Middletown transcript., 1916-09-30

their nets for an expected run of hard
heads.
Twenty recruits for the Delaware
militia at Deming, N. NJ. have been
sent from Fort DUPONT.
The steamer 'Cape May" made her
last trip to Philadelphia last week and
is now laid up for the winter.
While cutting grass on the lawn at
Lewes, James Joseph fell over the cut
ter and received gashes on his arms and
hands.
The annual dinner of the Boy Scout
masters Association of Delaware was
held Monday night at Hanna's Cafe. in
Wilmington.
Rev. John F. McElwee, son of Ed
ward J. McElwee, of Wilmington, has
just been ordained to the priesthood in
Rome, Italy.
Eugene E. DUPONT has presented
Traffic Sergeant John Devenish with a
check for $50 for the Wilmington police
mems pension fund.
Falling out of the hay loft, Bayard
Sutton, tenant on the Kent County
Almshouse farm, sustained compound
fracture to his left leg.
w. H. Bennett, of the Fifth district,
has been appointed deputy game warden
for Cecil county, Md, and entered
upon his new duties Tuesday.
The annual convention of the New
Castle Hundred Sunday School Associa-
tion will be held at the Nazareth NJ. E.
Church, New Castle, Thursday.
P. G. Henderson, of Knoxville, Tenn,
was landed in Elkton Jail Monday,
charged with earring concealed deadly
weapons and disorderly conduct.
Francis V. DUPONT, of Wilmington,
has been named student adviser to the
freshmen who are to enter the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Frank C. Bunting, editor of the Sea-
ford Tribune, has discontinued his ser
vices with that paper and taken posi-
tion with a paper in Marietta, Ga.
Charged with carrying concealed
deadly weapons, W. G. Henderson, an
employee on the new bleach mill being
erected in Elkton, wa lodged in jail
One hundred and fifty negroes were
brought from Virginia to work in the
steel mills in New Castle Monday
morning, because of the scarcity of
labor
The firemen's parade on Tuesday
drew the largest crowd in Laurel's his
tory. Firemen with engines were there
from Crisfeld, Md; Lewes and Mil
ford, lei.
The Methodists of Dover district are
protesting the action of the 'District
Parsonage Committee" in purchasing a
home for the district superintendent at
Bridgeville.
Owing to the prevailing east winds
last week the fishing steamer, at Lewes
did not do so well, landing only about
1000 barrels at each factory as against
1000 or 5000 the previous week.
Word has been received at Delaware
City that Eugene Reybold, son of
former postmaster, F. J. Reybold, has
been promoted to captain from first
lieutenant in the army at the border.
Taking poison by mistake for head
ache medicine, Mrs. Purner Bennett, of
near Laurel, is in a serious condition,
although her recovery is expected be-
cause of the quick discovery of the
mistake.
While motoring along the road near
Stanton, DR.. F. +. Springer, of New
port, found a man unconscious, and
after giving him treatment had him
sent to the Delaware Hospital, but the
hospital people say the man never
arrived
Owing to completion of contracts at
the Riverside plant of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, below New Castle,
nearly 700 men employed in the various
departments were temporarily laid off
Saturday after each had been paid what
was due him in wages.
The members of the Iewes Fire De-
partment, under the leadership of Chief
Clifton Maull and William Hendricks.
assistant chief. went to Milford on
Thursday to take part in the parade of
the carnival given for the benefit of the
Milford Fire Department.
Fully 5000 persons attended the cele-
bration of the one hundred and thirty
sixth anniversary of Barratt's Chapel,
the "Cradle Of Methodism" in Della
ware, Sunday. The services were held
in the grove adjoining the church, Rev.
T. Howard Jones, of Little Falls, N. Y,
preaching the sermon.
AS the result of shooting affray, in
which the victim was also badly beaten,
at colored church camp Sunday even
ing, below Frederica, Henry Flamer
and Frank Flamer, both coIored, were
apprehended at a late hour Sunday
night as they were making preparations