Middletown transcript., 1916-12-30


dinner Monday.
The trial Of the Grace Marshall case
before Easton Circuit Court, cost the
county over $500.
Alfred Pearce Blyman has been ap-
pointed mail carrier in Chestertewn,
with William Morris, assistant.
For educational purposes Wilmington
fnanciers will organize a local chapter
of the American Institute of Banking.
The young men of Elkton have issued
invitations for New Years dance in
the First Regiment Armory, evening of
January l.
Governor Miller invited the Leg
isIature of 1915.and 1916 to be guests at
luncheon at his home in Wilmington,
Wednesday.
Tuesday was the forty-frst ami
versary of Friendship Fire Company,
the oldest fire. fighting organization in
Wilmington.
There is a lively contest on between
Commissioners Purks, Burns and Elliott
for president of the New Castle County
Levy Court.
Announcement is made that the du
Pont Powder Company will increase the
bonus of its salaried employees from 20
to 80 per cent.
Charles Nelson, colored, convicted of
larceny in Sussex county, was whipped
with 10 lashes at the workhouse and
will serve three years.
Governor-eIect, John G. Townsend
will be inaugurated Governor of the
State of Delaware, at Dover, on Tues
day, January 16, 1917.
Overcome by gas in manhole in
Wilmington, Lee Vasburg. a telephoi
lineman, was lifted out and revived by
J, W. Liley, his foreman.
Clearings in the Wilmington banks
last week amounted to 4,n78, 671 18,
compared with So, 971, 1876 65 for the COL
responding week last year.
Joseph McVey, formerly School
Superintendent of Cecil County has ac-
cepted a position with the Hercules
Powder Company, in New Jersey.
The Pusey & Jones Company, Will
mirg on, launched the yacht, No
komis, December 27, for Horace E.
Dodge, the Detroit automobile maker
Levy Court has notified City Council
that the old county Court house at
Tenth and Narket streets will be turn
ed overto the city soon after January l.
Sixty couples went to Elkton last week
to have the nuptial knotstied, an increase
of six couples from the previous week.
Of the total number, % couples came
from Philadelphia.
The Coke & Lloyd Leather Company
has ta&en over the business of Chambers
& Bond, morocco manufacturers, in
Wilmington, and will make several ad-
ditions- to the plant.
The young men of Dover will give
their annual New Years dance at the
State Armory on Tuesday evening,
January q Oglesby's Orchestra will
furnish music for the occasion.
Breaking into his wife's home in Will
mington, Benjamin Anderson, colored
who had been separated from her, des-
troyed all the furniture, and was held
in $1,000 bail for the Grand Jury.
J. H. Waterbury, who claims the
worlds champion marathon pianist
record, having played for 65 hours and
minutes without stopping, is in Will
mington, looking for challenger.
The old Methodist church building in
Lewes has been rented by New York
manufacturing company, which will
manufacture children's garments. The
Board of Trade gave free water and
light for the year.
The students of Delaware College
have adopted AN amentment to the con-
stitution Of their Student Government
Association providing for an honorary
system applying to all students. Every
student pledges himself neither TO give
or receive aid.
Ne rly an entire block in the busi-
ness section, of Salisbury Md, was
destroyed BY fire Tuesday morning, and
for time, with high wind sweeping
over the city, Salisbury seemed doomed.
Quick work Of the firemen, however,
checked the flames, and before noon
they were under control.
Some fruit growers around George
town are already contracting for the
1917 crop of cantaloupes. w. H. Chand-
Ter, Milton will plant,20 acres next sea
son He is now contracting with the
farmers in Broadkin hundred at twelve
and half cents basket. During the
past season he was one of the most ex-
tensiye shippers on the peninsula OF
both peaches and cantaloupes.
The Mayor, Members of the Town
Council, Of Elkton, representatives of
nearly all the manufacturing concerns,
the Philadelphia & Baltimore Steam
hnat Cnmnar,u and many. nf thn h,,si-