Middletown transcript., 1916-04-08
STATE AND PENINSULA

During March 225 marriage licenses
were issued at the Cecil County Court
House, an increase of SO over March,
1915.
Miss Maybelle Danuser, of Dodge,
Wis, has accepted the office of exten-
sion secretary of the Wilmington Y w.
CA.
A call has been issued by the Repub-
licans of Cecil county, Md, to meet in
Elkton to organize France Campaign
Club.
Revivals that have been in progress
in Millsboro M. R Church for four
weeks, closed with sixty three conver-
sions.
Delaware College opened its baseball
season on Saturday, April 9Th, with
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at
home.
The Maryland Legislature has ap-
proved $38, 500 to nelp rebuild William
Smith Hall, of Chestertown, which was
burned.
State Detective, F. B. Murphy Sc
cured from Bowers Beach rock fish
which tipped the scales at pounds and
Is ounces.
L. L Murrel, of Michigan, has been
appointed agricultural agent for Kent
county and will enter upon his duties
tomorrow.
The Sussex Packing Company, C. A.
Hastings, c.. W. Riggin and P. E.
Wooten, have leased the Stradley can
merry at Laurel.
z The Tri-County W. C. T. U. has ar
ranged for meetings in the counties of
the Eastern Shore during the week
from April IA to 19.
j. A. Hopkins, of Newark, has been
elected editor in chief of the Delaware
Farmer" a monthly publication issued
BY the agricultural students of Delaware
College.
The Holstein-F -Fresian Breeders Club
of Maryland has offered prize of $1OO
to the breeder making the best seven
day butter-fat record between now and
November Is.
A six weeks evangelistic campaign
will be open at Carney's Point among
the powder workers next Sunday under
= the direction of H. L. Stevens, an
evangelist of Nyact, N. Y.
Hon. Thomas S. Miller, for many
years judge of the Orphans Court of
Cecil County, died Saturday morning
at his home near Union, after long
illness, aged seventy-fve years.
Wilmer Ford, employed at Dover
Garage, had three teeth loosened and a
cash cut in his lip that required two
stitches to close it when the crank of an
automobile slipped out of his hand
Burglars broke into the Attorney
Generals office in the Wilmington
Courthouse and stole $28, two watches
and many other articles that were to
have been used as evidence in various
cases.
Crossing watchmen of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad will soon hold aloft red
disk with the word ''Stop" in white
letters instead of the white flag they
have heretofore waved, the road having
adopted this change of its system.
The following jury commissions have
been appointed for the coming year:
New Castle County, Sylvester D.
Townsend and Frederick Brady; Kent,
John W. Herring and John c. Hopkins;
Sussex, William B. Truitt and Charles
H. Maull.
Linemen of the Postal Telegraph
Company, have finished an inspection
of poles in Seaford and have marked
those that are to be replaced by new
ones. The line to be erected in the
spring will be practically a new one in
Sussex county.
At the meeting of the Farmers and
Dairymen's Association of Cecil County,
to be held at Elkton Saturday evening
at eight o'clock. at the Court House,
the subject of discussion will be
Lime" and the discussion will be led
by County Agent, G. F. Marsh.
The Maryland Legislature, which ad
journed early Tuesday morning, failed
to pass the Williams bill correcting the
present marriage law in that State, and
for the next two years Elkton will con-
tinue as haven for runaways and
elopers to seek place for quick and
easy marriage ceremony.
On going to his barn to feed his horse
Sunday morning, William Butts, Of
Seaford, noticed the horse was very
quiet. Upon Investigating he found
that the animal was swinging on a |
heavy rope halter by which it was kept
fastened in the stall and was dead. It
Is supposed the animal hanged itself, an
unusual happening.
Many dealers are travelling through
the country buying all the old rags and
paper they can secure. The appeal re-
Gently issued by the Department of |
Commerce, in which the secretary