Middletown transcript., 1912-02-17
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF THE PENINSULA
Ell. Brown has been elected president
of Centrsyille Board of Trade.

1 Ell. Brown has been elected president
of CentrsyilIe Board of Trade.
Ice is % inches thick on the Perryville
side of the Susquehanna River.
Grace Methodist Church, of Aberdeen,
has organized mission study class.
Olgarita Webster hae been appointed
principal Of Perryman's public school.
The Havre de Grace Minstrel Company
will give its initial performance Thursday
evening.
A scarlet fever quarantine of several
weeks has been lifted from the town Of
Port Penn.
Delmar women have organized Cen
tury Club of so members, with Mrs. ].
Brayshaw as president.
While saving a tree into frewood, at
Greenwood, Christopher slaw found the
trunk of o1e full of honey.
Mrs. William ]. Quillen was thrown
from her carriage in a runaway near Lau-
rel and seriously injured.
Ieaac Christy, coIored. was crushed un-
der coal wagon he was driving when it
overturned in Wilmington.
Rev. A. L. Taxis, of Princeton, has ac-
cepted the call extended him by the
Havre de Grace PresbyteIians.
Students of the Georgetown High |
School have raised nearly 500 toward |
the purchase of a reference library.
Mrs. sallie R. Taylor has been elected |
president of the ladies' Aid Society of
Townsend, for the sixth consecutive year.
Kent County Commissioners have ap-
pointed levin Cbris6sld. Of Locust Grove
keeper of standard weights and measures.
Charles Horn has been elected Town
Commissioner of Rohoboth to eli the IN
expired term Of the late George W.
Emory.
Unconscious from cold, Earl Waterson
was found in his buggy, near Rising Sun
on his way home from Birmingham
school.
Arrested in ChestertoWn for disorderly
conduct John sheppard has been sentenc-
ed to the House of Correction for elk
months.
Wolkmen are roofing the new Metho-
dist Church at North East and it is ex-
pected that it will be ready for dedication
by Easter.
Oriental Lodge Of Odd Fellows, Of New
ark, observed its s6th anniversary Sun
day by attending services in the MethO-
dist Church.
Ruth Hurford was champion and Les.
ter Nelson close second at an old-iash-
ioned spelling bee in Cooper school-house
near Rising Sun.
Joseph "A. Good, aged I6, who set fire
to bis clothing while starting a fire on
Sunday in a stove, died in Havre de Grace
Hospital Monday.
Rev. Jan es M. Wise has been chosen
delegate and Rev. Edward Deakyne alter
nate of New Castle Methodist Church to
Wilmington Conferences.
One hand crushed in some machinery
in the Pusey & Jones Company's plant in
Wilmington, Joseph Pizky had to have
one of bis fingers smputated.
A church tea for the benefit Of st.
PauI,s Episcopal Church, Georgetown,
will be given Saturday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Charles Cullen.
On the ground he is mentally unbalan-
ced, application as been made for the
pardon of Laurence stinger, in Centre
vile Jail, for wife beating
John H. Egbett, aged 20 years, civil
war veteran drawing pension, was found
dead in a Wilmington lodging house,
death being due to general debility.
A device to prevent trolley poles from
slipping from the wire has been invented
by William Bender, Port Penn, who has
been offered fine price for his rights.
Members OF Epwortb Methodist Church
in Wilmington have succeeded in raising
$4,000, the amount required to complete
fund with which to pay off the church
debt.
The Union Fire Company, of Whining.
ton has named a committee to look into
the anvisability of purchasing a cembiua-
tiOn automobile chemical engine and hose
wagon.
Although his wagon was demolished
when struck by freight train between
Newark and Delaware City, Alfred, 6.
Stroud, a farmer, and his horses escaped
uDiniuFed.