Middletown transcript., 1916-08-12
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Cut the weeds.
Lawns looking fine.
Days are growing shorter.
Watermelons smiling on the vines.
Dog days will continue until August
goth.
A woman stops telling her age as
soon as age begins telling on her.
The crop of sweet corn on the PENN
sula is the largest for several years.
Keep cool. Think of the fellows
working in ice factories who wish they
were not.
Some auto drivers only want half the
road, but they take\their half right out
of the middle.
. Farmers in the vicinity of Townsend
are complaining that thieves have be-
gun their annual raids upon truck
patches.
A meeting to consider plans for the
continuance of the steamboat service
between Smyrna and Philadelphia was
held Tuesday evening in the Century
Club House.
Unclaimed Letters. The following
list of letters remain unclaimed in the
post-office for, the week ending Aug. g.:
Mrs. Mabel Gleaves, Mrs. Cornelous
Walker. Mrs. May Taylor, Mrs. Eliza
beth Thomas, Randolph Bessatt.
w. E. Greaves, manager of the
Townsend Shirt and Overall factory,
closed his factory there for two weeks
in order that his employees may spend
this time for vacation. Mr. Greaves
expects to open the factory again the
twenty-second of this month.
The Ladies Sewing Circle of Mt.
Pleasant and Summit will hold a
'peach social, ;" next Wednesday after
noon and evening, August 10th, on the
church lawn at Summit Bridge. Ice
cream and lemonade will be served, and
other things for SALE If stormy, on
the following afternoon and evening.
The first in the series of dances given
by the Pool orchestra. to furnish one
of the cloak rooms in the New Century
Club Building was held Tuesday even
ing, July 9Th. In spite of the storm
the attendance was good, and the oc-
casion was most enjoyable. Six of the
Club members were present as
hostesses.
The farmers around Townsend have
such bumper hay crops this year that
several of them are wondering just
whether to sell their surplus now or
store all of it, although they are offer
ed good prices before hauling from the
field. They are predicting that the
price of hay will be much higher later
in the season.
A sad and untimely death from scald-
ing took place at Duck Greek last We'd
nesday when little Emma Colt, the lit
tie two-year-old daughter of Oliver and
Jennie (Smith) Colt of that place,
came to an untimely end as the result
of the accidental dropping of a big
boiler of water as it was being lifted
from the stove.
A strange malady has broken out
among cattle in New Castle county,
and dairymen are much alarmed. 1t
first appeared in the herd of John B.
Price, near town, and two fine Guernsey
cows have died, and the entire herd of
% COWS has been affected. The disease
is skin affection and resembles in effect
the clover poisoning of horses. 1t is
believed to be weeds or grasses of a
poisonous nature.
An enthusiastic meeting of the Re-
publicans OF Red Lion Hundred was
held at Delaware City Monday evening.
with H. P. Scott as chairman. The
prevailing sentiment of the meeting
was that delegates be selected to the
State convention who would vote for
the denomination of Senator Henry A.
DUPONT and Congressman Thomas ".
Miller. There is predominating senti-
ment in that hundred for the renomina-
tion of those officials.