Middletown transcript., 1917-05-05
STATE AND PENINSULA

sue Tor new hlgn school Saturday.
Adjutant General Wickersham has
been reelected president of the Will
mington Police Commissioners.
A sudden enforcemenkof automobile
laws in Bridgevilleslessited in dozen
autoists being fined for speeding.
Tuesday was "May Day." at the fish
ing shores in Cecil county, Md, but the
attendance was far less than in former
years.
Sussex County Commissioners have
fixed the tax rate for the year at 60
cents on the $10O, an increase Of Is
cents
Kent County Commissioners have ap-
propriated $500 for the employment of
a Red Cross nur.e for tuberculosis pa
tients.
Three hundred children attending
School No. "a, Wilmington, are the first
there to be instructed in first aid to the
injured.
The dry goods and mems furnishing
stores at New Castle will close at noon
on Thursdays, as do the meat and gro
Gerry stores.
In April the Wilmington police made
1888 arrests, the largest number on record
for any one month, 32l of them being
for drunkenness.
Plans are being made for the dedica-
ton of the new pipe organ in st.
Thomas Episcopal Church, Newark,
Sunday morning.
The number of appeals filed this year
from the assessment of real estate in
Wilmington is 19l, the smallest in the
history of the city.
The quarterly statement for three
months ending March 81, of the Her
cules Powder Company, shows net earn
ings of $l.85S, 957.93.
The postoffice at Georgetown is being
very much improved by being enlarged,
new boxes with combination locks being
put in and a new floor laid.
DR.. M. B. Holman, of Wilmington,
who volunteered his services as surgeon
for the Delaware Militia, has been CON-
missioned first lieutenant.
The annual trip of the senior class of
Georgetown High School to Washington
has been set for May 17-19, jointly with
Lewes High School graduates.
The Palace Livery Stables, garage
and warehouse of James E. Lowe Com
pany, at Salisbury, Md, were destroyed
by fire on Tuesday. Loss 1000.
Edwin Gray, colored, aged 80, who
was serving seven years in the work
house at Greenbank for manslaughter,
died in the prison hospital from paraly-
sis.
Patrolman Hillary Wallace, who has
been doing active police duty in Whining
ton more than 25 years, has been re-
tired and pensioned by the Police Com
mission.
Overdue nearly two months, word
from Horace johnson, chief engineer
of steamer to South America, is being
anxiously awaited by his family, in
Georgetown.
The Levy Court has been asked to al
low the New Castle County Hospita
$4,000 for the remainder of the fisca
wear and to make an appropriation OF
S48, 900 for next year.
MARYLAND State College in connection
with the United States Department OF
Agriculture, has selected Hurlock fol
the establishment of a summer labora-
tory for study of tomato diseases.
Mrs. Richard S. Rodney and Mrs. A.
U. Faulkner, of New Castle, conducted
tea on Thursday afternoon at tn
home Of the former in the interest O
the building fund Of Emmanuel Episco
pal Church.
Postmaster Englis h, of Wilmington
has announced that he ordered the first
sub-station on a rural mail deliver.
route in this State to be openee at Cen
treville. the office to be in charge o
Bernard Dalton.
The Wilmington Methodist Preacher
Association adopted a resolution request
ing Governor Townsend and Mayo
Price to urge President Wilson to US
his influence for the enactment OF ma
tional prohibition as a war measure.
The Labor question in Talbot County
Md. is becoming so serious that tn
farmers say it will be necessary TO
their wives and daughters and wha
women they can employ to go out Il
the fields and help plant and harves
their crops.
Employees of the Carney's Point plan
of the dupont Powder Company hav
been notified that, under the conscrip
ton bill, they will be exempt from draf
into the army or navy. Badges will b
furnished them showing that they ar
enrolled in the industrial army
America.
1t is announced that six thousan
High School boys in Chicago have be y
sent to work on farms in Illinois an
Hua thonsand in the farm division G