Evening journal., 1915-02-24
NEW Castle TO
Lose COMPANY H
Failure to Get Armory Is
Followed by Resignation
of Captain Mckay
MANY PUPILS
ON HONOR ROLL

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW CASTLE. Del. Feb. 24.-The
Board of Education at its meeting last
evening did not appoint any one to
hold the annual election on March g.
President William J. Ferris will name
the election officers and they will be
instructed TO hold the election be-
tween the hours prescribed by law
Professor Dye reported the follow
ing pupils deserving of special COM
mendation:
r. - Grade-Carrie Atkinson. Gil
Bender, Wallace Cannon, Edna
SC a William Gebhardt Vernon Nc
Dowell. Barbara King, Clifford Pres
ton, Edna Duncan. Elsie WIFI, Mary
Thompson, King McNally.
Second Grade-Arcadia Smith,
Isaac Windsor, Fritz Pfrommer, Addie
Duling Elias Clayton, Mildred Fehl,
Elizabeth Jones' Cuthbert Brideewa-
ter. Margaret Patton. William Steven
son. Benjamin Leach. Frank Harper,
Olga Glandon. Clifton Thompson,
James Gallagher
Third Grade-James Wilson. Alice
Jemison, Beatrice Jones. Elizabeth MIL
| igan, Samuel Nickerson. Carlisle To-
bin Herbert King. Elizabeth Parks,
Wallace Fitch. Fannie Bryson. Oakley
Eskridge. Harry Ahern. Elizabeth
Cannon. Louise Eliason. Samuel
Georges. John Cannon. Minnie Burd.
John Berry. Richard Watts, Arthur
Solloway, Serena Green.
Fourth Grade-Mildred Connell,
Mary Pustll Lillian Proud. Edward
Truitt, Archie Lane. Jacob Holiday
Norman Riley, Paul Strimple John
Barnes. James White. John Edwards.
John Roberts, Francis Mitchell, Frank
Kern.
Fifth Grade-Elizabeth Mckay, May
Fchl Hazel Bender. Edna Deemer
/ Cora Jacobs, Charles King, Earl Veg
genman. James King. Paul Kern, Her
bert Hewlett. Leon King. William
King, James Hickman. Ralph Duling,
Joseph Cannon, Edwin Bruce, Herman
Gravatt.
Sixth Grade-Bertha Barnes, Mil
dred Berry. Margaret Bull, Emma
Challenger. Jack Davidson, Florence
Durfee, Mabel Eskridge, May Jones,
Abe Kimon. James Loveless. David
Miller. Douglas Proud, Thomas
Richey. Robert Roth. Blanche Sibley,
James Shepherd, Merton White.
Seventh Grade Florence Townsend
Regina Rothrock. Mildred Holiday,
Mary Givason Ethel Quigley. Helen
Deemer. Bertha Hall, Edna Cranston
Edith Bruce
Eighth Grade-Anna Davidson
Brokan Seminar, Maud Perrin
Charles Ingram. Harold Cannon, John
Leach Harvey King. Philip Simmons
School No. 3-Joseph Miller, Cath
arine Boyle, Mary Davis. Charles
Megginson, Alexander Subocz. John
Megginson. Thomas Toppin, Theo-
dore Megginson, Julian Dunning, AL
fred Warren Sila Johnson, Alice
Loveless. John Cole. Rose McGrory
Fred Peak
Secretary Charles S. Fleming re-
ported that c. Ferris Jemison. Harry
Holiday. Jesse A. Mckay, Ozro Lunt
and William r.. Myers have filed their
names as candidates for the Board OF
Education. Mr.. Myers and Mr.. Holli-
day are new candidates. The other
hree are seeking reelection.
Prof Dye informed the board that
the next meeting OF the Parents
Teacher Association will be held on
Friday evening He asked the board
to cooperate i'm the movement. Cards
are being printed containing the con-
stitution of the association and these
cards will be distributed from house
to house. All parents interested in
education will be asked to sign the
cards and thereby become members
b of the association.
Nfafrolao nrnprde Drf,uowsafnt
Mayor Rodney and the police are de.
- termined that automobiles and motor.
p cycles must not violate the speed
/. regulations i'm this city. The speet
. limit here is twelve miles an hour
D. Harry Hayward, Of Wilmington. rar
his motorcycle through the city at
greater rate of speed than is allowed
by the city ordinance and was fine,
. $40 and costs.
!, Captain Jesse A. Mckay has resigne
a as captain of Company II. Organize
= Militia of Delaware to take effect aftt
= the annual inspection. Captain McKa
said last night: "Nhen assigned [
= Company II ] found the company
membership efficiency and every 9th,
thing at the bottom notch. The con
pany has gradually progressed until Il
company has heen placed in the froI
, rank in every way. Non commission,
- officers and men whose terms expire
this month viii not enlist because Ne
Castle has been denied an armory an
the old Court House goes TO others an
= there is nothing left for the company
do but dishaud. We have many youI
men of the best families i'm the city
members of the company and more we
q
, properly, but We have no armory, an
down goes the best little company
the State"