Middletown transcript., 1912-01-13

IS Bios nave been issued Tor the eTectlO
of three large stores in Milford.
Is An exploding lamp damaged the hom
n of H. L. Shepherd, Rising Sun.
e John Wilmer Brown, Newark's neV
e postmaster, assumed charge of the officr
e Friday.
Friends of Curtis Davis, of Laurel, have
, proclaimed him as a candidate for Con
gress on the Republican ticket.
st Francis Xavier Catholic Church neal
Warwick, which was burned few days
ago, will be rebuilt without delay.
Young men of Milford have formed the
Colonial Club, with Roy Pettyjohn presi.
dent, and will give monthly dances.
During the past year 11S permits were
granted for the erection of dwelling houses
at Salisbury, aggregating cost of $500, 900
As soon as the weather permits, a two
story concrete corn-packing house will be
erected by the Torsch canneries in Mil
ford.
Charged with desertion and wife.beat.
ing, Howard Boyer was held under $3.50
bail for Court by Magistrate Wook, at
Dover.
All the Cinnamon in Wilmington, %,
have cut off their queues upon hearing of
the victories gained by the rebel armies
at home.
A dog owned by David Masten, of near
Georgetown, developed rabies Saturday
and before be was killed bit several dogs
and cattle.
Wayne Reynolds, president of the Ce-
Gil Farmers Club, has been elected secre-
tary and treasurer OF the Sinan Detective
Association.
Wilmer Black, an expert accountant,
has applied for appointment as State Au-
ditor, position now filled by George R. |
Ash, of Elkton.
Nick johnson and John Thomas, two |
negroes of Ruthsburg, have been sentenc.
ed to 80 days in Centerville Jail and each |
fined SIS and costs for resisting an officer.
While the pay car of the Pennsylvania
Railroad was running between Lewes and
Georgetown. it killed a pair of mules near
Coolspring and barely missed the driver.
Raymond Lingo, OF Dagsboro, a son of
Register of Wills R. R. Lingo has been
appointed assistant postmaster of Mills.
boro succeeding Harvey Lawson resigned. I
Major William E. Lank, formerly cap.
tain of Company B. Delaware Militia.
Milford, formerly tuned over the compa.
ny to Lieutenant J. ]. Foulk, next in
command.
Daniel H. Adams, colored, who nearly
killed his wife in their Wilmington home,
is said by the woman to have been men.
tally deranged at the time through the
use OF cocaine.
Rev. G. e. Mccullough, pastor of the
First Methodist Protestant Church in
Georgetown, has besn granted a release so
that he may accept call from Chicago. ,
He leaves next week.
The Christopher Columbus Italian
Beneficial Society, of Wilmington, has
decided to erect a monument to Columbus
n Wilmington, the city having donated ,
800 toward the project.
A swindler, who represented himself as
IN agent for large poultry house in Phil !;
ldslphia, robbed the farmers of Kent and
queen Anne counties of about $500 worth :.
II poultry during the holidays.
Jesse A Mckay has been elected. cap.
ain, Harry Smith, first lieutenant add
frederick Peech, Jr., second lieutenant :
t Company H, Organized Militia of Della
rare, ,at New Castle, recently re.organized.
Attracted by tempting offers to enter :
he produce commission business in d
ittsburgh, Warren Windsor, principal 81
Millsboro High School, has resigned, 81
he vacancy being flied at present BY n
William Moore.
John Mcdowell, of Chester, Pa, who :,
'r IL years has been superintendent of 3"
le shlpyards in the plant of the Harlan
Hollingsworth Corporation, in Will p'
llngtoD, has resigned to accept a position th
18th the Standard Oil Company at =,
hester. p
"A cttausOA WIN enGereQ the nome OF -
rs John Reed, at State road, and insist. I'll
on sitting in front OF the kitchen stove
lth bis feet In coal bucket, proved to
an escaped inmate of Farmhurst asy- do
IN and was taken back by Constable ga
'oOlson. y"
wa
Because two jurors in the blasting dam. fee
q suit of Mrs. Lewis Richards vs. the -
larles A. Sims Company, Baltimore & 'fe
hio contractors, visited the ruins of the an
oomsbury mansion on the outskirts of ust
avre de Grace during the Christmas wa
'lidays, thus rendering them Ineligible, -,
e case came to a sudden ending in Cecil Apl
'unty Court. ELL
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