Middletown transcript., 1891-08-20
FOREST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

Town Notes.
County Superintendent III. d.
Griffin held an examination at the
Academy here last Saturday for the
convenience of those teachers wish
ing to secure second or third grade
certificates.
- The early departure of some of
the peach trains is source of very
great inconvenience to the shippers.
Cars are pulled out while peaches
are being loaded in them, and fre-
quently the men who pack the
peaches in the cars have to go, with
the train to brace up the baskets SO
as to prevent upsetting.
"A mule attached to the peach
wagon of Alexander Metten, dropped
dead in the road just outside of town,
while being driven home early Mon
day evening. Death is supposed to
have resulted from heart disease as
the animal had done vsry little work
during the day and had never been
iii before.
= From seven to ten cars are being
, loaded with peaches every day and
Middletown is still a peach centre of
some magnitudes Those persons
who have been in the business for
many years say that finer or more
luscious peaches never grew on the
Peninsula. Buyers are still scarce,
but prices are slowly improving.
= Mr.. Edward Reynolds of this |
place, received from 40 peach trees
on his Kent county farm, 1884 bask-
cts Of fruit, an average OF about z
baskets to the tree. This yield is
considered extraordinary, and has
probably not been exceeded on the
Peninsula this season. What makes
it all the more remarkable is that not
a single basket of the fruit was prem
ature in fact Mr.. Reynolds will not
ship any peaches unless they have
matured properly.
= Oliver Stevens, clerk of the
steamer Clio, plying between Odessa
and Philadelphia, suffered a very
severe accident on Friday, while
assisting with some work around the
wharf. The boat was moving slight
ly as it lay at the wharf and in some
way Mr.. Stevens caught his foot be-
tween the gang-plank and the wharf.
1t was very badly crushed, and he
was taken to Philadelphia Saturday
and had the foot amputated below
the knee. He is doing as well now as
possible, under the circumstances.
- Henry Jacobs, colored, was
brought to town Monday morning
suffering from severe wound over
the left ear which he had received at
the camp near Mt. Pleasant about IL
o'clock the previous evening. The
man was very weak, and was unable
to walk without assistance. He
stated that another colored man hit
him over the head with a bride and
It is supposed that the bit of the
bride made the wound. Jacobs is
an inoffensive man, generally, and it
Is thought that someone hit him by
mistake. DIR. Vaughan took several
stitches in. the wound to close it and
the injured man was taken home by
his friends. He was not missed after
the accident and lay out In the wood
all night, and was discovered by some
friends the following morning.
Mr.. Cecil Mahoney, the civil
engineer of the Delaware railroad
has been engaged during the present
week surveying the route for the
and Odessa railroad.
The road will, if no changes are )
made, run. out Lake street and then
over to the public road leading from
to Odessa, thence with
said road all, or part Of the way, to
Odessa. One side Of the public road
will be used SO that horses not accus-
toned to passing cars will have plen- J
ty of room. The objection to the use
of Main street caused the Town Com
sioners to provide for the use of Lake ,
street for the road, but the wisdom OF ,
the change is not very apparent as
there are almost as many families re- ]
siding there as there are on Main
street. Mr.. w r. Polk who is the
originator of the enterprise is now
very hopeful and says he is advanc- Q
ing step by step toward the compile
tion of his work. There now seems
to be little doubt of the fact that this ]
little road is to be built and operated
by the monster monopoly, bnt the i
Odessa people believe that even this t
would be better than no road at all.
There is just this difference between /
O road operated by the Pennsylvania '
railroad company and a road operat-
ed by separate and distinct corpor.
alton, in one case the road will be q
used to iniure the water route and in
the other it would not. In the hands g
of a separate company the road a
would be of great advantage to a il
large area Of very productive coun- /
try as means Of bringing cheaply d
and quickly, produce of various t
kinds to water transportation. 1t
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