Middletown transcript., 1916-02-19
PENINSULA PARAGRAPHS

S12S5.
Traffic through the Chesapeake {
Delaware Canal has been very heaV]
since it re-opened.
The EHendaIe canning factory ha'
contracted for $50 acres of tomatoes a
15 cents basket.
The Dover Library having be closec
on account Of the installation of electric
lights, is now open.
The Home Manufacturing, Light ant
Power Company, Of Elkton, has elected
EImore Diebert, general manager.
James Chase, the oldest and wealthiest
negro in southern Delaware, died a
Seaford of pneumonia, at the age OF lug.
A two-day farmers institute was held
this week in the Dover Armory, under
the direction of the State Board of Ag-
riculture.
A stock company for the manufac-
ture of ice cream will soon oe formed in
Laurel, and will use the Laurel cream
cry plant
An express train Scrapcd the rear of
the wagon of Henry Oaks, Bowers
Beach. when he mistook a crossing sig
nal at FELTON,.
FIVE candidates are in the field for
Levy Court Commissioner for the Third
district, and the contest for the nomi-
nation will be lively.
Mr.. George w. Bennum Of George
town, has an gg laid by one Of his large
Rhode Island Red hens, which weighs
one quarter of pound.
4 few herring are being caught in the
Nanticoke river, near Seaford. 1t is
thought they will be caught in the In
dian River in few days.
Charles Bibleheiser, aged 55 years,
who lived alone in cabin, near Elkto'
was found dead on the floor Of his Iittl
home last Friday morning.
After 10 years service as cashier o
the Sussex Trust Company, at Laurel,
Willard S. Ellis has resigned and will
engage in business for himself.
The Wilmington Park Board has
found that 100000 is needed for TIN
purchase of new park lands, and Cour
Gil will be urged to make an approl ria
tion.
Bishop F. J. Kinsman has had read in
all the Episcopa Churches in Delaware
a notice of the efforts to institute Z
system of pensions for the retirec
clergy.
The Ri1gely Ice Company has in
stalled a 25-horse power Fair Banks
Morse crude oil engine. The company
is now manufacturing ice for the sum
mer trade.
Certain employees of the duPon
Powder Company have received some OF
the 6 per cent. debenture stock which
the company is distributing for meritor-
ious service.
William Carter, Wilmington news
paper man, who has been appointed
postmaster at Edge Moor, has received
bis commission and took charge o.
the office this week.
The new steamer building at the Har
Ian & Hollingsworth plant. for the Viii
mington Steamboat Company, an
which will be launched March 4, will
named :City Of Camden y
Extensive Improvements are to b.
made to the Harlan & Hollingswortt
plant in Wilmington, where a building
2l0 by go feet, to cost 10000, will be
added to the present structures.
Extensive improvements have been
made about the lower part of Fort du-
Pont, large part of the marsh land
having been filled in with mud, so that
truck can be raised next summer
William Ball, of Delaware City, has
been made superintendent of the pro-
jectile plant of the Be hlehem Steel Co.,
at New Castle, and Councilman William
Poole, of New Castle, watchman.
On this Is tturday) evening DR..
George Grim, Supreme aster of
the Shield of Honor of the United
States, will pay fr ,ternal visit to the
members of the order, in Wilmington.
A meeting of citizens past the age of
enlistment, but ready in case of emer-
gency, was he in the State Armory in
Dover last Friday night, at which the
subject of prepal edness was discussed.
William Mays and Charles Johnson,
negro boys arrested on the charge of
robbing the Peoples Bank mail-box. in
Chestertown, were taken to Baltimore
Thursday for trial in the United States
Court.
The boiler in saw mill belonging to
John Hurley at Athol, small village
about ten miles from Delmar, was blown
up last Thursday afternoon, resulting in
the death of four men and the injury Of
three others.
While asleep in bis room at the Sigma
M Fraternity at Newark, one night
last week E. H. Downs, of Dover, a
freshman of delaware College, was at
tackled by a rat and painfully bitten on
the end of the nose.
The committee appointed by the Mil
ford Fire Company to purchase an au-
tomobile fire truck, after visiting sew
,araa different FIRE apnaretI1s copnorioe