Middletown transcript., 1916-07-22
LOCAL HAPPEN NTNCS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
This is splendid corn weather.

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This is splendid corn weather.
The days have reached their creates
length, and are now at their turning
point.
Hunters report soft shell crabs un
usually scarce along the upper Chesa
peake Bay.
Harry C. Nickle, of Delaware City
landed three sturgeon Tuesday netting
him about $125.
Hook-and-lin fishing in the canal a
Delaware City, has been above the
average this season.
The annual picnic of the Ladies AiC
Society of st. Georges Methodist
Church will be held August 8.
A meeting of the Better Govern
ment League" was held at the Academy,
Middletown, Thursday evening, at 7.SC
o'clock.
A parcels post sale is being held on the
house lawn at Port Penn, today (Satur-
day. for the benefit of the Port Penn
M. E. Church.
Delaware City farmers report bum
per crop of wheat, and according to
present indications will receive a good
price for their crops.
A scarcity of butter is reported in
Delaware City. The farmers are re-
ceiving such good prices for their milk
that few of them are making butter.
Automobile licenses and tag numbers
have gone beyond the six thousand
mark which is a substantial increase
over last year, when the highest num-
Der reached was 4,600.
The numerous ruins of the past ten
days have prevented our farmers from
stacking their wheat crop, and many of
them are alarmed over the, possibility
of it sprouting in the shocks.
The frame for the new dwelling of
Mr.. Joshua z Grassland on South Broad
street has been raised and the contrac-
tor, Mr.. Torbert, will make every effort
to have it completed at the earliest date.
A horse attached to a wagon driven
by John Brooks, of near Odessa, ran
away on Friday and collided with tel
ephone pole on the state road near
Townsend, throwing Brooks out and
breaking an arm.
A storehouse is being built at Fort
du Pont for the Quartermaster Corps,
who have moved back into their old
quarters since orders were received
that rendezvous for recruits is to be
established there.
Local base ball fans were badly dis
appointed over the heavy rainfall at
noon on Wednesday, which made it inn
possible for the Middletown and Odessa
teams to play the second game of the
series that afternoon.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal,
which has been closed several days for
repairs to the locks at Chesapeake City,
reopened Monday night. There have
been an unusually large number of
yachts passing through lately.
More than million jobs in the United
States, it is authoritatively stated, are
closed to the man who drinks intoxicat-
ing liquors. And this means that the
employe should not only abstain while
on duty but that he shall not frequent
drinking places while off duty.
Mary Donefski, II years old, of Phila-
delphia, was rescued from drowning in
the Delaware river, at Augustine Pier,
on Sunday afternoon. John Gears and
David Davis, of New Castle, pulled her
to safety when she became frightened
after getting too far from the shore.
The Government crop report for July
gives a forecast of Delaware's corn
crop at 9, $40, 900 bushels against $685.
600 bushels last year; wheat, 100000
bushels, against 1,875,OOO last year.
Wheat is the same price as last year;
corn 85c, last year 75c; potatoes, $1.S1,
last year 60c.
Unclaimed Letters. The following
list of letters remain unclaimed in the
post-office for the week ending July 13:
Mrs. Mary A. Perkon, Miss Name
Brown, Miss Cassie Brown, NJ. Cokier,
] ohm Ducklin, Dave Robinson, Samuel
Boycroft, Adolphus Shoot, William
Loaf, Albert Williams.