Middletown transcript., 1916-05-27
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

Good looks may catch man, but 1t
takes good housekeeping to hold him.
Delaware City will make extensive
repairs to its local lookup, and install
electric lights.
The death rate of persons under the
age of 45 is decreasing; of those over As
it is increasing.
The "Can and Will Class, of Forest
Presbyterian Church, at their bake on
Saturday last, cleared about S25.
Blackbird School will hold their an
nual picnic in Blackbird Camp-meeting
Woods, Saturday afternoon, June 10th.
At a meeting of the Mutual Loan
Association last week, Messrs. W. j.
Wilson and T. S. Fouracre were elected
directors.
Mrs. ]. 2. Grassland pleasantly enter
tained the U. T. e. Sewing Circle, at
her home on North Broad street, We'd
nesday evening.
The full dress dance to have been
held June 9, in the assembly room of
the new school building, at TOWNSEND,
has been postponed until later date.
The Juniata Paving Co., of Philadel-
phia, is making repairs to the new pene-
tration street which they constructed
for the town on West Main street, last
year.
Did you know there are So Saturdays
and So Sundays in this year? Look up
your calendar and count up. This is
the first time this has happened in 40
years.
All anthracite coal will likely be ad-
vanced from 15c to SOC per ton, on
account of the new working agreement
entered into by the mine owners and
operators.
The River & Harbor Co., of Philadel-
phia, lowest bidders, have been awarded
the contract for the three cuts and dredg-
ing Smyrna River, and will begin work
in about two weeks.
The Carnival Executive Committee of
the Citizens Hose Co., of Smyrna, has
decided to hold their carnival this year
from Monday, August 28, to Saturday,
September 2, inclusive,
Clayton's new baseball team, known
as the Delaware Division Athletic AS
sociation of the P. B. & w. R. R., went
to Perryville, Md, Saturday, and de-
feated the Perryville team by the score
of to 8.
Colliding with an automobile at
Smyrna, a young man named Conner,
living near Blackbird, was thrown from
his motorcycle and suffered compound
fracture of one leg, the bone protrud ng
through the flesh.
Mr.. Joshua e. Grassland has purchased
of Mr.. Fred Brady, the building lot on
South Broad street, adjoining the home
of Mr.. H. A. Pool, and will have erected
thereon during the coming summer
modern new residence.
The stewards of the Easton district
of the Wilmington Methodist Episcopal
Conference, held their annual meeting
at Clayton last week and fixed the
salary of Rev. W. A. Wise, district su-
perintendent, at So, 500 for the present
conference year.
A strawberry and ice cream festival,
under the auspices CT the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society, will be
held on the lawn of Bethesda NJ. E.
Church, on Friday evening, June I'd.
The society asks for the cooperation of
all members and friends.
Unclaimed Letters. following
list of letters remain unclaimed in the
post-office for the week ending May
18th: Mrs. M. E. Price, Mrs. Wesley
Reynolds, Mrs. Caroline Starkey, Ernest
Brown, Willard Davis, Alonza Davies,
Joseph Gould, William Wright.
Rev. j. Dirickson Cummins, son of
Postmaster and Mrs A. Lee Cummins,
of Smyrna, who has been an assistant
at Holy Trinity, New York City, for
several months, has been called to the
rectorship of St. Pauls P. E Church at
Centreville, Md. He will take hold
Sunday, June 18th.
At the unanimous request of the
Board of Education and Faculty of the
Smyrna High school, Rev. G. O. Will
liams, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church,
has been invited to preach the bacca-
laureate sermon to the graduating class
this year. President Mitchell of Della
ware College will give the Commence
ment address.
Owing to the contractors on the new
school building at Townsend, being un-
able to complete the new stage
and other work on the assembly
room, it has been decided to hold the
commencement exercises in the M. E.
Church. Rehearsals have been started
on the special music that the junior
choir will sing.
Mr.. Clarence P. Weber has accepted
a position as clerk IN the Citizens
National Bank, and entered upon his
new duties last week. The Transcript
joins Mr.. Weber's numerous friends in
predicting for HIM bright future in bis