Middletown transcript., 1911-07-08
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF The PENINSULA

The Caroline County Commissioners
have fixed the county tax rate for the
present year at 81 on 100.
Wilmington Council has just expended |
$4,000 for seven plots Of ground to be
used as public Fairgrounds.
A company which will build chemical
fire engines has located in Wilmington,
where big plant has been purchased.
Samuel Page, colored, was jailed at
Dover in default of $500 bail, charged
with violating the Kent county local op.
tion law.
Thrown from his vehicle in collision
with an automobile Sunday, Roscoe Raw.
lings, Rising Sun farmer, sustained seri.
GUS injuries.
Falling as he was going to bis summer
home at Binstead, former Representative
A. I. AinscoW, Of Wilmington, fractured
his shoulder.
Governor Crothers has returned to
EIkton from Annapolis for the summer,
but will make daily trips to and from his
Office in Baltimore.
Judge James W. Lattomus, of the new 6
Juvenile Court in Wilmington, has ap.
pointed EllWood Ross Farra probation :
officer for the Court.
The Edge Moor plant of the American
Bridge Works has received tie contract
to build the six massive steel gates to be .
used on the Panama Canal. l
Under the quarterly spportionment Of
the Common Free School Eund made by q
Comptroller Claggett, Cecil county will 9
receive SI511. 78 as its share.
Chief Judge James Alfred Pearce, of b
the Cecil County Circuit Court has been Il
elected president of the Maryland State
Bar Association for the ensuing year.
'
Harry 1. Gillis, former Sheriff and
State detective, has been appointed chief n
clerk at the power house of the Whining q
ton Southern Traction Company, at New Il
Castle.
Edward Bloomfield, a Wilmington
aviator, rose 80 feet in the Wilmington
Aero Clubs biplane and he remained :
aloft for Is minutes, circling the Horse
Show Park. y
The Levy Court OF New Castle county a
has decided to locate tie new bridge "
across the Christaina River at Whining
ton at the Fourth street wharf, the span 1t
to be $50 feet. OIL
The old rolling mill plant of the Nc. p
Cullough Iron Company, at North East, ic
which for is years was idle has been con. is
verted into Touring mill by John F. e
johnson,
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With Harrington alarmed over robber- = =
les that have been occurring almost night
ly the police are endeavoring to locate
band OF thieves that are supposes to have Q,
located there.
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The Phoenix Fire Company, of Will .,
mington, has received the chassis of the si
new automobile ambulance which will q,
replace the horse-drawn vehicle the com. "
pany now maintains. a,
A COW belonging to James W. Vess at I'll
Burrsville has given birth to seven calves !
in three years. Twins were born the first IL
year, then three single calves, and last II
week three calves were born at one time. al
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Several Republicans, headed by Frank
E. Williams, editor of the Cecil Whig,
Elkton, have petitioned the Cecil County :, :,
Court for an Injunction to prevent the '
Cecil County Commissioners from borrow "
ing any money to meet the county's cur .
rent expenses.
During the absence of his wife, who fe
was visiting in Lockport, N. \, Theodore II
Pfetsch, SO years old, committed suicide il
Monday morning by hanging himself TO f
a bedpost in bis apartment, No. 1922 s
TatnalI street, Wilmington, using trunk v
strap. The body was found about 10 81
o'clock by Mrs. John W. Dean, who
keeps the apartment house. - :,
After being out on frolic, Wednesday y
evening of last week, George II. Dennis, ;;
OF Bridgeville, was stricken with fits and d
died in an hour after DIR. L. M. Cahall
was summoned. DR.. Cahall announced r,
that death was due to whiskey, which "
was poisoned.
Henry Watkins, aged twenty. years, d
OF Laurel, met his death in an unusual
manner, Monday evening while SWIM b
ming in the old Henderson mill pond 7
with party Of friends. Watkins jumped P
overheard from boat and failed to re. :,
turn to the surface. A search was made !
for him and his body was found impaled a
upon an old sharp pointed tree trunk.
W alter McGinnes, day laboger of .
Dover. in purchasing q basket and con-
tents at public sale there Saturday Of f