Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01


The Susquehanns River is free of ice,
and fishermen are preparing for the
annual run of shad and herring.
A meeting was held in Elkton, We'd
nesday evening, to arrange for another
county fair to be held in ElktOn this fall.
Daniel Slaughter, white man, YVES
found dead in bed at bis home in White
hall Neck, near Dover, last Sunday
morning.
Wilmington Lodge, Shield of Honor,
Sunday afternoon, held memorial SER
vices for members who had died in the
past year.
]. A. Crothers, former student at
Cecil County High School, Elkton, has
been elected President of the Student
Council of Delaware College.
Both the American Vulcanized Fibre
Mills and the Continental Fibre Mills,
of Newark, are working overtime to
keep up with increased orders.
Edward Hall Downes, a Dover young
man, on thursday was appointed to the
United States Naval Academy at Anna
polls. on recommendation of Senator
Henry A. dupont.
An exploding can of baked beans
scalded Harry Conowsy, clerk in a
Georgetown store, seriously, the ex-
plosion throwing the whole mass into
his eyes and over his face.
Stuart W. Brady, of Washington, has
been appointed publicity agent for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with
headquarters in Wilmington, to succeed
the late Jonathan W. Aydon.
Republicans of White Clay Creek |
hundred, at Newark, Monday night,
selected DIR. Arthur T. Neale, Charles
L. Medill and Charles Palmer Dickey |
delegates to the State Convention at
Dover.
Bridgeville jumped into the political
limelight, Thursday night, when it or
ganized the first political club of this
years campaign, the Republican League
with 72 members, and William E. Dimes
president.
The eighty-eighth session of the
Maryland Annual Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church will be
held in West Baltimore Church, Gilmore
street and Lafayette Avenue, Balti-
more, from April to April u
Plans are being made for the estab
lishment of motor truck lines for the
transportation of milk from the upper
section of Cecil county, Md, to the city
markets. The plan is to collect milk
from central points and take it direct
to the city markets.
The second quarterly distribution for
1916 Of the public school tax, together
with the appointments of the school
book fund and for accredited High
Schools of the State, of Maryland, were
announced on the 18th inst. by State
Comptroller McMullen.
The graduating class of the Cecil Co.
High School Elkton, will make trip to
Washington on April IA. Sixteen mem
bers compose the class. The officers
are: President, Hasson T. Terrell; vice
president, charles Trimble; secretary,
Miss Anna M. Ash, and treasurer, John
F. Work.
Elaborate arrangements are being
made under the directions OF the depart
ment of English of Delaware College,
and the Women's College, for the
Shakespeare festival to be held April
% and 20, in commemoration of the
three hundredth anniversary Of the
death of Shakespeare. II
AT an adjourned session of the Kent
County Court of General sessions,
Tuesday, Deputy Attorney-General John
B. Hutton entered nolIe prosequi in
the case of the State VS.. Frank H.
Thomas, well-known fruit broker of
Wyoming, who was indicted two terms
ago on charge of embezzlement.
Harry J. Virgins, brother of Homer
C. Virgins, the desperate shot in re-
volver battle with police at rooming
house, in Wilmington, some NO years
ago, was Monday in the city courts
fined $50 and costs and sent to the work
house for six months for carrying a
razor, and $40 and costs for disorderly
conduct.
AS part of the reorganization plans
of the State College for Colored Stu .
dents, Dean Harry Hayward, of the
Agricultural Department of Delaware
College, and John B. Hutton of Dover,
a special committee, have recommended
the election of j. R. E Lee, of Kansas f
City, as president of the institution to l
succeed DR.. w. C. Jason. /
With his lower jaw blown off, the re- .
suit of a gunshot wound, and disfgured {
almost beyond recognition, John R.
Cordrey, aged 81 years, a prominent
farmer, of near Laurel, walked to the
home of Jasper Oliphant, distance of I
nearly a mile, Saturday Mr.. Cordrey t
had taken his gun with him to the d
woods, and it is supposed he was in
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