Middletown transcript., 1912-02-10

| ]. T. Cash has been elected president of
the Reliance Fire Company of Whining
ton.
Additions storage battery can have been
ordered for the line between New Castle
and Delaware.
The Denton Town Commissioners have
contracted for $1,000 gallon steel tank
for the water supply.
Colliding with fire plug, Philip Dag
enaiO aged II years broke a leg while
coasting in Wilmington.
Bishop Murray of the Episcopal diocese
of Mary confirmed class in Emman-
uel Church Belair, last night.
J. Frank Frazer has been elected presi-
dent and Andrew D. Dean chief of Sin
gerly Fire Company, of EIkton. !
The Columbia Athletic Club OF New
Castle will tender the ladies' auxiliary
dance and social on February 10.
Captain William Murphy has started |
the erection of cannery along the Mis-
pillion seven miles from Milford.
Ralph Rsese aged II years cut his face
and head while cossting IN Wilmington
when he collded with fire plug.
Arthur Fournier, aged II years who
says bis home is in Maine, is detained by |
the Wilmington police as a ruraway.
Captain Carroll Edgar. of Elkton has
been chosen director of the Maryland
State Rifle Association for two years.
Professor Rowland Watts OF Oakwood
has been appointed an assistant superin-
tendent of the Baltimore city schools.
The cold weather has so tanned the buzz
yards of lower Delaware that they settle
in the poultry yards and feed with the
chickens.
EEzigA Eight year old Panl Steele while coast
ing on a hill in Newark cut one lip so
badly that seven stitches were required to
close the wound.
Calvin c. McCallister, aged 49 years, a
well-known farmer of Mill Creek hundred
died suddenly from heart disease in his
home yesterday.
William Fox, of Reading Pa, employ
ed as a barber in Elkton, fell on a slippery
pavement was rendered unconscious and
broke two ribs.
Rev. CARLYLE B. Haines, of Blythesdale
has been sent to Georgia and Florida to
engage in evangeIistic work by the Chesa-
peake Conference.
Jacob Henry Smith aged 80 years, a
former slave, was found dead in his home
at Grubbs Corner, where be had lived
alone for many years.
Wilism Story of near CentrevIlle, was
arrested on Saturday charged with steal
ing set of harness from the stable Of
William G. Dickinson.
Lieutenant ]. J. Foulk has been elected
captain of Company B, Delaware Militia,
of Milford, to succeed Captain W.E.Lan
recently elected major.
Mrs. Clara Wilson, Milford's Oldest
woman, was buried Monday. Had she
lived until July next she would have
rounded out her 100 years.
Fifteen cents the five-eighth basket is
the price Frank Preston who has charge
of the Overlook cannery at Georgetown
is contracting for this season.
A Plymouth Rock hen, owned by John
Berriker of Calvert, which crows instead
of cackling recently laid seven double
yolked eggs in succession.
While visiting at the farm of John Nc
Cracklen, near Lewes, William Mitchell
broke his ankle The fracture was reduced
by DR.. James Beebe OF Lewes.
Newark Council is expected to elect DR.
q. G. M. Kolock member to succeed
Eben B. Fazer who moved out of the dis
trict in which he was elected.
George NJ. Fisher, of Wilmington, mas
been appointed Trustee of the Poor by
the New Castle County Levy Court to
succeed Thomas A. D. Hudson.
When the ak became entangled in an
overhead clothes line while he was chop
ping wood, Thomas Short of Ocean View,
received bad cash in his head.
Rehoboth now has Woodrow Wilson
Club of about fifty members, and ar
ranRements are being made to have some
prominent speaker here every week.
Thieves at Milford stole 40 chickens
from the town store hennery, while at
Lincoln so were stolen from Frank War.
rem and so from the poultry plant of D.
M. Chamberlain.
Pumping operations at the Wilmington
pumping station has been stopped because
of the ice jam at the city water dam.
Chief Engineer Kienle may use dynamite
to break the gorge.
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