Middletown transcript., 1891-05-07
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

Town Notes.
"A change will be made in th
timetable over the Delaware roa
some time next week.
Bishop Coleman will officiate i
st. Anne's Church this evening, q
half-past seven o'clock.
- The first strawberries of tn
season were offered for sale by E. E
Rice last Friday at 80 cents per quart
There was slight frost Monda.
morning, but whether the fruit ha
suffered any i'll effects remains to b.
seen.
- The Office hours at the Post
Office are now from A. M. to z. P. M.
owing to the recent change in tn,
mails.
Those having corn cobs for sal.
would do well by consulting the ad
vertisement of J. Kann, in an adjoin
ing column.
There is considerable anxiety
here as regards the injury done the
young fruit by the cold spell Of the
past few days.
= The man who gave away his
overcoat and disposed of his winter
fianneIs realized that it was a cold,
cold world yesterday.
= Dining-room lore says that
f1nger-bowls are always superfuous
except where game bones are TO be
picked or asparagus stalks licked.
Mr.. w. r. Reynolds recently
found ladies shawl lying in the
road on South Broad street, which
the owner can secure by calling on
him at his store.
The "Quicksteps" is the name
of base ball club organized by the
boys of the town on Tuesday evening.
The club is ready and anxious to
receive challenges from any team in
the neighborhood, whose members
are under IS years of age.
= Last Sunday being rainy there
was not the usual attendance at the
Presbyterian Sunday-school, but the
one hundred mark will doubtless be
rounded next Sunday. If this should
prove the case the magic lantern ex-
hibition. will be given during the
following week.
An adjourned meeting of the
Presbytery of New Castle will be held
in Rodney Street Church, Whining
ton, Rev. W. L. McEwen, pastor,
next Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
Atthe recent meeting in Delaware City
the trial of Rev. J. r. Campbell con-
sumed so much time that some of
the regular spring business had to be
deferred.
= The following are Mr.. Hyatt's
representations for the remainder OF
the month: 7th to 18th, occasional
thunder storms 18th, cooler weather;
14th and 18th, stormy; nth to Goth,
warm rains; 21st, cooler; 23d to
25th, fair and cool; Goth, thunder
showers; 27th to Goth, rains; a0th
and 31st, fair and warm. Altogether
there will be twelve rains during the
month.
= The passenger service officials of
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad appeared, for the
first time this season, in their sum-
mer caps of white duck, Monday
morning. The blue caps were worn
until midnight Sunday night, when,
according to strict orders, they were
taken off and the white ones placed
on, everywhere on the Maryland and
Delaware divisions.
= The new hook and ladder truck
recently purchased by the Volunteer
Hose Company arrived at the depot
last Friday. Id the evening the
firemen turned out in their uniforms
and gave short parade, with the
new truck bringing up the rear. The
truck and its equipments, and the
cost of bringing it here will amount
to triHe over $490, which sum the
Hose Company hope to raise at a
future date by giving festival, or
something on that order.
= It viii be gratifying to the many
friends of the Rev. Henry Chamber
laine of New York, son of DR.. Cham
berlaine of this town, to learn that
he is recovering from his recent
severe illness and that the Vestry of
his Parish has voted him five months
vacation and five hundred dollars to
defray the expenses of change and
rest. This shows the high estimation
in which he is held by his people, and
illustrates the sympathetic and
practical character Of their christian
ity.
= Edward French, tramp, was
hired by William Fl. Fennimore, a
Blackbird hundred farmer, two
months ago, as farm laborer, and as
he proved good worker and seemed
to be very respectable man In every
way he was allowed more privileges
than is usually the custom. On Sat-
urday he asked for team to go to
Odessa and the next time the horse
and buggy were seen was at a New
Castle livery stable. French tried to
sell the outfit there, and failing in
this, left the team and went to Phil
adelphia. He has not since been
heard from.