Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
i At NEW CASTLE
Prominent Local Men to Stage
Baseball Game for Beneht OF
Welfare Centre.

Special Correspondence OF Every Evening
New Castle, Aug Interpretations
are being made for the baseball game
between the professional ana business
man of this city and picked team. The
same will he PLAYED on the Battery Park
diamond. probably on Labor Day. The
proceeds will be gwen To the New Castle
Health Center for the keeping up OF the
needed expenses of the nursery. 1t
honed that every person will take an
active part in making the day success
The members of the Citizens Building
aud Loan Association met last evening.
Secretary John +. Cloud will have ready
for the shareholders the checks at the bank
to bue given 10 the members today on call.
This is the expiration of the llth series.
The last pavment was made in July. The
rluning of this series was 10 years and
4 mouths and the share holder receives
&lNJ~An this series there are l59 shares,
5Jslhf this amount borrowed, on, thus
making 100 straight shares. Several per
sons in this series have securedt dtherprop-
critics in this loan by borrowing on shares.
Between $1,000 and $1,000 was loaned
on borrowed shares 10 the residents for
building and improvements to their
properties
MIR. and Mrs Theodore W. Cavender
are receiving congratulations upon the
birth of an 11-pound boy.
Lima beans in this city are selling in
the pod for TO cents a half peck and corn
is selling for 80 cents per dozen. A number
OF persons are making trips In automobiles
down the state, where thcy are procuring
the finest of sugar corn at 10 cents per
dozen: lima beans at 60 cents per basket
and peaches at S5 cents per basket.
The American Manganese Steel Co,
baseball team last evening defeated the
Fibrettes team on the Battery Park
diamond by the score of 4 10 2. The score:
Il. II. L.
American Maga-
ncse ........... i U y U
Fibrettes .... 0 0 0 0 o % | D
The batteries were Wiley and Me-
Daniel for the American Manganese and
Martin and Reed for the Fibrettes.
The members of City Council met last
evening and decided 10 advertise for bids
for the improvements TO the flooring of the
Good VIII Fire Co, repairs to fremont
street 10 South; placing of an IS inch
cement gutter on the south side of Della
ware street from Third 10 the Delaware
street wharf The Council passed res
olution Of respect on the death of their
fellow member, Alexander f. Melvin.
Mayor George w Eckles, President of
the Council John L. Stoops and Council
men William Weggenmann, George Poole,
and John j. Walls, Walter W. Dalby and
Hugh Ryan representing the Relief As
sociation and Plant Of the American
Manganese Steel Co, James B. Lancaster
and Robert 5. Vantine representing the
Seminole Tribe No. 40 Improved Order
of Red Men; Patrick J. Ahern and Arthur
Gibbs, representing the Adelphia Lodge
knights of Pythias; Robert II. Harring-
ton. Jr.. and Jefferson Downam represent
ing the Industry Council No. 25, Jr.
Order United American Mechanics, at
tended the funeral of Alexander F.
Melvin. this afternoon at $50 o'clock at
the residence Of his sister, Mrs Mary J.
Jeffers. 702 North Forty-hfth street.
Philadelphia Interment was made in
the laurel Hill cemetery. The following
members of the Adelphia Lodge acted as
pail bearers, Patrick j. Ahern. John
Jones. Robert H Harrington, Jr., Robert
s Vantine, jefferson Downham, Arthur
Giggs
Mrs Harry Green and son of Phila-
delphia have been guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Chandler Gebhart.
Mrs Ada Fog of Chester, Pa. is spend