Middletown transcript., 1916-07-15
STATE AND PENINSULA

Georgetown is seeking competitive bids
for lighting the streets.
David Regain, of Wilmington, has
invented a device for heating motor
cars by using the exhaust.
Growers of Kent county are receiving
fancy prices for early apples, particu-
larly the transparent variety.
Wilmington Council has authorized
bond issue of $66, 900 to defray the ex
penses of paving Market street.
Saturday will mark the completion of
the 2O-mile stretch of the dupont Boule-
ward from Georgetown to Selbyville.
A large number of school teachers
from Cecil county, Md, are attending
the Delaware College Summer School.
Because Laurel City Hall is used by
boys band, Council refused its use to
the firemen, who now threaten to resign.
The Cecil County Commissioners have
levied $1,000 toward the erection of a
maternity annex to Union Hospital,
Elkton.
The First Maryland Regiment, of
which Company E, of Elkton. is part,
reached Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday
morning.
A plan to consolidate all the white
G. A. R. posts of Wilmington will be
considered at a joint meeting Of the
posts, Monday night.
The regular monthly meeting of the
County Commissioners, School Commits
sioners and Orphans Court was held
at Elkton on Tuesday.
The Cecil County School Board has
awarded Walter C. Miller, of EIkton,
the contract to build new high school
at Calvert for $40, 700.
With his throat cut and in a da2ed
condition, Joseph Steelman was found
in a woods near Concord, having been
missed from home for week.
Plans are being made by the Aetna
Hose, Hook and Ladder Company to
open the annual firemen's carnival in
Newark, on July p, with a parade.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Union Hos
pItal, Third district, will hold festival
on the Hospital lawn, Elkton, on Thurs
day and Friday Evenings, July 20 and 21.
William, the 1O-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Fleetwood, of Harring-
ton, was struck and killed by the milk
train at Harrington last Saturday after
noon.
The old Farmers Hotel, on the GiIpin
PROPERTY, on the corner of North and
High streets, klkton, which was erected
about $50 years ago, has been torn down
by Contractor Kern.
Frazier Croft, who was graduated from
Delaware College last month, has been
awarded scholarship in chemical en-
gineering, worth about $500 a year, at
Columbia University.
To demonstrate what school children
can do in garden work, Miss Emma
Penuel, the teacher of that branch in the
Georgetown High School held a public
exhibition Wednssd
DIR. Charles NJ. Wharton, State Sena-
tor, of Dover, has been appointed a
member of the surgeons corps of the
Delaware regiment by Governor Miller,
with the rank of lieutenant.
Comptroller McMulin on Saturday
made the apportionment of the annual
free school fund. Cecil county will re-
ceive $152701; Kent county, $139O.2O
and Hartford county, $1592.67.
The Maryland Dredging and Contract
ing Company hasebeen awarded a con-
tract for the removal of II, 300 cubic
yards from the channels in the Big and
Little Elk Greeks, near Elkton
A meeting of the trustees of the
Sussex County Aims House was held
last Wednesday, and complimented
Leroy Tyndall, superintendent of the
institution, on his excellent work.
Ten thousand dollars has been given
to Washington College, Chestertown,
by an anonymous donor to establish
two scholarships, one for Kent county
and the other for Qeeen Anne county.
Mattahoon Tribe, No. 1l8, Improved
Order of Red Men of Elkton, has
adopted resolution to keep in full
standing all members who have been
called to duty with Company E, M. N.
G., without payment of dues.
Among the many attractions at Leslie
Camp Meeting this season will be ''The
Taylor University Male Qaurtett, - one
of the most facinating Male Quartetts
in America. The camp begins Thursday,
July 26th, and closes Monday, August
7th.
The Board of County Commissioners
has appointed DR.. Howard Bratton, of
Elkton, Health Officer for Cecil county,
in the absence of DR.. H. Arthur Nit
chell, who is chief surgeon of First
Maryland Regiment, now at Eagle Pass,
Texas.
The Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder
|A;Ompany of Newark, will hold the an