Middletown transcript., 1916-10-21
STATE AND PENINSULA

Donations for the Old Folks Palmer
Home at Dover totaled sI52.25.
The Red Lion Hundred Sunday School
Association has elected William Ander-
son, president.
The First Maryland Regiment left
Eagle Pass, Tex, Tuesday, to be mus
tered out of service.
The Edward G. Bradford Republican
Club has been formed at New Castle,
with headquarters in Knights of Pythias
Hall.
John Turner, colored, dropped dead
in the American Car & Foundry Com
pany's plant in Wilmington while at
work.
Jacob Reynolds, of Elkton, for the
last year special officer on the P. B.
& W. Railroad. has resigned and will
engage in business in Elkton.
Completely equipped and with train
ed nurse in charge, an emergency hos
pital has been installed at the plant Of
the Wilmington Steel Company.
Owing to blight. which is rapidly ex-
terminating the chestnut trees, of
Maryland, the crop Of chestnuts this
year is almost a complete failure.
Patrol Sergeant, Aaron M. Rice, of
Wilmington, has been ordered placed on
the retired list and pensioned, having
served 25 years in the department.
Governor Miller has appointed Chas.
H. LeFevre of Smyrna as a member Of
the State Board of Education in place
of Henry Ridgely of Dover, resigned.
The projecGle plant of the Bethlehem
Steel Co., south of New Castle, took on
SO men Tuesday and will increase the
number within few days to more than
500.
The decision of the Retail Milk Deal
ers' Association of Wilm ng!on, to
charge 5 cents a pint and 9 cents a
quart for milk became effective Mon
day.
G J. Scott, Superindent f Whining
ton >chools, has decided not to change
the hours to make up the time lost
through the in 'antiIe paralysis out
break.
Dean Robinson has announced that
the Delaware Association of College
Women Scholarship of 500 has been
awarded this year to Miss Alice L.
Roop, of Wilmington.
Caught in the act of robbing an auto
mobile at EIkton depot one night last
week James Warfeld, colored, was
committed to Jail for trial at the De
cember term Of Court.
Before Magistrate Wood, of Dover,
Noah Allen and Harrow Owens, both OF
Milford. were held in 1000 bail each
on two charges of the unlawful sale OF
intoxicating liquors at Nilford.
Captain James C.. Conwell, Milton,
nominated on the Democratic ticket
for Representative to the Legislature,
has resigned, and William H Welch
been named to fill the vacancy.
Tony I egoska, aged 6, is in the Ply
sicians' and Surgeons Hospital, Will
mington, with a fractured skull, the
result of being struck by an automobile
owned by William ]. Starr, of Easton,
Md, and William Blake, the negro
chauffeur, is under arrest
Monday morning the janitor of the
Elkton High School found several win
dows broken and school property thrown
around the rooms. The authorities
have learned the names of several of
the offenders and the Board of Educa-
ton will prosecute them.
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the Harve de Grace and Perryville
IIridge Company to restrain the en-
forcement of the reduced rate of tolls
prescribed by the Public Service Com
mission for crossing the company's
bridge over the Susquehanna river,
having been dismissed on Monday, the
reduced rates went into effect on Tues
day.
Town Council of Elkton will endeavor
to have the State Roads Commission
improve the section of State road
through Elkton. which was promised
several years ago. To show the a.
mount of travel on the Elkton streets
by tourists a tab has been kept on the
travel for several days, including Sun
day when 1850 cars passed the corner of
Main and Bridge streets, the intersec-
ton of the State road, of which nearly
80 per cent. were foreign cars.
Officers of the staff of Governor Miller
were shocked Tuesday by an order re-
ceived at the Office Of Adjutant General
Wickersham Wilmington, prohibiting
them from wearing uniforms or any in
sigma of rank similar to or in any way
initiating the uniforms and insignia OF
rank as worn by the officers of the reg
ular army, unless the wearer is in some
wav connected with the armed forces of
the United States. The new Federal
defense act contains provision to this
effect.