Middletown transcript., 1917-08-11

August 9Th was Big thursday at YAK
Orchard
Germany has lost l, O32, 800 dead since
the outbreak of the war.
The Quaker City Dairy Co. has clos
ed its separator at Earlevil'e.
Smyrna will have a fremen's car
nival Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, with parade
on Aug. %.
Packers in Caroline Co., are anxious
about the tomato prospects. which are
far from bright.
Miss Anna Lutz has been appointed
clerk in the office of Recorder of Deeds
Of New Castle County.
Organizer Cook has secured upwards
of 227 applications in Elkton for mem
bership in the Order of Owls.
DR.. William C. Behen, formerly of
Dover, has received an appointment as
First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve
Corps.
A movement has been started in Will
mington to raise money to buy tobacco
for Delaware soldiers when they 60 to
France.
County Engineer Wilson has desig-
mated 26 points in New Castle county
as places best suited in which to take
traffic census.
The corn crop in Sussex county is
very promising this year. The heavy
rains have brought the crops out won
dsrfully and the largest yield is expect
ed.
An ambulance costing $27OO, which
the Caesar Rodney Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution, has decid-
ed to present to the Delaware troops,
is completed.
Prospects of great blackberry sea-
son were never better than at the
present time in the vinicity of New
Castle, State Road, Red Lion and the
surrounding country.
With 95O,OO0,U00 more bushels OF
food products raised in this country
this year than last year, we are likely
to do something towards "solving the
worlds food problem. I"
The exemption board for Kent coun-
tv examined 46 registered men and
seven were excused for physical disa-
bility, and of the remaining 80, 81
claimed exemption for dependents.
Kits Hammock, long summer re-
sort along the Delaware Bay nine miles
southeast of Dover, has been sold to
Timothy E. Townsend, of Selbyville,
cousin of Governor Townsend, for S25Oo.
An American army million strong
will be on French soil within year.
That statement is made by the most
responsible men of the military estab-
lishment-the men charged with put
ting fighters into the field. reports
that it would be physically impossible
to transport 100000 men in 50 short
time may be disregarded.
The large tomato and catsup factory
of the T. A. Snider Preserve Co., at
Greenwood, the largest of its kind in
the East, began operation last Friday,
and is now working daily, including
Sunday, with about thousand en-
ployes. Supplies of fruit are being re-
ceived in car lots from Virginia and
New Jersey until the supply of home
grown stock becomes ripe.
Morris Mitchell, son of DIR. Samuel
C. Mitchell, president of Delaware
College, and John Gum, of Frankfort,
Delaware College students recently ap-
pointed by Governor Townsend second
lieutenants in the Delaware regiment,
it is understood, have declined the ap-
pointments. Both young men are now
at the officers Training Camp at Fort
Aver, Va, and it is understood, are ex
pecting appointments in the regular
army.
AS the result Of an appeal made two
weeks ago, the girls emp Dyed by the
Hercules Powder Company, in Whining
ton. have donated a talking machine
and a large number of records to Hope
Farm for the use of the patients.
Delawareans generally are pleased
that the War Department has promoted
Lieut.. William F. Hoey to the rank of
Major. He is known-well and favola ly
in all three counties and made fine
record as military instructor at Della
ware College.
Owing to war conditions, Dean Harry
HAYWARD, of the Delaware College ex-
pertinent station, has announced that
the Annual Farmers Day at the college
farm, which for years has been great
event for grangers of Delaware, will
not be he'd this year.
Plans have been completed, it is un-
derstood in Elkton, by the Jessup &
Moore Paper Company, to remove their
large paper mill at Providence. to Elk
ton. The property at Providence is re-
ported to have been sold to the dupont
Powder Company, which will convert it
into dye mill.
Warren Iusbv. arrested on a charge