Middletown transcript., 1916-03-18
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

1lInS W SbdIC L yOu1 sprung duNSI tiSlHS
This is the month for pruning tree
and vines.
Snow storms seem to be a daily oc
curance of March.
March, which came in like a lamb. ha!
been roaring like a lion nearly evel
since.
Work on the dyke at Port Penn will
be resumed as soon as the weather
permits.
John Hager, of Chesapeake City has
been appointed to the Naval Academy
by Senator Blair Lee.
If the price of gasoline continues to
rise, our noble friend, the horse, will
have the laugh on us yet.
Everything goes--when there's some
push behind it. What are you doing
for the progress and welfare of your
town?
Harry Gill, of Townsend, has been
showing freak chicken the past week
which had two livers, two gizzards, two
hearts and two craws.
Steamer "Frankie'' running from
Smyrna to Philadelphia, which has been
laid up since December will resume its
trips Monday next, March goth.
A Boy Scout movement has been
started in Dover with the election of NJ.
o. Pence as Scout master; Harry Heite,
secretary; Marvel Baxter, bugler.
Negotiations are pending for the pur-
chase of the caanery of W. Harvey
Records, at Blackbird, to be converted
into a shelI-loading and fuse plant.
William Ball, OF Delaware City. clerk
of the senate at the last Legislature. is
mentioned as a candidate for Repre-
sentative from St. Georges hundred.
The 112th company carried off the
honors in the indoor meet in the post
gymnasium fort DUPONT Tuesday nj ight,
getting first place in all three events.
A gun club was organized in Delaware
City Thursday, in the engine house, for
the purpose of holding trap shoots and
to stimulate interest in the game laws.
Some one reported that they heard
the chirping of robin this week Per-
haps this is so, but the snow stor.r
must have driven poor robin redbreast
away.
Because of the success Middletown
has had in combining the work of tax
collecting with the duties of a town
clerk, other towns are investigating
the system and may adopt it.
Several hundred pounds of milk were
lost when the auto truck driven by
George F. Richards, for the Middle
town Farms, upset on Tuesday, when
the steering gear went wrong.
John Heldmyer, Jr., real estate
broker has sold two building lots be-
longing to Frederick Brady, one located
On Cochran street, the other on South |
Broad street, to Elias NJ. Shallcross.
Only the most superstitious will now
argue that the ground hogis not a fake
We have had nearly all of our severe
weather since February 2, when his
dictatorship came out from his
quarters, and failed to see
lis shadow.
Captain James S. Coulter of the Army |
Medical Corps, stationed at Fort du
oont, received orders, Saturday night,
@ proceed at once to Fort Sam Hous-
on, Texas, presumably to be assigned |
@ duty along the Mexican border. He
started Monday.
The regular monthly meeting of the
oarent-Teacher Association was held
Friday, in the assembly rooom of the
chool. DIR. Charles A. Wagner, con-
inued his talk of January IA, outlining
lew ideas and needed reforms in our
educational system.
An interdenominational committee
onsisting of members of all the Prot
stant churches in Smyrna, has been
appointed to entertain delegates to the
kent County Sunday School Association
which will meet at Smyrna in April,
uring the week of Easter.
Andrew Eliason, who for twenty
ears has been connected with the
'apelle Hardware Company, has re-
igned to accept position in the offices
f. the dupont Company. Mr.: Elason
J the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
!. Eliason, of this town, and his friends
ere are glad of his success in his work.
Carroll Woolleyhan, a rural carrier,
eported to the Chesapeake City post
flee, with his wagon groaning under
he weight of whole hog one day the
asst week. The porker had to ne di-
ided into five parcels in order not to
iOlate the postal restrictions. The
ostage on the hog to Philadelphia was
l.86. :
AT meeting of the Board Of Educa-
ion of the Smyrna Public Schools,
thursday evening, it was unanimously
oted to apply to the Kent County Levy
'ourt for commission to appraise and
ondemn the Hutchison, Barnes and
Iovles lands so to admit of nvtnnd;ncr