Middletown transcript., 1895-09-21
Local News.


Look out for storm.
: Go to J. T. Stewart for watch clocl
and jewelry repairing. Work guaranteed
-Chinquapins are ripe and to find then
is the after school recreation of the small
boy.
The voice of utumn is heard in the
land, softly whispering, that summer il
not dead yet.
The summer trappers are about al
home again, and the world moves on al
the usual gait.
1t was so cold early in the week one
could well believe the sausage and scrapple
season was near.
Corn cutting is going along briskly and
the fodder in the shock is even more frag-
rant than new mown hay.
Reed birds are unusually plentiful on
the marshes this year, and sportsmen are
correspondingly numerous.
Frost and ice were reported in New
York state on Saturday and Sunday, and
in Harrisburg there was snow.
Nineteen subscribers to the TRANSCRIPT
from one post-ofice this week, and more
from other offices. Let them come.
Sunday was an ideal autumn day, and
consequently large congregations were in
attendance at the different churches.
Governor Watson entertained the
members of his staff at a banquet in Mil
ford, on Thursday; all the staff were pres
ent excepting one.
Master Julian Taylor has the sympathy
of his friends in the loss of Lion his
large Newfoundland dog, which died last
Friday night, from poisoning.
DO not fail to see Jim Kidds Wild
West show at the Delaware State Fair.
Miss Edna Willoughby, the peerless lady
rider of the world will appear every day.
james I. Mullen, senior member of
firm J. T. Mullen & Sons, of Wilmington,
was stricken with paralysis at his home in
West Chester on Tuesday. This is the
third stroke he has suffered
1t is getting to be quite the thing to
graduate and get position through the
recommendation of that fine school, Col
dey's Wilmington, (Del,) Commercial and
Short hand College Get "a catalogue.
Prof. ConwelI, of Delaware College,
who has been in poor health for some time
has been given a vacation to recuperate.
Prof. Conover, formerly of the Conference
Academy at Dover, is filling his place.
Roman chariot races driven by lady
drivers; Pony races ridden by genuine In
dlans, also the meanest bucking horse in
the world will be saddled and ridden at
each performance by Jim Kidd.
-WANTED:-I desire to place the agency
with some good party for the Barnes Bicy-
cles the coming wheels of '96. Those desirt
ing same please communicate with, Elliot
Bros, 1918 Market ST., Wilmington, Del.
The sudden drop in The temperature
on Saturday of last week is warning to
look after the stoves and heaters, and not
wait until winter is upon us, and then har-
rass the life of the poor slovenian because
he cannot tx fifty stoves all in one day.
Augustus Erickson, "a Swede, employed
in the Pullman works at Wilmington, was
found dead along the railroad track Mon
day night. 1t is believed he was beaten to
death and robbed. John Dougherty is un
der arrest charged with completely with the
crime.
Practise up boys! Go down to the Fair
at Dover and win the prizes offered by T.
X Jones & Bro. for bicycle race. Only one
quarter of a mile. First prize $500 in cash
Second prize, a bicycle lamp. Race to be
on Children's day. Tuesday, Oct 1st. En-
tries close, Sept. 26.
The Smyrna Town Council has awarded
the contract for supplying coal for the
town another year to J. Hilles and Co..
Baltimore, whose bid for Likens Valley
pea coal and Lehigh stove was $500 and
$4.20 per ton to be delivered at the Smyrna
station, or wharf.
Paul Randolph, a IL year old boy liv
ing with John Pitt, near Newark, met with
fatal accident last Friday. He was sent
to a blacksmith shop, but was gone SO long
that o search was instituted and he was
found dead, with his neck broken. Wheth-
er he was kicked and killed by the mule, or
broke his neck by falling is not known.
The September term of Court opened
on Monday with Chief Justice Lore, Associ-
ate Judges Cullen, Marvel and Grubb on
the bench. T. F. Armstrong, Of Newark,
was made foreman of the Grand Jury.
Clerk-of-t Peace Foard performed his
first Court duties by calling the names of
the Jurors. There are no criminal cases on
the docket.
The old Read residence, in New Castle,
Church for parish house during the life
Of its owner, Miss Eliza Thomas, of Phila-
delphia, and after her death it is to be-
come the property Of the church. It is one
of the old land marks, known in the his
tory Of the state as having once sheltered
: the Father of his country and Lafayette.
IF the thrifty housewife who has her
preserve closet crammed full Of preserves,
iellies, Spices etc., is charitable as well as
thrifty, she will not let her store Of sweets
be consumed by her own family alone, but
q even now planning to share them with
those less fortunate. One glass or jar Of
each of her various preserves will make
fine collection to send to some charitable
institution, and several such collections
would make q fine stock of sweets for an
Old Ladies Home, an Orphanage. or better
vet. Deaconess Home,-for the deacon-
esses reach every class, and viii
gladly carry your glass Of jelly to some
sick child In the slnms of the city, or your
Jar Of peaches to some suffering old woman
IN q ramshackle tenement. and you dc. not
need to send them thousand miles away
either.