Middletown transcript., 1916-04-15

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According to new city directory,
the population of the city of Whining
ton is estimated at $4,000
Agent for the Prudential Insurance
Company, at Seaford, for Is years,
George w. Roach has resigned.
The new high school at Greenwood
was dedicated Friday, and Parent
Teachers Association was formed.
GreenwoOd's fine new high school was
dedicated on Friday and a Parent
Teachers Association was formed
Frank B. Hills, for three years as
sistant professor of animal husbandry
at Delaware College, has resigned.
Alan D. Price. of Elkton, was ap-
pointed United States Consul at Mas
sau, West Indies, and will sail April 20.
Thieves stole two dozen fine pulIets
from DR. John Wills poultry house,
near Georgetown, one night last week.
Fire Sunday night damaged the fish
house and nets of William Hall, on the
North East river, to an extent of about
$3.50.
The congregation of Christ Church,
Laurel, has raised the rector's salary
and pledged $l4OO to discharge the
church debt
Company E, First Regt, M. N. G.,
will give an Easter dance at the Elkton
Armory on Friday evening, April %,
opening at $50 O'Clock.
The Sons of Delaware of Philadel-
phia, will hold their annual shad dinner
with the City Club, in the Hotel Gu
Pont, Wilmington, May 9th.
The graduating class of the Elkton
High School went to Washington, D.
G, Friday on sightseeing trip, and
called upon President Wilson.
The Presbytery of New Castle county
is to meet in Milford on April 17th. The
sessions will close that night, when a
popular meeting will be held.
In car repairing accident at Delmar,
Raymond R. Walls, foreman of car in
spec.ors, suffered crushed right hand
and is in the hospital at Salisbury.
The seven-day campaign for 1926, ,OOO
for new building for the Wilmington
Institute Free Library was opened last
night at banquet in the Hotel dupont.
The Kent County School Commission,
consisting of Theodore Townsend, Mil
ford, John Carrow, Dover, and Denney
Hazel, Smyrna, Is on its annual inspec-
ton.
The heavy coating Of stamped shells
placed on the Laurel Seaford road has
been crushed and packed by vehicles
and the highway is in greatly improved
condition.
Congressman Lewis toured Cecil
county Tuesday in the interest Of his
candidacy for the Senate, visiting Ches.
tertown, Cecilton, Chesapeake Citv
and Elkton.
Many farmers about Seaford have
bought gasolines engines t. use in their |
farm work this year. Several large
traction engines have been purchased
by local farmers.
Former Governor P. L. Goldsborougb.
will visit Cecil county the latter part of +;
the week in the interest of his candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
United States Senator.
The quarterly dividend of II per cent. |
on the preferred stock of Atlas Powder
Company has been declared, payable |
May to stockholders of record at the |
close of business April 20.
The graduating class of the High
School at Georgetown, has received a |
check of S25 from Josiah Marvel. ESQ, |
of Wilmington, to help defray expenses
on their Washington trip, this spring.
The House of Representatives last |
Monday agreed to the appropriation of
$50, 900 for the inland waterway be-
tween Rehoboth Bay and Delaware
Bay; Broad Creek, s1,5OO; Mispillion
River, $500
1t is said $500 merchant vessels have
been lost during the present European
War; six hundred of these by Germany
alone. These, together with those that i
have been relegated by natural decay, /
have seriously crippled the commerce !
Of the world
Twenty-Five delegates from the diff
ferent churches in Cecil county left for
Berlin to attend the Home and Foreign
Societies which convened
Tuesday evening, in Berlin Presbyterian
Church, Mrs. John S. Hopper, of Chesa-
peake City, presiding.
Seventy-six out of eighty-seven cases
Of typhoid fever which occurred in a
recent outbreak have been traced by
the United States Public Health Ser
vice to infected milk. Had the first
cases been reported to trained health