Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-29
NEWS OF THE DAY
At NEW CASTLE
Peter G. Madden Selected as the
Season s Manag er for the Fish
ermen's Protective As
sociation.
snecial Correnpondence Of Evcry Evenlng

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening
New Castle. March 29--Pcter @.
Madden, will act As manager for the
Fisherrnep's Protective Association this
season, which will open about the first
Of April. there will be about nine boats
used i'm this line of work, which is very
small percentage in comparison with other
seasons. the reason that there are so few
To engage in this line IS on account oi the
high cost OF the lease which Is selling Tor
81 so per pound and IT requires about
60 pounds to make up an average net
which means the approximate cost TO
fisherman $500 This is n large outlay for
about two months fishing as the season
generally comes to n close by the first OF
June. Several Jersey fishermen were IN
this city irving to hire shifts and Offering
as high as $50 on rental for the season,
they were unable to secure boats at this
figure.
| A number of residents of this city are
/ taking the advantage OF securing their
| coal supply for next winter at the present
/ market price. IL il contemplated that
] the price of the fuel will be greatly adj
vanced within several months.
The regular weekly meetings of the New
! Century Club, which are held ON Tuesday
and Friday evenings, will be dispensed
| with during Holy Week.
Local subscribers of the ID. & 4. Tele-
phone Co, will bo given services If they
| will bear in mind that the local exchange
| is equipped with a magnetic system and
| after through talking il is necessary to
ring off and by doing this il enables the
operator TO know that the line IS cleaf
Margaret Gehhart. daughter OF MIR.
! and Mrs. Chandler Gebhart, who broke
her left arm by fall is getting along
nicely
The students of the New Castle High
/ School have placed an order for a set of
Stoddards Lectures, comprising 10 vos-
umes, to be used i'm tho class work OF the
school. Fifty pupils have consented to
pay their proportionate share of the
literature. which viii cost sf4
Manager William O. Denny OF the New
Castle baseball team is very anxious
60 receive the needed contributions as
soon as possible, so that he may get .
line on the coming season. although q
number Of residents have literally sub
Ecribed. there are n number who have
not RESPONDED to the circular letter
that WAS sent out recently. II is hoped
that every one will trv 10 support this
orranization and send in their donations
az soon az possible The players have not
a. vet been announced. but the manager
hopes within few days to make the names
public The diamond was scrapod on
Saturday and will be placed IN first
class condition within few DAYS.
Several youths were reprimanded on
Saturday by Mayor George W. Eoklca
for the breaking of - window rssncs
and tho destruction OF the two sash
IN tho fish house on the Delaware street
Z wharf. which is owned by tho Fishermen S
Protective Association.
In the First Baptist Church last evening
c.vangeistic services were conducted to-
gether with special singing by MIR. and
Mrs Arthur b. Wilson, formerly Of tins
city. now Of Wilmington. The attendance
was large and during the four weeks work
number of persons were converted.
Pastor Street WAS in charge of tho services.
The residence of Denny ). Smith. Is
North Fifth street, and the adjoining
property. occupied by Patrick j. Abern
and owned by Orran Carrick. are being
greatly improved by the, addition oi