Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-11-24
STATE AND PENINSULA

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With three cases of diph liberia in
Georgetown, quarantine has been order
ed.
A short course in agriculture is to be
added at Milford High School next
year.
New York Jews have postponed call :
ing proposed Jewish congress until peace
is declared.
Maryland Republicans captured the
lower branch of the Legislature for the
first time in years.
The Pyrites Company has taken out
permits for new buildings at its plant
in Wilmington to cost $36, 900.
The 5Oth annual meeting Of the Mary
Land State Teachers Association will
be held in Baltimore Nov. &c, %.
The u S. Dept. of Agriculture says
the best time to plant fruit trees is late
in November or early in December.
Coal has become so scarce in Will
mington that the Fuel Committee IS
considering limiting each family to one
half ton a month.
Wilmington's City Council has allow
ed the Homeopathic Hospital $4,000 for
the care of patients who cannot pay for
hospital treatment.
Dr. 6. p. Layton, of Georgetown,
has beeh appointed by Governor Town
send delegate to the waterways con-
vention in Florida.
The W lar Department is backing a
movement of citizens for new road d.
rect from Milford to the new Fort Sauls-
bury at 9 edar Beach.
Fire Oh ief Golden has taken up with
the Wilmington City Council the advisa-
bility OF providing fireboat for service
along the city water front.
Teams, working In Wilmington to
raise $40, 900, Delaware's share of the
Young Wonan's Christian Association
war fund, have collected $26, 1853 to date.
Because f'the increased cost of labor
and fuel the Harve de Grace Water
Company has, applied to the Maryland
Service Commission for increased water
rates.
Dauphin D.; Wharton Of Dover has
been made Fl rst sergeant Of Company A
! in the new battalion Of Delaware sold ers
tn he sent from Camp Dix to Camp Nc
Clelau.
The nu- krat season opens in Kent
county Nov 20 and lasts till March 25.
1t is probable both the fur and meat CT
these little animals will bring higher
prices this season.
Director Hall OF Bows Working Re-
serve saws: "We'll meet farm labor
shortage of 100000 men next year
with 10000 high school boys trained
for farm work this winter
The greatest Insurance selling cam
paign is to begin soon by the government
to induce every soldierard sailor to buy
life insurance policies, provided at low
rates under the recent act Of Congress-
SMYRNA has lust completed SSl feet
of concrete roadway on east Commerce
street and it will be opened to the pub
lie on Monday next. 1t will be furnish
cd with shoulder IF crushed stone on
each side.
Sixteen trained nurses of Delaware
have formed the Delaware Division of
the Red Cross Nursing Service and have
been ordered by the government to hold
themselves in readiness to 60 to France
within short time.
Stud ants of the Women's College of
Delaware, at Newark, contributed $1,000
to the Y. NJ. c. A. war campaign fund
an, average of nearly $40 per student,
the largest per capita for any similar
institution reported to date.
Sussex county never had a larger crop
of nuts than this fall. In addition to
chinquapin, hickory, beech, hazel and
other nuts, which have very little COM
mercial value, there are large crops of
pecans, chestnuts and walnuts.
At the instance of Wilmington cler-
gymen connected with the anti-1icense
committee, Magistrate Stradley has is
sued eight warrants for as many men
charging voting or registering illegally
at the recent special election.
The Milford Creamery has been a
warded the contract for supplying but
ter to the State Hospital at Farnhurst
for the ensuing three months at 40 cents
per pound 1t takes about $275 worth
of butter each month to supply the Hos
pital.
Charles H. Grantland, of Wilmington
appointed secretary of the Industrial
Accident Board at an annual salary O
$500, said he would not give up his pres
ent position of State Child Labor Inspec
tor until he consults with the Labor
Commission of Delaware.