Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Time to trim your grape vines.

The shortest month about gone.
Spring will soon be here.
Brldgeville and Marshalton are to be
provided with new postoffices.
Politicians are already bobbing up for
the various State and counties.
Senator Salisbury has gone to Au-
gusta, Ga, to recuperate from grip
The Windsor Hotel at Milford, will be
remodeled into apartments suitable for
families.
It is reported that over one half OF
the peach buds were killed by the recent
cold spell.
Delaware students at the University
of Pennsylvania have formed Della
ware State Club.
A valuable trotting horse owned by
R. J. Clendaniel at, Glendale, became
mad and was shot.
A weeks campaign to secure S1O, ,OOO
for the Boy Scout movement has been
started in Wilmington.
Ordinance Sergeant, Edward B. Lacey,
formerly at Fort du Pont, has left for
the Philippine Islands.
The StateRoads Commission estimates
that it will cost $1OO, 600 to put concrete
bridge across the Chester at Chester
town.
A second unsuccessful attempt was
made Monday night, to steal horst
from the stable of ]. W. Neikirk,
Elkton.
A 1O4-pound raccoon was served at a
coon dinner" given by Clinton Hall, of
Bridgeville, who killed the animal on
hunting trip.
Milford will have one of the largest
Easter leap year dances this season
The affair is being managed by the
young women of the social set.
At the age of "a years, Mrs. Lena A.
Rayne, near Georgetown. does her owl
housework and washing, besides carry
ing on large farm with the help of one
laborer
The Town Commissioners Of Reho-
both Beach are trying to make arrange
ments with the Richards Dredging
Company to fiji in the lake back of the
Hotel Henlopen.
The sale Of small farm and the right
of way for the Dupont Boulevard was
made by w. S. Die lerson, of Eilendaie,
lasC week for 81, TOO This clears the
right of way to Lincoln.
DIR. Charles A. Wagner, State Con
missioner of Education, addressing Del
aware and Diamond State oranges at a
joint meeting at Newport, pointed out
the necessity for centralizing authority
over the schools.
Automobile drivers with heavy ma
chimes have been having trouble during
the last few weeks whenever the wealth
er has be var n, the frozel road
breakin- through an in -or,t cas-
stalling h = chimes.
Mrs. An a. t't,tJu ", i, 0, Geor-e
town, has d le, on which she grew on
lemon tree about Is inches tall, which is
as large as a grape fruit. The tree had
quite number OF lemons on it but they
dropped off before ripening.
An auto Vi line has been started
to run between Chestertown and Elkton
by Philadelphia parties. This line uses
the Studebaker car and will run a car
every hour during the day and will oper-
ate on Sunday during the Summer.
There will be no change in the present
regulation governing the placing of fish
stake nets in Chesapeake Bay The
decision was reached at a meeting of
the Board of Fish Stake Regulations of
the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries
held Tuesday.
Hon. William ]. Bryan will lecture in
the Wilmington Tabernacle on Monday
evening, March 6, under the auspices of
the building committee of the Union
Methodist Episcopal Church, of Will
mington. ''The War in Europe and
its Lesson to Us" will be his theme.
James Brown died at his home. No.
GOT West Fourth street, Wilmington,
on Saturday night Mr.. Brown was a
clerk in the office of County Treasurer.
Charles H. Lippincott Several weeks
ago he was stricken with t4PAeia fever
and had recovered when he suffered
relapse coupled.
Graduates of Delaware College living
in Philadelphia met last Saturday at
banquet in the Hotel Aldine and organ
lied the alumni of Delaware College in
Philadelphia George organ, of the
class of 1875, was elected president,
and Edgemont Horn, who is secretary
of the National Alumni of Delaware
College, was elected secretary.
The completion of the organization OF
New Castle County marks the first or
ganization by women of the State of
Delaware into political divisions. The
Congressional Union for Woman Suff-
rage intends to celebrate this moment
GUS event in the history of equal suffrage
movement by business conference
and luncheon at the Hotel DUPONT, Will