Middletown transcript., 1916-03-25

organizing community Club in Cecil
ton.
| The Cecil County School Board has
selected May II. for the annual school
rally in Elkton.
The officers of the coast defenses of
the Delaware engaged in a war game
at Fort DUPONT, Tuesday afternoon.
The characteristics of the light on
Fenwicks Island shoal and gas bouy will
be changed on April Z, to flash every IA
seconds.
Thomas Matthews, Deputy Register
of Wills for Kent county, aged SO years
was found dead in bed at his home in
Chestertown, recently.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
Child Labor Commission of Delaware
was held in Dover in the Senate Cham
Der, Tuesday morning at IL O'Clock
At FELTON, one of the largest religious
revivals in years is now in progress. The
pastor of the local church is being as
sisted in his campaign by the Berge
sisters, singing evangelists.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co., has
added long-needed improvement at
the old Newark Station by enclosing
the shed on the southside of the tracks
and the installation of steam radiators
DR.. Charles M. Wharton, of Dover, a
state senator, has been appointed a
member of the State Commission for the
Blind. He will fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Mrs. Walter
| Morris.
The two-story barn, chicken house,
wagon shed and 1000 young chickens on
the farm of James Duggan, two miles
from Newport were destroyed by fire
at o'clock Sunday morning. The fire
originated in a chicken house in which
a brooder lamp had been placed.
The Kent County Republican Com
mittee Thursday afternoon indorsed
General A. R. Benson, of Dover, and
John w. Herring, of Milford, as dele
gates to the National Republican Con-
vention. Expected opposition by the
friends of former United States Senator
| Alice did not materialize.
Baltimore oyster dealers have COM
bined in asking the legislature for re,
fund of $40 600 paid by them on the /
cent bushel tax. The Supreme Court
has decided the tax illegal. There is
also an equal sum due small sellers scat
tered throughout Maryland, but these
will probably be lost sight Of.
Superintendent of the Sussex County
Almshouse, Leroy Tyndall reports that
there has not been death at the insti-
tuition this winter and at the present
time none of the inmates are sick. The
buildings are in good condition, and he
expects to have large acreage of all
kinds of produce this summer.
A scarcity of fish is expected this
year. 1t is claimed that shad and her
ring come from the North Sea. But the
explosion of dynamite, submarine mines
and tOrpedoes and the firing of large
guns, it is thought, kill the fish before
they can start on their journey. Next.
Wonder if war will effect egg supply?
Delaware College has organized its
base ball team for the season with
Donald Price as manager. The team
will be composed of some good ball
players and from all indications they
will have fast aggregation on the dia-
mond. Allen Lauritsen, of Lewes, who
was a scrub last year, is working hard
to become regular.
Much anxiety has been felt over the
prospects for fruit crop this season as
many believe the buds of all trees have
been killed. Although the buds com
menced to swell during the warm
weather which prevailed during the
latter part of December, yet the sudden
change is believed to have stopped fur
ther development and thus saved them.
Samuel Truitt, a 12-year-old colored
boy, of Delmar, died suddenly in a
woods last Friday, where he had gone
to cut wood. The lad had been given a
drink of whiskey, and when he began
to act strangely he lay down. When
he did not recover a physician was
called, but the lad was dead. A cor
oner's jury decided that the boy died of
causes unknown to the jury
} Neatly bound copies of the new Re-
! vised Code of Delaware have been de-
!, livered to the State Librarian, at Dover,
and are now ready for distribution to
: all persons who may desire to purchase
; them. The books are printed on excel
lent paper, in good clear type and are
bound in durable and attractive covers.
The State has decided to sell them for
practical ly the cost of printing, which
is 5 copy.
A newspaper is no sense a child of
charity. 1t earns twice over every
dollar it receives, and it is second to nc
. enterprise in contributing to the up
building of a community. Its patrons
reap more benefits from its pages thar