Middletown transcript., 1914-01-10
PENINSULA NEWS

While cutting trees, Andrew Noun,
Roadside, gashed a hand.
Chesapeake City Fire Company has
elected Byron Bouchelle, president.
The Bank of Delmar has declared an
annual dividend Of II per cent.
The minstrel show given by the Milton
New Century Club netted about $50.
Hugh Bailey has purchased the How
ard Baldwin farm, near Aldino, for
$4,000.
Bethel Methodists, near Elkton, have
invited their pastor, Rev. Asbury
Burke, to return.
Harry S. Pyle, has sold his 97-acre
farm, near Delmar, to Evans NJ. Tan
ner, for $5OOO
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, has
postponed its reopening to January 10,
on account of scarlet fever,
Patrick McGory and A. Marshall Hi
Ear have been elected trustees of St.
Peters Church, New Castle.
A hall Improvement fund has been
started in Lewes to finance extensive
Improvements to the Auditorium.
Bishop Murray, of the Maryland Dio-
cese of the Episcopal Church, will preach
at Homecoming next Sunday.
North East Red Men attended St.
Mary s Church Sunday night, and heard
a special sermon by the rector.
Elizabeth Eggert, of Chesapeake City,
has been appointed principal of Mag
nolia school, near Summit Bridge.
Christopher Newton and Emily Tay-
lor, Of Earleville, were married at
Cecilton M. E. parsonage, Monday.
Eastern Shore threshermen have or
ganized to fight law which prohibits
traction engines from using the State
roads.
A bill placing the issuing of liquor
licenses in Frederick county in the hands
of commission will be introduced in
the Legislature.
Because of the storm at New Castle,
on Sunday wild ducks and geese flew so
low over that city that they were within
pistol shot.
After an idleness of several days,
the New Castle steel plants resumed
Monday, with brighter prospects than
for some time past.
Because of the storm the Lewes fire.
men were forced to leave their new
automobile truck at Milford, where they
went to demonstrate it.
Mrs. Catherine Roberts, aged 55
years, was knocked down and injured by
a team while crossing the street in
front of her home in Wilmington.
A bond issue of from SIS, 900 to $780,
900 for new school buildings at Federals-
burg, Denton, Preston, Greensboro and
other towns, is being advocated in Caro-
line county. j
Playing with kerosene and matches,
Samuel Rhoades, a 4-year-old colored
boy, was burned to death Sunday after
noon on the Hartman farm, in Upper
Kent county.
The building donated to the Hope
Farm Sanitarium by the United Catholic
Societies of Wilmington, at a cost of
$4,000 has been completed and will be
dedicated in a few weeks.
Max Gebhardt, of Lewes, has con-
tracted to bake 300 loaves of bread
daily for the men from the battleship
Ohio, now under quarantine at the
Marine Hospital.
Denied a new trial, James Dutton.
convicted IN Wicomico Court and SEN
fenced to hang for attempted criminal
assault, will appeal if his friends can
raise the necessary funds.
Word that Lieutenant E. V. Arm
strong, Thirteenth Cavalry, has been
injured at Viola, Tex, and that his
condition is gave, has been received bv
his father, E. S. Armstrong, Coochs
Bridge.
R. NJ. Pindell, Jr, who recently re-
signed as industrial manager of the
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, has
been appointed Maryland State manager
Of the Southern Settlement and De-
velopment Organization.
Lewes on Saturday reelected DR..
William j. Thompson Mayor for the
fourteenth year, and elected Samuel E. /
Prettyman and Daniel P. Jones, Com
missioners;TCharles C. Hickman, Treas
urer and William E. Chambers, Assessor.
The suit of Harold L. Smith against
his stenographer, Mrs. Fannie Smith to
recover the greater part of the S12,O
estate of his father, Napoleon w.
Smith, Delmar of which he was left but
$50, has been settled for $1,000.
While bathing in Chesapeake Bay,
near Chesapeake City, last summer,
Edward Galloway found aAoat an in
digo bottle containing the name of Miss
Lille Stick, State street, Michigan City, !
Galloway recently wrote to the address
and was surprised to learn that the ]
bottle had been ahoat six years, having