Middletown transcript., 1914-01-03
PENINSULA NEWS


Centreville's scarlet fever epidemi,
is under control. after total of q
cases.
Frank Cline, of Myersville, was ac-
cidentally shot with rife by Harry
Leatherman.
For shooting ducks from a power
boat John Brice, of Betterton, has
been fined s1OO.
I Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph w. Phillips, of
Sharptown, held a reunion of their
family on Sunday.
| Centreville young men have postponed
their New Years dance on account of
scarlet fever in the town.
A petition is being circulated at Co
vans in favor of the passage of law
prohibiting the sale of liquor there.
The Legislature will be asked to ap-
propriate $4,000 more for the armory at
( Frederick, which will cost S45, 900.
A rope ferry has been put in use over
the Lewes Canal for the conveyance of
passengers to and from the beach.
Arley B. Magee, of Dover, has been
appointed receiver of the Frederick
Water, Light, Heat and Power Com
pany.
At congregational meeting of Dover
Presbyterians a call was extended to
Rev. David A. Reed, of Washington,
DC.
A team owned by John Grinnage, of
near Glasgow, was stolen from in front
of DR.. Howard Bratton's home in Elk
ton.
The Harbeson Brass Band win give a
concert tonight in the Beaver Dam
schoolhouse for the benefit of the or
ganization.
Charles w. jefferson, recently ap-
pointed postmaster at fredericksburg,
will assume charge of the office on
Thursday.
The Caroline county School Board
has free scholarship at Charlotte
Hall Academy to award hut has no
applicants.
= TIE Sharptown Methodist Protestant
Sunday Echoa. gave the pastor, Rev. F.
D. Reynolds, a fine combination umbrella
for Christmas.
Automobiles in Sussex county will
ask the Levy Court to put signs on all
the leading roads, showing directions
and distances.
A meeting of Cecil county taxpayers
was held in Elkton Court House Mon
day to discuss needed legislation for
Cecil county.
Breaking into the garage of Charles
P. BARLEY, in North East, some joy
rider took his automobile and returned
it badly damaged.
Believing she is entitled to legacG,
Mrs. Daniel Palmer, of near White
Hall, is striving to learn something of
her early childhood.
Professor Victor NJ. Spickler, princi-
pal of St. Paul School and Bessie E.
Martin were married in Clearspring by
Rev. William K. Diehl.
Suffering stroke of appoplexy while
hauling gravel near his home, Wilmer
Bouchelle, Cecil county farmer. fell off
his wagon and died.
After trial trip to Georgetown and
Milton on Saturday, the new automo-
bile fire truck of the Lewes Depart
ment was housed.
Charged with assault and battery on
Mrs Eva Holden, William Cox also of |
near Marydel, was held in $500 bail by
Magistrate Wood at Dover.
While returning to the house after
feeding his horses in the barnyard,
Jacob S. Warren, of Prettyman's Cor
ners, dropped dead of heart failure.
The fourth attempt within two
weeks to break into the store of Tho /
mas J. Murray in Elkton, was made
early Sunday morning by burglars.
The State Archives Commission has
learned that valuable papers pertaining
to Delaware's part in the war of 1872
have been unearthed at Washington.
Going into the cellar at her home in
EIkton Saturday night, Mrs. Henry H.
Mitchell was confronted by a strange
man who escaped before being recog-
nized
Dover's Christmas dance in the new
State armory Monday evening, was the
largest social affair at the State capital
in recent years outside of the inaugural
balls.
Rev. R. H. Adams, pastor of the
Sharptown Methodist Church, is con-
Quoting a series of group prayer-meet-
ings in private homes in different sec
tions of the town.
Dale S. Bender has been elected
president Of the Baraca class of New
Castle; James L. Bacon and John
Proud, secretaries, and Rev. John L.
johnson, teacher.
William Burris' trousers were badly.
torn by vicious dog when he went to
the home Of James Engle, near Hare's
Corner, to awaken the latter and notify
him of fire in his straw stack.
Councilman McGoldrick has complain
ed to the Wilmington & Philadelphia