Middletown transcript., 1916-10-28
STATE AND PENINSULA

/ The holly wreath industry win soon
begin in Sussex county.
A Democratic rally is to be held in
Georgetown Thursday night.
! The Sussex County Corn Show will be
held in Georgetown on Nov 9th.
The supper and carnival of Nazareth
Methodists, New Castle, netted 1888.
An anonymous donor of Wilmington
has given $1,000 to the endowment fund
of Asbury M. E. Church.
Thomas Miller, farmer near Havre
de Grace. has lost 20 hogs within the
past few days of cholera.
Students at Delaware College have
organized dramatic club, with Robert
B.. Wheeler, I'd, as president.
Two new cases of infantile paralysis
have been reported to the Wilmington
Board of Health, and third from Dover
Pleading guilty to carrying deadly
weapon, Orville Narker, a Dover boy,
was paroled to Pennel Rrah for two
years.
After an absence of 80 years, Mrs.
Salie E. Headberg, of Anthony, Kan,
is visiting her family and friends in
Georgetown.
I Elkton has raised $500 towards enter
tanning Company E, First Maryland
Regiment, upon its return from Eagle
Pass, Texas.
Wesley Methodist Church, George
town, has invited Dover District Fp-
worth League to convene in George
town next year.
Too much smoking among the boys
and much noise by the girls among the
students of v lin iagton High school
has caused complaint
The Delaware Society for Social Hy-
giene has raised enough funds for initial
efforts toward thlee-year educational
campaign in the State.
Pleading guilty do violating the
liquor laws, Cornelius Howell and Mar
tine Dutton were sentence to four
months in Jail at Dover.
Maryland farmers will receive nearly
$15, OO0, 200 for their wheat crop this
year, according to estimates of the
experts of the Bureau of Crop Estimates.
James Walker, coIored, is in Della
ware Hospital, suffering from injuries
sustained when knocked down by an
automobile driven by E. L. Gross, in
Wilmington.
Alfred Horsey, colored, arranged be-
fore United States Commissioner Ma
haffy, in Wilmington, on charge of
raising money orders, was held in $1,000
bail for Federal Court.
The Star Tuberculosis Commission
held luncheon at the Hotel DUPONT to
give the members an opportunity to
meet Miss Elizabeth Whitten, the new
head of the State dispensarV.
! William B. Hopton, a member of
Delaware Lodge, 1. o. o. F., Whining
ton, for so years, was presented with a
gold mounted cane by the members of
the lodge on his eighty second birthday.
C R. McKinsey, general car inspec-
tor of the P. B. & w. Railroad, with
headquarters in Wilmington, has been
appointed master mechanic of the
Washington terminal, Washington, D
lC.
Reduction in the size of Sunday news
papers as a means of conserving the
news print paper supply of the country
and possibly preventing the suspension
of small newspapers was urged in a
letter sent out recently by the Federal
Trade Commission of Washington to all
the publishers in the United States.
Although separated by only 900 points
out of possible 1000 from the winners,
the team of students representing Della
ware College in the intercollegiate
Dairy Cattle Judging Competition stood
seventeenth among the teams of eigh.
teen land-gTsnt colleges which competed.
The winning team was from the State
College of Nebraska.