Middletown transcript., 1916-09-23

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Wilmington.
] A. W. Bernhardt, of Wilmington, has
been appointed instructor in German at
Delaware College.
A handsome entrance sign for the
Union Hospital, at Elkton, has been
presented by Rev. P. P. Arnd.
Rev. George R. Ellis, of MilIsboro,
has discontinued his tabernacle services
at Oak Orchard for the winter.
Following his election only two weeks
ago, w. D. Pierson, the new chief of
police, of Milford, has resigned.
A community flag was raised in the
public square at Georgetown this week,
with D. ]. Layton as the orator.
The cornerstone of the Town Point
Methodist Church was laid Saturday
afternoon, with appropriate services.
Pencader hundred Republicans have
indorsed William H. Evans, member
of the House two years ago, for State
Senator.
At Delaware College, October 8 and
A, Rhodes scholarship examinations will
be held under the supervision of Pro-
fessor Elisha Conover.
Mrs. Bessie Belts, of Harrington,
was held in $1OO on two charges of al
lowing women employees to work more
than 55 hours in week.
According to the records of the Will
mington Board of Health, lnfantile par
alysis has caused the death of so per
cent of those affected so far
County Clerk, w. E. Wright, of
Georgetown, has been instructed by
the Levy Court to have lights placed on
all the bridges of Sussex county.
John Atavio, with an honorable dis
charge from the Italian army. with
which he saw much active service, has
returned to his home in Wilmington.
While examining a revolver found i'll
his home near Seaford, Frank Fletcher,
a farmland, was shot through the
stomach and is not expected to recover.
River pirates are busy along the
Christiana and Brandywine Rivers, at
Wilmington, many launches and boat
houses having been stripped of valuables.
By combined action of the Kent Coun-
ty and Sussex County Levy Courts a
bridge over Mispillion River between
the two counties will be erected at Mil
ford.
Rev. R. C. Jenkins, pastor of Bethel
Presbyterian Church for a number of
years, has resigned, to take effect Oc-
tober Is, to accept call to Sparrows
Point
The Maryland soldiers, including Com
pany E, of Elkton, will within the next
two weeks be sent home from Eagle
Pass, Tex, according to word received
Tuesday.
West Brandywine Grange has for
warded resolutions to the Levy Court
urging the rebuilding of the Concord
turnpike from Wilmington to Blue Ball
with concrete.
Daniel Ferry, a telephone lineman, of
Elkton, while using an axe on top Of
pole, missed his mark one day recently,
and struck himself in the face infiicting
painful injury.
Because the Homecoming and Chau-
tauqua in Georgetown has not been fl
nancially as successful az last year,
citizens are discouraging plans to hold
it again next year.
Mrs. H. L Ray, of Salunga, Pa, has
asked the Wilmington police to locate
her husband, who has been missing sew
eral weeks, and who she says, worked
in the powder plants in Wilmington.
Louder N. Hearn, member of town
council, of Milford, has been elected
mayor to succeed Winter Moore, who
last year rendered his resignation Mr.
Hearn is one of the holdover members
of council.
Frank Stout, special agent in non
support cases coming before the City
Court in Wilmington. has collected
$102, 777.80 from recreant husbands
since the present non-support law be-
came effective.
L. T. Pudvan, Paul Robertson, P. E.
Soden and John Mclaughlin, four of
the 10 men burned in the fare-up at the
Carney's Point powder works last Fri
day night, are in critical condition in
the Delaware Hospital.
, The annual convention of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association met
at Philadelphia, with large attend
. ance of delegates, including many
Marylanders. The deepening of the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is one
of the projects of the Association.
The work of frescoing and painting
the interior of the Elkton Catholic
Church is about completed and the
: church will be reopened with special
, services on Sunday, September "a,
when several visiting clergymen will