Middletown transcript., 1912-05-11
BRIEF news ITEMS OF THE PENINSULA
DELAWARE

DELAWARE
The Fl in the hennery of G. G. shew
Lincoln, burned 250 chickens.
Fishermen at Slaughter Beach are
making lots of money catching trout.
Dover Board of Education has decided
to introduce manual training in the
schools.
Dover Council has fixed the tax rate at
As cents for the general fund and 10 cents
on the water fund
Bishop Monaghan confirmed class of
I2I persons in St. Peters Church at New
Castle Sunday afternoon.
The first sturgeon of the season landed
at New Castle netted Captain Frank
White and E E. Rogers $40.
The Ladies Aid Society of Centenary
Methodist church, Laurel, has obligated
itself to purchase an $500 pipe organ.
Newark Council will spend $4,000 on
the streets the coming summer, which
will put them in irst-class condition.
A track horse owned by Edward Platt,
New Castle, record g. broke leg while
loose in his stall and had to be killed.
In an attempt at suicide, IS year-old
Ollie Carmine of Laurel swallowed poison
but her life was saved after several hours
work.
A $40, 1000 home will be erected in New
Castle for the Sisters of St. Francis, who
have-charge of the st. Peters parochial
schools.
Falling 80 feet when ladder slipped,
Edward Fitch. aged II, of New Castle, is
now in Wilmington Hospital in critical
condition.
A musical and vocal entertainment will
be held at the Red Mems Home at
Newark on May llth, for the benefit OF
| tha nm atps
Ralph Tompkins, a one-legged boy,
who says be is walking from New York to
Jacksonville, Fla, arrived in Whining
ton Tuesday afternoon.
During an alarm of fire in the Lewes
High School Thursday the children got
out of the building according to fire drill
in one minute and 80 seconds.
The demands of the Wilmington Brew
ery Workers Union for an increase OF So
a week in their pay has been granted
and a threatened strike averted.
Alexander Hall, the Newark negro who
was struck three times on the head by
his brother, Frank Hall, with an ak will
recover and Frank Hall has been re-
leased.
James Steele, of Georgetown, whose
father and grandfather held the Office in
thier day, if a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for Sheriff in Sussex
county.
Alfred CuoccoelIo, of Philadelphia
aged years, was found wandering on {
street in Wilmington and taken in charge
by the police, but has not been claimed
by relatives.
The greatest rally of the New Castle
Methodist Sunday school in its history
was held Sunday afternoon, the speak
ers being Rev. George E. Reed and Mis-
Clara Mendlnhall.
Samuel l. Wilcox, sailor in the navy,
was sent to the workhouse for so days by
Wilmington City Court for assault and
battery on an old man and the larceny ol
some money from his victim.
The twelfth anniversary of the found
ing of the Single Tax colony at Arden will
be celebrated on Saturday and Sunday by
a carnival theatre performance, festival
and other forms of amusement.
The mems Bible class of West Presby-
terian Church in Wilmington has pre-
sented diamond stick pin to the pastor,
Rev. Alexander Alison, Jr., who has re-
signed to accept call to Chicago.
Because all bids submitted were too
high the New Castle Levy Court has de-
cided to temporarily abandon the project
Of building a new bridge across the Chris.
tiana River at Third street, in Whining
ton.
Undeterred by the failure of their to-
mato crops, which were destroyed by
heavy rains, farmers of Cedar Creek,
Broadkiln Lewes and Rehoboth Hun
dred, will plant celery on the overfowed
land.
The Wilmington police have been ask
ed to search for Myrtle Wilson, young
woman living in Hockessin. who has dis
appeared and who threatened suicide