Middletown transcript., 1916-10-28
The members of Bethel M. P. Church
cleared $04 from recent oyster supper.

AHe members. OF Bethel M. +. Chnrcn
cleared $04 from arecent oyster supper.
Survivors Of the First Delaware Reg
iment held their annual reunion in Sea
/ ford.
Because nobody wants the post of
assessor, Easton will not be reassessed
this fall.
Ladies of St. Philips Episcopal
Church, Laurel, raised more than slOO
by bazaar.
The canning factories near Harbeson
distributed 500, 600 to the farmers in
that section.
Because of the scarcity of milk in the
cities, milk station is to be established
at Georgetown.
The registration in Kent county shows
an affiliated vote of 2447 Democrats and
1929 Republicans.
Mail delivery was inaugurated in
Newark this week, with Harvey w.
Gregg as carrier.
The Wilmington Methodist Confer
ence has accepted an invitation to meet
in Seaford next year.
Robert Moffet, Jr., has been appoint
ed Justice of the Peace for Chester
town by Governor Harring ton.
The salary of John Watson, Court
House janitor at GEORGETOWN has been
raised from $50 to SIS month.
The Dover dlsGet Epworth League
Convention was held in Lewes this
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
More than $4,000 has been subscribed
to the fund to reduce the debt of As
bury M. E. Church. in Wilmington.
There were 75O, 900 cases of tomatoes
packed by the canneries in Talbot
county, Md, this year, record pack.
Building permits authorizing opera
tons to the value of $50, 900 were issued
last week by Building Inspector Preston.
IN Wilmington.
Ministers of all denominations in
Kent county have been invited to meet
in Wesley M. E. Church, Dover. No
vember g., to form county ministerial
union.
The registration of Kent county in
many districts shows falling off. due
mainly to the many removals from Kent
county to Wilmington of employees of
the dupont powder plants.
Charles Mcpherson, assistant herds
man of the University of Missouri, and
an expert in animal care, on November
l, will assume charge at the Agricul-
ture Department of Delaware College.
Two automobiles. one carrying Phila-
delphia motorists and the other filed
with Baltimore residents, were wrecked
when they ran together near the culvert
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at
Stanton.
An automobile bearing the license,
number S158 was abandoned at Red
Lion, after it had run into herd of
cows owned by Harry Appleby and had
killed one. The car was registered as
the property of James P. LOfand, Mil
ford.
Mayor W. H. Mackall, of Elkton,
headed delegation of Elktonians that
. iourneyed to Baltimore Wednesday and
had an interview with the Maryland
State Road Commission in reference to
the state improving the sections of the
state road through Elkton.
According to close estimates and cal
culations the cost of the new assessment
of real estate in the counties of Mary
land which began this week, will be
about SIPS, 900. The average time con
sumed for the sssessn ents in the eiec'
ton districts of the counties will be 6E
days.
Governor Charles R. Miller will co
operate with the Governors of Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey and Maryland in ths
appointment Of an interstate commits
sion, representing the milk producers
dealers and the public, to avert any,
possibility of milk strike in Philadel
phia.
The Second, Third and Fourth yea
classes of the George Biddle Higl
School, of Cecilton, will hold an enter
tainment.in the Jr. o. u. A. M. Hall
on Thursday evening, November 2, a
7.3O o'clock The following plays vii
be presented: "Wrs. Haywood's Help,
"a Paper Match y The Fascinating
Fanny Brown"
The death of William L. Heal, age
IS, retired policeman, of Wilmington
killed when fire department automo
bile in which he was riding oyerturne'
along the New Castle road on Septem
ber IL. was declared accidental by tn
ee=eHe~,s iarz Second Assistant Fir
Chief Isaac Darlington, who was driv
ing, was not held responsible.
Vice President, Thomas r. Marshall
will be in Wilmington, November 2
and that evening, in The Playhouse
will address what is expected to be tn
greatest Democratic Demonstrate
ever heIdin Wilmington. There will be