Middletown transcript., 1916-05-20
HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items O
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

May Both. Decoration Day.
All out of doors is inviting.
Soda fountains are booming.
Natures beauties are unfolding.
The farmers busy season is approach
ing.
Never judge a man by his relatives
he didn't select them.
1t is easy to be popular if you have
money-and are willing to spend it.
Clean up, paint up, dig up and keep
your chickens up, advises an exchange.
William H. Anderson, of Cecilton, has
been elected a director of Union Hos
pital, vice DR.. S. G. Sykes, resigned.
The twenty-seventh anniversary of
the Epworth League was observed at
the NJ. E. Church, on Sunday evening.
Four hundred thousand young shad
from the hatchery at Havre de Grace,
have been liberated in the river at
Delaware City.
The U. T. C. Sewing Circle was
pleasantly entertained on Monday
evening, by Mrs. Elwood l Banning, at
her home on West Main street.
Hugh W. Caldwell, principal of the
Chesapeake City High School for the
past eighteen years, has been appointed
superintendent of the schools of Cecil
county.
Lodges of Townsend have made a
written agreement to attend the SER
vices in the M. E. Church there, once
month in a body, with special services,
with the Rev. W. R. Burr, presiding.
E. H. Beck, real estate broker has
sold the farm belonging to the estate of
Charles Jester, located near Appleton,
Cecil Co., Nd , containing 96 acres of
land, to Clement Nc cNulen, near Bear
Station, for Sc, 900.
Fire destroyed the building occupied
by the carpenters of the P. B. & W. R.
R. Company, at Clayton, at an early
hour Thursday morning. The building
was one story structure, situated just
north of the station.
There is a demand for good boys
The boy who is honest, earnest and in
will not be long out of a joo
There are lots of prosperous business
men, merchants and mechanics, who
are constantly on the lookout for good
boys.
One of the birds belonging to Thomas
H. Hutt, of Delaware City, in the egg
laying competition being held at the
Station at Delaware
College, Newark, still retains the honor
of having the highest individual record
in the contest.
At meeting of the Sunday School
Board of Bethesda M. E. Church on
Sunday last, it was decided to hold the
annual Children's Day services on Sun
day, June 18th Committees were also
to carry out all plans in re-
gard to the exercises.
The Republican committee of St.
Georges hundred organized at Odessa,
last Friday evening, by electing MIR. A.
P. Corbit Chairman, and Mr.. George E.
Secretary. The meeting was
attended by about 20 Republicans from
all four of the districts.
A strawberry and ice cream festival,
under the auspices of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society, will be
held on the lawn of Bethesda M. E.
Church on Friday evening, June I'd.
The society asks for the cooperation of
all members and friends.
Robert Moore, well-known about
Delaware City, and a former Inspector
at Fort Dupont, died suddenly in New
Y ork on Sunday. One of his daughters
is the wife of Lieutenant Eugene Rey-
bold, son of Magistrate and Mrs.
Frank Reybold, of Delaware City.
Unclaimed Letters. The following
list of letters remain unclaimed in the
post-office for the week ending May
11th: Mrs. B. C. Brown, Mrs. Eden N.
Henry, Mrs. Emma Wilmon, Miss
Josephine Taylor, N. D. Brooks, James
E. Carrow, Kirk Lane, Eugene Pierce.
Mrs. James E. Woodall, Jr., delight
fully entertained the 900" Card Club
at her home in Georgetown, Md, We'd |
nesday afternoon. The first prize was
awarded to Mrs. Malcolm Cochran; the
second prize to Mrs. John C. Green,
while the guests prize was won by
Miss Silo, of New York City.
The Ladies' Aid Society of st.
Georges Methodist Church has elected
Mrs. Elizabeth Lester, president; Mrs.
John W. Carrow, Sr, vice president;
Mrs. Lee Reynolds, secretary, Mrs.
Horace Simmons, treasurer; Mrs.
James Gam, Mrs. Bertha Reynolds and
Mrs. Philip Simmons, parsonage COM
mittee.
H. F. Taylor, of the Division of Sci
entifc Inquiry of the Bureau of Fish
cries, of Washington, D. c., has been
taking trip down the Delaware River
and Bay studying shad. He seeks to
determine whether each river along the