Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23
STATE AND PENINSULA

A star mail route will be put on be-
tween Milton and Glendale on July 1st
for four years.
To bring Delaware's militia to war
strength every member has pledged
himself to bring in at least one recruit.
The Elkton fremen have selected
July 16 to q as the time for holding
their annual carnival In Edison Summer
Garden.
Robert Houston Pepper, Of George
town, who graduated from Delaware
College Wednesday, took two prizes OF
$25 each.
The Independence Day celebration in
Seaford will be in charge of the Red
Cross and all the money realized will g.
to the work.
Although he will not assume Office
until July 1, Mayor-elect, John w. Law
son, of Wilmington, was sworn in by
Judge Churchman.
Never in the history of Dover has
there been such an epidemic of measles
as now prevails there. Fully $50 cases
have been reported.
The 135th annual commencement ex-
ercises at Washington College, took
place Thursday, when a class of fifteen
graduates were awarded diplomas.
A Wilmington street car which jumped
the track ran up on the side walk and
demolished the bulk window Of store,
but none of the passengers were hurt.
Within "a hours after receiving the
request for them, the military relief of
the Delaware Red Cross had completed
in every detail 500 comfort bags for the
Navy department.
The Board of County Commissioners
for Kent county, Md, has fixed the tax
rate for the year at $1.44 on the 500,
VIII CHI is an increase of cents in the
rate over last year.
Wilbur W. Marmaduke, of Whining
ton, has received word that his son is in
base hospital in France, recovering
from wounds sustained while fighting
with the English forces.
The Wilmington Juvenile Court Asso-
citation has asked the Levy Court to in
crease the allowance for the mainten-
ance Of each inmate of the detention
house from 40 to As cents a day.
The boat line from Cape May and
Lewes to Philadelphia has been discon-
tinued and the steamer which made the
trips has been transformed into float
ing hotel for munition workers at Ches-
ter, Pa.
Talbot, Caroline Dorchester, Wico-
mlco, Somerset and Worcester counties,
Maryland. owing to law recently en-.
acted. will have fewer camp-meetings
and bush meetings for negroes this
year than heretofore.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., is CO.
operating with Delaware pea factories
in the labor situation The company
has agreed to let its laborers off during
the term for which the factories run
and take them back later.
City Council in special session last
evening set the tax rate for the ensuing
year at $1.30 The budget, barring ex-
ira ordinary or extra expenses, will
amount to nearly $29, 900 and the sum
now on the books of the collector is
$29,468.
Miss Mary A. Craig, of Bridgeport,
Conn, and Misses Mary ]. Rossell, Mar
garet NJ. Daley, Frances S. Peach,
Madeline D. Smith and Mary G. Dona-
hue, of Wilmington, were graduated
from the Ursuline Academy in Will
mington.
The Maryland Legislature is now
meeting in special session to make ar
rangement for helping in the war.
Delaware's Legislature left this matter
in the hands of the governor, with am
pie arrangements for meeting legiti-
mate costs.
DIR. William C. Speakman, of Will
mington, who has served two enlist
ments with the American Ambulance
in France, has been commissioned a
first lieutenant in the Medical Officers
Reserve Corps, Dental section of the
American Army.
The camp-meeting season in Sussex
county opens the latter part of next
month and will close sometime in Sep
TENDER. Camp-meetings in Sussex are
not as numerous as in days past, owing
to the fact that so many small water
ing places are drawing the people.
The largest boat ever built on the
Eastern Shore is now receiving its fin
ishing touches at the yards of the
Bethel Marine Railway. 1t is three
mast barge and when completed will
cost approximately $4,000 1t is ex-
pected to be ready to launch by July 18th.
Henry B. Thompson, of Wilmington,
was reelected president Of the board of