Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
STATE AND PENINSULA

/ The Milford firemen's S carnival opened
Monday evening with large crowd
present.
Women and girls employees in Cali
fornia, are allowed to work only eight
hours aday.
The home of the Wilmington Y. w.
| c. A. is being torn down to make room
for larger structure.
Farmers in different parts of the
State have reported the army worm
| playing havoc with the grain.
Isaac r. Brown has been elected
treasurer of, the First District Republi-
can Committee in Wilmington.
One hardware dealer in New Castle
has sold more than 25, 900 loaded shells
for the reed and rail bird season.
Mrs. Charles R. Miller has donated
piano to the Wilmington Y. W. C. A.,
to be placed in the new building.
The Democratic Primary election to
nominate the county ticket in Sussex
will be held Saturday, September 80.
During the first nine days of this
month the Wilmington police made 212
arrests, which exceeds all previous
records.
A profit of more than $1,000, 200
week was made by the Ford \ otor
Company during the year which ended
July 9lst.
Navigation on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal was stopped three days while
steam aredge cleaned the feeder at
Dam No. 6,
| oscar Gouert, assistant treasurer of
the Wilmington Trust Company, has
just rounded out AZ years of service as
a bank employee.
Philodemiu Lodge of Odd Fellows, of
Dover, has purchased the Rust property
on l.ockermah street, as a site for an
up-to-d date temple,
] The annual session OF the New Castle
Hundred Sunday School Association
will be held in the New Castle Baptist
Church. September %.
Within five or six weeks farmers near
Georgetown will harvest what bids fair
to be one of the largest buckwheat
crops ever threshed in lower Delaware.
Misses Elizabeth Lank, Marie Var
shall, Elizabeth c urray and aIi-
Rash, teachers in the Lewes Hioh
School, have resigned to accept Other
positions in the State.
Ireland has 81 1863 land holders having
plots not exceeding an acre, 81, 730 who
hold more than one acre and not more
than five acres; 1a9,2s9 under fifteen
and 1856 O58 not exceeding 80.
William Tyson, a Wilmington con-
tractor, whose automobile, is said to
have fatally injured Paul Newman, a
small hoy, was exenerated from all
blame in connection with the boys death
; by Coroner's jury.
The Wells Egineering Corporation of
Lewes, reports that it will be impossible
to raise the steamer Washingtonian,
sunk off Fenwick Island, on February
Ia, 1914 The steamer was in collision
. with the steamer Elizabeth Palmer and
it was said that the wreck and its cargo
! would be worth 81, ,OOO, ,OOO if raised,
With view to eliminating the OBJ
2 noxious odors which emanate from the
, cell corridors in the police station and
t make life miserable for the tenants OF
all the city Offices in that section of the
j new City Hall, Wilmington, Judge
e Churohman today suggested that all
prisoners be washed and their clothing
| fumigated.
n Miss Louise A. Nelson, who lives neal
e Harrington, but is a member of the
}, senior class of the Milford High School,
, has been awarded $500 prize for the
r best essay by member Of any senior
n class in any high school or college of tht
State on the single tax question. Hun
dreds entered the contest, including 4!
from Wilmington.
y The oyster season which opens abou
:. the Goth, at Seaford, promises to b
r profitable to the packers. The oysters
:. are mueh fatter now than what the,
Y have been in years before two month
"A later. All necessary preparations ar
e being made and large output is ex
pected. The oyster industry in Seafor
furnishes employment to about six hun
- drad paopIo durinU the winter