Middletown transcript., 1922-10-09
STATE AND PENINSULA

n. ID. IeeC, SeCTetdly VI Ihe bIdte
Board of Agriculture, is very i'll at his
home near Milford.
The Blades pajama factory is run
ming on full time and the girl operators
are averaging $l2 week.
Building operations in all lines are on
the increase in Seaford, with enough
work IN sight to continue well into the
| new wear.
The Milton Home Economics Club
| will present amateur vaudeville in the
high school Thursday to raise money
| for school equipment.
The largest crowd of the Milford
ome-coming week" and carnival was
present Thursday night, the feature be.
ing the firemen's parade.
Rev. Dr. T. Anderson, pastor of the
Elk ton, Md, Methodist Church, has ar
ranged to hold the annual church Chau-
tauqua the week of October 16.
EIwyn C. Goodley, alleged to have
| associated with David K. Cohen in re-
| ceiving bets on horse races, was fined
| $500 in the Wilmington Court Friday
John l. Hardy, of Wilmington, plead
ed guilty to illegal possession of spiritu-
| Gus liquor on his farm in Blackbird hun
| dred and was fined 5000, and paroled tor
one year.
Samuel j. File, postal clerk, accused
of embezzement from the Wilmington
| post office, waived a hearing before
| Commissioner Cam and was held in
So, 900 bail.
The wheat stacks on the farm of
Percy V. Hendrick, along Chester river,
| in Cecil County, Md, were destroyed
by fire few nights ago. The loss is
estimated at S1l00.
When his motorcycle skidded while
he was driving along the State ROAD
near Galena, Md, Raymond Eicholtz,
of the State police, was thrown and
badly cut on the head and face.
DR.. William j. French, medical di-
rector of the Child Welfare Commission
in Delaware, has resigned to become
| consultant for several organizations un-
| dertaking child health demonstrations
II. Clay Lusby has purchased from
Judge Lewis w. Wickes, administra-
tor, the farm that he has tenanted for
| nearly 40 years, located near Chester
town, Md The consideration was
S25, 600.
Chairman Finn, of the County Re.
| publican Committee in Wilmington, ha.
| appointed Arthur w. Birch as secretary
to succeed Thomas f. Peeney. Bircf
is clerk in the office of County Treas,
urer Burris.
The continued robbing of homes anC
business places in Seaford by what ap
pears to be an organized gang is be
coming alarming. it is said, and tn,
authorities are planning desperat,
measures to capture the thieves.
Free mail delivery was started il
Seaford Monday and the service prove,
popular. Mail boxes for the receivin!
of mail have been erected at conven
lent points in town, and homes hav
been made ready for the mail delivery
Miss Blanche S. Kilgore has bee
elected as minister's assistant at Firs
and Central Church, Wilmington. Mis-
kilgore is a native of Maryland,
graduate of the Normal School and c
the Deaconess' Training School in Ba
timore, Md.
The Seaford street and sewer con
miss oners have been notified by II
Pennsylvania Railroad Company that
will improve the 100 feet of roadws
from the end OF the concrete road {
High street to the high bridge sep
rating East and West Seaford.
E Kent county, Nd. has an epidemic
4 hog cholera The disease is raging ne
!. Rock Hall, Colchester. Galena al
Massey. Dr. G. Allan Jarman attri
; utes the spread of the disease to car
. lessness. Many carcasses are left
! fields until eaten by buzzards and doc
!. or if buried they are placed in t
! ground only deep enough to cover t
bodies.
% Barratt's Chapel was the Mecca Su
,e day afternoon for people of all demon
al nations and creeds, and nearly 100
,e assembled for the celebration of I
" anniversary. The services were
~ charge of the pastor of Magno
as Church. The afternoon sermon W
IN preached by Bishop W. F. Mellow,
ee of Washington, D. C. Several mir
te ters were on the platform.