Evening journal., 1917-05-21
news HAPPENINGS
ABOUT NEW Castle
"Clean-Up" Week Now Past,
Will be Long Re-
membered
NEW FLOORS IN
NAZARETH CHURCH

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL |
NEW CASTLE. May 21.-"Clean-up
Week. which ended Saturday, was
one OF the greatest events of the kind
ever held here Cooperation on the
part OF the townspeople generally
made the movement a successful one,
and IL can be said that New Castle
has not been so clean as it is now
I'm sometime. There vet remain the
streets to be flushed, and when this is
done the cleaning up campaign can
be said TO be finished. Although il
is expected now that the yards have
been freed OF the winters accumula-
ton of rubbish that they will be kept
neat and tidy. In this way the Board
I or Health hopes to avoid any cpl
denies this summer, especially infan-
/ tile paralysis.
! Secretary Fleming, OF the Board OF
! Education. announces that the public
| school teachers have made applica-
/ ton for the same positions they are
now holding for next year. This has
been done in accordance with a reso-
luton adopted by the Board TO en-
able the members Of the committee
on teachers TO know who can be de-
pended upon for next year before it IS
too late to secure others to take the
places Of any who might not care
10 come back and have them on hand
for the opening OF the fall term
Members OF the Middletown Cen
Stury Club will be guests OF the local
CLUB next Friday when Reciprocity
Day" will be observed. A delegation
from the New Castle Century Club
visited the Middletown club. one az
ternoon recently and were pleasantly
entertained and the Middletown wo-
men will return the visit
Work on the new hardwood floors
being laid in Nazareth NJ Il. Church
. is progressing nicely and the work
men will soon be through The new
, floors will prove a great addition GO
, the church building The money Ia
pay for the Improvement will be
, raised through the efforts of the Dor.
, cas- Society. This sOciety's next money
raising event is a strawberry festi
val to be held a week from Friday
night
The members OF Troop No. I, 30,
Scouts. have postponed the opening
OF their campaign TO raise money Il
purchase equipment. which was Il
have started today. for one week
Friends OF the New Castle Baseball
Club are requested to remember thei
festival and entertainment in IN
Armory Thursday and Friday night
4 this week. Tickets are on sale an
+ are going rapidly. Because OF IN
&, baseball clubs affairs coming @
:, Thursday and Friday nights, the fe
II tival of the Mems Club Of the Pre-
byterian Church will be held We
nesday evening instead OF Thursdi
)f evening so that there will be no col
ID hict in dates.
n Since Mayor Cavenders election
h Office he has handled seventy fly
cases OF drunkenness and disorder
i conduct and imposed substantial fine
II or committed the defendants TO III
workhouse. Warden Cross, of n
a workhouse, remarked one day la.
week that Mayor Lavender had thS
day committed to his care a large
number Of prisoners than had Judg
3 Churchman, of the Municipal Coul
IS I'm Wilmington.
h Adiutant and Mrs. Lewis Bosse. {
~ the wilmington IoSif huluulttl5 Z
It America, accompanied by number {
I. workers. will hold an open air NEE
10 ing in the neighborhood OF Sixth an
Clymer streets. New Castle. this ever
ing. The public Is invited to attenl
Funeral services for Charles II. Racin
II who died Thursday. aged GO years, wei
IS held yesterday afternoon at his HON
Is near Porters, at 2.3O o'clock. IntermeI
ID was made in St. Georges cemetery, 5
n Georges.
y. Members Of Industry Council, Jr. o.