Middletown transcript., 1917-01-27
The Peoples Laundry at Chesterto "n
has suspended business.

fastIe that closed on Sunday evening.
Following the most prosperous year
II IFS history the Pennsylvania Railroad
has increased the wages of large num-
bar of its clerical force from to II per
cent.
In order to keep the State roads in
GOOD condition the commissioners Of
Kent county, Md, have purchased six
+oan mules from issouri to be used in
road work.
Plans to gain 5000 members for the
MARYLAND State Dairymen's Association
we're formulated last week at meeting
of the officers of the association at the
Hotel Rennert, Baltimore.
William d. Pri tt, of Elkton. for the
mast wear connected with the Baltimore
Tube Company, has received position
As assistant chemist with the Scott
Paper Company, at Chester, Pa.
Frederick Wilson, Of Pittsburgh, al
legged to have obtained money by false
pretenses from Attorney General Rein
hardt. was held in $500 bail for the
Grand Jury by Judge Churchman.
The Alumni, old students and friends
of Western Maryland College will hold
their mid-winter banquet in the Palm
room of the Hotel Emerson, Baltimore,
Nd, on Friday evening, February 9.
Charles NJ. Upham, who on Tuesday
was chosen ty the Sussex Levy Court
as the county, road engineer to succeed
Morgan L. Gum, whose term had ex-
pired, is among the best in his pro 'es-
sion.
The Board of Trustees of the Poor
and Insane for Cecil County, Md, or
ganzed on Tuesday by electing Edward
W. Taylor, president; Thomas w. War
burton, vice president, and A. L. ly-
scr secretary All three being from
Elkton.
Governor Townsend has appointed
First Sergeant Irwin duncan, of Com
pany H Of New Castle, Delaware nil
tia, now at Deming, =. NJ, to be
second lieutenant in Company H, to
succeed Lieutenant A. Y. King, who
resigned.
Simon Fisher, aged 20, one Of the
oldest employees at the Pennsylvania
Railroad shops in Wilmington, who was
TO have been retired in short time,
dropped dead from heart failure while
putting en- his overalls to start his work
yesterday.
For the purpose Of ascertaining the
condition Of the roads throughout Sus-
sex country and what materials anC
steps shall be taken for their improve
ment, County Engineer, Charles M
Upham, Of Georgetown, started on al
inspection trip Nonday morning.
I, new issue Of the one and two dollar
t;ieenbacks ef Civil War days, discon
{inGed more than thirty years age, vii
he put into circulation probably abou
February /, displacing similar unitet
States notes Of larger denomination t
provide relief from the unprecedented
r
Extensive additions are being built Il
The Newark plant of the American Vul
canized Fibre Co., which vii! lncreas
the capacity Of the mill one-third. |!
addition tn tank room is now nearing
completion twenty-five additiona
men nave been employed at the Plant
making a total Of z75 employees.
The rivers and harbors bill, whicl
was recently reported to the House 0
Representatives, at Washington, among
other things contains an appropriatio
for Mispillion river of $35, 200, to com
mence the work on the new project an
to take out the curves and bends in tn
river between Milford and the DelaWar
IaE
What promises to be the most bitterl
fought murder case heard before tn
Court Of Oyer and Terminer Of Ne
Castle county in many terms hega
Monday when Samuel iiongas wa
p!aced On trial, accused of Staying Mi:
Catherine Bodeski, with whom he wa
infatuated, at BrandyWine Spring
Park, early one morning last summer
The Newark, Del, Ne Y Century Gu
practically completed its attractive ne
clubhouse last week, and the first NEE
ing was held in it Saturday, January q
The new building is of hollow tile an
stucco. A wide pOrtico with nasslV
colonial pillars flonts the doorway. III
auditorium is 45 80 feet, with stag
Is X So feet Ii has a seating capacit
of 290. The basement has banquet hal
kitchen, cloak room and lavatores.
When the steamboat Anthony Grove
If the Ericsson Line, arrived at s
,leorges Sunday, on its trip from Phil
,ielpnia to Baltimore, an aged oolore
,nsn was found lying dead on the no,
Of the forward saloon. in the pocl:e
.gere found a ticket from Philadelph
d Baltimore and the following not
,Iook out for this man. If not sci
him back to me if yop please" Th
was signed by Theodore Cooke, No.
Wilson street, Trenton, II. J.
AT the meeting Of the Board Of Dire