Middletown transcript., 1912-05-25
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF THE PENINSULA
DELAWARE

DELAWARE
Milford Board of Trade was reorgan'zed
with George Il. Hall, president.
A falling casting crushed one OF David
Rice's feet 10 Wilmington plant.
Horse racing in Lower Delaware will
open at Frederick Decoration Day.
Wrestling at Milford, Clifford Draper
wasthrown so hard an arm was broken.
The berry market opened strong in Sea
lord Monday, selling from 81 so to 81 per
crate.
Mrs. H. L. Grier has been elected presi-
dent of Milford Parent Teachers Asso-
citation.
Scott Gregg, the missing Newark ball
player, has been located working in Phila-
delphia.
Alpha Phi Literary Society, of Milford
High School, has elected Mary Hammond
president.
Milford and Harrington Oranges COM
bined Saturday in Milford and initiated a
class of IA.
Attacked by mad dog Frank Pyle,
Dover crossing watchman, with a revolver
and shot the dog.
Falling into tub VI water, the Young.
est child of W. E. Wilkinson, of Delmar,
was badly scaIded.
Delmar High School graduates present.
ed "Brac, the Poorehouse Cir" at Sharp
town Opera House.
Frederick Clark was held up and robbed
Sunday morning in Wilmington by two
negroes who covered him with a revolver.
Falling down stairs, Mrs. Edward
Wolfe aged 66, of Laurel, broke both arms
and received supposed fatal internal in-
iuries.
Caught in sawmill machinery at Green
wood, one of Herman Smiths wrists was
broken and an arm crushed, as the result
of repairing while operating.
Lizzie Robinson. colored, arrested in
Chester for stabbing Ethel Miller, colored
during fight in Wilmington, has been
returned to that city for trial
Becoming unconscious while working
in an ice cream store in Wilmington, Miss
Gertrude Boulton, eyed IS years, had to
be removed to the Delaware Hospital
ST. Johns Reformed Church at Wyom-
ing has secured for the summer months
Rev. Addison H. Croft, student at the
Theological Seminary at Lancaster, Pa.
Caught by the Wilmington police leav-
ing a chicken house and having three
dead chickens under his coat, Joseph E. |
colored, was arrested for lar
ceny.
Miss Frances Marvin, of Dover, and Miss
Yensie Vbbert, of Milford, have been en-
gagged as teachers by Milford Board of
Education succeeding Miss Ebery and
Miss Sara Anderson.
Work has been started on a cement
coping and cement walks for the public
square in Georgetown. After the walks a
are laid a public drinking fountain will !
be erected in the center.
Miss Susan B. Spotswood, of New Cas-
lie, daughter OF Rev. John B. Spotswood,
has been elected an honorary vice presi-
lent of the Delaware Society Colonial Z
DANES Of America for life. a
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If the Wilmington Fire Department has {
assumed charge Of the department, sue
seeding Chief Simon F. Moran, whose
erm then expired after two years SER il
vice.
Counsel for Stanley Bieloweki, who was
in the New Castle County {
Court for manslsughter in causing the d
leath OF Stanley Prepas by throwing a
ighted lamp at him, have applied for a
lew trial.
Struck by an automobile as he passed
hrough Seaford to call physician, Reu- =
)en Phillips, of Reliance, Md, was drag
,ed and seriously injured after his buggy :.
lad been demolished, causing bis horse to
un away. :,
Dover Odd Fellows are preparing to a.
$1,000 temple on the site recently pur- 81
hased at the corner ofGoYernor's avenue A
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