Middletown transcript., 1888-10-25
Town Notes.


on Tuesday.
- Do not fail to see the Till Family at
the Opera House, next Monday evening.
- Miss May Beasten is visiting friends
in Baltimore.
A shorthand class was organ lied
last evening under management OF Mr..
w. G. Brown.
- We acknowledge receipt OF June
catalogue of the Delaware Agricultural
Experiment Station.
-Alvan Allen, Esq, candidate for
Sheriff was in town on Monday and CALL
ed at TIE TRANSCRIPT office.
A quilting party was given at the
residence Of Mrs. Eliza Anderson last
Friday afternoon and evening.
Rev. W. E. Tomk1nson of Whining
ton. preached in the M. e. Church last
Sunday morning and evening.
- The next annual fair of the Cecil
County Agricultural Society will be held
in the first week in October, 1889.
- Several of our citizens attended the
Democratic meeting in the Opera House
WILMINGTON, last Thursday evening.
FoUND.-A white apron on Cass
street, last Tuesday morning. The loser
can have the same by applying at this
Office.
A pound auction was held In the
Republican Club Room by the ladies
OF the Home Missionary Society last
Thursday evening. The proceeds were
for worker among the Mormons OF
Utah.
The hind trucks of the south-bound
freight train No. 10 jumped the track near
the fair grounds at Dover, Monday morn
ing and caused the delay of the passenger
train until wreck train from Clayton
went down and set matters Alright.
- The Democratic Hundred Committee
have appointed men in each school dis.
trict for the purpose of making canvas
of the hundred and to provide convey
ances for voters who have no way of get
ting to the polls at the coming presiden-
tial election.
- The Electric Light Company are
going to put IN three arc lights in week
or so. One will be placed in the public
square, one at the depot and one at the
electric light station. In all probability
some OF Middletown's merchants will
try the new light.
A large Democratic meeting will be
held in the Middletown Opera House
this evening. Governor. Biggs and the
Hons. Chas. Lore and Geo. Gray will
speak upon the issues of the campaign.
The Citizens Cornet Band will furnish
music and a big time is anticipated.
Everybody is invited to attend.
"A Republican mass meeting was
held in the Opera House last Friday
evening. There was a fair audience pre-
sent. The meeting was addressed by
Chas. H. Treat, Esq, Of Georget own,
Congressional candidate on the Repu bli-
can ticket, and E. g. Bradford, Esq, of
Wilmington. Both speeches were we'll de-
Iivered.
= List of unclaimed letters at the Post
Office, Middletown, for the week ending
October 18th Rose Ann Lodyne, Frank
Goodwin, Albert Heavlow, Annie Kanz,
J. B. McGinnis, Mrs. Willie Osteron,
Weslight Robertson, Mary Short, William
Burk, Mary Silvlas. Persons calling for
the above letters will please say they
are advertised.
MIR. Arthur P. Jones wishes Us to
say that he is now ready to receive Or
ders tor han ging paper in or out OF town.
Mr.. Jones has had an experience Of eight
years in the business and has worked
under the best workman in the city. All
orders for paper hanging can be left at
the store of Mrs. J. L. Parsons, opposite
Peoples National Bank, Middletown.
All orders promptly attended to.
-Teh Academy of Music In Whining
ton, on Delaware Avenue, burned down
Tuesday eve, about half past eight. The
entire structure was destroyed. Loss
about $40, 900. Insurance, with Buck q Co.,
$4,000. This institution has been finan-
cial failure from the start and some one
will doubtless be just as well sat isfied that
it has gone. 1t was built by L. P. Buck OF
the present firm of Buck & Co., insurance
agents at Wilmington.
John F. Gilpin, a brother of Ex-
Mayor Charles Gilpin, and the Oldest
stock broker in the city, died Monday,
October %, at bis residence in Philadel-
phia on Broad street, below Spruce. He
was go years old. For some time he had
been suffering from general debility.
Mary Gilpin, a cousin of the above gen.
tleman, died at her home in E lkton, Md.
on Wednesday, October Oath, In the seth,
year Of her age. Both were near relatives
of DR.. T. H. Gilpin of this town.
= Near Newark, on last Sunday even
ing about $50, a fire occurred on the farm
ifs. NJ. Reynold, of this town. occupied
by Geo. w. Knots, tenant, formerly Of
Odessa, by which large double decker
barn 72x4O, together with the entire con-
tents was destroyed. No live stock ex-
cepting three hogs, were lost. The con-
tents of the building in detail was as fol-
lows: 400 bushels of wheat, 200 bushels
ofcorn, lot Of oats, 10 tons Of hay, about
20 tons straw, reaper, mower, drill,
wagons. and all other farm machinery.
The building was worth at the time OF
the fire, at low estimate $4,000, and was
insured for $4,000 in the Queen. Mr.. Rey-
noIds mad also $500 On contents in the
same company. Mr.. Knots the tenant
had no insurance, and looses all his I'M
plements and share ofgrain. Mr.. Key
nolds will probably lose at least slOOO
beyond his insurance as the building can
not be replaced for less than $500.
The pastor of the M. e. Church was
not in a condition to fill his pulpit on
Sunday, but found an efficient supply in
Rev. w. E. Tompkinson of Wilmington.
The weekly prayer services have grow
ing interest and are exceedingly pront-
able to the large number in attendance.
In no department have our Methodists
improved more than in their prayer SER
vices, The singing last Thursday even
ing had the old time fear about it, and
was real freshing even to passer by on
the street. Active but great work is be-
ing done in all the departments of the
s,hurch. The pastor feels keenly the loss