Middletown transcript., 1917-09-15
STATE AND PENINULA

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William H. Biddle, of Elk ton, has been
appointed special officer for the Penn
svlyania Railroad.
The County Commissioners have Or
dered the purchase of another automo
nile for the road engineers.
The public schools in Cecil county,
Md, re-opened yesterday, with over
1000 pupils in attendance.
The School Board for Kent county Md.
postponed the opening Of the schools un-
til next Monday, September ".
The burning Of six canning plants in
Delaware may be only another illustra
ton Of the long arm of coincidence.
The Wilmington Y. w. C. A. has rails
ed about $4,000 for the War Work
Council of the National Y W. c. A.
A narrow-guage railroad is being
built from Milford to the site of the
new Government fort at Cedar Beach.
During the month of August there
were 4O5 marriage licenses issued at the
office of the Clerk of the Court in Elk
ton.
With material high in price, the Lau-
rel Board of Education will postpone
the erection of the new S35, 600 public
achool.
Miss Reba Whalen, of Elliott City, Md.
and Miss Helen Talman, of Milford, have
become teachers in the Newark High
School.
Residents of South Wilmington held
an Indignation meeting to protest against
the noise from the Wimingt ton Steel
Company's plant.
Officials of the Harlan and HOllings-
worth Corporation stated that none OF
its 1000 employees who are on strike has
returned to work.
Deputy Recorder of Deeds John NJ.
Wilson, who has been at Denver for a
month, has returned to New Castle great
" improved in health.
DR.. John A. Flood, of Wilmington,
has been called to service with the Ma
tional Army as dental surgeon, with
rank of first lieutenant.
Members of Company E and the Ma
chine Gun Company of the Delaware Re-
giment were given farewell reception
by Mayor Frazer at his Newark home.
Max Rubin, who is in charge of a con-
cession at the Delaware Sac Fair, WIS
held in $1,000 bail for the Grand Jury or
the charge Of conducting a game Of
chance.
The Commissioners of Cecil County
Md, have appropriated $4,000 for al
improved road from Town Point Whar
to Cayot's Corner, in the Second Dis
trict.
From l6 IL acres of ground, Uri
Conner, farmer Of Back Creek Neck
has threshed an average of 81 bushel
of wheat per acre. The variety wa
Leaps Prolific.
During the absence Of States Attor
ney Charles B. Finley, who is Major o
the First Maryland Regiment, Joshu
CLAYTON, ESQ.,, of Elkton, will be the act
ing States Attorney.
Five mass meetings held in as man
different churches were held in Whining
ton as the opening cf the campaign
the dry element to win the licens
election next November.
Adjutant Harlan johnson and Sci
geant Calvin Fox, who left Elkton i
Major Finley's automobile for Cam
Mcclellan, Admission. Ala, h ave arri
ed, taking six days for the trip.
Word has been received bv LaPenr
Guenveur, the Rhodes scholar-elect fl
1917, that, because of the abnorm
conditions at Oxford, his scholarsh
has been extended until after the wa
Because of objections filed by the Rol
bins Hose Company of Dover, which
to hold carnival beginning Septemb'
II, Mayor Arley B. Magee refused
grant town license to permit the l.
tena Circus to exhibit at that place.
The Lewes Fisheries boats last wee
brought in 200 barrels of fine Spani:
mackerel, most Of which were shippe
to city markets. At Lewes the fish so
as low as ten cents each, while in Geore
town twenty-five cents was asked f
them.
Walter F. Keith, formerly of Dove
who has been engaged in the ice crea
and confectionery business in Smyr
for the past eighteen years, has Sc
out to Harry Sherwood Mr.. Kei
will devote his entire attention to t
automobile and garage business of
F. Keith & Son.
The New Castle County, DEL. LIE