Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-17
NEWS OF THE DAY
AT NEW CASTLE
Athletic Association Formed by
Employees of the Baldt Plant
of Penn Seaboard Steel Co.
srecinl Corrrnondcncc OF Evcrr Evrning

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening
New Castle, Sept. 17.--At the meeting
of the employees of the Baldt plant of the
Penn Seaboard Steel Corporation yes
terday an athletic association was FORM
cd. James McDevitt was elected manager
protein of the basketball team and will
make preparations for n schedule OF
games. Joseph Hampton, Edward f.
llusheheck. and Atwood Everson were
chosen rs a membership committee. The
next meeting will be held on Monday.
CITY Council will meet this evening IN
adjourned session for the purpose OF
elccting n member to succeed Alexander
2. Melvin, deceased. Bids will be received
for improvements to the interior of the
Good VIII Fire Co, hall.
Thomas Cluelow, n resident of Gerry
street neartSixth, and former guard at the
munition plant of the Bethlehem Loading
Co, was stricken yesterday while on
Delaware street near the store of Eugene
l.. Chase and fell TO the pavement. DR..
Brice ;. Nallette was summoned and
pronounced IL a case of acute indigestion
and had the man removed to his home.
The patient Is improving although con-
fined to bed
The members of the Professional Mems
baseball team and the Hasbeen team are
1tdAN.CAiAE at tilt Il .hh
diamond for the game 10 be played to-
morrow afternoon. The proceeds will be
for the benefit of the New Castle Health
Center.
MIR. and Mrs. William Sparks, 733 Dob
bins street, are receiving congratulations
upon the birth of a daughter.
The members of Cesar Rodney Chap
ter. No. s, Order of the Eastern Star, will
hold a dance In the Opera House on
Friday evening, October :.
superintendent Henry +. Snavely of
the New Castle Public Schools reported
20 the Board of Education that much
interest is being taken in the chemistry
class, composed of IL members and ef-
forts are being made by the class and the
Board tn improve the course with new
equipment.
Twenty-Five ladies from this ciey at
tended Republican meeting IN Whining
ton yesterday. Mrs julius Dodd was
elected chairman of the New Castle
Hundred Committee, who selecte the
following women party workers; Mrs.
Agnes Alcgglnson, of the First District,
Mrs. Mary Naylor of the Second Dis strict,
Mrs. Minnie Glvison of the Third Dis
trict. Mrs. Frank J. Deemer of the Fourth
District and Mrs. Bessie Cranston of the
Fifth District The women selected for
each district will choose their own com
mittecs. who will cooperate with them
and make a canvass of the city and report
al n meeting next week.
The carnival committee of the Good
Will Fire Co. today started to erect the
booths for the carnival which will begin
on Monday in the School Green and last
until Saturday evening. The new band
viii furnish music each evening. The COM
all 10 Oh, r,,,-lx, >nl
hinatiOn tractor on exhibition on the fair
grounds. A house-to-house canvass Is
being made by the committee for dona-
tons. consisting of cakes, fancy work
and money.
Grand Chancellor Harry Fritz of Will
mington will be present this evening at
the session of Adelphia Lodge, No. S,
knights of Pythias.
ON Monday evening the Red Mems
committees from the Red Mems Quot
League, composed of six teams, will
present a ha ndsome Bible to seminole |
Tribe, No. 10, for winning the champion |
ship during the 19l9-1920 season. The |
league Is composed of teams of Seminole |
Tribe No. 40, this CITY; Andastaka Tribe, |
No IA, Of Newport; Lenape, Usage,
Oriental and NawaSet tribes OF Whining |
ton.
Il ut -NtAtt ill1Io pOpuAaIitn Vi tltiS |
city will organize q lodge next month, |
TO be known as the American Negro |
Patnotic Association. The order Will pro |
cure . charter under the laws of the State |
OF Della ware.
Weldin c. Vining, who resides on East |
Third street Is having the extension of his |
property succeed by Contractors Dun |
can and McPike |
,lohn Pyle Of Wilmington was visitor /
IN tins city yesterday. He told Andrew M. |
Gallagher that new bus line would soon /
be started between here and Wilmington |
Jehu Afree Of Townsend Is spending |
several days as the guest of relatives and |
friends here.
Rev. and Mrs. George T. Street and |
family, who have been spending several /
weeks az their cottage at Wildwood, n. |
j., vii arrive in this city this evening. |