Middletown transcript., 1916-05-20

be held on June 10th:
Alleging desertion, Mrs. Fred R. Nc
Neal, EIkton, has brought suit in Cecil
County Court for divoce.
Because of increased business, the
milk cooling station built at Harrington
two years ago, is being enlarged.
The members of the Peoples Chris
tan Church, at Dover. are arranging
to buy parsonage for their pastor.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bayard Gem,
of Wilmington, celebrated the sixtleth
anniversary of their wedding, Sunday.
The Commencement exercises of the
Georgetown High School will be held
in the Opera House. on Friday evening"
June I'd.
A swapping turtle, weighing 18 l-2
pounds was on exhibition in Dover re-
Gently. 1t was caught by Harry Turner,
in st. Jones' river.
The Chautauqua at Elkton this sum-
mer will open Tuesday, June 6, and
close Monday, June IL. The program
will be the best yet.
Eighty members of Seminole Tribe,
Red Men, of New Castle, honored st.
Tamina Day by attending services at
the Presbyterian Church.
By party vote, Wilmington Council
adopted an ordinance authorizing the
Board of Health to appoint two ads
ditional executive officers.
Harry F. Taylor, of the Federal
Bureau of Fisheries, has been investi-
eating in Delaware River and Bay to
determine whether shad are migratory.
]. A. Elliott has been appointed as
sistant plant pathologist at Delaware
College Experimental Station, to sue
ceed DR.. Jacob S. Taubenhaus, re-
signed.
During a high school minstrel per-
formance at Georgetown a fake fight
arranged by the performers, became so
real that several spectators left the hall
in fright.
A census of Delmar on the Maryland
side, which was recently completed,
shows a population of 1246, of whom
whites number 1922; colored, "a; males,
610. females. 636.
Inauguration day was fixed " tie
4th of arch, because that da e se,som
occurred on unday. But three times
during our history has the inauguration
day fallen on Sunday.
Nine converts were baptize' in .
pound at on old-fashioned ''b ntisn
meeting at Norris Mill, Sunday in the
presence Of 5000 spectators, rom all
parts of Sussex county.
E. Frank Locates, of Delmar, has
been selected as agent for tie PENN
sula Produce Exchange, and will super
intend the agencies at Laurel, Seaford,
Greenwood, Bridgeville, Delmal and
Cannon.
Joseph M. Jefferis, aged GO, who
Thursday night shot his son, John D.,
aged 25, at their home in Wilmington,
in dispute over an estate, was held in
$4,000 bail, pending the result Of the
sons injuries.
George Locates, a poultry raiser, of
Bridgeville, put two cracked chicken
s. eggs together with the aid of court
plaster, and placed them in an incubator
In the required three weeks the two
eggs Matched.
William Mote, of Newark, Del, who
recently escaped from the Delaware
workhouse, was picked up in Elkton,
Saturday, and by his own request JUS
tice BARLEY gave hin. sentence of one
year in the Md, House of Correction.
Harrington New Century Club has
elected Miss Emma Downs, president;
Mrs. Harry Rice and Mrs. John S. Har-
rington, vice presidents; Airs. John
Masten and Mrs. Thomas Curtis, secre-
taries, and Mrs. l.. B. Harrington,
treasurer.
Delaware College defeated St. Johns
College, of Annapolis, in a debate on
the question: "tQesolved, that TIE
Federal Government should compel
every able-bOdied male citizen, between
the ages of Is and "a years, to take.
under adequate provisions, at least one
year of military and naval training.
A new board of commissioners elected
and installed in charge of the affairs of
Bowers Beach, has served notice that
immediate steps. would be taken to put
the streets of the town in first class
condition. Some of them have been
miserable, and in wet weather danger
Gus. 1t is probable that shell streets
will be made.
Sheriff West, of Georgetown who is
always on the lookout for anything that
may happen among the fifteen prisoners
confined in the Sussex County jail, pre-
vented wholesale Jail delivery last
Monday morning, when he was looking
around the Jail yard. The prisoners
has cut hole in the wall and were in
the act of going through when the
sheriff spyed them.
While plowing in field near his home