Middletown transcript., 1916-05-13
STATE AND PENINSULA

To guard against smallpox, George
town offers free vaccination.
John D. Brown, of Elkton, has beel
appointed Deputy Register for Cecil Go
Councilman Harry Rose, of Delaware
City, shot dog believed to have beer
mad.
Kent County Commissioners have ap'
pointed DR.. George Jones, of Galena,
county health officer.
Dover Chautaugua will be beld on the
campus of Wilmington Conference
Academy, June 8-15.
Miss Frances Smith, of Dover, has
recovered $500 in a Philadelphia dam
age suit for injuries.
Milford Council has notified owners of
dogs that all must be tagged and Ii
censed or they will be killed.
The first log raft of the season passed
out of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal for Philadelphia, Thursday.
The Newark Sewer Commission
opened bids yesterday for building a
$4,000 addition to its sewer system.
The Camden Camp Association held its
annual meeting on Thursday, and de-
cided to hold camp meeting this year
July 1924.
Chief Justice Pennewill has consented
to deliver the address at the dedication
of the new public buildings in Whining
ton, May 9th.
The State Board of Education has set
Wednesday, May II, as Educational
Rally Day for the schools of Cecil
county, in Elkton.
To avert a collision of automobiles,
Harry C. Layton, of Bridgeville, ran
his new machine into the curb and de-
molished the front.
Charged with carrying concealed
deadly weapons, James Chandler, of
Chesapeake City, is in Elkton jail,
awaiting hearing.
Convicted of the embezzIement of $2
from his employers IN Wilmington,
Hugh Smith was sentenced to five
months imprisonment.
Child Labor Inspector Grantland has
arranged with DIR. H. S. Whitaker to
issue physical child labor certificates in
his office in Wilmington.
The census recently taken by the
police shows that the city of Wilmington
now has a population of 1O6, 738, a gain
of 81 per cent. since 1910.
Vesper Glee Club, of Georgetown,
raised about $50 towards producing
better music for Georgetown, by giving
a minstrel show and musicale.
Plans are being made for the erection
of a parsonage for the M E. Church, in
Delmar, to cost about $5, 900. The
present parsonage will be sold.
Philemma Chandler, of Claymont,
former County Comptroller, was 88
years old Tuesday and is in excellent
health despite his advanced years.
Professor H. H. Seay, graduate of
Columbia University, has been elected
instructor in Science and Economics at
Washington College, Chestertown.
The annual convention of the Della
ware Episcopal Diocese began Tuesday
in st. Paul's Church at Georgetown.
when Bishop Kinsman delivered his an
nual address and sermon.
Another citizens meeting at Reho-
both Beach, Saturday night, engaged
R. c. White and ]. M. Richardson to
legally fight the location of the new
bridge across the Government canal.
Thomas Evans, president of the
Merchant & Evans Company, of Phila-
delphia, addressed the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce MONDAY luncheon
on Industrial Phases of Prepared
ness"
Rev. F. X. Baylis, of Georgetown,
and Rev. j. H. Straughan and John H.
Elliott, of Laurel, have left for Zanes.
vile, o., to attend the General Confer
ence of the Methodist Protestant
Church.
The Hotel Windsor at ..ehobotb
Beach, was sold at sheriff's sale on
mortgage proceeding instituted by D. C.
Townsend, of Georgetown, who to pro-
tect his mortgage, was compelled to
buy it in.
Reaching into his hip pocket fer ;
some change while in Wilmington.
Vaughn Thomas, of Mount Pleasant,
was shot through the hand and in the
hip when revolver he carried was ac-
cidently discharged.
William Snyder, Georgetown, is still
with fractured skull, and ,
Fred Magee was badly bruised and cut
when the two of them struck brick in
the road while riding a motorcycle and
plunged into a telegraph pole.
Milton New Century Club has elected .
Mrs. W. W. Conwell, president; Mrs. i
c. G. NAPLES and Mrs. Thomas Cutter,
vice presidents; Mrs. William Wagamon
and Miss Mabel Draper, secretaries,
and Mrs. Joseph Lank, treasurer.