Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

nall.
An entertainment given by home
talent netted the Seaford baseball club
more than $100.
Preparations are being made to put
the annual dressing upon the State
Road from Goldsboro to Denton.
Joseph Mallalieu has resigned as cash
ier Of Millington Bank, of Maryland,
and w. l. Jarvis has been elected.
The students of Lewes High School
were shown over the battleship Michi-
gan while it was anchored in the Break
water.
Delaware College trustees have ap-
proved plans for new dormitory, the
funds for which will be given by friend
of the institution.
Dover electors cast but 18 votes in
the annual school election choosing
James H. Anderson, Samuel H. Carson
and Gilbert D. Jackson.
Newark Council is planning to in
crease the town water capacity by sink
ing an additional artesian we'll and
building small reservoir.
A childrens ward, built at cost of
500, 900, has been added to the Delaware
Hospital in Wilmington, and was opened
for inspection Wednesday.
Rev. Thomas Davis, of the Milford
Baptist Church, has started revival
services in the open air on a lot in the
business section of the town.
The annual banquet of the Milford
High School Alumni Association to this
years graduates of the High School
was given in the Windsor Hotel last
Friday evening.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs which held their biennial conven-
tion in New York City the past week,
elected Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowle, of
Los Angeles, as president.
The eight-day campaign for 5000, 900
for new building for the Y. W. C. A.
closed Thursday evening, when dinner
was served to the campaign workers in
the grill room of the Hotel dupont.
Rev. L. A. Bennett, pastor of Mil
ford M. P. hurch, IS arranging for a
nursery in connection with the church,
so that mothers may attend church,
take their babies and have them cared
for.
An executive meeting of the Kent
County Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, was held at Dover recently, in
the Methodist Protestant Church, the
president, Mrs. Fila D. Cordray, of
Pennington, presiding.
The summer excursion season at Toll
chester began last Wednesday and the
prospects are for a successful season.
The hotels, cottages and amusements
at Betterton are also open, and many
improvements are noted at the pretty
bayside resorts.
Jackson Davis, of Richmond, Va,
and DR.. Charles A. Wagner, State
commissioner of education, visited the
State College for Colored Students near
Dover, Thursday, to determine the
needs. needs Of u. education education for c1lOred young
Lewes will have a steamer running
both passengers and freight to Phila-
delphia and Cape May, according to a
telegram received by the town officials,
Tuesday, announcing that the United
States Senate has adopted the amend
ment appropriating $4,000 for repairs
to the Government iron pier at Lewes.
This gives the town frst-cIass landing.
MilfOrd's volunteer fire company ex-
poets its new machine within ten days.
The contract for this machine stated
that delivery would be made about
April l, but the company asked for an
extension of time which was given
them. The fremen plan to have
parade, and elaborate housing cere-
monies when the truck arrives and is
accepted
Fifty years ago Wednesday, Samuel
H. Barker, Of Dover, began to work in
the canning establishment of Richard
son and Robbins, Dover, and has been
there ever since. For twenty-fi five years
he has been foreman. He has been
a member of Town Council, an active
Odd Fellow, in 1905 being chosen grand
master of the grand lodge, and is dea-
con in the First Baptist Church.
After being shut down for two years,
the plant of the Seaford Marine Rail
way Company, of Seaford, was re-
opened Tuesday. The first work will
be to put the place in order, and later
many skilled workers will be added to
the force of laborers. The company has
a number of contracts for boats. Su-
perintendent Sauerhof, who was for
number of years connected with the old
company, will be in charge.
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