Middletown transcript., 1916-11-18

Cecil County Commissioners have ap-
pointed DIR. Daniel Bratton assessor for
Elkton.
Milton town council has rented va
cant lot in which automobiles win be
parkedhereafter,
The Wilmington Law and Order So
ciety today will file remonstrances g
gainst feur old licensed places.
For the fourth time within. two years
the lO-year-old son Of Joseph William
Ward fell near Georgetown and broke
a leg.
George Barr, master mechanic at the
Bait plant of the Penn-Seaboard Steel
Corporation at New Castle, for 30
years, has resigned.
A panic occurred in shirt factory in
Greenwood Friday when a gasoline tank
exploded and several of the workers
were seriously burned.
Wilmington ice cream manufacturers
have decided to boost the price five
to 10 cents quart and to redace the
size of plates sold1at retail
ProfessorA. c. Whittier, assistant
chemist at the Delaware College expert
ment station, has'refused an offer to go
to the New Mexico experiment station.
By the failure of Kent county voters
to mark across in each Of the squares
for electors on their tickets. the Dem
Gratis lost SO and the Republicans II
votes.
The New Castle Levy Court has or
dered $12, 1863, Is paid to James l.. Vim
cent, contractor for the new Third
street bridge, in Wilmington, in final
settlement.
Several new contracts for buildings
have been put out at Rehoboth in the
past month, but the scarcity of carpen-
ters at tat place is causing a slowness.
in the work. -
Democrats of New Castle and the
surrounding country met in the Town
Hall recently to discuss plans for
monster celebration either Monday or
Tuesday night.
The Kolb Baking Companysof Phila-
delphia, was fined $25 and cost in the
Wilmington General Sessions Court for
selling loaf of bread of less than
standard weight.
Jesse A. Wright, of Seaford, the in
ventor and patentee of a fire alarm and
fog horn combined, has been in several I
New Jeasey towns during the past week,
where he is installing the service.
The trackmen on the P. B. h W.
Railroad at Elkton on strike on
for an increase, in wages.
They appointed committee to confer
with the officials to settle their trouble
R.H. Dunham, president of the Her.
cules Powder Company, aroused from
sleep by burglars breaking into his
home in Wilmington, frightened them
away by turning on the electric lights
The Delaware Anti tuberculosis So
ciety has invited the Wilmington BoarC
of Education to enter in the open, air
school at Hope Farm all pupils in the
city school who have tubercular tenden-
cies.
Delaware oystermen are making COM
plants in not having the protection of
the oyster guard or police boat in Della
ware Bay. There has been no watch
boat in the Bay for more than FIVE
months.
Bishop William F. Mcdowell, of |
Washington, D. c., will preside at the
next session of the Wilmington Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
which will be held at Seaford, begin
ming on March 81, 1917.
In his report for October to the Will
mington City Court, Frank Stout,
special agent in non-support cases,
showed he had collected $11O, ,618. 30
from recreant husbands since the non
support law became effective a. few
years ago.
A committee of Peoria, Ill, women
which has been Investigating the high
prices of food has announced that pota-
toes by the car load are being dumped
into the Illinois River to maintain the
record prices Potatoes are now selling
at Peoria, for,upward Of 81 bushel
Ex-State Senator, j.. E. Dutton, a
prosperous farmer, of near Seaford, is
a1ucky farmer this year. This year be
has an over abundance Of sweet pota-
toes, apd owing to the high prices, ex-
pectssto reap,a rich harvest. Some of
his potatoes were weighed last Satur-
day as taken from the ground and
single potatoes weighed as high as four
and one-half pounds. and averaged from
10 to is large potatoes to the hill.