Middletown transcript., 1916-07-22
STATE AND PENINSULA

at Rehoboth Beach for the town water
supply
Work on large addition to the Peer
less fertilizer works in Chestertown has
been started.
Samuel J. Wright has been reelected
president of the Newark Trust and Safe
Deposit Company.
William Rawley, Of Kent county, has
purchased the muskrat farm Of the late
William A. Hagan, near Delaware City.
The Snyder Preserving Company at
Bridgeville, is ready for operation as
soon as the fruit affords work for them.
The New Castle County Levy Court
has allowed Appoquinimlnk Hundred
$500 for extraordinary repairs to roads
The annual session of the Grand Cir
cult of Delaware, Brotherhood of
America, will be held in Dover, August
Is.
Albert Worth, Georgetown lawyer,
has been elected attorney for Seaford,
succeeding Deputy Attorney General
Jones.
All prisoners in the county jail at
Georgetown will be given an opportunity
to plead at a special session of Court,
August 3.
The Delaware Good Roads Association
has spread barrel of oil on Laurel
streets to demonstrate how to keep
dust down.
The clay works at Bacon Hill, three
miles south of Elkton, have been placed
in operation after being shut down for
several years.
The Cecil County Md. School Board
has ordered the schools in the county
to be re-opened for the school year on
Tuesday, September 5th.
Although four weeks have elapsed,
Thomas R Wilson, Jr., the Delaware
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in wrestling bout, still lives.
DIR. Charles A. Wagner, State Com
missioner of Education, addressed a
union open-air service on the Delaware
College campus Sunday evening.
Eighteen members of the Newark
PRESBYTERIAN Church Sunday school have
received gold wreaths for two years
perfect attendance at the school.
Diamond State Grange has decided to
postpone the field day from Thursday,
July 20 to Thursday, August17, because
the lateness. of the harvest season.
Self. winding clocks, giving time from
the United States Observatory, at
Washington, have been installed in the
offices in the new City Hall, in Whining
ton.
The work of re-assessing all property
in the counties of Maryland, will be
started on August l, in accordance with
an Act of the General Assembly last
winter.
In the two-story addition being built
to the dupont Powder Company's office
building, in Wilmington, will be hos
pital for the care Of the company's en-
ployees.
The Baldwin Manufacturing Com.
pany, which owns and operates large
textile mill at Elk Mills, Cecil Co., Md.
county, is having a large dye mill erect
ed adjoining the present plant.
Professor Harry Hayward. dean OF
the agricultural department of Delaware
College, made an address at the forty
fifth anniversary of the Mt. Hermor
School, Mt. Hermon, Mass, Sunday
Many letters received by ElktOn rela.
tives last week from the members Of
Company E, First Maryland Regiment
now at Eagle Pass, Texas, convey in
formation that all is we'll with the boys
The May installment official list ol
automobile registrations for Delaware
first issued from the office of the Secre
tary of State, carries the total for the
first five months Of the year up to the
number of 5, 461.
The Cecil County Commissioners have
received instructions from the Statt
Tax Commission to appoint an assessor
for each district and Incorporated tow
in the county, before July 26, to max,
a re-assessment of real estate.
The Deibert Manufacturing Company
of Elkton, reports business as never be
ing any better. The mill is being oper
ated both night and day. The onl
drawback to the business is the short
age of dyes. This will probably b
overcome shortly.
The stockholders of the Farmers
Bank of Delaware today indorsed a
amendment to the charter, giving tn
banks at Dover, Wilmington and George
town trust company power and author
ity. This is the first amendment to tn
banks charter since it was organize
in 1907.
State Commissioner of Educatio
Wagner is preparing facts and argr
ments to submit to the Rockafelle
Foundation to substantiate the clair