Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
STATE AND PENINSULA

Inc puDIlc SCHOOLS III OcCll County,
have closed for the summer.
The population of the State Hospital
for the Insane at Farnhurst is 499.
Cut worms arG greatly damaging
beans and other vegetables in lower
Delaware.
In May the Wilmington police made
7G4 arrests, of which 266 were for
drunkenness.
Sussex county farmers have lost
about half their clover crop through
recent rains.
Falling from a load of hay, Joseph
Cordray, of Seaford, broke his right
shoulder-blade.
Annapolis is to have an old-fashiOned,
dyed-in-t -the-wool, ''blue sunday" Not
even Sunday papers will be sold there.
The Tropical Oil Co. chartered
at Dover Monday with $4,000, 900 cap
ital, to deal in oil lands and oil business.
Officers of the Delaware Militia will
have camp of instruction on the State
rife range below New Castle, June
12-17.
Miss adelaide Ford, of Elkton, has
been awarded the Maryland scholarship
at the Chautauqua Summer school,
New York.
Union Hospital, Elkton, has decided
to engage an architect to draw plans
for a maternity annex to employ resi-
dent physician.
Charged with carrying concealed
deadly weapons, Sylvester Freeman,
of Chestertown, has been lodged in
Kent county jail.
Georgetown became a second-class
post-office, increasing Postmaster Mears'
salary to $1,000, and gaining Lloyd P.
Raynor clerkship.
Preparations are being made to put
the annual dressing upon the state road
from Chestertown to Centreville and
from there to Galena.
Prof. Eugene Nickle, of Easton,
Penn, has been elected Principal of
the Milford public schools; vice Prof.
c. E. Varney, resigned.
The strawberry crop in Sussex coun-
ty this year will net the growers $780,
900, according to an estimate made by
a Milford man recently.
The fishing steamer City of Lewes
left Monday for Reedville, Va, where
crews for the Lewes Fisheries Com
paliy's steamers will be obtained.
Fifty-two members of the senior class
of the Wilmington High School were
entertained recently by the freshman
of the Women's College at Newark.
The fifth annual Chautauqua under
the auspices of the S Varthmore Chau-
tauqua began in Elkton Wednesday
afternoon for seven-day entertain
ment.
In Wilmington last week there were
81 deaths, 81 births and II marriages,
compared with % deaths, so births and
9 marriages for the corresponding week
last year.
During the month of May, there were
PAP marriage licenses issued at the
office of the Clerk of the Court in Elk
ton, an increase of 40 over the same
month last year.
When two burglars attempted to
break into the store and residence of
S. X. Belts, at Frederick, Miss Clara
mond Belts fred several shots that
drove them away.
Three colcred men were brought to
Jail In Georgetown from Laurel Satur-
day night, charged with selling whis-
key. Th9y Iad in their possession 85
half-pint bottles of whiskey.
The directors of the Elkton Banking
and Trust Company recently elected
Clarence Diggs, of North East, secre-
tary and treasurer, and Arthur Deibert,
of Chesapeake City, assistant secretary
and treasurer.
Red Lion Sunday school has reorgan-
lied with William F. Silver, superin-
tendent; Daniel T. Davis. assistant;
Miss Anna Burris, secretary; Miss Bea-
trice Haman, treasurer. and Ralph Ma
loney, librarian.
Atwood Jenkins, who, last Septem-
ber, escaped the bullets of the Italian
murderer of Mr.. and Mrs. Levin Robin
son and Alonzo Redden, was instantly
killed on his fathers farm, near Snow
Hill, by lightning Saturday afternoon.
The Rev. William Davies was on last
Wednesday, ordained pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Georgetown, by
Rev Dr. Echard, Moderator of the New
Castle Presbytery. DR.. Rowan, of
Newark, preached the ordination SER
mon.
POstofice Inspector Plummer having
completed his investigation of the re-
arrangement of rural routes in Kent
and Sussex counties of the State. will
recommend that the old routes in use
up to more than year ago, be re-