Middletown transcript., 1916-09-30
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Department.
Arthur Jefferson has been elected
superintendent of the Milton Water
works system.
A tin can thrown by a companion
severely cut the head of Reece Cannon,
aged IL, at Laurel.
DIR. NJ. White de Lacour has been
elected president of the Wilmington
Equal Suffrage Association.
Miss Nan Mathews, of Chestertown.
has been appointed to position in a
training school at Youngstown, 0.
Wilmington has just paid to the Fed
eral Government on account of work
done up to May l, in Wilmington harbor
$9,8S4.67.
Wilmington housewives have started
movement to discontinue the use of
certain articles of food in an effort to
force down prices.
Because of an increase in the mem
bership, the Delaware Canoe Club has
found it necessary to build new club
house in Wilmington.
The Women's College at Newark,
opened Thursday morning under favor
able conditions The freshmen class
will number about As.
Lying between the rails when knocked
from car, Leon Short, of Greenwood,
escaped serious injury when an entire
train passed over him.
A. F. Polk, chairman of the Sussex
Democratic County Committee, has re-
signed, and James Tunnel, of George
town, has been elected.
Wilmington health authorities believe
infantile paralysis is on the wane and it
is expected the public schools will be
allowed to open next Monday.
Wilmington Council has ordered paid
$85, 785. Sc, interest on city bonds due
October 1, and the refunding of city
bonds amounting to $37. .904. so.
Sussex County Clerk, w. E. Wright,
of Georgetown, has been instructed by
the Levy Court to have lights placed on
all the bridges of Sussex county.
Magistrate Gluckman held Samuel
Lofand, of near Bear Station, in $1,000
bail for the Grand Jury on charge of
pointing a gun at William w. Melvin.
At special meeting of the Sussex
County Levy Court on Tuesday, William
T. Oliphant was appointed bridge
tender at Laurel, at salary of 81 per
day.
Captain Charles c. Herman, Jr, who
has been military instructor at Delaware
College for three years, has been as
signed to the Twenty sixth Infantry in
Texas.
Harvey Townsend, colored, was SEN
fenced to two years in the workhouse
by Judge Churchman, in Wilmington
City Court, for stabbing Cora Squirrel,
negress.
DIR. John Bowers, president of the
Maryland Annual Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church, is making
tour of the churches of that denom-
ination in Sussex
Employees of the projectile plants at
New Castle, where houses are scarce,
are moving to Delaware City, where
they are in addition accommodated by
the new trolley schedule.
Edward Thompson. John Litz and Lee
jackson fishermen at Bowers Beach,
narrowly escaped drowning when their
boat was swamped by a heavy wind,
the men swimming ashore.
William Bookhammer, of Lewes, who
has the contract to repl zee the old pill
ings under the iron pier, south of the
fish factories, has started work and
expects to have the pier in good shape
in a month.
Delaware College opened Thursday
morning for the year 1867, with a
freshmen class Of 81, with the prospects
of more students entering in the next
few days. 1t is probable the class will
reach nearly 80.
Crossing the narrow bridge over an
open sewer at Railroad avenue and Lib
erty street, Wilmington, late Sunday
night, Patrick Mcconnell, aged so
years, of No. 3l2 South Van Buren
street, missed his footing and fell into
the water and sewage, where he re-
mained for five hours.
The Rev. F. c. MacSorley, pastor of
Union Methodist Episcopal Church, at
fredericksburg, Md, was taken ill Sun
day night in the midst of his sermon
and had to be taken to his home. MIR.
MacSOrley has been suffering from
cold for several days and it is supposed
he overtaxed his strength.
A bill giving to widows of officers or
enlisted men who served in the Civil or
Mexican wars or the War of 1872 and
who have reached the age of 70 years
pensions of $50 month instead of the
present $12 a month, was passed in
Washington recently by the Senate. 1t