Middletown transcript., 1917-04-28

vacant space on top of the Hotel DUPONT
will be built for the Wilmington City
Club.
A banquet attended by 500 members
feaured tthe fiftieth anniversary celebra-
ton of Eureka Lodge of Masons, Will
mington.
Owing to lack Of orders on account
of the war the glove factory at Green's
boro has suspended operations for a
short time.
DR. Howard Bratton, secretary of
Union Hospital, Elkton, reports that
the institution now has an endowment
fund amounting to $55, 200.
A cargo of 10000 shark skins which
will be used instead of leather in the
manufacture of shoes arrived in New
York on Monday from Cuba.
Wilmington Council will be asked to
allow the Board of Education o43l, 104.
25 to provide adequate school facilities
for the fiscal year beginning July l.
The New Castle County Levy Court
has elected Thomas Parker constable in
Wilmington Hundred, and John F. Say
ton constable in Christiana Hundred.
Wilmington police are trying to cap
ture a 'Peeping Tom" who, armed
with a pocket searchlight, has been an
moving women on the west side of town.
Major Richard Sylvester, chief of the
dupont Powder Company's police, has
been appointed by Attorney General
Gregory an agent Of the Department of
Justice.
Charles H. Brown was presented with
a gold-headed cane on his SEVENTEEN
birthday by fellow employees of the e.
W. Baker Machine Company, in Will
mington.
The Russian provisional government
has decided to place contract IN the
United States for 10000 railway cars
and 1000 locomotives, to be delivered
by July, 1918.
One hundred members of the Elkton
Lodge of Masons enjoyed shad dinner
Tuesday evening given in Gilpin's Hall
by the graduating class of the Elkton
High School.
The Harlan & Hollingsworth Corpora
ton has obtained a permit to build an
athletic field for its employees on the
site of the old baseball park in South
Wilmington.
CAPTAIN John P. LeFevre, of Co. G.,
Organized Militia, residing in Dover,
has been appointed to enroll the Home
guards to be composed of men between
the ages of As and 55 years.
Because of one death at New Castle
from typhoid fever and another case
two doors away, the Board of Health
has sent samples of drinking water to
Delaware College for analysis.
Due to the discharge of men with de-
pendents from the military service,
about 40 prlvates and corporals in the
First Battalion, Delaware Militia, now
under arms, have been promoted.
The United States Government will
build one thousand wooden ships at a
cost of 1925, 900. 900, with which to
smash the German submarine blockade
and save our allies from starvation.
The steamer Carmania, owned by the
PHILADELPHIA & Baltimore Steamboat
Company, was taken to Baltimore yes
terday, to be repainted preparatory to
resuming daily trips between Elkton
and Betterton.
The Summer School at Newark which
has undergone many important changes
from last year will open June 25. DR..
Counts, Director of Sessions has worked
out plans whereby the school will branch
out into wider fields of usefulness.
All postmasters of the second, third
and fourth class are empowered to CO.
operate with recruiting officers in seek
ing young men for the army, navy ano
marine service. For each recruit they
secure they will be paid five dollars.
At elections held Tuesday in various
cities and towns in the state OF Illinois,
l42 more saloons were voted out OF busl-
ness. The largest city to enter the dry
column was Danville, with 10000 popu
lation. where 68 saloons will close May l.
Rev DR.. John M. Gill, who was elected
President of the Maryland Conference
of the Methodist Protestant Church.
after Rev. George w. Haddaway hae
declined the honor, has also resigned
Rev. Luther Warner, of Salisbury, ha:
been elected to the position.
The Jessup and Noore Paper Company
sprung another surprise on their EN-
ployes at their paper and pulp works
in Elkuon when they advanced their mer
an increase of twenty per cent. IL
wages, making the fourth increase
handed the men within year.
The eighth annual report of Secre
tary, DR.. Howard Bratton, of the Unior
Hospital, of Cecil county, located a
Elkton, shows the total number of ad
missions in 1916 to have been 1893, which
is the largest number since the estab
liahuant of tho hosnital EYclusiua n1