Middletown transcript., 1894-07-28
LITTLE LOCALS.
The quarterly report of the Middletown
banks appears in our paper to-day.

The quarterly report of the Middleton
banks appears in our paper to-day.
The residents of East end are lavish i
their praises of our Clown Father 70
street improvement now being made in tina
section our city.
We can but wonder why our CORE
spondence fails to reach us sometimes
Our last weeks Delaware City letter ha
never reached us yet, though it was mailed
early Friday morning. This is not thu
| first time either.
There are few cases of sickness in our
town and our board of health cannot be too
persistant in demanding of every house.
holder the strict observance of the ordi-
nary laws of sanitation.
Madame Rumor has given it out that
there will be another Pocomoke-Middle-
town wedding in the early autumn for
which Middletown furnishes the groom
and Pocomoke the bride.
This new north window of ours brings
new blessing every day and is veritabl e
Aladin's Lamp. To-day, Aquarius, as
Stunning modern style, seats himself be-
meath our mulberry tree, and armed with
some twenty feet of hose sprinkles our do
maine till the cooling shower revives our
dropping spirits and gives US new i'm
pulse.
Mrs A. s. Adams new houses on An
derson Street are now complete, one Of
them being already occupied. They are
pretty, cozy and comfortable little homes,
of six rooms, and will not wait long for
occupants, as small but comfortable houses
with corresponding rents are always in de-
mand.
Comfort first, and then style, is the
order for summer costumes, and loo Sc,
roomy garments are recommended. Doubt
less that is where the swell young man got
The idea fer his loose pants. Indeed some
of them might well be taken for their sis
ters' divided skirts. Things are getting
dreadfully mixed up.
-Middletown is not lacking in sensations
this week. A Wedding with a fin de seicle |
romance, has furnished the very cream of
gossip and now to cap the climax the
Seventh Day Adventists have come to town
and have opened shop in our very midst
And with the Senate still in session at |
We are not likely to want for
news
A Middletown man who talks politics at
The break fast table had rebuke this week
from an entirely unexpected source. 1t
was just after the Cleveland Gorman-Hill-
episode in the Senate, and breakfast table
opics were numerous and absorbing when
/ wise little maid of five summers, with
III the precocity of these latter day daugh-
ers of Eve remarked, soto voce, II certainly
I'm tired O. hearing about Cleveland, Tariff
md Democrats"
1t is matter of common remark at the
eashore this season, that the girls look SO
much like the men, it is really quite diff
ult to discern them, and the scarcity of
he opposite sex is not so apparent. What,
nth their tailor made costume, high collar
took. stiff shirt front and mannish hat it .
) not surprising that the uninitiated are
ot sure whether they are girls or boys
hat throng the sidewalks of the popular .
escorts But the girls know.
There is no denying the fact that it is S
ot, when the thermometer gets up to 100, |
nd that is where it has been this week. G
tut for all that, we've managed to find '
ool place since we've window in our den t
nat opens-well our friends know where \
opens. The genie of the Soda Fount is a
'ithin call, and the faintest whisper is I
efficient to bring forth, not exactly a p
owing bowl, but foaming glass, a v
polling draught,. that makes US forget t
bout the Thermometer until some wretch C
sks lis it warm enough for you" and t.
len we know what it is that makes men "
" swear words. Il