Middletown transcript., 1916-03-25
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Farmers getting busy.

DOOy OOclal OF klrkW0Od, SATURDAY.
night, in Kirkwood Hall.
Mr.. Jay c. Davis has moved his family
from this town to the farm he purchased
last year at State Road.
MIR. ]. G. Bragdon is having erected
very attractive garage, in the rear OF
his home on South Broad street.
Miss Elsie R. Jones delightfully."- en-
tertained the U. T. C. Sewing Circle at
her home on Lake street on Monday
evening.
A large milk station is to be erected
at KIrkwood, as soon as the weather
permits, for the benefit of the farmers
of that section.
The Queen Esther Circle is planning
for Parcel Post Sale to be held in the
lecture room of Bethesda M. E. Church
on Thursday evening, April 18th.
Frederick Blome Sr has purchased the
double dwelling on Crawford street,
owned by Fred C. Roberts, of Sharon
Hill, now occupied by William Dixon and
James Crouch, the consideration being
$1,000.
Horace David, who recently moved to
Smyrna from Odessa, has purchased
2-ton truck and will run regular trips
between Smyrna and Wilmington,
carrying freight and doing general
hauling.
The four members of the 1916 gradu-
ating class of the local High School are
about to begin work on their essays to
be finished by June. The members are
Edna Carpenter, Jessie Kohl, Frank
Poole and Frank McWhorter.
The sun crossed the line" Monday,
of course. that spring, with
its balmy breezes, laden with perfume
from the flower-covered hills of New
Castle, will begin at once to be waited
here and there and everywhere
Thomas H. Hutt, of Delaware City,
who has a pen in the international egg
laying competition at Newark still |
ranks third, with total of 375 eggs IN
the 19 weeks of the contest. One biri |
N his pen has record of Lady Eglan-
tine in last years competition.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
oany has further added to it's wonderful
facilities for accommodating the public
oy permitting in the future the sender
If money by telegraph to also send a
Message in connection with it. This will
frequently make one telegram in the
.uture take the place of two in the past
Unclaimed Letters. The following
ist of letters remaining unclaimed in
he post-office, for the week ending
March 16, 1916: Mrs. Irene Watson,
special delivery. Mrs. Emily Black,
Hiss Irene Watson, Miss Alice Board
ey, Miss Beatrice Clifton, Miss Ella
'iller, Roy Lee, Eddie Mailer, Jack
Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. CHM, of the
Levels" gave a birthday dinner at
heir home on Sunday, in honor of their
wo daughters, Mrs. A Woodall Coch-
an and Miss Lillian CHM. Those present
7ere: Mr.. and Mrs. Dan NJ. Cochran
nd daughter, Mr.. and Mrs George A.
inn and son, Austin, Mr.. and Mrs A.
VoOdall Cochran and Mr.. Harry M.
urris.
Hoffecker Brothers & Hall, VINO for
he past eight years have been packing
exclusively at Smyrna Land
lg, have discontinued tomato canning
nd will turn their attention this season
} canning corn. With this in view
1ey have sold their tomato canning
will ship it to Baltimore,
nd in its place will install an up-to- {
ate plant for canning corn. g
The directors of the Mutual Building
I'D Loan Association held their forty
lird annual meeting Wednesday night.
he officers are: President, J. Frank a
cWhorter; vice-president, Martin B. n
urris; directors, Richard L. Price, v
oseph G. Jolls, Daniel w. Stevens,
noch G. Alice, Jesse L. Shepherd, ii
dward H. Beck, Walter S. Letherbury Il
fired Green and John C. Green. d
March temperature records for the
ST 80 years were broken Friday when
official minimum of 19 degrees was
ached. Not since 1877 has there been
day this late in March as cold. On
arch 18 of that year minimum of 9
grees was reached. The only other
ars when cold anything like as severe
as experienced during the period was
1900, when on March 18, IA degrees c.
as registered and in 1902 when on r
arch 19 the mercury dropped to 20 u
grees. n
h
This is good time of the year for all M
siness men to equip themselves for P
e eyear with business stationary-letter Sc
ads, bill heads, statements, envelopes, W
otters, advertising matter, or what al
er they need throughout the busy "
lling-time of the year, that is now m
ming, special booklets, or cards, or OIL
her helps toward selling, should be al
cpared before tile time of their actual al
ee and in the printers slack time, tr