Middletown transcript., 1916-02-12
HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

st. Valentines Day.
A meeting will be held in Delaware
City, next Wednesday evening, to or
ganize a Parent Teachers Association.
Professor C. A. Mcf;ue, of Delaware
College, lectured under the auspices of
the Delaware City Country Club, Fri
day afternoon.
Pontiac Tribe, No. 138, Improved
Order of Red Men, of Cecilton, are pre-
pairing to celebrate their fourteenth an
niversary, on March 6.
Miss Mabel Price, Of near town, has
been appointed teacher of the public
school at Sassafras, Md, Miss Helen z.
Davis, having resigned.
Traffic in the Chesapeake Canal is
at standstill while the St. Georges
locks are being repaired.
Hospital Sergeant Butler, OF the Fort
Mott Hospital has been transferred to
Fort DUPONT to take the place of former
Sergeant Knapp, retired.
A tire on an automobile owned by
Mrs. W. J. Armstrong, of st. Georges,
was cut by some boys, who s.ashed tires
on two other automobiles.
Members of the Delaware City troop
of Boy Scouts are preparing minstrel
show for the the benefit of the proposed
camping trip of tbe troop this summer.
Mr.. Edmund Blome, who for the past
seven years has conducted bakery on
North Broad street, has discontinued
business, and will remove his family
from town in few weeks.
The regular meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be
held on Monday evening next, at the
home of the president, Mrs. J. F. Nc
Whorter, at half past seven O'Clock.
John Heldmyer, Jr., real estate
broker, has bought from James A.
Hastings the mill property known as
''Voshell Mill" also, five building lots
on Lake street, this town, from w. D.
Evans.
Mr.. John Heldmyer, Jr., has opened
an up to-date meat market in the stand
recently occupied by W. C. Jones, Jr.,
on North Broad street. The Transcript
wishes him success in his new under
taking.
John and Harrison Butler and Ernest
Rhodes, the three alleged ring-leaders
in a serious race riot in town, in No
vember, were acquitted by jury in the
General Sessions Court in Wilmington,
last week.
The ladies of Kirkwood M. E. Church
will hold an oyster supper on Friday
and Saturday evenings, February 18th
and 18th. Ice cream, cake, homemade
candy, fancy articles for sale. Proceeds
for the benefit of the church.
John Heldmyer, Jr., has sold the
Records Mills, located at Blackbird, to
Theodore Ferguson. Consideration
$4,000. Also the Joseph Shippers farm,
located on the Mill Lane Road, contain
ing 18 acres to Harvey K. Smith.
The St. Georges Marsh Company held
their annual meeting this week. The
following officers wete elected for the
coming year: James H. C. Gam, treas
urer; William R. Jester, Stewart L.
Beck and Edward Webb, managers.
MIR. and Mrs. Samuel C. Pennington,
of Philadelphia, are rejoicing in the birth
of a son, Ross Carlton Pennington. by
name. Mr.. Pennington was a former
resident of Middletown, and is grand
son of the we'll known Captain Samuel
Pennington. Mrs Pennington was Miss
Jean Ross, of Boston, Mass.
Unclaimed Letters. The following
list of letters remaining unclaimed in
the Post Office, for the week ending Feb.
Sd: Mrs. West Blockson, Mrs. Jose
phine Swetman, Mrs. Addie Butler,
Mrs. Elizabeth Claifton, Miss Edna
Stevens, Miss Mary Empson, Miss
Maggie Turner, H. S. Barker, John
Parvis ~, ]. L. Poore, George A.
Wilson.
The prices realized for horses at the
public sales in this section during the
past few weeks are far below those
received few years back, when Or
dinary farm horses were bringing from
$125 to $175 each. Those offering good
cows are realizing high prices, but or
dinary cows like horses are not bring
ing as much money as they did a few
years ago.
Many farmers who have been grow
ing sugar corn for the numerous can
neries in lower New Castle County, are
claiming that sugar corn is not profit
able crop, if grown for $500 a ton,
which has been the prevailing price for
a number of years. The high prices
they have been receiving for field corn
during the past two years has con-
vlnced them that it is more profitable
crop than the sweet corn, and in all
probability the Gamers will be COM
PEELED to increase the price this year if
they want large acreage.
Tuesday, Representative Thomas w,
MiIler's bill authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to exchange the present
Federal Building site at Newark, DEL,
passed the House by unanimous consent
and is now before the senate for con-
sideration. This bill was introduced by
Representative Miller at the instance of
the trustees of Delaware College, be-
cause the present Federal building site
encoaches upon the new college property