Middletown transcript., 1916-04-29

600. is erecting plant at Newark tt
manufacture acids, drugs and chemi
Gals.
Two new cases of smallpox IN vii
mington are both of negroes, who have
been removed to the emergency hospita
at Farnhurst.
Injured week ago when crushed in
machinery in Wilmington plant, James
Calhoon, 40 years old, is dead at the Del
aware Hospital.
A canvass of the city of Wilmington
for 1925, 900 for a new Free Library
building came to a close with the
amount over-subscribed.
John Houck will represent the Chesa-
peake City High School in the state
wide public speaking contest, to be held
at the Tome School, Port Deposit, on
May 20.
William Dyer, of Dover, charged with
using female children under age, was
found guilty and was fined $3.50 and
costs of prosecution, amounting to
$857.49.
Ernest Schiller, the German who held
up the British ship Matoppo at Lewes
several weeks, plead guilty in the Fed
eral court at Wilmington and was sent
to the Atlanta Penitentiary for life. 6
The new schoolhouse for the consoli-
dated schools of Camden and Wyoming
will be brick building, two stories
high with finished basement, and will
have twelve class rooms with two lava
tories.
In response to numerous complaints
about the unsatisfactory arrangements
for rural mail delivery IN this State,
Postofice Inspector Plummer has been
instructed to rearrange some of the
routes.
The Laurel Printing and Publishing
Co. will be reorganized and the former
Delaware Leader plant will resume
operations after lying dead since the
publication of the Leader was sus-
pended.
The body of Peter DUNCAN, 27 years
old, powdermaker at Carney's Point, N.
j., was found floating in the Christiana
River near Wilmington, making the
third body found in the river within
three days.
The 1876 acre property in the First
district, of Cecil County, known as the
Ferguson Farm. was offered at public
sale by Omar D. Crothers, Attorney,
but was withdrawn and held at private
sale by the Attorney.
Joseph A. Daniels. 81 years old, who
mysteriously disappeared about month
ago while on his way from To Ensend to
Wilmington. and who later was found
in Chester, Pa, hospital, is dead at
his home in Wilmington.
Joseph SIobinski. a foreman of la
borers at Plant No. of the dupont
powder works at Carney's Point, fell
from train at the Broad street cross
ing in Pennsgrove, and the wheels cut
off both his legs below the knee.
Harry Paynter, a young colored man,
narrowly escaped lynching when
crowd Of excited farmers surrounded
him after he had nearly killed Alfred
P. Lingo. an aged farmer, of Indian
River Hundred, and robbed him of $183.
New and broader courses Of study
will be introduced at this years Summer
School at Delaware College. 1t was
found necessary to install the new
courses when the requirements for en-
trance to both Colleges were raised to
ID units.
Despite strenuous opposition, Cover
ner Harrington, of Maryland, on Tues
day, signed the bill creating a Board of
Censors of moving pictures. Lloyd
Wilkinson made a most earnest protest
against the measure. The bill becomes
effective June /.
The Sussex county Republican COM
mittee organized by electing Elijah
Lynch. of SelbyviIle, charm an; D. j.
Layton, of Georgetown. secretary; W.
j. Mustard, of Georgetown, assistant
secretary, and R. D. Lingo, Jr., of
Dagsboro, treasurer.
Twelve-year-old peach brandy is
highly priced in Delaware, so the joy
of Arthur Massey, Woodland farmer,
can be imagined when he discovered
can of peach brandy supposed to be 70
years or more old. where it had been
buried for many years.
Reports received from specimens sub
mitted to the laboratories at Newark
as to evidences of anthrax in Whitehall
Neck between Leipsic and Smyrna,
show the prevalence of that disease
there. The State Board of Agriculture
will order incubation at once.
There are now 1000 telephones in
the State of Maryland as against $500
in 1900, an increase of 14S8 per cent. in
sixteen years, according to the report
of the c. & P. Telephone Co. The more
phones there are more useful and ne
cessary this great public utility be-
comes.
Stockholders of the Philadelphia, Bal