Middletown transcript., 1916-04-08

was in session in Georgetown Tuesday.
Mayor Joseph H. Hossinger has re-
signed as a member of the Newark
Sewer Commission.
The town of Frederick has equipped
a room in the new hospital at Milford
for the benefit of its citizens
Dover Council has elected I. F. Cooke
superintendent of the water and light
plant and collector of town taxes.
The April term of the Superior Court
and Court of General Sessions will con-
vene in Georgetown next Monday.
Business men and firemen, of Sea-
ford, are already mapping out plans for
their Fourth of July celebration this
year.
The weaUher-vane which New Castle
county has presented to Sussex will be
mounted on top of the Courthouse at
Georgetown.
Stacy Z Kemp. of Wilmington, chief
clerk on the Maryland Division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad for A years, has
been retired.
W. C. Mcdaniel, of Georgetown, who
has managed hotels in several Peninsula
towns, has gone to Dover to take
charge OF the Capitol Dover.
The graduates of the recent State
course in household economics at Selby-
vile will assist in teaching the course in
the public schools of that section.
Overcome by the fumes of gas from
coal stove, Mrs. Frank L. Joseph, of
Georgetown, was rescued by neighbor
who entered the room and discovered
her condition.
The large plate glass in the window
of the jewelry store of C. F. Finck, on
Main street, Elkton, was broken and a
number of flash lights, which were in
the window taken.
The Republicans, of Lewes, held a
meeting recently for the purpose of Sc
lecting candidates for delegates to the
state convention at Dover, and also a
county committeeman.
The berry crate manufacturers of
Sussex county are at this time busily
engaged i'll making large numbers Of
crates for the shipment of berries, large
crops of which now seem assured.
Sussex Encampment of Odd Fellows,
Laurel, has elected Harley o. Riggin,
chief patriarch; S. Harlin Ellis, high
priest; W. T. Bennett, senior warden,
and Elijah M. Collins, junior warden.
General w. A. Wickersham, of Will
mington, and Colonel Th4odore Town
send, of Milford, addressed a gathering
CT young men at Georgetown recently
preparatory to organizing company OF
militia.
William C. Lofand, James T. Lank
and Thomas R. Ingram have been ap-
pointed a committee by the Lewes
Board of Trade to establish steamer
line from Le1es to Cape May and Phil
adelphia.
Billy Sunday will leave Baltimore
long enough on Sunday, April 9th, to
deliver one of his sermons in the large
tabernacle at Cambridge, Nd, in the
afternoon, going back to Baltimore be-
fore night.
Sergeant Walters, United States
Army, retired, is giving a weekly
course in gymnastics in the Delaware
City school, for the benefit of the
teachers and children, under the aus
pices of the local Parent Teachers AS
sociation.
The shad fisherman along the bay
have been warned by detective that
they must pull up their poles at noon
Saturdays and not put them down again
till Sunday at midnight They promise
to fight the law at the next General
Assembly.
At luncheon given the New Castle
Levy Court by the Chamber of Com
merce in Wilmington Tuesday, Andrew
Marvel, Esq, of Georgetown, a mem
Der of the Sussex Bar, was the speaker
He spoke on the operation of the new
Sussex county assessment law.
Announcements was made this week
that the Delawarean office, at Dover,
which has been closed nearly two years,
is to be re-opened. 1t is hoped to have
the office open and in running order
and the paper issued within the next
two or three weeks. 1t is said Mrs.
William Salisbury will manage the
paper.
For the year ending December 81,
1915, the Maryland, Delaware and Vir-
ginia Railway Company, a Pennsyl-
vania Railroad subsidiary. reports de-
crease of SAB, 1928 or as per cent. in
gross revenues, and loss of $49, ,521, or
SIT per cent. in operating income, as
compared with 1914. After payment
of fixed charges and other deductions
there was deficit of $122,8 ,8O6, an in
crease of $47.63 over the previous year.
H. V. Cory, graduate of the New