Middletown transcript., 1886-09-02
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

Town Notes.
The thermometer registered so de-
grees ON Wednesday morning.
- The sun rises tomorrow (Friday) at
6.2S and sets at 6.29; moon sets at 9.59
= We are pleased to hear rumors of
several new houses to be built in Middle
town in the near FUTURE.
The Methodist Church of this place
will be closed on Sunday. There will be
Sunday-school as usual.
= The usual monthly service at Arm
strong Chapel will be postponed until
next Sunday week, Sept. IL.
~ Middletown is lighted with electric
lights, an has two candidates for Cover
nor; it also has two excellent newspa-
pers.-Delawarean
- Two walters had q fight at the
National Hotel Monday afternoon. OFF,.
Ger Craddock assisted them to the "cooler'
where they remained over night.
- Some Of the trees on North Broad
street have been cut down. The cater
pillars, of which there seems to be no end,
were the cause of it.
AZ G. Yates & Co. print their fall an
nouncement herewith. The new cut is q
very attractive one but not more attrac-
tive than their clothing and prices.
When rainy day comes the peach
plucks are obliged to lay of from work
and then they I'LL in the time by fighting.
Officer Craddock has had his hands full of
late.
The Cornet Band have ordered their
wagon, to be built by Horn Bros, of Will
mington. The new vehicle will cost
$500 and is to be completed by the 10th
inst.
"Show us a town." truthrully re-
marks an exchange, "where all the mer-
chants patronize their local paper, and we
will show you one where peddler would
stand poor chance.
= The Middletown public schools will |
open on Monday. Mrs. Wright, and not |
MIR. Wright, as has been stated, will not |
be in her accustomed place until two or
three weeks later. Miss Jennie Wright
will take her place.
H. L. Arthur put in new twenty
horsepower boiler in his cannery this
week and has a large force busily engaged
i'm putting up peaches and tomatoes. Be-
tween the cannery and evaporators there
are no idle hands in this community.
Mr.. B. f. Lippincott, florist of this
place is improving his fern house in the
way of a new roof and glass fixtures.
This will be great improvement over the
former one as all of the frame work was
old and decayed and could not have pos
sibIy stood much longer.
The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year.
The poet wouldn't have thought the
days melancholy If he hadn't been bill
Gus; and he wouldn't have been bilious
If he had taken Kennedy's Chill Breaker.
: Bowlby Bros. & Co., Of Montreal
Canada b. W. Roscoe, Syracuse, N. Y;
Potter & Williams, Buffalo, N. T.; A. D.
Gail, Buffalo, N. Y. and Sherman, Of
Bridgeport Conn. are the principle peach
buyers at Middletown station this season.
Preparatory lecture to the sacrament
'ot the Lord q Supper will be delivered in
Forest Presbyterian Church on Friday
,evening at 7.30 o'clock. The sacrament
will be administered on Sunday morning l
by the pastor, Rev. w. G. Alexander.
After 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 Solu BILE Bone.
The rain Tuesday morning was very
refreshing and grateful. The distinct
rumblings and shakings of an earth
quake were heard by a,umber Of our
residents on Tuesday evening. num-
ber OF clocks were stopped in this vicin-
ity.
Twenty persons in the Cecil county
jail await the action ofthe grand jury forthe
coming. term of the Circuit Court for that
county, four of whom are charged with
capital offenses. The term begins Sep
tember 10th, and promises to be long
one.
Services at st. Anne's Church next
Sunday at 1880 a. m. and 7.3O p. in. The
Rev. J. Beers will continue his "Sunday
morning meditations on Jesus at Jacobs
Welllwith the Woman OF Samaria." And
in the evening will preach on apostolic
Assurance" The public are cordially in
vited and welcomed.
- Farmers will certainly find valua-
remedy for Hog Cholera in Bragdon's
specific for that disease. It has been
tested in most severe cases and invaria-
bly, proves cure. No farmer can afford
to be without 1t as 1t Ia also valuable in
diseases among poultry.
"A small Boston girl having been told ;
that a clap of thunder she had just heard
was God speaking" is reported by the
Courier to have answered: 81 dess he &
must be mad den, for he spoke {
mos as loud as pa wen he found his col I
Jar button In dc biscuit yesterday" le
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