Middletown transcript., 1917-01-13

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! tic Light Company
The Levy Court received $470 from
! the sac of the furniture in the old Y H.
/ mington Court House
The new bleach mill erected in Elk
ton by the Jessup & soore Paper Com
pany began operations Tuesday.
Laurel girls have organized brass
! band, with Miss Anna Studley president
and Charles Robinson instructor.
The deposits of tie Sussex Trust
Company at the Lewes branch on the
last day of the year 1916 were S423, l60
The clerks in the Elkton postofiice
Tuesday received mott :es of their
salaries being increased by the govern
ment.
After Lewes hfs been Wi hort hotel
accommodations for several months,
Arthur Lynch has leased the Rodney
House.
Governor elect, John G Townsend,
will be inaugurated Governor Of the
i State at Dover, on Tuesday, January
16, 1917.
. To save the expense Of hiring auto
mobiles to inspect roads and bridges,
the Sussex County Commissioners will
! purchase car
/ The deadlock in the Senate is no near
er solution at the end of full week
of the General Assembly than it was on
| the first day of the session.
Frank l.. Day, Of Georgetown, has
announced himself a candidate for the
position Of inspector of weights and
measures for Sussex county.
DR.. Vincent NJ Myers. Wilmington
city physician for three years, has pre-
sented his resignation to the Board Of
Health, to take effect February |.
The Kent county Jury Commissioners
Yesterday drew the Grand Jury for the
year and the petit jury for the Febru ary
term of the Court of General Sessions.
Stockholders of the First National
Bank Of Dover elected William E. Ma
loney director TO fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of A. B Richard
son.
Senator elect JOSIAH 0. Wolcott, was
the principal speaker at the seni-annuaI
reception of the Senior class of the Will
mington High chool at the Hotel du-
Pont, Thursday night
The annual dinner of the Alumni Of
Delaware College viii be held in tie
City Club on the evening of February
%. J. Pierce Cam is treasurer Of the
committee Of arrangements
The E. l. DUPONT de Nemours & Com
pany has made an offer for the purchase
Brothers & Co., Inc, manufacturers Of
pants, pigments and chemicals.
Automobiles killed 729 persons last
year on the streets and highways Of
New York State, including New Y ork
City, as compared with 963 in 1915, ac-
cording to the report just issued.
L. Morton Philips, of Cambridge,
teller of the Eastern Shore Trust Com
pamy, has been elected cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants National
Bank, to succeed James M Robertson
who has been cashier since the bank
was organized in 1901.
That there is no prospects of the
Delaware militiamen at Deming, N W.,
coming home in the near future is the
substance Of statement made bv
Senator Salisbury, who took up with
Adjutant General s'cCain at Washing
ton the question as to when Delaware
might expect the return of it's troops
Former members of the Delaware
Fire Company whose likenesses are now
framed on the walls of the meeting
room must have looked down on the
members OF the present company with
little bit of envy Sunday evening if
they could see them enjoying their bar
quet in honor Of the 9Sth anniversary Of
the founding of the company.
The Kent County Electric Company,
who have purchased the entire holdings
, OF the Phoenix Light and Power Co., !,
although handicapped by storms and
cold weather, have completed the erec-
. ton of temporary electric plant at the
Fleming Milling Co.'S Mill on Weiner
| avenue, which will take care of the
Harrington service until they erect
their large power plant.
! At the semi-annual meeting of Sea
: ford Volunteer Department, officers
We're elected as follows: President, Will
f liam II. Miller; vice-president, DR.. Har-
rlson NJ. Manning; secretary, John F.
Herrant; treasurer, Isidore Stepheny.
Robert H. Gordy was again chosen
chief of the department. The depart
8 ment reported that several hundred feet
5 of new hose had been purchased, and
t that the general condition of the equip
r ment was much better than last year.
Ella Del Savage of Wilmington the