Middletown transcript., 1916-03-25
STATE AND PENINSULA

Mayor of the town of Milton.
Friday, April Z, has been designated
by Governor Harrington, of Maryland,
as Arbor and Highway Day.
The teachers at Elkton High School
have presented the school with vic
trola and hundred records.
On account of the high cost Of gaso-
line, quite number of automobilists
are using so per cent kerosene.
John Titus, State Revenue Collector,
found 80 business men in Sussex county
who have failed to pay the State tax.
The Eewes postoffice fight is waxing
warm and the politicians are bestirring
themselves in behalf Of their favorites.
The yacht Dorothea, owned by John
R. Felb of Philadelphia, was so badly
cut by ice at the mouth of Sassafras
river, that it sank.
L. Bates Russell, editor of The Ches-
tertown Enterprise, has been appointed
deputy register for Kent county, sue
ceeding the late Thomas Matthews.
w. Scott Diebert has rendered his
resignation as president of the Diebert
Manufacturing Co., of Elkton, and will
engage in business in Philadelphia.
Clearings in the Wilmington banks
last week amounted TO 2,457, ,6O5.2 %,
compared with 1,528, 32O53 for the
corresponding week of year ago.
The dredging work on the lower
Delaware River, which has been sus-
pended during the ice period of the
winter months has been resumed.
A F Polk, of Georgetown, has an
egg shaped like gourd, with the body
the size of walnut and a stem nearly
two inches long, laid by one of his hens.
Some one got into the stables of
Charles Marsh, at Georgetown, and
Hlds1ddsJa valuable COW, but were fright
enedway, leaving the COW tied to
posn a nearby alley.
Ashington Camp, No 16, P. o S.
of of Cheswold, held big class
initiaion last week when 43 candidates
were omitted into the order. Several
! memhrs of the Dover Camp were in
attenance.
Graad Master of Delaware Odd Eel
lows, Howard Lynch, and Deputy Grand
Marshal Alonzo B. Baxter, both of
Dover, were officially entertained by
Globe Lodge of Odd Fellows at Bridge
vile with banquet
Because of the blanks having been
impYb bperly made out, all of the con-
traces for the automobile mail route be-
tween Milton and Glendale have been
thrown out and new contracts will now
be received until March 28.
The Chaulk Social Club, Milford, has
elected William C. Smith, president;
Louder N. Hearn, vice president; Miss
Elizabeth Hammond, financial secretary;
~Df. Walter L. Grier, treasurer, and
Miss Anna Harrington. recording secre-
taIy.
The hosiery mill in Elkton is running
along very smoothly, with an abundance
of orders, but are still short on opera
tors. Those that are now employed are
be .oming familiar with the work and
vesy shortly will be able to make good
wages.
From all sections of Sussex county
complaints are coming IN of the miser-
able condition of the country roads.
While the roads in the immediate
vicinity of Milford are good, in both
Kent and Sussex counties, reports from
other parts of Kent tally with those
heard from in Sussex.
Peter Thomas, a farmer at Syracuse.
] Sussex county, has lost a toe and will
probably lose his left leg from the
effect of trimming a corn on his toe.
Blood poison developed and has now
extended so far that, despite the
amputatiOn of the toe, the leg will
probably have to be amputated.
information received from Washing
ton strongly indicates that Senator
Saulsbury's bill providing for the forti-
fcation of the Delaware Capes at Lewes
will pass during the present session of
Congress. The bill is now pending be-
fore the Senate Military Affairs COM
mittee and will probably be reported
favorable.
A humorous paragrapher advises the
boys who are now at school to keep
their biographies because ''the maps
will look so queer after the end of the
European war;" For the same reason
they might do we'll to preserve their
postage stamp albums. Some of the
specimens will command high prices as
rarities in years to come.
The first herring of the season were
brought to Georgetown Tuesday, from
Millsboro, and were sold for four cents
apiece. With a few days of warm
weather the run of fish in what is known
as Herring Creek should be large, and
all Of the towns of that county can be
supplied. Shad fishermen report that
in their opinion the run will be small