Middletown transcript., 1916-12-16
STATE AND PENINSULA

gree team.
Membership of the Wilmington Y. M.
G. A., has increased 250 from last year.
The will of the late Preston Lea, be-
oueaths his 81, ,OOO,OO estate to the fam
lily.
300 marriage licenses were issued at
the Clerk Office in Elkton during Nov
vember.
Henry NJ. Lang has been elected pres
ident of Friendship Fire Company, Will
mington.
Trust companies in Wilmington in the
past year have increased their resources
S., 222, 900, or 20 per cent.
The Maryland Society, of Delaware,
in annual session in Wilmington, elected
Daniel 0. Hastings, president.
The junior class bake af the New Cas-
tie High School netted $16.1O toward a
fund for the June trip to Washington.
Frank L. Day, Georgetown Republi-
can, has announced his candidacy for
State Inspector of Weights and Mea-
sures.
Hattie Pettyjohn, an Glendale ne
gress, was fined $25 in Milford because
her reckless mortoring knocked a man
down.
Prothonotary William H. Welch, of
Milton, who will enter the Legislature
the first of the new year. is being boom
ed for Speaker.
Despite objection, Wilmington Coun-
Gil has confirmed the sale of the old City
Hall and other property to John S. Null
lin for SITS, 900.
7. E. Doremus, of Wilmington, has
been reelected president of the Inter
state Association for the encouragement
Of trapshooting.
The town board, Of Bridgeville, has
notified all business persons in the
town that they must not sell any mer-
chandise on Sunday.
The second burglary within a year
took place at the grocery and provision
store of B. H. Davis & Brother, West
Main Street Flkton
A gold fob and Masonic charm were
presented to E. j. Birtwell, manager Of
the Penn-Seaboard steel plant at New
Castle, by 25 heads Of departments.
Delaware apple growers met at Dover
recently to consider amendments to the
appIe-packing law, which, they assert,
proves not to be practical in all features.
The suit Of Thomas e. Rushton, in
Superior Court, against the Harlan &
Hollingsworth Corporation, for damages
due to injury has been amicably settled.
Old hornets nests have suddenly be-
come very valuable in Sussex county be-
cause of the calls for them by city deal
erS who sell them for house decorations.
Wilmington Methodist Preachers
Association has elected Rev. V. S.
Collins, president; Rev. j. S. Johnson,
vice president; Rev. E. w. Jones, sec
retary.
The he G. Stew Stewart ait Clark mansion at
Clark's Corners, between New Castle
AMI Delaware City, was burned with a
loss of $40, coo, neighbors saving the
outbuildings.
Elmer E. Shallenberg, several years
manager of the payroll division of the
dupont Powder Company, has resigned
to become president of the Consolidated
Petroleum Company.
Governor Charles R. Miller has ap-
pointed Mayor Arley B. Magee, OF
Dover, to be one Of the delegates to the
National Rivers and Harbors Congress,
in Washington, D. c.
John Amos, colore d, shot by a rail
road policeman, who found him on rail-
road property, was fined $1OO and sent
to the workhouse for year for carry
ing concealed weapons.
Work Of tearing out the stage in the
EIkton Opera House has been started
When this improvement is completed il
will give an extra seating capacity fol
about 12O in the building.
Delmar-Selbyville road is to be re
paired free of charge by the farmer:
along the route, $1,000 bushels Of oyster
shells to be furnished by Sussex county
Del, and Wicomico county, Nd
Railroad employees of the Pennsyl
vania worked all day Saturday, all nigh
and Sunday completing a temporary
station at Bear Station, where the OLD
station was burned Friday night.
The Sussex county plan of assessmen
and propositions to raise revenue in tn
county by other means than adding t.
the tax on real estate, are favored il
resolutions adopted by Pomona Grange
Wn'ch elected William P. Naudain mas
ter.
Twenty Maryland youths have quail
fed for appointment from civil life t
be second lieutenants in the regula
army Of the United States, under th
terms of the national defense act, whic
provided for the enlargement of tn