Middletown transcript., 1916-07-01
STATE AND PENINSULA


Bowers, has opened for the season.
Twmty candidates for entrance at
Delaware College took examinations
last Saturday.
H. Winfield Lewis. of Elton, has re-
signed as chief clerk of the Public Ser
vice Commission.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is having sanitary improvements made
at the Elkton depot.
The two-night festival held by the
ladies Of the Elkton Catholic Church
recently, netted nearly 5000.
Recruiting for the Delaware militia
is being conducted at Seaford by Major
Lank and ex-Captain Thorne.
Contractors Smith & Rugges. of Bal
timore, have started work on the $IO,-
900 extension to the Newark sewer
system.
A charity dance for the benefit of
Union Hospital, Elkton, was given re-
Gently in Amos Moore's new barn Rock
Springs.
Employees of the Radnor pulp mill, at
EIkton, have been gwen an increase of
5 per cent. in wages, the second within
three months.
Levy Court has displaced Samuel Dean
as operator at the new Third Street
bridge, Wilmington, and appointed
George V. August.
The nineteenth annual convention of
the Seaford Hundred Sunday School
Association will be held in Wesley
Methodist Church. July l8.
A friend of the Babies Hospital in
Wilmington, has given the institution
$1,000 for summer outing at Rehoboth
for the officials and inmates.
The examining board of the Delaware
Medical ooci :ly he'd examinations at
Dover, last week for candidates desiring
to practice medicine in the State,
Twenty Delaware College students,
members of Company E Newark, Or
ganized Militia, left Saturday for the
mobilization camp below New Castle.
Inspector Grantland has returned to
Wilmington, from an inspection tour in
Kent county, where he found all en-
pIoyers are living up to the child labor
law.
Mrs. Nathan Messick, of Georgetown,
says she has been wearing one pair of
shoes on Sundays for seventeen years
and they have not been half-soled nor
mended.
Lieutenant Henry R. Adair, of the
Tenth United States Cavalry, killed in
the fight at Carrizal, Mexico, was a
cousin of Mayor Richard S. Rodney,
New Castle.
With Nicholas R. Johnson and Charles
Marphy candidates for State Senator
from the Harrington district, Frank
Prettyman, a young Pennington farmer,
has Joined the list.
Because Miss Katherine Rash, of
Lewes, elected teacher at Harrington,
found that the salary of her department
had been reduced, she resigned and has
been elected at Millsboro.
The lawn fete by the Georgetown
New Century Club has been postponed
on account Of the injury to Thomas Will
son, the Delaware College athlete,
whose relatives were in charge.
Distribution of state school fund has
been announced at the Office of the
Comptroller. Cecil county will receive
from public school tax $9,898 08; school
fund, $656.66; approved High School
1925.
The "Annual County Fair" will be
given by the Twentieth Century Club
women of Smyrna, July l, and 4. and
the Fourth is to be ''Old Home Day. -
There will be an interesting three-bill
side show by local talent.
The DUPONT Powder Co. has purchased
the Fairfield Rubber Company, Fairfield,
Conn.,, which manufactures a coated
textile similar to product handled by
the dupont Company, and its manufac-
ture will be continued by the new
owners.
The canning factories in the pea
growing section on the Eastern Shore
commenced running last week. The
prospects are that large crop will be
harvested but in some sections it is said
that what is known as the "Fleabug''
has played havoc with the peas.
Easton Emergency Hospital last week
graduated Nora V. Collision, Mary E.
Forma and Leva Collision, of Easton;
Malvina C. Dove, Annapolis; Iva D.
Townsend, Amy Carroll and Mary
Landgraff, Trappe, and Naomi B.
Adams and Lucy M. Dean, Cordova, rs
nurses.
The fruit prospects at the College
Farm, at Newark, for the coming season
are pronounced excellent Already they
have begun to harvest the cherries ot
which there is larger yield than usual.
The fruit is being shipped to commits