Middletown transcript., 1916-06-24

at Harrington, Saturday, by the Grand
Lodge officers of the /. o. o. F.
Secretary McAdoo has announced
that there will be dimes, quarters and
half dollars of new design after July
lst.
The Laurel Savings Bank and Trust
! Company opened its doors for business
Saturday, making a third bank in
! Laurel.
Bishop Frederick ]. Kinsman de-
livered the baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class Of Delaware Col
! lege last Sunday.
! The Delaware College Alumni Asso-
citation has elected Judge T. Bayard
Heisel, president, to succeed Judge
Victor B. Woolley.
Mrs. Ellen Calvin, of New York, has
resigned as matron in the Milford Hos
pital, and Mrs. Edward Sparklin has
been appointed in her place.
The Kent County Levy Court met in
special session for the issue of the last
$25, 1000 of the 100000 good roads bond
issue authorized by the Legislature.
Rev. P. P. Arnd, pastor of the EIkton
Catholic hurch, who will celebrate his
twenty fifth year as a priest next
month, has given the church $25OO for
improvements.
! John P. Lemon, of Wilmington, has
been commissioned a special constable
for the Retail Milk Dealers Association
to arrest those who use milk bottles for
other purposes.
At the recent annual meeting of the
c & D. Canal Co., the annual report
showed net increase in receipts over
1915 of $6,526 The total revenues were
$l91, $40; the operating expenses
SIP, 944.
The State Board Of Education has
granted to E. ]. Hardesty, superinten-
dent of Sussex County free schools, a
certificate to teach in the Delaware
schools as a graduate Of Lafayette Col
lege, Easton, Pa
During the absence of the sneriff and
his deputy whiskey was smuggled into
the Kent county Jail, 1t Elkton, Md,
one day during the past week and for
several hours the prisoners were in
hilarious condition.
According to the 1914 census of man
ufacturers for the production of foot
wear, just issued by the Bureau of
Census, Department Of Commerce,
more than $4,000 600 pairs were man
ufactured in the U. S. 1914.
Sam Godsborough, colored, of Cecil
ton, who was arrested on charge of
attempted assault, was given a hearing
Monday before Police Magistrate Bart
ley, Of Elkton, and held without bail
for the action of the Grand Jury.
Nidshipman Donald Evans, of Lewes,
class of 1917, received medal for win
ming the light weight boxing champion
ship of the United States Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis, Md Evans gradu-
ated from the Lewes High School in the
year 1912.
j Plans are underway for big Fourth
of July celebration in Georgetown, and
a committee has been selected to get
the business men interested. Funds
are being solicited to defray the ex-
penses and the residents of the town
are responding heartily.
Hon. John Bassett Moore, one of the
most distinguished living Delawareans,
professor of international law at Colum-
bia University and formerly counsellor
for the State Department, at Washing
ton, made the address to the graduates
at the Delaware College commencement
exercises on Wednesday.
From one cockrel and two pullets of
the White Rock specie of chickens
which she was awarded as prizes for
! needle-work at the Sussex County Corn
Show held at Georgetown last Decem-
Der, Miss Leila Penuel, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. J. Penuel, of Georgetown,
has eighty-five fine baby chicks.
According to an off statement of
the dupont Powder Company 25O0 men
employed at Hopewell, Va, have been
laid off. Whether this big reduction
in the working force at that plant is
temporary or will remain permanent
depends upon future business, it was
stated. Of ID units at the plant two
and one-half have been shut down.
| Peggy, Rouen duck Of doubtful an
cestry, is the champion egg layer of the
world, if the claims of her owner, Mrs
Sarah Bannister, of Verona, n. j., are
accurate. Peggy, in the period from
January II, 1914, to December %, 1915,
laid 325 eggs, fifteen more than Lady
Byzantine, the $4,000 white leghorn
hen, laid in her best year. Since Feb
ruary /. this year, Peggy has been lay
ing an egg a day.
1t is proposed to make Thursday,
June 29th, a gala day in Georgetown.