Middletown transcript., 1916-11-11
STATE pENTNcI1
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Frank L. Joseph Georgetown mer-
chant, has entered the First National
Bank as clerk.
Because of the scarcity of help, hun
dreds of bushels of corn are lying in
lower Delaware fields
BY change in the rural mail service
from Laurel, patrons Of the routes will
receive their daily papers a day late.
oeaford has been selected as the place
for meeting for the next annual session
of the Wilmington ME-. Conference.
Automobile tags for 1917, received by
Secretary of State Hall, have a black
background, with figures and letters in
cream color.
Laurel Fire Company has elected
William E. Vallient, president; Charles
C. Oliphant chief, and J. H. Marvil,
chief engineer
Newark Council, will increase The
water supply by sinking another arte-
sian well and installing an additional
pumping station. ~
The Scott Literary Society,". Will
mington Conference Academy, has de-
cided to hold open meetings during the
current school year.
The quotas of nonresident pupils in
the schools of Sussex county have been
filled, and principals have been notified
to refuse all applicants.
On Wednesday night the safe in the
postoffice at MilIsboro, Sussex county,
was blown open and robbed of over
b15OO worth of Office supplies.
Tnirty-eight recruits we're sent from
Fort dupont Monday to border duty,
two for Delaware Militia, one for Con-
necticut and 95 for Pennsylvania.
In three weeks more than 5000 baskets
of Keiffer pears have been shipped
from Townsend to Pittsburgh, the
farmers receiving % cents a basket.
DIR. Roland G. Paynter, of George
town, and Dr. s. G. Elbert, of Viii
mington, have been appointed trustees
of the state College for COlOred Stu
dents.
Subscription to the endowment fund
or the Home of Merciful Rest, in Will
mington, total s99l6, Mr. and Mrs.
Pierre S. DUPONT having contributed
$25OO. ~
In the opening merchandise shoot at
Denton on Wonday. L. r. Beauchamp,
Harrington, was high amateur with
6 out Of 100. Sixteen prizes were
given.
Charles Mcpherson, formerly assist,
ant herdsman at the University of
Missouri, has been appointed herdsman
at the Delaware College Experiment
Farm.
James Wilson and Mayor Curfew,
negroes, are under arrest in Whining
ton on a charge of ho'ding'up and rob-
bing Levi German, of Salisbury. Md,
of $24. -.
Women of the Newark New Century
Club cleared $50 on parcel post sale
i, fo. the benefit of the budding fund,
and the library COMMITTEES cleared $50
on a rummage sale. - 5e
DIR. Roland G., Paynter, of George
town, has been appointed trustee of the
State College for CoIered Students,
Dover, to succeed Ebe w. Tunnel, of
Lewes, who resigned
Robert J Allen. Of Seaford, who was
the successful bidder for the two con-
crete bridges which the Levy Court is
having built near Cannon. has started
the construction of same
With a large and representative as
semblage present, the private view of
the fifth annual exhibition of the VIII
mington Society of the Fine Arts opened
at the New Century Club, Wilmington,
Tuesday.
Bob Sumwalt, of Lewes, has been
made director of the Delaware College
orchestra to succeed w. F. Martin, whGj
has been graduated. bob" has played
the first violin in the orchestra for the
mast two wears
At meeting of the State Board Of
Health, Secretary Frantz reported that
of the 70 cases of infantiIe paralysis in
Delaware 80 patients had died, Whining
ton having 4S cases, New Castle Is,
Kent 10 and Sussex 5.
Workmen who are engaged in grad
ing the dupont boulevard between
Georgetown and Glendale, y last Satur-
day unearthed skeleton while digging
through the old Donovan farm, now
owned by George Moser, of Lester, Pc,
near Redden.
On Thursday, November %, Mr.. and
Mrs. John 7. Hayes, of near Bear. sta
ton, will observe the fiftieth. anniver-
sary of their marriage. The couple were
originally of Middletown, where they
were married. Mrs. Hayes maiden
name being Miss Henrietta Gary.
Rev. A Victor Lightbourne, pastor
Of the Peoples Christian Church, Dover,