Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1912-03-16

the organization of Roosevelt club.
Milton and Cove neck Sunday School
are organizing Loyal Temperance Legions
A branch OF the United Order of Worh
nen is being formed in Rehoboth Beach
The Oxford Cornet Band held a min
strel show in the Rising Sun Operl
House.
The Howard House livery stables il
Elkton have been sold by W. Taylor fol
$45OO.
Friday, March 20, has been designated
by Governor Pennewill as Arbor and
Bird Day.
Father McGrsW, Of ST. Mary's Catholic
Church, has bought the old Cardiff school
lot for $40O.
With the going out of the ice in the bay
wild ducks have returned to the Susque-
hanna flats.
Frank Miller's hand was crushed when
caught in some u achirery in a Whining
ton leather plant.
Falling from couch, John, five year
old son Of ]. L. Moore, Of Leslie, fractur-
ed his collaI-bone.
Wilmington fishermen are preparing
their nets and boats for the opening Of the
shad season April |.
The Sc acre farm of Henry Anderson,
near Blake, has been bought by Mrs. H.
Brown, of Calvert, for $4,000.
Joseph Lswis, aged IA, has disappeared
from Wilmington and the police have
been asked to search for him.
Burglars at New Castle robbed the
jewtlry store Of George T. TObin and the
gas slot iu the Wright property.
For shooting five ducks owned by
Frank Muukcabbagec, at New Castle, q
Wilmington gunner was fined $5.
With but on3 ticket in the field, Milton
elected William FoFque Mayor, and T. F.
Walls and B. F. Gray, Councilmen.
James B. Noble, of CentrevilIe, has been
elected vice president of the Maryland
High School Teachers ASSOCIATION.
For the third consecutive year John H.
Lingo has been appointed tender of Sea-
ford bridge, crossing the Fa1ticoke river.
An organization of Pythian Sister is be-
ing planned at New Castle by wives and
daughter of members of Adelphia Lodge.
A freak lamb with two bodies, two faces
two tails, and eight legs was born on the
farm of LinWood Lawes, at Black. water.
Frequently missing rails from his fences
Farmer Steven Hsgan, Of Conowingo, am
bushed and captured the thieves with a
gun.
Ssaford High School students have
been promised an equal amount from the
Board if they raise $500 toward a gy,na-
stun.
The two steamers that ply between Mil
ford and Philadelphia have resumed their
schedule after having been laid up for two
months by winter.
To John Simpler, a RehobOth Beach
resident, belongs the honor of taking the
first ocean bath this year, having taken
a dip Thursday.
Rev. G ,orge W. Husting, pastor of
Frankford Methodist Churth, cut his
foot go severely that he is unable to at
tend Conference.
To enable Wilmington High School
students to purchase luncheon at q rea-
sonsb!e price, the charges at the school
have bean cut in half.
An entertainment in which 80 school
children took part was given in George
town Opera House for the benefit of a
High School library.
Curfew has been established at Della
ware City for the soldiers of Fort du Pont
10 o'clock being the time limit on their
freedom on the streets.
Three hundred and sixty May aud June
Leghorn pullets laid IA, 787 eggs this win
ter for George ]. Lindell, Liberty Grove.
They average 250 day.
The Cecil County Game Protective As
sOciatiOn has bought number of Hungar.
ian partridges, which it will liberate this
month for stock purposes.
John W. Famous, of ofHsrford, has been
ndOrsed for deputy fire marshal by the
Republican State Central Committee of
Hartford and Democratic organizations.
Under the will Of Hanson H. Haines,
president Of Rising Sun National Bank,
who died in Philadelphia, his widow and
two daughters are bequeathed 100000.
Frederick Banjo, found guilty of having