Middletown transcript., 1916-04-15
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

Make your garden next.
| Automobiles are beginning to SPIN
Boys will soon be playing marbles.
A Young Mems Republican Club will
be organized at Townsend, in the near
future
st. Georges voters elected John
Crompton, James Gam and ]. W. Car
row town commissioners.
The Delaware State Sunday School
Convention will meet April 26 and 27, in
the NJ. E. Church, Smyrna.
The Delaware City Board of Trade
has appointed committee to endeavor
to get better trolley service.
A pleasant evening was spent by the
U. 7. c Sewing Circle at the home of
Miss Ada Scott on Monday evening
Charles Crang has resigned the man.
agership of the milk shipping station,
at Earleyille and will be succeeded by
Hill Beaston.
William A. Watson, Jr, of Black
bird, has announced himself candidate
for Levy Courtman, suject to the de-
cision of the Republican party.
The pupils of the Middletown High
School will hold bake in the Assembly
room, on this Saturday afternoon, the
funds to go for the benefit of the grad
uating class.
The annual registered tournament of
the Chesapeake City Gun Club will be
held on May g. There will be ten events
at fifteen targets each. H. Linn Worth
ington will manage the tournament.
Harry Gill, a local newsdealer of
Townsend, has sold to syndicate of
Engleside, Pa, three tons of old news
papers. He has been serving the papers
in Townsend for more than ten years.
The Students of the high school and
the first and second grammar grades
gave bake at the school on last Satur-
day, from which they cleared SS2. so. |
1t was for the benefit of the athletic
club.
A basketball game will be held be-
tween the girls of the High School team
and the team of Dover High School next
Tuesday at P. M. on the athletic field
of Academy Park, provided the weather
is fire.
John Heldmyer, Jr., Real Estate
Broker, has sold his double dwelling
house on Cochran street, this town, to
Mrs. Anna B. Berry, of Odessa. Also,
his property in Odessa to C. A. David
son, of Port Penn
The Daughters of America gave an
ice cream and pie social, in the Rey-
nolds' property, in Townsend, Saturday
night, for the benefit of new bell
for the Townsend High School. More
than $50 was realized.
Unclaimed Letters. The following
list of letters rem aiming unclaimed in
the post-ofice, for the week ending
April 9Th, 1916, John H. Parvis, J. H.
Parvis, Harry E. Easom, Carrel Bidd,
Samuel Austin, Louis Cain.
Rev. John M. Arters, formerly of the
Conference, and son of the
Rev. ]. A Arters of this town, but now
Of the Maine Conference, has been
offered $1,000 pastorate in Illinois and
also has been invited to Augusta, Maine.
Announcement was made Saturday Z
hat Rev. Robert Watt, superintendent !
If Wilmington district of the Wilmington ,
VI. E. Conference, had transferred Rev.
}. B. Rice from Delaware City to Stock
on, Md, and that Rev. T. N. Given has I
'een sent to Delaware City.
The cold. rainy weather has been
,eeping our famers back In their work,
nd unless the weather settles and the \
armers get busy, everything he reaps
t harvest time, will be late. Not only Il
oes the disagreeable weather affect
arming, but trucking as well, and only q
few people have put any seed in the
round whatever. tits hoped, however,
hat good weather will prevail soon.
In fight which started here, over a
7omen, Saturday night, Thomas Bel
lille, colored, employed on the farm of &
harles Crompton. near Mt Pleasant, II
alleged to have cut Ollie Lewis with 81
knife and inflicted wounds from which n
ewis is not expected to recover. Bel 81
lille claims Lewis first assaulted him CT
nd that he acted in self-defence. Con- v
table John W. Dickinson arrested Bel c.
lille. IL
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