Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

Wheat is heading.
Foretastes of summer.
Epidemic-Spring fever.
Strawberry shortcake next.
Early peas are looking fine.
Scarlet clover being harvested.
Mosquitoes have come to visit the
people.
Smyrna is having Sunday train service
and the branch road meets all regular
trains at Clayton.
Hon. Josiah Marvel, will address the
graduating class of the Middletown
High School, on Friday evening, June
10Th.
After June first, the hours at the
public library will be: Tuesdays, Z to
8. 80; Fridays, to 8.3O; Saturdays, 8 to
5P. M.
The rose-the queen of summer
fowers-is here again, Frightening
yards and trellises with bloom and
fragrance.
Evans E. Hemphill, of Delaware City,
has been placed on the retired list after
having been in the service of the P. w.
& B. R. R. 81 years as engineer.
Miss Charlotte Peverley entertained
few friends at cards last week. Mrs.
D. w. Lewis won the first prize and
Miss Josephine Cochran the second.
Unclaimed Letters. The following
list of letters remain unclaimed in the
post-office for the week ending May
25th, 1916: Miss Carrie Lloyd, Nelson
Alfree
The commencement exercises of the
Chesapeake City High School will be
held on Monday evening, June s. The
address will be delivered by Hon. David
L. Lewis.
E. H Beck, real estate broker, has
sold the farm belonging to William G.
Jones, containing 200 acres, located
near Cecilton, Md, to Lambert W.
Davis for $40, 10000.
The ladies of Warwick NJ. P. Church
will hold strawberry and ice cream
festival in the P. o. S. of A. Hall, on
Wednesday evening, June 7th. Come
and enjoy q pleasant evening.
With the roof of Smyrna's new Fed
eral building nearing completion work
is progressing faster and with no ap-
parent delays in sight, the building
work should be hastened along.
The strawberry crop for 1916 will be
larger than that of last season because
of the increased acreage set out, and
should the weather be favorable, pos
sibly a record crop will be grown.
An excursion boat from Philadelphia,
with 100G persons on board, grounded in
the Delaware River off Port Penn, Sun
day, and stuck fast in the mud for
several hours, but was finally foated
without damage.
During the severe thunder storm of
last Thursday afternoon two valuable
horses were struck by lightning and in
stantly killed on the 'urnel J. Lynch
farm, near Mt Pleasi It, now belong
ing to Miss Annie aid Miss Lavinia
Lynch.
At special meeting of the Citizens
Hose Company, of Smyrna, held on
Tuesday evening, May %, an order was
placed with the American LaFrance
Fire Engine Company, of Elmira, N.
Y, for one of their new type IL triple
combination chemical and pumping mo-
tor engines.
A dance will be held at Augustine
Park, Thursday night, June 9Th, 1916,
for the benefit of the Port Penn Ath-
letic Association. Oglesby's Orchestra
will furnish music The dance pavilion
has been rebuilt, and enlarged, making
it the largest and finest dancing floor in
Delaware. Admission Gentlemen Soc,
Ladies free.
L. L. Maloney, treasurer of the Sc
curity Trust and Safe Deposit Company
of Wilmington, residing In Townsend,
entertained a weekend house party at
his summer home at Noxentown. About
thirty friends from Wilmington We're
present. The time was spent in fish
ing, swimming and grabbing, another
weekend party will be given starting
July and lasting until the 9th.
Word has been received in Delaware
City, that the One Hundred and Twelfth
Company which left there recently for
the Mexican border, has been assigned
to duty at Del Rio, Texas, about 120
miles from Fort Sam Houston, and near
the international boundary line. First
Lieutenant P. S. Gage, who left with
the company, is now ill in the Base
Hospital, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Memorial Day was observed at Fort
dupont, Fort Delaware and Fort Mott,
with no duty except the necessary
guard. A salute was fired at noon, fol-
lowing which the flag which had been
at half-mast was raised to the top of
the flag pole. A firing squad from Fort
DUPONT, under Sergeant Harry N. Clay,
went to the St. Georges cemetery,
where they fired volleys over the graves
of soldier who served in the Revolu-
tionary under General Washington, in
the War of 1919 and the Civil War and