prompt. The public are re-
spectfully invited to attend.
Alter having surveyed the land and
carefully measured the wheat, Mr.. J. T.
Shallcross reports the yield on part of his
land was thirty-five and one-fourth BUSH
els per acre. Where this was grown he
used the Diamond State Soluble Bone.
-Cass street residents have finally told
the electric light men to put the poles In
the very best position they can and not TO
cut the trees any more than they can
possibly avoid. We can now depend
upon having light in the dark places on
Cass street.
1t is estimated that there are one hum
dred thousand sufferers from hay fever In
the United States; q number about four
times greater than the regular standing
army. This number could be reduced to
a mere regiment if all would resort to
Ely's Cream Balm.
III. L. Hynson & Bro, will run six
evaporators at Still Pond, Maryland. this
season, evaporating peaches. They pro-
pose to commence next week. Their fac
tory will contain one Williams one
9rier's and four Clipper, or Hopkins
machines.-Chronicle.
A certain Middletown young lady
says she is so glad that this horrid old
slection is over, because Pa just talked
politics to her beaus all the time to the ex-
,lusion of all other subjects. We sympa-
hize with her, and we also rejoice that
.he contest is over, but for different rea-
son.
1t is the opinion Of many tomato
growers, that the crop will not be large
his season, because of the heavy rains,
which beat the blossoms and young TO-
natoes of the vines. The first pickings
ire always the best, and they will not be
very large, SO the old growers say.-Mil=
ord Chronicle. II
We have been requested tosay the
irate lady" with the gun, who wished
o shoot the man with a haLchet, does not
eside on Cass street. We are informed
he incident Happened as we gave it, but.
n another town where the angry passions
f the ladies are not as well controlled az
hose Of Cass street ladies.
The electric light was turned ON Tues
lay evening for the first. Those in charge
ay that the Middletown plant worked
etter at the start than any
hey have yet put In. The arrange
1ents for the street lights are not yet COM
leted. The lights in the stores and dwell
1gs gave general satisfaction. II