Middletown transcript., 1895-10-12
Local News.

-oh the delights of the sweet pumpkin
piel
Fall opening-The opening of the
chestnut burr.
Conductor Thomas Hawkins of the
Delaware road, is visiting the Atlanta
Fair.
The P. w. & B. Railroad Co. will erect
new car shops at Edgemoor, to cost over
5000, 900.
-Ifpeople we're only as good as they
think they are what happy place this old
world would be.
Cochran Block is getting a new fall
coat of paint which freshens it up and adds
much to Its appearance.
"A comfortable living is what every
body wants, but it takes so much to make
some people comfortable! -
--Buckwheat cakes and and usage are now
due on the peninsula bill of fare. the latter
having appeared in the local market.
Seven inmates of the Old,Ladies Home
in Wilmington have died during the past
year, and nine woman have been admitted.
The wedding of Miss Rose Collins to
James +. McIvor, both of New Castle, is
announced to take place Wednesday. Oct.
23d.
The fine weather this week is an incen-
tive to housewives to do their fall house
cleaning. They'll be at it though for about
a month, waiting on the stove man, likely.
The Ladies of the Mite Society of the
NJ. E. Church have volunteered to take for
their part of the proposed Improvements
now being arranged for, the furnishing Of
the church with book-racks and books.
The Evening Journal of Tuesday says:
"Ex-Attorney General John Biggs is q
father and Assistant General Solicitor
George v. Massey of the Pennsylvania
railroad is a grandfather. The happy event
transpired yesterday, and the boy is
bouncing one.
The rain which fell so gently Tuesday
morning was most welcome, and did much
good; laying the dust and giving little
moisture to the earth, so that the wheat
already sown can germinate. Buta three
day s rain would hardly wet the parched
earth to the depth of its dryness, which in
many instances is from four to six feet.
Mr.. VIM. Wright, of Philadelphia, for
merly with s. M. Reynolds & Co. here, has
returned to town, having accepted posi-
ton with VIM. H. Brockson, and is occu-
plying the house on Lake Street recently
vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. Brockson, who
have taken rooms at Mr.. G. W. W. Maui
dain's.
AT business meeting of the Christian
Endeayor Of Forest Presbyterian Church.
held on Wednesday evening last. Miss
Mary Rothwell and Miss Lillian NJ.
Budd were elected delegates to the coaven-
tion to be held in West Presbyterian
Church, Wilmington, October, 25 to 9th.
Miss Mary Anderson and Miss Myrtl e
Houston are the alternates.
There is a man in town who has tired
careworn expression hanging DER his face.
He is seen early and late, hurrying along
with bit of stoye-pipe in hand. a
broken CRATE under his arm. and a sooty
streak across his nose. 1t is the stove
man, and all the women in town are after
him, to fix their heaters, now that cold
weather has come, and no man in town is
more sought after than he.
There Is much interest in the selection
by the next session of the Wilmington Nj.
e. Conference of delegates to the General
Conference, which will meet in Cleveland,
o., May /, 1896. For ministerial delegates
the names of Revs: Louis E. Barrett, Alfred
Smith, Wilbur f. Corkran and W. L. S.
Murray are prominently mentioned. IT,.
Truxon, Lewes; A. Lincoln Dryden. Of
Crisfield, Md, and Joseph Pyle. of Viii
! mington, are being urged for lay delegates.
| Perfect October weather this week! The
air Is charged with ozone and fnh Of The
elixir Of life and all the world seems bright
and gay. Nature is coloring up under
lack ,Frost's wooings, blushing, flushing
every where, and never was she more be-
witchingly beautiful. too beautiful. It
seems TO fade. She is as benign As she Is
beautiful and is filing our laps with great
rosv apples and ripe brown nuts VINO
says life il not worth Lying when October
salIis forthl