Evening journal., 1917-05-28
NEWS HAPPENINGS
ABOUT NEW Castle
Veterans and MiIitiamen
Attend Church and
Hear Sermon
CITY COUNCIL
MEETS TONIGHT

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW CASTLE. May 2S.--Nazareth
NJ. L. Church was crowded yesterday
morning when was held the annual
Memorial Day service in which the
G.. A. r., the Jr. o. L. A. NJ. members
of Company H.. Delaware Militia. and
the local troop OF Boy Scouts partici-
patod. The Rev. John II. Bickford.
the pastor. preached an appropriate
Memorial Day sermon
The campaign to raise 5000 for
equipment was begun today by the
members OF Troop No. ! Boy Scouts.
This is to be known as Boy Scout
week and a big effort is to be made
TO get the necessary sum of money
together. The idea is 10 secure money
enough to purchase their equipment
for field works so as to be in readiness
for service if they are needed.
Registry at national headquarters Will
be sought
Much interest is being displayed by
the school boys over the offer of J.
Ernest Smith to award a prize OF a
SO gold piece TO the boy whose
school garden on the farm Of City
Councilman Selden s. Deemer pro-
duces the best results. The gardens
are late in getting started. but that is
due TO circumstances over which
those having the work in charge had
no control Owing TO the lateness Of
the season and the poor start many
of the truck patches around here have
gotten the school plots ought not TO
be very far behind other gardens
when harvest time draws near
City Council will have a busy time
tonight. After the meeting with the
members of the street bonding COM
mission Council will adjourn and inn
mediately reassemble as a Board OF
Health when the water project will
be taken up.
Several large wister,a trees all
abloom on the school green attract
the attention OF strangers passing
through on the trolley cars and in
automobiles Such large wisteria
trees are not common A woman who
saw them Saturday said that she
/ thought the wisteria was a vine, and
/ that at first glance she supposed the
/ vines had climbed all over several
/ dead trees on the. green.
Motorists turning Delaware street
| into Second or Second into Delaware
are expected to pass TO the proper
side of the traffic sign which has
been placed there for their guidance
The police keep a keen eye on the
1 corner and have been instructed &c
sec that all autOmobilists observe the
rules of the road when turning the
corner. In cases OF carelessness the,
have been instructed TO reprimanG
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future reference.
The Dorcas Society OF Nazareth N
T. Church will hold a strawberr
festival Friday night. On the follow
. night Saturday. the New Castle Cen
fury Club will give a similar affair a
the clubhouse.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor. nationa
lecturer OF the W. c. r. T.. sometime
referred 10 as the Georgia Cyclone.
who VIII speak in Wilmington tonight
! will be heard in the local Opera Hous
Wednesday night
Dhe Board OF Education will NEE
tomorrow night. This being the las
regular meeting before the close o
the school year. many matters o.
business will come up for considera
ton
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Jeasop, o.
Fourth street have returned from Z
weekend visit with Mrs. JessOp''
parents in North East Nd.
DR.. Lewis Booker, who recently Of
fcred his services to the government d
his capacity of a physician and sur
gcon. has received instructions to rcpor
at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. June !.
I'm view Of the fact that manufactur
crs of fireworks have made vast quaint
tics of crackers. rockets. etc. for use o.
Independence Day this wear, whic
would be of no use if they are not use
in patriotic demonstrations. it is no
likely that any proclamation agains
exploding fireworks or against an old
fashioned Fourth Of July will be issue