Middletown transcript., 1916-11-04


harvesting their pea and buckwheat
crops,
Karl Bunstein has been appointed ex-
press agent at Milford, with William
Riggs as assistant
An overturning casting crushed. the
right footof Antonio Andres, at a New
Castle steel plant.
An enclosed waiting room wills be
built on the south side of the tracks at
the North East railroad station.
John T. Futty has rendered his resig-
nation as assessor of real estate in the
Fifth Election District of Cecil county.
The pack at the Elkton cannery this
season was 5000 cases of tomatoes,
which is less than half the usual pack.
For vending ,chestnuts on a street in
Wilmington without having license,
Angelo Culeras was fined s. and costs.
George S. Parks, Justice at Seaford
by Republican appointment, has an
nounced he will vote for President Will
son.
In the night every post and pole in
Georgetown was filled with stickers OPP
posing the reelection of Senator du-
Pont.
The Wilmington Ursuline Sisters have
purchased the Windmere cottage at Re
hoboth and will use it as summer
home.
When he laughed over joke at the
dinner table, Joseph Richards, of Black
water, nearly strangled to death on a
piece of beef.
Strawberry and raspberry fields in
Lower Delaware are bearing their sec
ond crop and grape vines are beginning
to bud again.
Martin Marcus and Warren Cobb,
boys, found the body of white male
infant floating in the Brandywine Creek
at Wilmington.
Democrats in rally at Bear Station
Monday night consumed So gallons of
cider and 500 sandwiches, in addition to
hearing speeches.
The steamship Pearl Shell, built by
the Harlan & HolIingsworth Corpora
ton, at Wilmington, will make its trial
trip on Wednesday
Irwin Custer was ground to death un-
der the wheels of a Baltimore & Ohio
freight train on the Berlin branch of
the railroad. Friday.
Because of increased business, an ad-
dition to cost several thousand dollars
will be made to the plant of the Will
mingtOn Leather Company.
Henry P. Scott, banker, entertained
400 members of the Republican Busi-
ness Mems Club of Wilmington, at Il
luncheon at the Hotel dupont.
Travelling more than 125 miles, a toy
balloon, sent up at Hagerstown by AL
Behling, was found near Smyrna, Del,
by Miss M. E. Tharpe, a school teacher.
John c. Ripperger, how celebrated
his eighty-sixth birthday in Whining
ton, attributes his good health to the
fact that be takes long walk every
day.
Alfred L. Aingcow, proprietor of a
Wilmington cafe. was held in $l00 bail
for the Grand Jury on each of 1S
charges of permitting liquor to be sold
to minors.
Georgetown Methodist Protestant
! congregation began week of prayer
Monday night preparatory to a revival
to be conducted by Rev. N. Lee Starke,
New York City.
Judge Rice sat in Wilmington Tues
day and heard appeals from the regis
tration in New Castle county, three
Democrats and one Republican being
stricken off the lists.
Postmaster William H. Robinson, of
Milford. is in Delaware Hospital, Will
mington, with fractured skull, sus-
tained in an automobile accident, is i'm
proved and has chances for recovery.
The Grand Lodge of Delaware, l. O.
o. F., will hold its eighty-third annual
session in the Odd FelllMs Building,
Tenth and King Streets, Wilmington,
on Nov. IA. the Grand Encampment
will meet.
First prizes at the Halloween cele-
bration of the Red Lion Camp Fire
Girls were won Dy Rev. r. T. Thawley,
as negro impersonator; Miss Frances
Stanley, cowgirl; Roger Davis, smallest
masquerader.
The Eastern Beagle Club, Of Milford,
has announced that inasmuch as the
Legislature passed law making dogs
property, hereafter the club will senc
all dog thieves to the whipping post
having already engaged detectives t
watch for such thefts.
At the graduating exercises of the
Homeopathic Hospital Training Schoo
for Nurses in Wilmington. Tuesday
evening, President Mitchell, of Bela.
ware College, addressed the graduates
DIR. j. Harmer Rile addressed the stu
dent nurses and DR.. Lewis w. Finn
submitted report of the work of thu
school
The Woman's Auxiliary Missionary
Society of the Diocese Of Easton vii