Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-04-04

Edward u. Adams within the past
two weeks made shipments from
Bridgeville of 5000 and $500 pounds
of pork, receiving for the former
$15.15 and for the latter S15.1S PEI
hundred.
The directors of the f. |. DUPONT d
Nemours & Co. and of the f. l. dupont
de Nemours Powder Company on
Wednesday reelected the officers for
the coming year. Pierre s. dupont is
President of both concerns
The permit for the erection of tie
100000 addition to the DUPONT Build
ing ard Hotel dupont in Wilmington
was issued last Tuesday. A steam
shovel which had begun work on the
cleared site on the previous Saturday
is rapidly exvacating for the founda-
tons. and construction work will soon
be in full swing.
Mrs. Emaline Collins, mother of
Cashier John S. Collins, of the First
National Bank Of Dover, died at her
home there on Thursday, aged "a
years. She fell and broke hip short
y before her death which the shock
FASTENED
Resident Judge Herbert L. Rice on
Saturday announced the appointment
of Samuel X. Smith to the Whining
ton Police Commission as successor to
w. H. Bowers, whose term expires on
May l. Mr.. Smith is treasurer of the
Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation
and has son enrolled at Delaware
College. The other members of TIE
Commission are Adjutant General Pu-
sey Wickersham and William B. Me-
gear.
Governor Harrington under author
ity conferred at the last session of the
Maryland Legislature has named DR..
Howard Bratton, Henry l.. Constable,
Frank B. Evans, w. T. Warburton
and Henry M. Mccullough, all Of Elk
ton, as the Commission on Prepared
ness and Survey for Cecil county. They
were to assume their duties on Mon
day, April 2.
The body of the suicide found on
the shore of Broad Creek near Char
lestown on March 16, and inferred in
the burial ground at the Cecil county
almshouse has been identified as that
of DR.. Franklin Tinkley, of White
Stone, Pa.
Frank J. Henry, former we'll
nkown Elktonian, residing for several
years past at Columbia, S. c., died
re on Monday of last week of heart
trouble, following a severe attack of
grip, aged 40 years.
Lieutenant Julian c. Smith, U. S.
M. c., of Elkton, a graduate of Della.
ware College, has been promoted cap
tain and was one of the officers in
charge of informed Germans trans
ferred from League Island, Philadel-
phia, to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
The Groves, formerly the James H.
/
near Bow, in Elkton, has been sold to
j. Leedom Scarborough, of Pleasant
Hill, for $500.
The Perry Point farm, fronting on
the Susquehanna river at Perryville,
long owned by the Stump family, has
been secure das camping ground for
the Maryland National Guard. The
tract comprises about 600 acres and
was put to like use by the Federal
Government during the Civil war.
Harvey l.. Walker, aged 81, of 1900
King street, Wilmington, newly en-
ployed as P, B. & w. R. R. brake
man, fell from the top of moving
car last Tuesday night His left leg
was crushed below the knee ard his
right arm was broken. The leg was
amputated at Delaware Hospital.
Brantley Shockley, aged Fl, of
Bridgeville, employed at the Viscose
Silk Mill at Marcus Hook, who de-
clined to join in the recent strike at
the plant was struck violent blow on
the head with a blackjack by one of
the strikers. He has been under
treatment since the attack and on
Friday his condition was rported cri-
teal.