Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
AT NEW CASTLE
Community Shocked by Sudden
Death of Mrs. Eliza S.
Clewell.
star Correspondence Of Every Evening

STAFF Correspondence OF Every Evening
New Castle. Feb. 1e.-The following
interesting program is announced by
superintendent Of City Schools Ii. l..
Snavply, TO be given in the High School
on Thursday afternoon by the members
of Penn Literary Society. The entire
affair is of patriotic nature he ESSAYS
are very good and original The public Is
cordially invited. There is no charge for
admission or collection taken. Program
Opening song. Delaware .. society
President 5 address, Our Government,
Joseph Rothrock
Lincoln's Gettysburg address,
George T. Tobin, Sd
Recitation, 'My Captain, Phyllis Marsh
Essay, George Washington"
Elizabeth Madden
Song. america for Me .... Society
Reading,
President Wilson's Flag Day address,
Brokaw Sentman
Essay, abraham Lincoln, Irene Quigley
Recitation, 'Old Ironsides,'
James Loveless
Song. america" - Society
In the several grades In the schools
special programs are to be given and the
parents of scholars or friends of the school
are invited TO visit and hear the read
ings, recitations and songs.
THE members of Seminole Tribe of Red
Men; Industry Lodge, Junior Order
United American Mechanics; Friendship
Lodge, No 3, Ancient Order Of United
Workmen, and AdelphIa Lodge, No. S,
knights OF Pythias, will move during the
next month from the property at Fifth
and Delaware streets, known as the
Knights Hall, to the west side of the third
floor of the Opera House. This will leave,
as far as is known, but one tenant, the
members Of Division No. 3, Ancient Order
Of Hibernians
James Cummins, an empIoye of one of
the steel works, had the thumb of his left
hand badly nangled while at work at an
emery wheel, yesterday He was taken
to the Delaware Hospital for attention.
Walter Wipf has purchased from Chas.
Bennett and wife, formerly of this city,
the property on North Second street,
tenanted by Mrs James Emery. The new
owner will install upon the grounds which
adioin his own property a large garage,
to connect with the garage he now owns,
and enter upon the business on a much
larger scale than at present
At the works OF the Baldt plant of the
Penn Seaboard Steel Co, yesterday, eight
tanks with capacities of 10000 gallons of
oil each, arrived and were coupled to-
gether, and this will give enough oil to
last the furnaces at full blast for a full
week The firm will also install rank
within less than two months that will have
a capacity Of more than 100000 gallons,
which viii be one-third greaflr than
carried in the tanks that were destroyed
by the fire of Saturday last
Miss Sarah w Pyle, chief Of the Settle
ment in East Wilmington, that has been
of great value In the care and education of
the young in that city, will be the speaker
before the members of the Century Club
tonight She is pleasing speaker, known
to a number of persons here and viii be
well received.
A Farmers Institute will be held in the
Opera House on Monday morning at 10
O'Clock, with Wesley Webb, secretary of
the State Board of Agriculture, in charge.
The principal speaker will be Frank Black
ford of Ohio who will talk on Hog
Raising, Corn Growing and Improving the