Middletown transcript., 1901-02-23
PENINSULA NOTES

Dr. George A. Harter president of Del
aware College, Newark, is slowly recover.
ing from clot of blood on the brain.
j. E. S. Pardus principal of Crump-
ton High School, has accepted a civil
service position at Washington.
Mrs. John Robinson, colored, White
Haven, has given birth to child on the
25th of each year for four successive years.
Former Clerk of the Peace Jefferson B.
Foard, of this county, in the five years
and some months he held Office paid to
the State 5000, ,991.76.
The eleventh annual meeting and din
ner of the Delaware Society of New York
was held at the Waldorf Astoria Thursday
evening February IA, 1901.
The merchants of Cambridge have
signed an agreement to close their places
of business at 8 o'clock p. M, beginning
81, and to continue until the summer, the
when the closing hour will be p. m.
Miss Genevieve Perkins, who has been
head nurse at the Peninsula General
Hospital, at Salisbury, Md, almost since
its foundation, has resigned. The vac
ancy will be filled at the next meeting of
the directors.
Policeman Samuel Cooper, of Chester
town, had the end of his finger bitten
off in attempting to make an arrest.
Addie Hurlock and Will Hurlock, two
young white men of Chestertown, re-
sisted arrest and are in Jail awaiting
trial.
E. R. Cochran, Jr., judge of the NUM-
cipal Court, Wilmington, denies the ru-
NOR which has been afoat that he is
connected with the Retail Liquor Dealers
Association. He says he has had nothing
to do with the organization for the past
three years.
Disliking an article in the February
Delaware College Review, which advo.
Gated the removal of the institution to
Wilmington and reflected on its present
condition, party of students seized the
whole issue and burned it on the campus.
The School Herald, Laurels new edu-
cational paper, has made its first appear
ance and is model of typographical
neatness. Mr.. H. E. Slagenhaup, princi- |
pal of the Laurel High School, is Editor
in-Chief. We wish the School Herald |
every success.
1t pays to take hold of something and
drive it, instead of letting yourself be
driven. 1t pays to turn up something,
rather than wait for something to turn
up. Itpays to hold on to what you have,
and make the best of it, instead of flying |
about from one employment to another.
"a bird in the hand is worth two in the
BUSH"
At the regular meeting of the Board of |
Pardons of Delaware, the case of former
Secretary of State John D. Hawkins,
which was presented before the Board for
recommendation to the Governor, was re-
fused by the Board. Hawkins has served |
but three months of his sentence of one
year for embezzlement. The Board was
unanimous in its decision.
The steamboat Brandywine, of the Will
nington Steamboat Company, which has
been out of service the past week on
account of an accident to her steering
gear, went into service yesterday on the
ine between Wilmington and Philadel-
phia.
PatroImen Shields and Maloney discov-
cred fire in the cellar of DIR. Theodore
Becker's drug store and residence, sol
Poplar street, Wilmington, and breaking
in the door aroused the doctor and his
wife and mother-in-law, SO that they
we're able to get out.
Henry White, aged "a years, died on
Sunday at his residence, in Silverbrook,
He leaves a wife and six
children. One of his sons, Henry Clay
ton White, was candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for Receiver of
Taxes in the last campaign.
Nelson, the 18-months-old child of Mr..
and Mrs. James Quillen, of Camden,
came near dying Sunday night. The
mother of the child accidentally gave the
baby dose of laudanum. DIR. E. w.
Cooper was sent for and remained with
The child all night, saving its life.
Henry E. satterthwait, aged 40 years, of
910 Madion street, Wilmington, is miss
ng and reward of 500 is offered for in
formation concerning his whereabouts.
He is supposed to have wandered away.
He is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs
about 135 pounds; has sandy hair and
noustache, mixed with gray, and when
ast seen wore dark suit of clothes.
The Lewes Board of Trade and the
State Board of Pilot Commissioners, to-
yether with 235 citizens of the town of
Lewis, have signed a petition remonstrat-
ing against the passage by the Senate of
5he pilotage act, which restricts the licen-
sing of pilots and putting on the age limit
Senator Slaughter presented the petition
IN opposition to Mr.. McNulty's bill.
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