Middletown transcript., 1891-06-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

Hukill.
IS. M. Reynolds g. Co.'s is the
place to buy your Mason fruit jars
and jelly glasses.
- Divine service at the usual hours
next Sunday in st. Anne's Church.
The Rector will D. V. officiate.
The Townsend base ball club
are expected here tomorrow after
noon to play game with the home
team.
We can make your old fly nets
look like new, and save you money.
w. r. REYNOLDS.
Mr.. John w. Jolls places the
number OF baskets of peaches to be
shipped from this immediate neigh
borhood this season at 250,OOO.
The body of Mrs. Jane Armstrong
of Wilmington, was brought to Mid
dletown on the morning train Mon
day and buried in the NJ. E. cemetery
here.
- The Young Ladies' Guild of st.
Anne's Church will hold straw
berry fete" in the chapel adjoining
the church tomorrow evening.
Everyone is invited to be present.
= Mail can now be sent to New
Castle, Wilmington and Philadelphia
on the 4.27 north bound train. This
arrangement is very convenient for
our business men here as well as
persons living in the aforementioned
cities.
- The regular meeting of the Board
of Trade will be held in their rooms,
Cochran Block, on Friday evening,
June 18th, at o'clock sharp. A full
attendance of the members is urgent
ly requested, as important reports |
will be made.
= Mr.. W. s. Letherbury showed |
the writer few days ago a piece of |
American tin, made by the N. & G..
Taylor Co., of Philadelphia. 1t can
not be told from English-made tin ex-
cept from the finish which is not |
quite so bright as that made in Eng
land. The jobbers' prices are the
same for both articles.
= Mr.. w. III. johnson has a small |
square Of his garden planted in straw
berries of the Sharpless variety, and |
so far this season he has picked |
about twenty-five quarts. The |
berries are very fine and the yield |
from SO small space is remarkable.
His harvest is not over yet and he ex-
poets to pick several more quarts be-
fore they are all gone.
George E. Stengle, son Of Rev.
Adam Stengle, formerly pastor Of the |
NJ. E. Church, and a young man well
known here, is about to establish a |
weekly paper in Port Peposit, Md.
George was typo in this office for a
number of years where he learned his
trade, and we wish him every success
in his venture.
= Children's Day will be observed
in the M. E. Church next Sunday,
and the program will be divided so
that part of the exercises will be
given in the morning and part at |
night. The church will be decorated
as is usually the custom, and the ex-
ercises, which the scholars have been
practicing some time, promise to be
very entertaining.
The cherry crop this year is i'm
mense, and the fruit has probably |
never been SO plentiful or OF such |
good quality as within the past few
weeks. The writer, was shown a
branch taken from tree few days
ago, not quite two feet in length,
which had over ninety cherries on it,
all in good healthy condition. Who |
can beat 1t?
We are in receipt of beauti- |
full card of invitation to the COM
mencement exercises of Goldey's
Wilmington Commercial College, to
be held in the Opera House in Will
mington, on Tuesday, June 16ths at |
z.3OP. M. The annual address will
be delivered by Rev. Sam Small,
A. NJ. The whole program gives |
promise of being very entertaining
affair.
= AS stated in our last issue the |
firm of s. Pennington & Son have leas-
ed their store at the north west corner |
of Main and Broad streets, and will
60 out Of business after June Slst.
Their stock of goods now on hand
will be offered at a great discount |
and great bargains will be the result.
The store has been leased from July /
LIST, and another firm will open up |
business after that date.