Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
STATE AND PENINSULA

old this month.
The Radnor Relief Association will
hold carnival in Elkton, Md, May 25,
26 and 9th.
The second girls canning club in Sus-
sex County is located at Salem School,
near Laurel.
Five thousand trees were planted on
Arbor Day by Washington county
school teachers and students.
The Grollman farms in Kent county
have been bought by James G. Harris,
of near Betterton, for 500, 500.
A five-week course in home cooking
has been started by members of the
Georgetown New Century Club.
Leroy Tyndall has been elected Super
intendent of the Sussex County Aims
house for the ninth consecutive year.
William B Truitt, of Bridgeville, and
Charles H. Maull, of Lewes, have been
named Jury Commissioners for Sussex
county.
Alvin Lee Joseph, of Indian River
Hundred, is being backed by his friends
for the Democratic nomination for
sheriff.
New telephones of the high efficiency
type are being installed in the block
offices and stations of the Delaware
railroad.
William w. Anderson, of Delmar,
has announced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for county COM
missioner.
Secretary of Agriculture, David F.
Houston will make a tour of Delaware
about Nay l as the guest of Senator
Salisbury.
A deal was completed in Georgetown
by which four out of the seven
physicians have bought automobiles of
the same make.
A council, with 80 charter members,
to be known as Sussex Council, No. "A
Jr. o. u. A. NJ, has been installed at
Loves Coss Roads.
The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
bridge at Bethel is closed, undergoing
repairs, and teams and pedestrians have
to cross the canal on a scow.
A fish steamer on the Chesapeake
bay caught twentyfour hundred barrels
of fish one day last week. We hope
this is advance news of good season
Printing required for all branches of
the government service cost 81, Ill, ,075
last year. All except $883,O09 worth
was done at the government printing
office.
The Harrington Century Club has
elected Mrs. J. W. Sheldrake as a dele
gate to attend the biennial of the Ameri-
can Federation of Womens Clubs in
New York city, May % to June2.
Captain Gordon Johnston, Aide to
General Leonard Wood, U. S. Army,
spoke to the Students of Delaware Col
lege, Thursday morning, on the subject,
''The Training Camp at Plattsburg".
The Trustees of Delaware College
have given the use of a lot on South
Academy street, to the school children
for gardening purposes. The affair will
be under the management of Miss Agnes
: Medill.
A report from the Milford Methodist
Protestant Church, of which Rev. L.
A. Bennett is pastor, shows that the
church raised nearly $4,000 last year,
making over $45, 900 raised in the past
five years.
The Homemakers' School, to be con-
Quoted by the Extension Department of
the Women's College of Delaware held
its first meeting Wednesday night, of
this week. The class will be conducted
five weeks, three days each week.
Work on the southern end of the du-
Pont Boulevard, near Selbyvile, will be
commenced next Monday morning, if the
weather will permit 1t is hoped to
have the entire route from Georgetown
to Selbyville completed by the first of
June.
There will be plenty of crabs this
year, according to some of the dredgers.
The season will open about the first of
next month and already preparations
are being made to care for the crab in
dustry, which has assumed large pro-
portions in the State.
The April report of the Department
of Agriculture. shows 1000, 600 bar
of apples still in cold storage, due to
inability to get room on steamers for
shipment abroad. 1t is estimated that
growers will lose $4,000, 900 or more on
last years apple crop.
A substitute for gasoline is said to be
discovered by Pittsburg parties. 1t is
now being investigated by the Govern.
ment, and if found satisfactory will be
placed on the market and sold at {
cents per gallon. Let US hope there is
more truth than poetry in this startling
announcement.
The Secret Societies of Clayton have
orOanized the Fraternal Hall Connnany