Middletown transcript., 1886-09-16
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

Town Notes.
Work has been commenced on Mr.
Edward Jones' house on Crawford street
- The sun rises tomorrow Friday
5.35 and sets at 6.18; moon sets 2.51 morn
ing.
Mrs. L. A. Wilson is painting hel
house. Mr.. w. ID. King is doing the
work.
Apple Parers, Briar scythes and
Snaths, Corn Knives in variety. G.. E.
Hukill.
Mr.. George Earnest will erect a
dwelling on Lake street. Work has
been commenced.
- Experts to act as awarding judges
have been secured in all departments of
the State Fair exhibition.
- Mr.. John n. Blaine of Chesapeake
City has disposed of his drug store to Mr..
George Bennett and removed with his
family to Pocomoke City.
-Mr.W. e. Evans, of Noxentown Mills
carries the banner thus far for big
sweet potatoes. He LEFT one at our Office
to-day which weighs 81 pounds.
= Peach shipments for the week, over
the Delaware road up to and including
Tuesday 14th, inst, amount to 162 car
loads; total carloads TO date 2O95.
- Virgins, the weather prophet, pre-
diets great storm on the 28th inst. he
terms 1t the " war OF the elements and
warns the people to be on the look out for
it.
George Gilch, of near Odessa, broke
his leg in two places above the ankle on
Saturday night. The accident happened
to him in the stable while be was putting
up his tsam.
- Blind Tom drew very large au-
dience at Town Hall last Friday evening.
Tom did well all through his program,
and his audience were delighted and anus
cd throughout.
Mr.. George Echenhoter offers some
fine Western ewes for sale in another
column. These animals are fine selected |
stock and well worth inspection by farm-i
ers wishing to purchase.
- Mrs. James Culbertson has had the
old house torn down that stood on her
opposite the Methodist Church
and will erect thereon three-story
dwelling suitable for two families.
= The annual ball, in connection with
the Fair Of the Agricultural Society, will
be held in Mitchell Hall, on the Fair
grounds In Elkton, on Wednesday even
ing, September 10Th, and no doubt will
be very brilliant and enjoyable affair.
On Tuesday three mules belonging
to Mr.. George Echenhofer, jumped from
the field and got upon the railroad track
and were run over by train. One has
since died and the recovery Of another is
but the third is but very little
injured.
"A writer puts it briefly thus, I" Shake
said Malaria: and / shook" OF course
be did but he was a wise man, for he inn
took dose Of DIR. Kennedy's
Chill Breaker and Bilious Eliminator,
and shook no more. 30 cents. Or. ].
Gibson Carroll, manufacturer.
A Temperance Reform club has been
formed at Odessa and surroundings. The
O campaign club here. The
chairman IN L. v. Aspril, Jr.. Secretary,
wiIbert r Tucker, with John K. Will i
liams, James J. Janvier, William A.
Rhoads, ST., and John B. Vandegrift as q
= This, picked off the sea of newspaper
dom, will be Of value to housekeepers:
"Put tablespoonful Of brown sugar into
4 quart of paste, and it will fasten labels
as securely to tin cans as to wsod. House
keepers may save themselves much an
uoyance in the loss Of labels from their
fruit cans when putting up their own
truit by remembering this.
Mr.. G. e. Hukill has just received
from J. G. Parker handsome set of
double harness and expects to purchase
another horse, and will hereafter use a
double team in his lumber business.
The harness is well favored for strength,
durability and good workmanship, and
this, by the way, ia the only sort Of work
that Mr.. Parker allows to 60 out OF his
shop.
John Foulk, q farmer, living near
West Chester, recently received abarrel Of
from Sewell, West Virginia. |
The cask contained % reptiles, and be-
,ides being marked " Rattlesnakes" had
.he superauous injunction " Handle
With Care" Foulk will release the rat
Tiers upon his farm so that they can rid
his fields OF mice and crop-destroying
varmiflts. And still his neighbors are
not happy.
- Mr.. John N. Janney, residing near
Zion, in the Ninth district, has half |
grown partridge in his flock of young |
turkeys. The partridge was first discov-
cred in the brood upon its return from /
the fields about ten days ago. The tur-
keys still roam the fields every day with
The "cute" little bird among them. The
heeds the call of the turkey hen
with as much alacrity as the young tur-
keys. Mr.. fanny may exhibit the brood
ut the fair.-Cecil News.
Major J. d. Janvier, of New Castle,
suggests that it would be good thing for
the farmers attending the State Fair to
hold an informal meeting ON some morn
Ing Of the Fair week, on the grounds, for
the purpose of relating experience and
discussing farm topics. Short talksupon
any subject pertaining to agriculture and
about the cereals, stock and implements
on exhibition will be in order. Farmers
IN favor of the suggestion should send
their names to Mr.. Janvier.