Middletown transcript., 1916-02-26
Shortest month.

Spring is near at hand.
Soon be time to sow peas.
Frogs are beginning to peep.
Dover has daily fire-alarm test.
Anthrax has broken out near Seatord.
j. William Wachter will be candi-
\ date for mayor of Laurel.
Lack of help is hampering the crate
and basket factory at Georgetown.
A Loyal Temperance Legion with S5
members has been organized at Dover.
Engineers are surveying Seaford
freight yards for changes in the tracks.
Plans have been prepared for new
club house for the New Century Club
of Newark.
Davis Brothers, Of C4lena, have
opened an auto bus line between Elk
ton and Chestertown.
Delaware College Orchestra is ar,
ranging for a concert trip to George
town, Milford and Dover.
The Sherwood Pickle Company. of
Boston, which has plant at Seaford,
has gone into bankruptcy.
Seaford Acorn Club is planning to
build clubhouse and has assessed each
member S. to start the fund.
Washington Fire Company, Whining
ton, held a reception in celebration of
its seventy anniversary.
In fall, Thomas Rushton, a machin-
istin the plant of the Harlan & aollings-
worth Corpor, ton, broke a leg.
Prizes for essays on peace will be
offered to Wilmington High School stu
dents by the Delaware Peace Society.
Students of the Women's College gave
their second annual dance in Residence
Hall, Newark, 60 couples participating.
The only negro Y. NJ. c. A. in Della
ware, that at Milton, held Booker I.
Washington memorial service Sunday
night.
The Atlas Powder Company has de-
clared a per cent, regular and 3 per
cent. extra dviden on the common
stock.
1t is said the waters of the Indian
River are covered with wild ducks. But
what's the difference you can't shoot
them.
''Home Run" Baker, star third base
man of Connie Mack's champion Ath-
letics, has been sold to the New York
Americans.
James E. Hoffecker, of Smyrna, was
selected as foreman of the Kent County
Grand Jury, and Charles E. W tzel, Of
Wyoming, as clerk.
Don't complain and find so much fault
about what other people are not doing
or have not done Just roll up your
sleeves and help some.
The contract to oil the road between
Cecilton and Warwick was awarded to
the Juniata Paving Company, the State
to bear one-half of the expense.
The time for the Shakespearean fes-
tival to be held at Delaware College
has been fixed for Friday evening and
Saturday afternoon, April % and 20.
A Plymouth Rock hen belonging to
Mrs. J. w. Clouser, near Burrsville,
mothered and raised thirty -four guneas.
The young fowls were sold for $l2.75.
Secretary Daniels last Friday ap-
proved the recommendations of the
academic board at the Naval Academy
dismissing 81 midshipmen for failure in
their studies.
Eleven Delaware College freshmen
"Aunked" their mid-year examinations.
Some of the boys went back to their
homes while others went to some other
school or work
The Grand Lodge of Delaware, A. o.
U. W., will meet in Wilmington on
March 1874. 1t is expected that Su-
preme Master, Will N. Narvis, of Mus
catine, Ia, will attend.
A dog owned by Robert Morris, a
farmer near Laurel, was found to be
afflicted by the rabies, and the Laurel
authorities have directed that all dogs
shall be muzzled for few weeks
Prothonotary Wilbur D. Wilds has is
sued the trial and argument list of civil
cases for February term of court in
Kent county. There are twenty cases
on the trial lis, including nine divorce
cases.
A bake was held on Saturday by the
Parent Teachers Association. About
S35 was cleared from the undertaking,
which will go to fund to provide a
playground for the children of the New
ark school.
Friendship Circle, No. 12, Brother
hood of America, Of Little Creek, has
paid the widow of Captain William B.
Woodal, who with his crew, was
drowned in Delaware Bay on November
10, last, $500 insurance.
Woman's character may be likened
to a postage stamp-One black mark
ruins it. Mans character may be lik-