Middletown transcript., 1916-11-25
STATE & PENINSULA

raised head of cabbage which weighs
IA! pounds.
The dinner and supper served by the
ladies of Cecilton, on Election day,
netted $77.19.
DR.. Roland G. Paynter, Georgetown,
has been appointed a trustee of the
State College for Colored Students.
Rev. Paul M. HesIer, of Findley, O..
has been appointed assistant pastor of
West Presbyterian Church, Whining
ton.
Wilmington volunteer fremen are
preparing to fight bill to be presented
to the next Legislature. providing for
paid department.
Professor A. E. Gradthan, of Della
ware College experiment farm, is judg-
ing the farmers week exhibit being
held in Baltimore.
Although definite plans have not be+n
mapped out, the Masonic fraternity of
Delaware is arranging to build modern
temple in Wilmington.
After a checkered career covering
more than 80 years the Avenue Theatre,
in Wilmington, will be torn Gown and a
garage built on the site.
An electric piano with orchestra
attachments, was placed in the Elkton
Opera House this week, to be used at
the moving picture shows. ri
Hon. James A. Pearce, of Chester
town, recently presented the Kent News
with a copy of ''The Kent Bugle,"
newspaper published in 1897.
The new automobile chemical fire
truck purchased by the Good Will Fire
Company, of Centreville, at a cost of
$3.50, was delivered Monday.
Owing to the increa 'ed price of -four,
Wilmington bakers have increased the
price of buns and rolls to IA cents
dozen, to go into effect next Monday.
The annual meeting of The Maryland
Society Of Delaware will be held in the
Rose Room of the Hotel DUPONT, Will
mington, on Thursday, November 23.'
Two colored boys were arrested in
Baltimore last Sunday and brought to
Elkton Jail by deputy sheriff Wesley
McAllister, charged with robbing the
store.
German residents, of Wilmington, are
planning a concert for the evening of
December IA, for the benefit of the
widows and orphans of the Central
Powers
The Board of County Commissioners
has appointed DR.. Daniel Bratton as
SCISSOR for Elkton, vice H.. Winfield
Lewis, who declined the appointment
some time ago.
An effort is being made by the cti-
zens of Harve de Grace to have the
Henry Deibert Boatyard Co. Of Ches-
apeake City remove their plant to
Harve de Grace.
Bishop F. ]. Kinsman of the Episco-
pal Diocese of Delaware, is to make his
headquarters in Dover this winter. Bis
hopstead, at Wilmington, will be closed
until after Easter.
Mrs. Harrington Messick, president
of the Delaware w. &. 7. u, and Mrs
Matilda Sudler, both of Bridgeville,
have gone to attend the national conven-
ton, at Indianapolis.
The Sheriff at Chestertown, upon
discovering that the negro prisoners in
in the Jail there were shooting crap,
learned that the dice had been made
from broom handle.
A Philadelphia firm has leased the fac
tory building that stands on the Outten
property, in Townsend, and will manu-
facture aprons and chiIdren's dresses,
beginning December |.
The Kent County Teachers Institute
viii be held in the Dover Opera House
Nov. .27, % and 20. The day sessions
are open to all and the lecturers are
fully up to the standard.
With large force Of workmen on
the job much progress had been made
during the last few weeks on the $500,
900 extension work and new buildings
at Delaware College at Newark.
Pierre S. dupont, Of Wilmington,
president Of the E. l. DUPONT de Ne
mours Co., has been elected one Of the
vice presidents Of the Maryland Confer
ence of Charities and Correction.
Delaware College opened its social
season last Saturday evening by giving
an informal dance at the armory in
honor of the visiting members of the
st. Johns College football team.
One of the first measures that will be
presented to the Legislature when it
meets in January will be bill to change
1.-The present system of county govern
,ment, especially the assessment of
county property.
At the meeting of the Elkton I'M
provement Association held in the
Court House, Monday evening, two
communications were read from COM
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