Middletown transcript., 1916-07-22


Court will inspect the Sussex almshouse
on Tuesday, August l.
Work of oiling the State roads in
Kent and Cecil counties. has been COM
pleted by the contractors.
Miss Elva Dean, of Elkton, has been
appointed superintendent of the hospi-
tai at Gainorsville, Georgia
The new railroad drawbridge over the
canal at Rehoboth is nearly completed
and trains are running over it daily.
Saturday, July Is, marked the COM
pletion of the twenty-mie stretch Of the
dupont road from Georgetown to Selby
vile.
Edward C. Daily, of Hartley. has an
nounced himself a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Representa-
tive.
The Maryland State Teachers Asso-
citation has elected Professor Sydney S.
Handy, of St. johns College, Annapo-
lis, president.
Former Governor Phillip Lee Colds
borough, Of Cambridge, has been
elected president of the National Union
Bank, Baltimore.
! Charles Cook was rescued from drown
ing in the Christiana River by fellow
workmen when he fell from the new
Third street bridge at Wilmington.
The state judiciary met in the Su-
preme Court room at Dover comforting
: in cases in which decision are to be
handed down in the next session of
court in January.
When the province Of Ontario goes
! dry September Is, by act of the pro-
vinciaI legislature. Toronto, with 4OO,-
900 population, will be the largest dry
i city in the world
Raymond Cummins, son of Postmaster
and Mrs. A. Lee Cummins, of Smyrna,
passed the State Board for the practice
of optometry last week. He intends
continuing his studies.
Edgar Smith, Joseph Went and
Samuel Cross, small boys who escaped
from the Ferris Industrial School
several days ago, were captured by the
Wilmington police and returned.
The Democratic State Committee
meeting in Dover Tuesday, fixed Tues
day, September 5, for the State con-
vention to nominate Presidential cleo
tors, Governor, Congressman, United
! States Senator and State officers.
Because of the many complaints the
Wilmington Board of Health has decid-
ed to engage a team and collect gar
bage, and charge the Wilmington San
itary Company 50 cents for each such
collection, the cost to be deducted from
the contract price.
The Del-Mar-Via Press Association
met in semi-annual session at Dover,
Monday, Thomas F. Dunn, Of Dover,
presiding. The membership, made up
of newspaper publishers and editors of
Delawar and the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland, was only fairly well repre-
sented.
For many years it has been the aim
of w. H. Davis, Of South Milford to
/ market sweet corn grown from his lots
at the south side of Milford, on or be-
fore July a. This year he made his
first delivery to the people of Milford on
the morning of the Fourth, of buggy
load of we'll filled sweet corn.
The largest donation ever contributed
to the police pension fund by one per-
son has just been received by Traffic
Officer John Ward The amount was
5000 and the donor Pierre S. dupont
Last year dupont contributed $500 to
the fund and this year he told Officer
Ward he would again contribute be-
cause he believed the-cause worthy
one, but he gave no hint as to the size
of his cheek.
In an effort to learn why fruit from
Sussex county is sometimes on the rail
road trains for two days in the short
90-mile haul to Wilmington or Philadel-
phia, trade organizations and fruit
brokers and growers will meet il
Georgetown this month. The Laure
Board of Trade has already taken uE
the matter and has issued invitations
to the citizens of other towns to NEE
and arrange for concerted protest.
Announcement was made by H. Rod
ney Sharp, chairman of the development
committee of the board of trustees o.
Delaware College, Monday morning O.
an additional gift of 100000 to thu
college. This brings the total gifts It,
the college and practically all from al
, unnamed donor to $1,COO,O 600, in rounC
n figures, within a year. Mr.. Sharp ha
e notified DR.. Samuel C. Mitchell, presi
: dent of the college, of the additiona
: gift. which is to be used to carry ou
e some work that has already beel
d planned.
n ESTATE OF GEORGE W. PETER
= SON, Deceased. Notice is hereb