Middletown transcript., 1912-04-27
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF THE PENINSULA

DhlEE NEWD llElIlO
A social netted Chesapeake City Pres
byterian ladies $245.
Julius CLAYTON has been appointed Ce-
Gil county Election transcTibing clerk.
Ten negro crap players rounded mp in
a Wilmington house were fined $22 aud
costs.
Rev. William Clews has been installed
as pastor of Chesapeake City Presbyterian
Church.
In fire among hay at the Railroad
Hotel stable, New Castle, 200 pigeons
we're smothered.
]. R. Cameron. Road Supervisor for the
Ninth district of Cecil county has tender
ed his resignation.
Convicted of wife-beating, James Usil-
ton, of near CentreviIe, has been senten-
ced to 80 days in Jail.
Milton New Century Club bas placed
wire reCeptacies for waste paper ou the
principal town corners.
Anthony Larion, working on the new
dupont Hotel in Wilmington, crushed a
hand under a steel girder.
James Brown, aged %, was SO seriously
stabbed during a fight in Wilmington that
be had to be sent to a hospital.
Mackerel fisherman seeking the shelter
of the Breakwater during the easterly
winds report the fish very scarce.
Thrown from her horse when boys
scared him. Mrs. Elmer E. RiQgin, of
Laurel, was picked up unconscious.
A. M. Wiley, assistant manager of the
RidgeIy Fruit Growers Association, has
been elected manager and treasurer.
Students Of Washington College, Ches-
tertown have organized Woodrow Will
SOD, with J. Lewis Burris president.
DR.. ]. 6. Dawson, secretary Of the Mil |
ford Board of Health, has been appointed |
local Sut-Register of Vital Statistics.
Because Alfred L. Jones, of Newark,
refused to answer in City Court, Whining
ton as the Judge ordained, he was locked
up for 36 hours.
Miss Mary Condt has resigned from the
faculty Of the Girls High School, Tome
Institute, to accept a position in Pratt
Institute, Baltimore.
Lewes Board Of Trade has notified the
telephone company that unless service is
reduced an effort will be made to install
an independent service.
Company E. M. N. G., has elected
Charles B. Finley, Jr., first lieutenant, to
succeed DIR. H. A. Mitchell, and Dory
Foster, second Iietenant.
Dr., Thomas S. Baker, director of Tome
Institute, Port Deposit, is being promi-
nently mentioned for the presidency of
Johns Hopkins University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel L. Fell, of Will
mington, yesterday celebrated the fifty
first anniversary Of their wedding, Mr..
Fell being II and his wife 72.
Final DEGREES of divorce we're granted
by Kent County Court to Mrs. Leonart
F. Relk, Mrs. KendallE Jones and Fran
els P. Earl at Dover yesterday.
Convicted last July, acquitted in new
trial at Dover, enabled John E. Buck to
escape six months term of imprisou-
ment on the charge of illegally selling
liquor.
Charged with illegal freight riding Ed
ward Shea, Charles Stewart and Charles
Stewart and Charles Baker, all white,
from Philadelphia, were sentenced to Is
days in Elkton Jail.
A gift OF steel target plates is being
made by Andrew Bryson, president of
the Brylgon Steel Company, for the in
door range of Company H. Organized
Militia, New Castle.
Pleading guilty in Kent County Court
to stealing clothing from Mrs. Brice, of
Bertha Valley, colored, was
to the Colored Industrial School
until she becomes Is.
The man found dead from gas in the
Hotel, in Wilmington. on
Sunday has been identified as Frank Mil !
Ter, a farmland, by Charles Day, for
whom be had worked.
William Waters, Clarence Lively and
Mary Coleman convicted in the Kent
County Court Of violating the local option
lew, have each been sentenced to one
year in the Honse OF Correction.
An order permitting tha Maryland Wa
ter Company to issue bonds to provide
fr,ndo for ocouirinO the haod of iii, MilIs |