Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
STATE AND PENINSULA

tions of the county.
Rebuilding of the burned business sec
tion of Selbyville has been begun.
A Loyal Temperance Legion Of 95
members has been organized at Dover.
Heart strings are stronger than the
pull of the dollar and they mean much
more.
Delaware Lodge, N. l, l. o. o. F, of
Wilmington, cleared more than $1lOO by
a fair.
A gold watch, 5000 diamond ring and
$100 in cash were stolen from the Della
ware Hospital.
A good thermometer says cne thing
to day and another tomorrow, and yet
always tells the truth.
Building prospects are very bright t
Rehoboth Beach. Several new cottages
are now under construction.
William B. Megear, formerly of
Smyrna, has been elected president of
the Chamber of Commerce in Whining
ton.
1t is expected that the Wilmington
M. E. Conference will be Held in the
Lyon Tabernacle in Wilmington, next
month.
Over $2OO,O for Billy Sun lay in six
campaigns with the possibility that the
seventh, which is Baltimore, will in
crease it to half million.
The dupont Boulevard people are
making great progress by procuring
rights of way by buying farms, and
have the way clear now to Lincoln.
Hicks says warmer weather the first
few days of March will bring general
rains turning TO snow and sleet and
turning to blizzards about the 5th and
9th.
The Wilmington police have made 800
arrests this month, which is far ahe4d
of all previous records, the increase
being due to the arrests for violation of
the snow ordinance.
The residents of Bowers Beach are
raising funds to build community hall
or the use of meetings and large gath
erings. Alex Minner will furnish site
for the hall at small rental.
Monday last the Robbins Hose Com
pany of Dover nominated the following
officers: Chiefs Herman E. Lynch az d
Robert D. Simmons; First Assistant,
Jessop Kay; Second Assistant, Charles
Pi rson.
Trustees Of the poor, in caucus t
the New Castle County Hospital, Farm
hurst, unanimously nominated the pre-
sent officers of the board and the hospi
tai departments, and they were elected
this week.
The Delaware College orchest ra wi
5ive its annual concert in the New Cen
tury Club, Wilmington, on the evening
of March 4, assisted by Miss Frances De
Witt, Dover soprano of remarkable
ability and great popularity.
The work is now in full operation at
the hosiery mill at Elkton. Quite
number of girls are taking the work up
4pid y and as soon as they become en-
rely competent, new machinery will
be enrolled, and the industry largely ex-
panded
The annual meeting of the Delaware
Branch of National Mothers Congress
was held at Harrington. Reports were
read from Parent-teacher associations
and an address was delivered by Mrs.
Augustus Henry Reeve, of Moores-
town, N. ].
Lying face down in a ditch, short
distance from the P. B. and w. railroad
station, in Newark was found the body
of John O'Rouke, aged about go years.
He was seen late Tuesday night in that
vicinity and is supposed to have fallen in
the ditch, where there was but little
water, and was either drowned or died
from exposure.
The ffty-ffth anniversary of the
Presbyterian Sunday-school, at Milford,
was celebrated Tuesday. The Sunday
school was founded in 1861 by Mrs. An
geline Marshall, mother of the late DR..
George W. Marshall, and it was largely
through her efforts that the school
grew rapidly. Mrs. Marshall is still
living, and is enjoying the best of
health.
On Saturday afternoon the Grand
Lodge of Delaware, A. F. & A. M,
laid the cornerstone of the new federal
building at Smyrna with impressive
ceremony. The grand lodge journeyed
to Smyrna shortly before noon, and
after opening its session in the lodge
rooms of Harmony Lodge, No. 13, A.
F. & A. NJ, proceeded to the site OF II e
building.
Among 1OO,OOO.OOO persons living in
the United States, 99,375,271 or two
out of every five, in round numbers,
are members of some religious body,
according to the Year Book issued by
the Federal Council OF Churches on
Christ of America. The Rev. DR.. H.
K. Carroll, the census expert, who CO.
operated in the compilation, estimates
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