Middletown transcript., 1916-04-29
STATE AND PENINSULA

ing from 80 to 100 at a haul on one
fishing tide.
The Wilmington Chamber of Com
merce has decided to postpone its cam
paign for $3.50, 900 to build permanent
home.
L. D. Caulk, proprietor of the Wood
side stock farm at Wyoming, is display
ing a large pair of twin colts born few
days ago. .
Harry Murray, who was serving 40
days in the workhouse for being drunk,
escaped while working on one of the
prison farms
Gertrude Fassett, colored, who drank
wood alcohol in mistake for medicine,
is in serious condition at the Delaware
Hospital in Wilmington.
Cows sold as high as $85; mules, 1915
a pair, and horses at from SIS to $135,
at a stock sale conducted at Bears
Station, by Walter S. Burris.
The general business boom in Will
mington is having beneficial effect on
building activities, AZ building permits
having been issued last week.
Students of the Newark High School
gave Shakespeare's ga Midsummer
Nights Dream" before large audience
in the Opera House last night.
The Pyrites Company, which recently
purchased 80 acres of land in South
Wilmington. has purchased 16 additional
acres on which to build its big plant.
Because of the presence of tubercu-
losis in the dairy herd on the farm of
the Cecil County Almshouse 16 COWS
were condemned and killed Tuesday.
Cecil County Medical Society has
elected DR.. Charles F. Miller, of Lom-
bard, president, and Dr. Howard Brat
ton, Of Elkton, secretary and treasurer.
Thomas Dixon bought the Tins pro-
perty at Earleville, for 5000, which was
sold at public sale at the Cours House
door, in Elkton, on Wednesday of last
week.
The Wilmington ::Street and Sewer
Department has decided to proceed
against all business men who maintain
signs and showcases beyond the building
lines.
During an arrest a giant negress
sunk her teeth in Magistrate Nickerson's
left wrist at New Castle, and the Mag
istrate has had the wound cauterized
against blood. poisoning.
Of great interest to to the automo-
bilists of the State is a pamphlet put
out by the Automobile Club of Mary
land, which was prepared by Osborne l.
YelIott, counsel to the Club.
With Is cases of smallpox in the
emergency hospital at Farnhurst, IL of
them from Wilmington, the city and
State health authorities believe they
have the disease under control.
The body of William Price, who dis
appeared from his home at Perryville, |
January %, was found floating in the
Susquehanna river, Monday. He is be- |
'lieved to have committed suicide.
An automobile owned and driven by |
Clyde Weer, of New Castle, ran over
the embankment at the north approach
of the Third street bridge in Whining
ton. but Weer escaped serious injury.
Willett Anderson, employed at the |
garage of Charles W. Strahorn, had his
collar bone broken while unloading |
car load of automobiles several days
ago. Anderson slipped and fell and one
of the machines ran over him.
A charitably inclined person whose |
name has not been made public at his
request, donated $4,000 as an Easter
present to the Delaware -Tubercu- !
losis Society. Part of the money will
be used to equip a workshop at Hope
Farm.
Nineteen couples from New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Delaware were mar
ried in Elkton, Monday. Wilmington
furnished two pairs in the days flock, /
as follows: John c. Cuozzo and GLADYS |
E. Trowbridge; Foster j. Rowen and
Helen M. Farquhart.
One of the last official acts of the |
General Assembly of Maryland, prior
to its adjournment, was the. bill fixing
the state tax rate for the years 1917
and 1918, passed under a suspension of +!
the rules. The rate for next year will
be 26 5-12 cent on each one hundred +
dollars, and the rate for 1918 will be
slightly higher, or Sc 3-4 cents.
In 1864 Charles J. Davis, tnen living !
in Baltimore, had an account with
savings bank, but, intending to move to
Cecil county, drew most of his money,
leaving balance of II cents. He
thought no more about it until few
days ago when he found the bank book. |
Out of curiosity he wrote to the bank
and received a check for 1878. !
Minos Sorden was shot and probably
fatally wounded at the home of his
sister, Miss Bertha >orden, in Seaford,
and Harvey Truitt, accused of the
crime, is missing. 1t is said that Truitt
drew a revolver, demanded money