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Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
BETHESDA CHURCH NOTES

January 23d. The revival meetings
at Bethesda are forging ahead with
good success. While the weather con-
ditions have not been favorable, yet
the attendance has been very good, and
the meetings have resulted in quicken
ing the church, and to date seven per-
sons have professed conversion. The
measure of success depends upon the
interest, effort and prayer we invest in
these services. The cottage prayer
meetings, which are being held nightly,
have contributed in no small degree to
our success. The meeting will close
whenever there is any tagging in inter-
est. The question for the church to ask
is, Gam |, as member, doing what
can to assist the pastor in this cam
palgn?" Miss Shay is all that one could
desire as a helper We are planning
for great day next Sunday. An op-
portunity will be given at the morning
service for new converts to join the
church on probation, also for probation
ers to come into full membership.
Preaching at 1890 A. M. and 7.SO P.
NJ. Miss Shay will give the altar call
and sing at each service.
Sunday School at 2 P. NJ. We greatly
desire full attendance.
Brotherhood Devotional meeting at
$40 A. ".
Jr. League Saturday at P. NJ. Miss
Shay will he present to assist in the ser
vice, All the Juniors are urged to be
present.
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TYPHOID FEVER REDUCED

Reduction in typhoid fever and i'm
provement in sanitary conditions have
followed the intensive Investigations of
| rural communities carried on by the
United States Public Health Service in
cooperation with local and State health
officers, according to the annual report
of the Surgeon General of that Service.
During the past fiscal year 16, 1863 rural
/ no nes in eight different states were
visited and many of them revisited. In
each of these homes information was
obtained as to the prevalence of disease
and insanitary conditions and complete
sanitary survey of the premises con-
Quoted. This was followed by rein
spections to determine if remedial
measures had en- instituted. In but
relatively small percentage Of the cases
did the persons concerned, after having
their attention drawn to the danger of a
particular unhygienic condition, fail to
inaugurate corrective measures. Stimu-
lus was given to the work by means of
public lectures, the formation of active
sanitary organizations, and the enlist
ing of all public spirited citizens in the
campaigns for reform. Public buildings
were also inspected and local authorities
given expert advice in solving such
sanitary problems as the disposal of ex-
creta, the prevention of soil pollution,
and the maintenance of pure water sup
plies.
The surveys made during the year
1914 had shown that in rural communi-
ties less than one per cent. of the homes
had sanitary toilets and that more than
fifty per cent. of the people were using
water from polluted sources. This con-
dition, according to the Public Health
Service, made the rural sanitation
question loom large among the matters
vitally affecting the welfar of the
nation. Following these studies and
as a result of the interest aroused,
the typhoid fever rate, an ex-
celent indicator of the sanitary status
of community, has in some places
frequently been cut to one quarter of
its previous figure. In Berkeley County,
West Virginia, the cases Of typhoid
fever were reduced from 249 to 40 in
one year. In Orange County, North
Carolina, the rural sanitation campaign
resulted in a reduction of the cases
from SO to II.
The tangible results of operations in
rural sanitation indicate that marked
advancement in maintaing hygienic and
satisfactory surroundings in country
districts is possible by the application
of the common principles of preventive
medicine. Insanitary condi tions exist
l4rgely because they are not known to
be such. Actual demonstrations of their
harmfulness, together with definite
reco rmendations for their correction,
remains one of the most gratifying and
successful methods for instituting re-
forms and has been, in the experience
of the Public Health Service, invariably
accompanied by definite and measure
able results.
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Little Legislature

The Delaware Legislative Auditing
Committee, familiarly known as f'The
Little Legislature which convened at
Dover Tue .day and will be in session
for several weeks in auditing the books
and accounts of the State officers will
include, Senator Barnard and Hoffecker,
Representatives Hill and Evans Repub-
licans and Hall, Democrat. The former
custom has always been in the senate
to name one Republican and one Demo-
crat, while IN the house, the majority
membership of the committee is select
ed from the majority in control of the
House.
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WARWICK

Mr.. s. H. Dugyea has been confined
to his home with LaGrippe.
Aid Society met at the home of Mr.,
and Mrs. John Price ON Thursday even
ing.
Preaching Sunday morning at the
usual hour. Christian Endeavor at
O'Clock.
Christian Endeavor social met at the
home of Mrs. Verena Vinyard on Fri
day evening last.
Miss Mamie Merritt returned home
on Saturday after visiting friends in
Kennett Square, Pa.
Mr.. Stanley McCubbin and family
moved to town on Wednesday where he
will engage in store business.
Mrs. r. B. Merritt AMI Mr.. and Mrs.
S. D. Wilson were guests of Mrs. RID.
Aiken near Chesapeake City, Monday
and Tuesday.
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Our Big Ad. delayed, but APP
pears next week sure! Money in
it for YOU
Globe Clothing Store,
New Century Club

Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Eastman of vii
mington very pleasantly entertained
the members of the New Century Club
on Tuesday afternoon, by giving an
Edison Disc Phonograph Recital in the
Parish House The room was nearly
filled with members and invited guests.
On next Tuesday afternoon the pro-
gram was to have been: "a Home For
the Feeble minded, Mrs. Seldom S.
Deemer. New Castle. But as Mrs.
Deemer is unable to be present on that
day, the program will be changed and
the day will be Delaware Day" with
"reminiscences of local history, by mem
bers and perhaps some who are not
members. There will be an interesting
program and visitors will be cordially
welcomed.
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CHESAPEAKE CITY

Mr.. and Mrs. C. S, Ellison Jr., spent
Monday last in Elkton, Md.
Mrs. Godfrey Hunt, of Philadelphia,
is visiting her father DR.. G. C. Laws.
The Ladies Bridge Club met at the
home of Mrs. J. w. Clayton on Thurs
day.
Miss Rehecca Brown is spending
some time with MIR. and Mrs. John
Brown.
Miss Hannah r. Bouchelle is the
guest of the Misses Sullivan. of Balti-
more, Md.
Mrs. Julian Downey, of La Plata,
Md. is spending some time with her
mother here,
Mrs. Emma Craig is spending some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Bouchelle
on the Manor.
The Missionary Society of the Pres
byterian church met at the home of
Mrs. James S. Hopper on Thursday.
The members of Masonic Lodge will
hold business meeting and banquet in
the Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening,
January 25th.
Misses Jennie and Nellie Bishop, of
Warwick, Md. spent several days this
week with brothers Messrs. Edgar and
Lester Bishop near town.
Mrs. E. A. Beauchamp will close the
Eureka" on Monday, January 23d for
six weeks during which time she will
visit the Millinery shops in New YOrl;
and Baltimore, also friends in southern
Maryland,
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Oi
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

The Chesapeake and Delaware Cana
will be closed for week after Febru-
ary 9th, for repairs unless closed sooner
by ice.
Railroad carpenters engaged in put
ting new floor in the station at Mid
dletOwn found six gold watch cases
under the old floor.
Governor Miller has appointed Char
les C. Kurtz, of Wilmington a trustee
of the State Hospital for the Insane at
Farnhurst to succeed " illiam Fl. Swift
resigned.
A meeting of the Law and Order
Society will be held in the assembly
room of the High School, on Saturday,
January 29th, at $50 o'clock P. NJ.
Everyone interested is earnestly urged
to be present.
The $500" card club was entertained
by Mrs. Dorsey W. Lewis Wednesday
afternoon. Mrs. Harry Brady won first
prize; Miss Clara Willis, the second,
and the guests prize was secured by
Mrs. G. Lindsey Cochran.
After October first the hours for the
Middletown Public Library will be-
Tuesday, $50 to 5 P. NJ; Friday, Z to
$50 P. M; Saturday, to P. M. The
Library will be open on Tuesday even
ings for school children exclusively.
Unclaimed Letters.-The following
list of letters remaining in the Post
Office for the week ending Jan. 18th:
Misses Emma K. Longencker, Mary
Harris, Lille Blake, Hannah Tiller,
Lille Sliney, Mr.. Robert Moore (2).
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Peoples National Bank
on Saturday last, Mr.. jefferson B.
Foard was elected Vice President in
place of Mr.. T. c. Cruickshank, who
resigned on account of failing health,
The State Board of Education meet
ING at Dover, added Maryland State
Normal School, Baltimore, and Oberlin
College, of Oberlin, Ohio, to the schools
and colleges from which students will
be received to teach in Delaware with
out taking an examination.
The citizens of Middletown awakened
Sunday morning to find the ground COW
cred with thin blanket of snow. Dur
ing the day the weather moderated but
before the churches had let outit began
showing again and by Monday morning
there was more snow and a drop in
temperature to 10 degrees shove zero.
William Smith Hall, the main build |
ing of Washington College, Chester
town, Nd, was completely wrecked by |
fire early Sunday. So rapidly did the |
flames spread that all the archives in
cluding many historic documents, some |
of them in the handwriting of George !!
Washington, were burned. The build |
ing cost 5000.
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FRIENDS & VISITORS
Personal Items Alb ut People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND co


Mrs. Sallie Kumpel spent severa
days in Philadelphia.
Miss Nellie Rotnwell is quite i'll al
her home on Cass street.
Miss Edith Eliason, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday in town.
Mrs. artin B. Burris is able to be
out after a severe attack of grip.
Mrs. C. A. Hoffecker visited rela-
tives in Wilmington part Of last week.
Mrs. Edward Hearne, of Washington
is visiting her sister Miss Wolfe Wilson.
Miss Helen Jones spent last week
with Miss Beulah Travers, at Easton,
Md.
Miss Alberta Cochran visited Mrs.
Harmon Reynolds at Townsend this
week.
Miss Blanche Deakyne visited Miss
Estelle Beasten in Wilmington last
week.
Irving Roberts, of Wilmington, spent
last Sunday with his mother Mrs. H. D.
Roberts.
Miss Lena V. Stats spent the week
end with Mrs. James D. Davis Jr., at
Galena, Nd.
Miss Stella Reihm is on an extended
visit to her sister Mrs. T. Bayard Jones,
of Wilmington.
Miss Sarah Hates, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. W. B Hates.
Miss Ada Scott attended the Penn
Princeton basketball game in Philadel-
phia, Saturday evening.
Nr. ard Mrs. James M. Fenner, of
Sharon Hill, Pa, spent Sunday with her
sister Mrs. j. R. Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Lynch, of Will
mington, were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. George Buehm.
Miss Nellie Janver was a guest at
the opening dinner at the Richardson
House in Dover last week.
Mrs. T. =. Fouracre and Mrs. Frank
Fetzel ar spending the week with
relatives in Milford and Fredirica.
Mrs. Buelah Burnham and Miss
Pauline Burnham, of Wilmington, were
over Sunday visitors with friends here.
Mrs. Howard A. Pool will attend a
meeting of the Executive Board of the
State Federation Of Clubs to be held at
Delmar next Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. j. J. Northrup and lit
tie daughter Anna, spent the weekend
with her mother Mrs. Paul Gillis, in
Wilmington.
Mr.. George 8. Reihm, of this town,
has been visiting in Philadelphia and
Darby, and on his return home stopped
to visit his sister Mrs. I. Bayard Jones,
of Wilmington.
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ST. ANNES' CHURCH NOTES

January 23d. The Third Sunday after
Epiphany.
Divine Service: Morning Prayer and
Sermon at 1890.
Sunday School session at 11.45.
Evening Prayer and Address 7.3O.
Service on Wednesday evening at
7.9O.
Meetings: The Parish Guild on Thurs
day at o'clock.
The Junior Auxiliary on Friday after
noon at four o'clock.
The annual meeting of the Sunday
school Institute of the Diocese of Dela-
ware will be held in Emmanuel Church
Highlands, January 9th, at 2. 80 and 8
r. M. Lunch will be served at one
O'Clock and supper at P NJ, to ali
out of town deiegates and Clergy. Dele
gates will be entertained over night il
names are sent in at once to the >ecre-
tary, Miss Lucie S. Primrose, Richard
son Park, Del.
What is your Life?
Is it merely a vapor? Or is it vital
force, growing stronger and stronger
every day under Christian influences
that cannot die-some day to enjoy the
bliss of heaven? Is your life vapor
life or Christian life? You were never
called upon to answer a more important t
question.
There are plenty of vapor lives-we
all know that. The only question is
whether yours is one Of them. Many a
business man is absorbed in a business
that appears for little while and then
vanishes away. Many man stores up
wealth by skill and care-but ii never
somebody will soon waste it on
some vapor any a mother gives her
labor and devotion to a home that is
only vapor. Many man goes to his
daily task and works to live, and lives
to work and sleeps to be able to work
another day, and eats to live-the toll
ing masses-with little ambition and
less chance-how it makes ones heart
ache to look upon millions of men in
our land with no higher thought than
vapor and how soon it will vanish
away. Plenty of vapor lives every
where.
Why this miserable failure? 1t need
not be. Christ has q message to give
to each one of US that gives a life that
knows no such word as failure. He
nourishes and sustaius life that while
it is busy with the things that vanish
has motive and an inspiration that
gives higher purpose to each duty and
pleasure and says with ST. Paul: ''For
me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. "
This is the life the Christian Church
seeks to strengthen. This community
needs the message and the inspiration
for better things. Come with US and
we will do thee good. Come, and con-
slider the issues of life. Answer the
question: What is your life? Not in
terms Of failure, but of victory.
The Rev. C. E. Betticher a mission
ary who formerly labored in Alaska,
and who has spoken to the AuxiIiaries
of st. Anne's Parish on several occa-
sions has been appointed as manager
editor of the Spirit of Missions the
official missionary organ of the Episco-
pal Church.
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M. E. CONFERENCE
4Sth Session viii Convene in
Union M. E. Church
BISHOP BERRY WILL PRESIDE

The Forty Eighth Session of the Viii
mington Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will con-
vene in Union Church, Wilmington,
Wednesday, March, 20 next. Bishop
Joseph F. Berry, of Philadelphia, who
has residential supervision over this
Conference, will be the presidin officer.
More than passing interest will attend
the proceedings Of this years session,
as it is the last one for the present
ouadremium, which will end with con-
vening of the General Conference,
which is the law-making body OF the
church, at Saratoga Springs, next May.
This being the session Immediately pre-
ceding the meeting Of the General Con-
ference, there will be elected four dele
gates as this Conferences representa-
tives in the General Conference. There
will meet at the same time as the
Annual Conference, the Lay Electoral
Conference, which is composed Of one
delegate from each PASTORAL charge
within the bounds of the Conference,
The Lay Electoral Conference will elect
four delegates to the General Confer
ence, it having equal representation
with the Annual Conference.
In the matter of selecting the dele
gates, there will be very much interest
taken, since it is no small honor to be
elected delegate to this great Confer
ence, which a very discriminating
writer sometime ago characterized as
the greatest religious convocation since
the Council of Nice.
At the session of the Annual Confer
ence. in March, there will be unusual
concern about the matter of appoint
ments. 1t is generally conceded that
there will be a big shake-up, even
greater than at any time in recent
years. The appointment of three dis
trict superintendents will make this
more likely than it otherwise would be.
The Kew, E. L. Hoffecker, of Whining
ton; Rev. Robert Watt, of Easton, and
Rev. R. K. Stevenson, of Dover, will
have served their respective districts
for six consecutive years, and the law
of the church makes this the limit.
Speculation is rife as to who the
Bishop will name as their successors,
and he will no doubt have good many
would-be advisors, and lots of the
brethren" both lay and ministerial,
will be very free, if chance is given
them, to tell the Bishop just ''who
ought TO be WHO"
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WILSON NAMES JEWS DAY

WASHINGTON, D. c., Ian. 12.-In re-
sponse to the Senate resolution request
ing him to do so, President Wilson to-
day issued proclamation designating
January q, as day upon which Ameri-
cans may make contributions for the
relief of suffer- Ig Jews in Europe. The
Presidents proclamation recites the
resolution, which says that 5000, 900
Jews are in the warning countries, that
the majority of them are destitute of
food, shelter and clothing, and that mil
lions of them have been driven from
their homes, and continues:
And, whereas, l feel confident that
the people of the United States will be
moved to tend the war-stricken people
of a race which has given to the United
States so many worthy citizens.
Now, therefore, !, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States, in com
pliance with the suggestion of the Sen
ate thereof, do appoint and proclaim
January ~, 1910, as DAY upon which
the people of the United States may
make such contributions as they feel
disposed for the aid of the stricken
Jewish people.
Contributions may be addressed to the
American Red Cross, Washington, D.
c., which will care for their proper dis
tribUtion.
All persons wishing to help these poor
sufferers can do so thru the Peoples
National Bank which has kindly offered
to receive alf such gifts.
Middletown has always generously
responded to like worthy causes where
human beings were in great need, will
we believe, also aid this very worthy
causa.
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TOWNSEND RONLR ROLL

The following pupils have received ar
average of 80 per cent or more for tie
past month:
10th grade-Reba Rlttenhouse, Mir
lam Hutchison, Leola Ratledge, Dollie
Hammond.
9th grade Gladys Pollitt, Leilat
Money, Karlene Hart, Irving Hart.
9Th grade Florence Unruh, Heller
Pritchard.
7th grade Mabel Shockley, Maud
Bramble, Charles Trealeaven.
9Th grade-Paul Hodgson, John Ire
leaven, George Wiggln, Clara Unruh,
Elsie Landon, Peara Wells, Ralph
Heinold.
5th grade-Nargaret Wilson Junior
Reynolds, Edna Reynolds.
4th grade-Mary Watts, yrtle ivory
Mary Schwatka, Eta Skeggs, Grace
Guessford, Lillian West, Elmer Pritch-
ard, John Hutchison.
Sd grade-LIllian Alfree, Virginia
Wells. Davis Stats, Bradford Naylol
ROLAND Austin, Henry Graves, William
Pinder, Elizabeth Watts.
I'd grade-Willie Coleman. Walter NJ.
Lee, Dallas Carrow, Walter H, Lee,
Martha Weldon, John Reynolds, Kath-
arine Wiggin, Edna Jones.
1st grade-Clara Vanhorn, Violet
Wilber, Gladys Austin, Frank Wells,
Mahlon Graves, Edward Pinder, Nina
Wiley.
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PENINSULA FARMERS

The past year was not q profitable
one for Peninsula farmers, but we look
forward to 1916 to be good year for
them. With every city in the country
| and every place north and south that
has manufacturing enterprises, busy
the people have money and they will
need all the fruit that can be raised
all the wheat and corn products-all the
vegetables and fowls that can be sup
piled and as a consequence the demand
will be great and prices firm From
every other section of the country but
the Peninsula there is great prosperity
among the farmers even now, and their
crops were never better and prosperity
never greater than in 1915 The story
of 1915 on the Peninsula is told by
Dun's Comn ercial Agency and it is not
a very pleasant one to read. The Viii
mington Morning News says: 1.-The
wheat crop was from 30 to 40 per cent.
less than during 1914, and the corn crop
40 per cent less. This loss, of course,
has seriously affected the farmers, CIV
ing them less money to spend. Not
only this but the farmers have had
much difficulty securing labor, a diff
Guilty that is not likely to be soon over
come. Thus while the expenses of the
farmers have been higher in almost
every direction, their incomes have
been lower, and consequently their pur-
chasing power has been reduced.
Not only have the Peninsula farmers
been disappointed in their light
grain crops, but the pack of tomatoes
was far less during 1915 than in
1914, and therefore, ssfewer toma-
toes were tsold bo the farmers. The !
Gamers during 1914 outran the demand |
and they slowed down last year. Not |
so many cases of tomatoes are now on |
hand and probably the stock will soon
be disposed of. so that the coming year
will be much brighter for the farmers
who raise tomatoes and for the Gamers.
An encouraging sign for them is the |
price Of canned tomatoes.
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Exciting Class Game

A series of Basketball games, for
the championship of the High School
was begun last Friday night, January
18th, when the Seniors were badly de-
feated- by the Freshmen. Their defeat
was due to the absence of one of their
best players. The lineup was as fol-
lows; Freshmen-Grace Brady, for
ward; Grace Carpenter forward; Bertha
Ratledge, center; Florencs Kohl, guard
Millie Rosenberg, guard; sub. Frances
Cochran, guard. Seniors Helen Nc
Whorter, forward; Fannie Rosenberg,
forward Edna Carpenter. center; Ger
trude Palmer, guard; Jessie Kohl,
guard
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LEWES SUFFRAGE CLUB

Mrs. William Marshall was elected
chairman Of the Lewes branch of the
Congressional Union for Woman Suf-
frage at meeting held at her home in
Lewes on Saturday afternoon. Other
officers of the organization are as fol-
lows: Mrs. Walter Virdin, first vice
president; Mrs. Charles Johnston, sec
ond vice-president; Mrs. Thomas Car
penter, third vice president; Mrs. JOS
eph Metcalf, secretary; W. F. Atkins,
treasurer.
Miss Clara Louise Rowe, the organ.
izer for Delaware, was the speaker of
the afternoon. She outlined the work
for the branch and explained the policy
of the Congressional Union. The COM
mittee will make immediate arrange
ments to have a meeting for the tour
lists, Mrs. Victor dupont, Mrs. Florence
Bayard Hilles and Miss Ella Reigal.
when they arrive in Lewes in their tour
of the State. Miss Rowe said that the
object of this tour was to arouse public
sentiment and to arrange with each
branch to send delegates to a county
conference later.
Miss Rowe also gave a short suffrage
talk and said in part: 'In II States
women have voice in deciding their
own affairs, in planning the conditions
under which they must live. The wo-
men of the Western States have found
the ballot such an asset in their greater
housekeeping that they are willing to
send US help, and give their support and
strength to the unfranehsed women of
the east. "
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Firemen Elect Directors

The annual meeting of the Chesa
pealke City Volunteer Fire Company
No. l, wrs held Thursday. and the fol
lowing directors were elected to serve
for 1916 ; c. P. w. Lake. JOSEPH
Schafer, Jr., George Morgan, Charlie:
c. Banks and A. E. Hague. William
Schafer was elected chief engineer AMI
John M. Reed, Jr., chief pipeman.