Middletown transcript., 1916-10-21

ing.
Frankfort will entertain the Sussex
County Sunday School Convention, Oc-
tober % and "a.
The required number of guarantors
has been obtained for New Castles
Chautauqua next October.
Elkton Improvement Association has
elected James F. Evans, secretary, vice
Joseph H. Perkins, resigned.
Mechanics are installing new machin-
cry in the power house of the Eastern
Shore Electric Light, Laurel.
Delaware Society for Social Hygiene
is seeking $40, 900 to defray the expenses
of three-year educational campaign.
Charles T. johnson, Lewes, has re-
ceived the contract to raise the sunken.
schooner, Marguerite, from Boston Har-
Dor.
Owing to the shortage of labor,
farmers near Seaford have equipped
their farms with machine corn har-
vesters.
The ladies of the Elkton Catholic
Church will hold bazaar and supper in
the basement of the church from Octo-
her 81 to28.
Betterton marksmen have organized
"a gun club, with Captain John B1ice,
president, and Howard Owens, secre-
ttary- treasurer.
The recent carnival held at Dover for
.one week by the members of the Robbins
Hose Company netted $465 for the
fire department.
Joseph N. Walls, Georgetown. has
been made an assistant track foreman
,on the Delaware Railroad and trans
ferred to Delmar.
Employees of the D. M. & V. Rail-
road who have been stationed at Reho-
both Beach have been II owed to Lewis
as winter terminal.
On his seventy-sixth birthday. Glenn
,ent A. Lippincott, head of the Llppin-
.cott department store, Wilmington,
entertained 200 employees.
The Modern Woodsmen of America
SHIELD an open meeting Monday night in
;the EIkton Court House, which was .ad-
dressed by George W. Reilley, of Dan
vile, III.
The annual registered trap tourna-
,ment under the auspices of the Elkton
Gun Club, including the county amateur
championship, was held Tuesday on the
club grounds.
The Lewes-Rehoboth Bay canal is now
open to navigation. Capt. Fred G.
Vogel, of the Rehoboth Coast Guard
Station, made the first trip through in
his motorboat.
Following an inspection of the New
Castle County Workhouse and the pl ison
farms, Monday, members of the Grand
Jury were entertained at dinner by
Warden Cross.
In Wilmington last week there were
"a deaths, 81 births and "a marriages,
as compared with 26 deaths, 60 births
and "a marriages for the corresponding
week last year
AS delegates to the Pennsylvania-Jer-
Delaware milk conference, Governor
Miller has appointed George H. Hall,
Harry H. HAYWARD, Samuel M. Har-
rington and Frederick Brady.
For the third time since January /,
Milford has new mayor, the latest one
being Robert ?. Pierce who was elected
by the members Of council at their regu-
lar monthly meeting this week.
Beginning Monday, Brandywine ma
chine shops of the DUPONT Powder Com
pany, which have been op. rating two
eight-hour shifts daily, will go on one
shift basis, many men being dropped.
Wilbert Tilghman, negro butler in the
home of Mrs. JEANNE r. Davis, Will
mington, was held under $500 bail for
Court by Judge Churchman, on charge
of stealing gold pendant valued at $780,
The Comptroller of Maryland on Friday
of last week, announced the distribution
of State school funds, Cecil county will
receive S4, 1886 from the school tax fund
and S711.O4 from the school book fund.
Because of his vote against the eight
hour railroad bill, more than 23OO rail-
road men in Delaware, it is declared,
have been organized into movement
to defeat Senator Henry A. dupont for
reelection.
Tomatoes weighing one pound AMI six
ounces have been gathered from the
farm of Mrs. Watson, near Milford.
There are six acres planted In toma-
toes on this farm, and some have sold
as high as 40 cents basket.
The Rehoboth Bay-DeIaware Bay
Government Canal was opened to navi-
cation Thursday, completing an inland
waterway from Chincateague, Va, to
Philadelphia, and opening up a large
part of Delaware to water traffic.
Because of the advancing prices and