Middletown transcript., 1912-02-24
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS OF THE PENINSULA

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Eleven building lots in the center o
Georgetown sold for $1,000,
Howard Rsgan has purchased the Cal
win Reynolds farm at New Bridge.
Buckneek farmers are considering tht
erectionof cooperative cannery.
Falling down stairs, Mrs. John Cade
of Milton, fractured shoulder-blade.
Slipping in chopping wood, Andrew
Wiley, of Greenwood, cut a deep cash in
bis arm.
Splashing metal burned Marshall Bur.
ris' left hand at one of the steel plants al
New Castle.
Pouring coal oil on laggard fire, Mis-.
Sherman Todd, of Bridgeville, was seri-
Ously burned.
A Lincoln Gamer has contracted with
farmers for 400 acres CT tomatoes at l5c a
basket delivered.
Ella Ryan broke her arm and injured
her back when she fell down the stairs in
her Wilmington home.
The supper and entertainment by the
Holy Name Society of St. Peters Church,
New Castle, netted 1926.
The boathouse of the Twilight Social
Club, in Wilmington, Was destro. ed by
fire early Monday morning.
An experiment is being tried along the
cana! at Rehoboth Beach, by storing ice
in the sand along the bank.
R9hoboth Beach Com missioners have
invited the Delaware Militia to hold its
summer encampment there.
David Cohtn, of near Easton, has scld
over SEQ muskrat skins, 100 coon skins
and 800 'possum skins this winter.
The asa re farm of Alton G. Waltemy-
er, near Aberdeen, has been bought by
Thomas J. Anderson, Jr., for $500
The thief that has been stealing so many
around Lincoln was caught Sun
day and killed. It was an opossum.
A meeting in Newark Monday night
was addressed by Senator Clapp, of Min
1esota, on the initiative, referendum and
recall.
Thomas Pu-ey, of Ocean View, who
was thrown from a wagon and received
serious injuries a few weeks ago, died
Monday.
John Tobin was badly burned when
caught under a shower of ashes in the
Pusey & Jones Company's plant, Will
nington.
Thieves broke into the meat house of
R. E. Fountaine, at R'dgely, and carried
,ff four hams, four shoulders and lot Of
)ther meat.
The archaeological analysis of the
thinking water supplied Wilmington has
that there a-e no typhoid
terms in it.
His team struck by tain, Samuel
3lankey, of HeathbrOok, sustained seri-
,us injury, his horse was killed and wag-
IN demolished.
George A. Lowrey, Albert Ross and
arthur Davis, all of Wilmington, are ur-
Ter arrest for alleged violations of the
tate game laws
John ]. Catista perhaps fatally wound
d his wife with Ratchet at their home
Il North Baltimore, then cut his throat,
lut may recover.
His leg refusing to knit from a fracture |
eceived three mcnths ago, Walter, son
f Howard Brown, of Rock springs, has
,een removed to hospital.
Thieves who visited the corn crib of
i aries Wiley. near Georgetown, in his
bsence. we're met by load of shot from
lis kind neighbOr Joseph Russell.
After using spec les for but a year.
Irs, Ann Fulton, Sc years old, Cecil
ounty, champion quilt maker, has re-
aimed her sight and has discarded the
lAsses.
The trial of Captain Edward N Dixon,
Il the oyster boat "Daisy Archer" char
ed with killing Captain Ray P. Coster, of |
be boat "Annie Maish," began in Belair
sunday,
Harry W. Weggeman, a graduate of
9I0, Delaware College, has been com.