Middletown transcript., 1916-04-15
STATE AND PENINSULA


on May a and 5.
The population of Georgetown. Del i,
according to Dosn's Directory of the
United States, is 2,040.
The employees of the EIkton Pulp
Works have been notified of a voluntary
Is per cent. increase IN wages.
The residences in Chestertown are
being numbered preparatory to the
installation of free mail delivery.
The Georgetown High School opened
its base ball season. there last Friday,
with the Lewes High School team.
Georgetown Fire Company will give
an entertainment, April 13, to raise
money to purchase rubber coats and
boots.
According to General Secretary Cor
bert, the Wilmington Y ii. c. A has
a membership 1908, the largest in its
history.
Mrs. E. M. Westover, of near Mil
ford, has a flock of Al Indian Runner
ducks from which she received 924 eggs
in March.
Joseph B. Luton, Gotlieb Fader and
Eben B. Frazer were reelected mem
bers of Newark Council for two years
without opposition.
Work will soon be started on the du-
Pont Boulevard, both north and south
of Georgetown, and rushed to completion
as fast as possible.
In 1915, a. runaway boys from other
cities were kept at the Wilminton De-
tention House until they could be re-
turned to their own towns.
At meeting of Midland Grange, in
Georgetown this Saturday evening,
Robert G Houston will speak on 'Law
the Farmer Should Know"
Potash has increased in price from
$39 to $500 ton since the war began.
according to an announcement made by
the U. S. Geological survey.
Prof. Alexander L. Harrington, Of
the Seaford High School has been Civ
ing a series of lectures at Rehoboth and
other lower Delaware towns.
German residents of Wilmington will
bold bazaar to raise $4,000 for the
elief of widows and orphans in
Iuntries held by German armies.
The main thoroughfare connecting
afford and RridgevilIe, has been
heightened for more than two miles,
aking the distance much shorter.
Mayor Joseph H. Hossinger, of New
has resigned as a member of the
Democratic County Committee and Ed
ward W. Cooch has been elected to
succeed him.
Captain Gordon johnson, U. S. A.
aide to General Leonard Wood, will |
speak at Delaware College. Thursday |
morning, about the value of the militia ary |
trairing camps.
Democrats of Red Lion hundred, held |
a meeting Wednesday evening last, and |
selected five candidates for delegates to |
the Democratic State Convention, which |
will be held at Dover, on Tuesday, |
April l8.
Alvin Lee Joseph, of Indian River
hundred, is being backed for the Demo
cratic n |omination for sheriff, by many |
of his friends He is a brother of State |
Senator EFarIand NJ. Joseph, of that dis
trict and Rf Charles I, Joseph.
! At the meeting of the Elkton I'm
proveme1t Association last Monday, IN |
he Coruft House, Prof. C. A. Short, of |
Delaware College, spoke on the subject |
t sewerage systems. Prof Short has
ade special study of this subject.
The school children of Milford, to-
ther with the members of a number of |
al organizations, sold tags on Saturday, |
for the benefit of the Belgians. The
exact amount realized was not made
public, but it is undPs srstood to have been
a large sum.
Judge T. Bavard Heisel, of Whining
ton, has recently returned from visit |
to Palm Beach, Fla. While there the
Judge and friend caught a sturgeon
which measured IA feet long, feet
inches across the head and feet 2 |
inches in girth. 1t weighed ,491 pounds. |
The will of the late Bishop Stephen
S. Ortynsky, head of the Ruthenian
Catholics in the United States, was
executed less than 80 days before his
death, and as a result the charitable
bequests, under the law, are inopera-
tive. The value of the estate is given
at t-'less than 500, ,0O0."
Arthur, the 4-year-old son of Captain
and Mrs. Robert Coulbourne, of Bethel,
fell from a wharf into the Laurel river.
Monday, and was drowned before help
could reach him. The little fellow was
playing on the wharf and lost his
balance, into the water. The body was
recovered short time afterwards.
Plans have been started for a big