Middletown transcript., 1916-06-24
STATE AND PENINSULA

the state OF Maryland, as against o0UO
in 1900.
Preparations are being made to hold
a big fourth of July celebration in Ches-
tertown.
The non jury term of Circuit Court
for Cecil county convened in Elkton on
Monday.
The Boy Scouts of Dover, realized
$50 from their Tag Day efforts on Sat-
urday last.
With appropriate exercises, % stu
dents of the Newark High School were
graduated Friday night.
Robert Booth, a 4-year-old Laurel
child, fell into tub of boiling water
and was seriously burned.
To facilitate traffic on New Castle
county roads, the Levy Court has de-
cided to erect signboards.
Gems" a musical entertainment
given by Milford home talent, cleared
over 800 for the hospital fund.
Mayor Price, of Wilmington, has
called meeting of citizens to arrange
for a monster celebration July 4.
DR.. j. A. Ellegood, of Wilmington,
has been elected president of the Della
ware Society for Social Hygiene.
Last week the cooperative creamery
at Milford made 2202 pounds of butter
the largest output in its experience.
The sum of $1O2 was added to the
Seaford baseball funds from proceeds
of the fourth baseball entertainment.
On account of the poor weather of
the past two weeks, most of h st1r-
geon fishermen have quit for tne season.
While Thomas H. Swan was attend
ing church at Kirkwood his horse and
carriage were stolen from the church
yard.
A movement is On foot in financial
circles of the State to have Governor
Harrison declare July holiday this
year.
Caught between two freight cars,
Daniel Davis, of Milford, was crushed
about the hips and otherwise seriously
injured.
The Milton Board of Trade is making
an effort to have girls come from other
towns to keep the shirt factory in run
ming condition.
Much damage was done to cantaloupe
and tomato vines in the vicinity Of
Bridgeville, Saturday night, when hail
storm struck there.
The Maryland berry crop this year
will cash in millions of dollars.
Thousands of tons of Strawberries will
go into the jam pots.
Postal savings deposits at the Will
mington post office for May aggregated
$146, ,28O, an increase of $4,000 from the
corresponding month in 1915.
A friend of the Babies Hospital in
Wilmington has given the institution
$1,000 for summer outing for the Off
cials and inmates at Rehoboth
A trotting meet held in Georgetown
Saturday afternoon ended in quarrel
among the horsemen, which will prob
ably affect future meets there.
To secure more industries for Laurel,
citizens have formed a Business Mems
League, with E. Pierce Ellis, chairman,
and DR.. A. S. Williams, secretary.
Wilmington and New Castle county
are entirely free Of smallpox and the
last patient has been dismissed from
the emergency hospital at Farnhurst.
Work of dredging the channel Of Big
Elk Creek, from Cedar Point to Bridge
street, Elkton, by the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Steamship Company has
been completed.
Mrs. Daniel Short, of Laurel, vice
president of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs, died this week in a
Philadelphia hospital, where she had
gone for treatment.
A contract to do 5000, 900 worth of
street paving in Wilmington has been
awarded to the Union Paving Company.
of Schenectady, N. Y, by the Street
and Sewer Department.
The U. S. Destroyer Wainwright,
which has been in the Delaware Break
water for two days left Tuesday even
ing for Newport, R. /, where it will
take on a supply Of torpedoes.
A verdict of accidental death was re-
turned by coroner's jury in the case Of
James Hawes and Bayard Edwards, who
were killed in an automobile accident at
the New Castle cutoff, May 20.
Chief Judge Constable, of Elkton.
Md, has appointed Joshua Clayton to
be acting states attorney for Cecil
county during the absence Of Captain
Finley, who is with his regiment.
After experimenting with a course in
home economics, which was given free
to the pupils Of the Milford High