Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY
At NEW CASTLE
Drive is Begun TO Provide City's
Allotment of Nurses Tor
Government Service.
stan Correspondence OF Every Evening

New Castle, July - Mp Francis
| dc II Janvier. chairman ot the Women $
| Committee of the Council of Defence Tor
| New Castle county, TO-DAY started drive
| that will last for week 10 help Obtain
| l05 women volunteers for the I :.
| Student Nurses Reserve TO it themselves
| 10 become trained nurses. Women he
tween the ages of 10 and 81 years are
! eligible. The volunteers will be asked to
enroll for civilian or army training schools.
| II is requested that they will volunteer
| for both SO that they may be available
| for either assignment After they have
| registered they will hold themselves IN
readiness for call. which will bc about
| April 10. 1919 In the meantime "a soon
MS vacancies occur they will le assigned
to military hospitals for instructions
| Registration in the five districts Of the
| Tenth Representative district on Satur-
| dav, this being the first one for the pur-
pose OF qualifying for the coming prl-
marics and general election. TO I've held III
, November was very small IN comparison
with the first registration day two years
ago. The total number registered was
22i The number registered in each dis
trict were tlrst. 81, Second 80; 1hud.
Il; Fourth. -, Fifth u
Tho wheat cut on Sunday week from
the farm recently occupied 10y Frank
Dawson, decreased was not cut by tho
present occupant. 5 Hickman Hewitt
On THURSDAY August | tho Ch,ldrrn
Welfare Campaign Committee will hold
clinic ~ The Shawtown school house
Nj parents who reside IN this district are
requested 10 bring their children go this
station 10 have them registered, examined
and measured The time for the cline
will he announced later
Emma liearn infant daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs William llcaru. of ntl CLAYTON
street. d,cd on Saturia, The funeral
services we've held Yesterday afternoon ~
the parents homo NJ I 30 O clock Inter
meut was IN the Glche cemetery
The Raldt plant of the penu-Seahnard
Steel Corporation has boon equipped With
ono of the finest and most up-to-datc
hospitals Of any plant III The state WI
liam McNally. formerly Of Phlladclphia
who has had five wears experience in hos
pltal work. has been selected as head
nurse This addition to the pnnt will he
Of great benefit 90 workers who meet
with injuries there
The ladics Md Societv of the tJst
Baptist Church will hold a peach festival
on "Wednesday evening. on the lawn Of
Mr. and Mrs S hickman Hewitt. who
rcsidc on the Dawson farm The affair
will start Al 30 O'Clock The ladies viii
have FOR sale full hnc Of ice cream.
peaches and homemade cake
Captain Joseph tohcld. for p Years ~
charge ~ thc range lighthouse NJ tohcid
Beach. several mules below tins city. has
bcrn placed on tho retired list rs the
government, having hccn IN the service
for - wears Three wears ago he was
transferred to tho bellevue lighthouse
Second Lieutenant William ; Ncggcn-
mann of The FiftN-ninth Pioneer Reg
ment, Camp nlx. VISITED his relatives and
friends here YESTERDAY
Private Irwin KIRK son Of Mrs William
hIrk. Of 2ll Chestnut street. who is con
nccted with tho S32d Aero Service Squad
ron, Long Island \ ! . spent SATURDAY
and sunday as The guest nf hlS mother
and other relatives The Young man was
recently transferred from Camp tTccn.
North Carolina
George harrington who was operated
upon several weeks ago at the Delaware
Hospital returned home Yesterday from
the institution
Thrshnc .460 bushels 81 wheat on
his farm hast week John Hopkins
broke all previous records IN Ncw astic
county Mr. Hopkins lives on he Andrews
farm near MinQuadalc
Mavls TalCum Powder, delightful odor.
25c Mary Garden Face Powder full line
OF CIgHrS and Cigarettes fresh supply ot
Martha Washln gton Candy I l. Jacobs
Drug Store Adv
For Sale-Small Nictrola Apply Mrs
Kenneth r. Cross Adv