Middletown transcript., 1917-10-06
STATE AND PENINULA

Falling from Wilmington trolley car
John Clough was cut about the head and
face.
DR.. F. H. Edsall has been appointed
field secretary by the State tuberculosis
Commission.
DR.. R. K. Greenfield has been appoint
ed to the new position Of students secle
tary at Delaware College.
An addition to cost s35, 1000 is to be
made to the plant Of the Jessup & Moore
Paper Company, in Wilmington.
The Elkton milk dealers have given
notice that the retail price of milk will
be increased to II cents quart Monday.
Contracts have been let for So seven
room houses in Wilmington and plans
are being made for 100 more next spring.
The body of white male infant was
found in the Brandywine Creek at Will
mngtcn, the second in less than week.
Charles L. Horsey has been elected
memDer of the Laurel School B. ard in
place Of Colonel Sirman d. Marvel, re-
signed.
AS many as 1000 women a month,
mostly frou. farms, are said to visit the
restroom established by the city of Phoe-
nix, Arizona.
Members of St. Ptul's Church, at
Eareville, have set October as the
day for their flag day exercises with
special services.
The supply Of coal in Georgetown has
been exhausted and dealers have been
notified that 1T will be several weeks be-
fore any can be shipped
Kent Island will not be used as a Gov
ernment proving ground, the matter
having been decided permanently by the
committee in Congress-
The fire committee of Wilmington
Council has ordered all the fire companies |
in the city to be prepared next Monday |
to 60 through pumping test.
Frank Gu>torky, Delaware militia
man, is in the Delaware Hospital, suffer-
ing from injuries sustained when he lell
from New Castle trolley car.
Hilsbolo, Md, has not had case of
typhoid fever lii 20 years, according to
reports. This speaks we'll for the san-
tary conditions of the town and sur
roundings.
The Wilmington and Philadelphia
Traction Company announces it will not
oppose the pending ordinance limiting
the speed Of trolley cars to one mile in
five minutes.
Beet sugar producers in conference
with the food administration reached
unanimous agreement by which the
staple retail price of sugar will soon be
about 8 cents a pound.
The anniversary Of Barratt's Chapel,
"The Cradle of Alethodism, will be OBJ
served on Sunday, Oct. Ia. The Rev.
DR.. Charles NJ. Boswell of Philadelphia,
will be the speaker of the day.
Eight of the nine scoutmasuers in Will
mington have enlisted in the military or
naval service and the Local Council of
BOY Scouts has started campaign to
enlist men to take their places.
SO great is the demand for tomatoes
for soup and catsup that growers about
Stanton are hauling them 80 miles by
truck to Smyrna, where from 80 cents
to 81 basket is being paid.
The annual convention of the w. c.
t. U. Of Delaware will be held in Sea-
ford on October 10, II and H. in st.
} ohn's M. E. Church The Seaford
Union will entertain the visitors
A group of military storage ware
houses will be built on the Delaware river
from which shipments will be made to
Europe. They will cover probably 1000
acres Of ground. The building will be
mostly one story and fireproot.
Announcement has been made tn;
the nation has contracted to spend S18,
2s8, 228, O85 before July l next, which
% per cent of the total ex-
penditures of all other countries in the
war for the three years up to August ]
last
The Emergency Fleet Corporation
on Friday awarded the contracts for
Government owned ship
yard on Hog Island in the Delaware
river at cost of $2O,OOO,OOO and the
building therein of 80 steel merchant
vessels. 9
Delaw are College, is to be presented
with fully equipped automobile ambu-
lance by the Delaware Branch of the .
Daughters of the American Revolution. :
II is planned to have publicS Temony /
present. v
The women Of Delaw. A j sent .
700 sets of wooden articles- 8 Anen t
on the battles Delaware. Eacsasett .
a sweater, muffler and pair s