Middletown transcript., 1916-05-13

Inc Oeliudf NeWS-derald, OF Delmar
has changed its name to The Peninsul.
News.
No discount will be allowed this veal
on State taxes, which are due and pay.
able July l.
The annual stockholders meeting OF
the Sussex Trust Company was held in
Georgetown Tuesday.
A BOAT load of booze was apprehended
at Pocomoke City recently. The boat
contained 432 quarts of whiskey.
The contract to furnish the new citv
hall in Wilmington, has been awarded
to the R. L. Foord Furniture Co.
The Sussex County Women's Chris
tlan Temperance Union held its annual
convention at Rehoboth last week.
Samuel Ware, aged SO, of Dover, was
found wandering in dazed condition in
Wilmington and cared for by the police.
Governor MILLER has appointed Charles
Berker, of Milford, to be a member of
the Board Of Trustees of Delaware
College.
The Milton graduating class gave
play last Friday night at Milton. the
proceeds to be used in defraving class
expenses.
The monthly meetings of the County
Commissioners School Commissioners
and Orphans Court was held in Elkton
on Tuesday.
The motor boat Emma" formerly
owned by Charles S. Smith, of Ches-
tertown, has been sold to parties on the
Sassafras river.
Governor Harrington on Thursday
took action on the remainder of the |
General Assembly of Maryland. About |
sixty bills were vetoed.
A lady in Wilmington who withholds |
Ter name, has given SIS, coo towards the
oetterment of conditions at Hope Farm,
he anti-tuberculosis sanitorium.
Chancellor Charles M. Curtis has
irafted new rules for the Court of
Jhancery of the State, which went into
fleet last Monday. The old rules were
adopted in 1868.
The Government is said to be plan
ing new attack on the Oil Trust. If
hey can "bust it about once more"
Jncle John D. should be able to finance
he war all alone.
The Finance Committee of Delaware
;ollege approved the budget for the
gricultural department and decided to
ecommend an increase in the salary of
Professor Greenfield.
For the past ten days all the big fish
perators have been having unusual
lex in catching fish, and every day has
ecorded record breaking epoch in the
ldustry at Ocean City.
Judge Henry C Conrad, while in the
ct of boarding train at Harrington
lst Monday, made a mis- step and
1rned his ankle, and he has been COM
elled to use a cane ever since.
Efforts are being made in Whining
IN to start a subscription toward pur- :
naslng the property of the Delaware
Industrial School for Girls as a home
Or the Delaware Commission for the
lind.
Henry {. Hess, of Elkton, who has
cen connected with the Division freight
gent of the Pennsylvania railroad at
has been promoted to the
eneral office of the same company at
Work on the du Pont Boulevard, be-
Veen Stockley and Millsboro, is being
lshed to completion very rapidly, and
is the intention of those in charge of
le work on the entire line to complete
lie job as soon as possible.
Postal authorities have accepted the
tes submitted for the Bridgeville and
elmar postoffices. 1t was through
le efforts of Senator Salisbury that
le Government secured new quarters
n the pOstoffices in these towns.
Howard W. Smith, for several years
with the Gilpin Falls Electric
ight and Power Company of Elkton,
as resigned his position with the local
'mpany and accepted a position with
lie Atlantic City Electric Company.
Earl Dean was arrested in Seaford
st Saturday night charged with the
egal sale of Intoxicating liquor. At
hearing before magistrate he was
I'D in $500 bail for appearance at
'urt, and being unable to furnish same r
as committed to Georgetown Jail.
Minos Sorden, % years old, who was
lot in the home of his sister in Sea-
rd on Easter Sunday afternoon by
arley Truitt, after quarreling over a
nall amount of money which Truitt
aimed Sorden owed him, died Tuesday
orning in the Salisbury Hospital.
ruitt escaped on the day of the shoot |
G and never had been apprehended.
Recently Tom Mason and Nose Den |