Middletown transcript., 1916-08-05
STATE AND PENINSULA

During the month of July the Clerk
of the Court for Cecil county, at Elkton,
issued 335 marriage licenses.
The Campfire Girls of Bridgeville,
Denton, Esston and Greensboro, are
camping at Rehoboth Beach.
The appointment of Mrs. William c.
Lofand, postmaster of Lewes, is the
first instance of a woman holding that
position.
The executive committee of the Mary
land Agricultural Society has decided
to hold the Maryland week exhibit this
year November IA to IS.
According to figures complied by City
Tax Collectors Rice and Dolan, the total
amount received in taxes in Whining
ton during July is $461, 200.
The Democratic League has unani-
mously indorsed the candidacy OF
Thomas F. Bayard for the nomination
for United States Senator.
William ]. Highfeld, city treasurer,
has received a check for $l66 from Fire
Chief Patrick j. Golden for fees col
lected in examining fire-escapes.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
has been filed in the United States Dis
trict Court in Wilmington, alleging that
Louis H. Levy, of Seaford, is insolvent.
Frank L. Connable, an official of the
DUPONT Powder Company, presented
Traffic Officer Ward with a check for
$50 for the Wilmington police pension
fund.
H. P Rumford, treasurer of the Cen
tral National Bank in Wilmington, will
observe the fifty-frst anniversary of
his entrance into the banking business
next Thursday.
Four or five graduates of the New
Castle High School, now students at
the summer school at Newark College.
have received good appointments to
teach in the State.
DR.. W. Owen Sypherd, professor of
English at Delaware College, has de-
clined call to become head of the De-
partment of English at Carnegie Insti
tute of Technology, Pittsburg.
DIR. Caleb r. Layton. former Republi
can leader in Sussex county, has taken
the active lead of the Alfred |. dupont
factionaI fight against the organization;
and will combine with Frank Alice, of
hent county.
The body found floating in the Della
ware, near Wilmington, has been identi-
fed as that of Galtivzy Jackinowitz,
aged Al a powderworker, of Carney's
Point, drowned while swimming at
Fenton's Beach.
Thousands of bushels of wheat and
large quantities of hay and oats have
practically been ruined by the continu-
GUS rains of the past three weeks, ac-
cording to the statements of some of |
the farmers in New Castle county.
With bullet wound in the abdomen,
the leaden pellet having punctured the
intestines in eight differeut places, MAX
ing his chances for recovery slim, Alden
B. Richardson, son of former United |
States Senator Harry A. Richardson, of |
Dover, is a patient dt the Delaware
Hospital.
Two men from Delmar, have been
put on the retired list by the Pennsyl-
vania railroad They are Samuel L.
Rogers and Greenbury S. White, the
former a clerk and the latter laborer,
both of the Delaware division. Rogers ,
had served 42 years and White SO years
with the company.
According to the records of the City |
Health Department there were 80
deaths, 35 births and marriages in !
3, Wilmington last week as compared with |
/, 80 deaths, rs births and 10 marriages
for the same period last year. During |
the past three weeks, the death toll
among infants has been heavy, which is
thought to have been due to the hot
spell.
At conference held Monday between
members of the Finance Committee of
City Council, Assistant City Solicitor
John F. Lynn and DIR. C. S. Rice, tax
collector for the Northern district, it
was decided to accept taxes due the city
from the DUPONT Powder Company on
the DUPONT Office building, hotel and
theatre, for the year 1916, amounting
to $50,
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Lynch, aged 88
years, mother of Ebe T. Lynch, of
Lewes, who was recently shot by DR..
William A. Parker, died at her home on
Arnell's avenue, last week, from worry
over her sons death. Mrs. Lynch, al
though an aged woman, had been in
good health until the death of her son
and since that time had gradually
weaked from grief.
The three Pomona Oranges of Della
ware New Castle, Kent and Sussex
have arranged for three field days, the
first at Oak Orchard, today Saturday,
August s; the second at Brandywine
Sr,rinns Monday. and the third at the