Middletown transcript., 1916-05-27
STATE AND PENINSULA

L. A. Beating has been appointed as
sistant professor of mathematics me-
chanical engineering at Delaware Col
lege.
The public schools of Caroline county
will close Friday, June 9th, with High
School commencements the following
week.
Special officers have been stationed
on the State road leading from Elkton
to Chestertown to stop automobile
speeding.
The Milford Chronicle last week pres
ented the name of John w. Herring, of
North Milford as a candidate for
Governor.
In the campaign to secure $50, 900 for
new parish building for St. Andrew s
Church, in Wilmington, $4475. Sc has
been secured.
The annual Northern convocation of
the diocese of Easton convened in Elk
ton, Tuesday night.
Tacks scattered along the Philadelphia
turnpike, near Claymont, on Sunday,
brought nearly so automobiles to grief
through punctured tires.
The Adams Express Co., will run iced
refrigerator cars for fruit this year in
competition with the Armour Co., which
has had the field to itself.
The season at the Government fish
matching station at the mouth of the
Susuuehanna came to close Monday,
after Matching 1000, 900 shad fry.
A silver medal contest under the
auspices of the L, T. L., of Dover, IN
the assembIy-room of the high school,
was won by Elizabeth Holt, 6-year-old
daughter of George Holt,
The Governor is advertising that it
will receive propositions up to May ~
for suitable premises for the Elkton
postofice, under lease for five or ten
years from October 1, 1916.
Dredging of the channel of Elk River
at Elkton, preparatory to starting
steamboat line between Elkton and
Baltimore, was started Monday by the
Philadelphia & Baltimore Steamboat Co.
Out of 149 applicants for the U. S.
Marine Corps examined last week,
nearly half were found to have rapid
pulse, shortness of breath and other
symptoms due to excessive cigarette
smoking.
Laurel-Bethel Camp, the longest on
the Peninsula, will open August a, and
close August %. Rev. Tilghman Smith
will be in charge. Jack Cardiff, the
preaching pugilist, and his party will be
the evangelists.
June 27, % and 20 have been selected
as the dates for the forty-nInth annual
Maryland Teachers Association to be
held at Ocean City, Md. Governor
Harrington and United States Senator,
John Walter Smith will deliver ad-
dresses.
The Union Signal gives list of 81
dry cities having population of more
than 10000. The three largest-Seat-
tie, Washington, 33O,834; Portland,
Ole., 272, 1888; and Denver, Colo, 250,
900, each of which is proving that pro-
hibition can be enforced in big cities.
An interesting sidelight is the fact that
Washington, Oregon and Colorado are
all woman suffrage States.
A new form Of insurance has been
in Delaware since the be-
ginning of the European War. 1t covers
plants and other property
and protects against damage by bombs. |
Insurance is not being put on ammu-
HlllOH plduCS SSuSIdllyS IL ID SdluJ DuI
on collateral industries, where the risk |
is less. 1t is reported that the plant of |
the New Castle Construction Co.. at |
New Castle, has been insured for 81, ,00G-
600 and the premium amounts to $40, 900 |
per annum.
A committee of the Grand Lodge, |
of Delaware, A. F. & A. NJ, is
Masonic map of Delaware,
showing the territorial jurisdictions of |
each of the several lodges. The COM
mittee consists of Grand Master Walter |
W. Bacon. Deputy Grand Master Stew
art j. Horn, Past Grand Masters, Henry |
l. Beers, Edward G. Walls, William E.
Valiant and Thomas j. Day, and Past |
Master, Joseph C. Jolls. A meeting of |
the committee was held in Wilmington,
when the members were entertained at |
Inner at Hanna's cafe by the Grand
Master.