Middletown transcript., 1917-11-17
STATE AND PENINSULA

While operatA 4 corn shelter at
Townsend, Samue, Robinson, colored,
lost two fingers.
Girls of the Rehoboth Village Improve-
ment Society by minstrel show ,.aised
$l00 for town library.
!. The New Castle County Teachers
Institute was held this week in the
Alexis l. DUPONT School.
Running since May Is, the canning
factory at Greenwood is still busy put
ting up both fruit and vegetables.
Chestnuts at SIS bushel are proving
profitable crop, heretofore neg elected
by farmers of the Georgetown, region,
The 18th annual meeting 10 the
Maryland State Teachers Association
will be held in Baltimore, November
26-28.
Five large boxes of toys and candies
have been shipped by the Ne w Castle
Red Cross for children behind the French
war 'front.'
Vandals broke into the Y. w. C. A.
headquarters in Wilmington and cut to
pieces several scarts the young women
were knitting for soldiers.
The 31st graduating class of Goldey
College held its gradu n exercises in
The Playhouse, Wilmington, on Thurs
day evening, November Is.
Twelve new cars of the pay-as-you-
enter type have been placed on the lines
of the Wilmington &Philadelphla Trac-
ton Company, in Wilmington,
The girl members of the 1917 class
Of the Wilmington High School were
given a reception by members of the
High School Alumnae Association.
Next Sunday members Of Holy Trim
ity Lutheran Church, in Wilmington,
will unvell tablet in memory of the
first Swedish settlers in the vicinity.
AS an experiment to be tried out for
60 days, the Wilmington & Philadelphia
Traction Company has established an
all-night trolley car service in Whining
ton.
Governor Townsend has appointed
Hervey P. Hall of Smyrna a member
of the Kent County School Commission.
to succeed w. Denny Hazel of Smyrna,
resigned.
More than $500, ,OOO, 900 was spent on
highway construction and maintenance
in the United States in 1916. Of this
amount 16 southern States spent approx
imately $50, 100000.
With 40 young men in Elkton declar
ing their intention Of becoming men.-
bers of the State Guard, a meeting will
be held the latter part of the week to
organize a company.
Wilmington police are mystified by
the actions Of burglars who have been
breaking into numerous homes and
stealing nothing but clothing, ignoring
silve1ware, jewelry arr even money.
Pay of all employees of the Atlas Pow
der Company has been increased Is per
cent, becoming effective November l,
making total of 30 per cent. increase
in LAY the company has made since
May l.
Two schools fot training young men
in radio work for tie Army Signal Corps
are to be establish ea by the Department
of Civil Engineering of Delaware Col
lege, one in New PArk and one in VIII
mington.
Four new l.. lC Smith typewriters
have been added 20 the College equip
ment at the Women's College. Some
instruction is to be given and then the
machines will be for the general use Of
the students.
The greatest insurance selling cam
paign in history will be undertaken soon
by the government to induce every SOL
der and sailor to buy life insurance
policies, provided at low rates under the
recent act of Congress.
Bids are being asked by the authori-
ties of Kert and Sussex counties for
the construction Of twin thirty-foot
span reinforced concrete bridge over
the Mispilion river at Milford, and the
contracts will. be awarded Nov. 27.
Returns which have been complied
from all portions Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad system, including the lines
east and west of Pittsburg, show that
total Of l52, 456 employees subscribed
to the second Liberty Loan, taking
altogether SO. 051, 700.
Adolph Segal. of Philadelphia, who
said he has New York, Philadelphia,
and Wilmington capital, told Mayor
Lawson he planned to erect the largest
sugar refinery in the world here, with
1000 homes for its workers, and, as a