Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-28
STATE AND PENINSULA

ueSCrOyeu ny IRE on thursday, the loss
being estimated at $4,000.
The Grand Circle of Delaware Broth
erhood of America, will convene in
Wilmington Tuesday, August 81.
The guarantors of the annual Chau-
tauqua in Chestertown have selected
September to IL for the affair.
The Newark Board of Education has
fixed the tax rate for this year at so
cents
A small daughter of Clarence Toomey,
of Seaford, died from ptomaine poison
ing caused. it is claimed, by canned
milk
The power-launch Faro, owned by
the Charles Warner Company, sunk at
its wharf in South Wilmington.
For the purpose of giving rallying
send off to the National Guard of Sussex
County meeting will be held it Mil
ford on July 81
In the fy-swatting contest conducted
by the Wilmington Board of Health
among the school children of that city,
more than 225, 900 flies have been killed.
The work of cataloguing the Delaware
College library of about 10000 volumes
was started this week by Miss Lingen-
felter, of Drexel Institute.
Non. commissioned officers of the Del
avail militia who conducted the sue
cessful drive for recruits will be taken
on an automobile trip to Atlantic City.
The recent fremen's carnival in Elk
ton will net in the neighborhood of
$4,000, one-fourth of which will be do
mated to the Red Cross.
Charles R. Murphy. of Wilmington,
who enlisted in the Naval Reserve, has
been ordered to report to the wireless
training school at League Island.
Robert W. Gross, a graduate of
Michigan Agricultural College, recent
ly appointed assistant plant pathologlst
at the Delaware College experimental
station, has assumed his duties.
Two valuable cows, costing $500 each,
of the Holstein breed, on the farm of
Judge Daniel 0. Hastings near Dover,
died Wednesday of arsenical poison,
supposed to be Paris green from potato
plants.
The Vermont State Board of Health
has forbidden the holding of fairs.
carnivals and circuses until further
notice in order to check the spread of
infantile paralysis, GO cases having
been reported this year.
Professor Clinton 0. Houghton, of
the Delaware College faculty, has been
made collaboration of the Department
Of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology
for period covering the war.
Former Congressman Thomas w. Mil
Ter, who has been commissioned a lieu
tenant in the Delaware militia, is in the
Emergency Hospital, Washington, re-
covering from an operation.
A large number of automobiles who
were caught speeding along the State
road near Farnhurst Sunday have been
directed to appear before Magistrates,
their numbers having been taken.
Henry Coward, of Dover, has two
sons fighting in the French army and
two .ore who recently enlisted in the
U. S. regular army at Omaha, Neb.,
and az now stationed at Fort Logan,
Colo.
The Laurel school board has decided
to build the school house, to cost $685.
900, on the Dashiell property near the
Pennsylvania Railroad freight station.
As the Dashiell heirs refuse to sell the
property, the school commissioners will
appeal to the court at Georgetown for
condemnation proceedings.
The Eastern Shore Gas and Electric
Co., with headquarters at Laurel have
issued NOTICE Of ten per cent. increase
in rates. This increase is said to be
necessary on account of cost of copper
wire. coal and everything required in
the business. The company promises
That as soon as conditions become nor
NAL the old rates will be restored.
Methodist Protestant ministers of the
Maryland Annual Conference are plan
ming to attend the summer conference
of the denomination, which, it has been
announced, will be held at Westminster.
Md, from July 30 to August 3. Large
tents and small buildings will be erected
on the campus of Western Maryland
College for holding the services, and
the entire week will be spent in the
open, and not unlike the camp-meet-
ings.
The government expects the Gamers
of the country to supply large part of
the food requirements CT the troops, &C.
cording to Henry Burden, president of
the National Gamers Association, who
in letter to members Tuesday reminds