Middletown transcript., 1916-07-01

from the home of Albert Bird, in Will
mlngton.
The Prohibition National Convention
was held in indianapolis June 26 to 20
inclusive.
Mayor Price, of Wilmington, will
move his office from the old to the new
city hall next week.
Home Coming Day at Ocean View,
>us sex County, will be observed this
year on Wednesday, August 9th.
The sewerage bond issue will not be
submitted to the voters of Elkton, be-
cause the time for submitting the same
has expired
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.
Directors of the Wilmington Street
and Sewer Department are planning to
widen Market street between Ninth
and Eleventh streets.
DR.. Edward H. Sehrt, instructor of
modern languages at Delaware College,
has resigned to accept a similar place
at Rryn Mawr College.
The flour mill owned by the late En-
manuel w. Twilley, at Laurel, has been
sold to Levin Ellis, who will remodel it
and continue the business.
Thieves who broke into the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad station at Claymont
stole the contents of the telephone box
and parcel post package.
Wilmington Water Commissioners
have returned to the city $4,000, the
unused ortion Of the board appropria-
ton for the fiscal year ending Friday:
Frank Kelley. q wnrkhouse prisoner,
escaped Tuesday while working on the
farm. but was recantured by Constable
Fennimore before he had gone mile.
Miss Ruth Galloway, of Laurel, q
graduate from the Maryland Hospital
for Nurses, is to be superintendent of
a hospital in a Wyoming mining camp.
For the third time within a year,
Harry Bigger, at the Wright ice plant
in Seaford, is disabled by an injury,
three fingers having been crushed under
a barrel Of oil.
Women of Elkton and vicinity have
formed an organization to make sanitary
articles for Company E, First Regi-
ment, of Elkton, whichis now modified
at Laurel for Mexico.
On and after July 1st, and up to and
inc uding September End, the Pennsyl-
vana Railroad Company will commence
running their popular Saturday night
excursions to Rehoboth.
Ten thousand dollars have been given
Washington College, Chestertown, by
an anonymous donor, TO establish two
scholarships, one for Kent county and
one for Queen Anne's county.
Rev. David A. Reed, former pastor of
the Dover Presbyterian Church, has
accepted call to the White Clay Greek
, Presbyterian Church, near Newark, and
is now filling the pulpit at that church.
While playing in the yard with sew
eral children at the home of Arthur
Phippin, in Laurel, Robert Booth, aged
about years, son of Harry Booth, fell
into a tub of boiling water and was
scalded badly.
! Edward M. Blew, of Allentown, Pa,
and Charles B. Reed, of Washington
View, N. Y, having passed the Homeo-
pathc Board of Medical Examiners ex-
animation, were granted certificates to
practice in Delaware.
High prices and drastic restrictions
have done little, if anything, to curb
drinking in England. Although saloons
may be open only five hours daily, the
expenditure for drink in 1915 was about
500, 900, 900, an increase of IL per cent.
over the year previous.
Attorney General Josiah O. Wolcott,
of Wilmington, is planning to take up
his abode in over. Sometime ago he
purchased a site on South State street,
adjoining the fine old Home of the late
Manlove Hayes. He also purchased lots
opposite it Of the NAPLES farm tract.
AS a result of running an automobile
over 20-foot embankment near Provi-
dence paper mill, James McKensie and
Lewis Sprout, both living in Elkton,
are confined to their homes in serious
condition. What caused the accident
is not known. The machine was being
run up the hill, when it suddenly became
unmanageable.
Mr.. George A. Rust, a prosperous
farmer residing near Harbeson, has
picked and sold six hundred crates OF
strawberries from a four acre patch
He averaged $500 a crate for them
In Mr.. Rust's presence it was remarked
that "some say strawberries dom
4 pay" His answer was, "They dom
if not properly attended to. "