Middletown transcript., 1917-01-20
STATE AND PENINSULA
Milford is in need of a chief Of police.
An ont-of- town man is preferred.

Milford is III Heeu VI q SihSA " POiioN'
An out-of-town man is preferred.
Delaware Industrial School for Girls i
wants $50, 900 from the Legislature for
maintenance.
The I'D water works at Cumberland
was damaged hy fire last week to the
extent of 60,C00.
Wilmington balbers have advanced
eb.ves and hair cuts to Il cents and 70
cents respectively.
The Peoples Bank, Laurel, has elect
ed Daniel hort president, and Curtis
E. Davis secretary.
Georgetown farmers will ask sl2
ion for co 1tract tomatoes, on account OF
the high cost Of fertilizer.
Chestertown Commissioners have
. granted the use of their office as head
quarters for the Boy Scouts.
The Laurel girls have organized
brass band. Each one will be able to
elbow her own horn" in the future.
A can of tomatoes exploding while
he was heating them, Mrs. George
Ripe. Milford, may lose the sight of
both eyes.
John Dean was fined $3.50 and sent to
the workhouse for one year for assault
and battery upon his b other, in Will
mingtcn.
The Milford Creamery has had sue
cessfu year and has just declared
semi-annual dividend Of 10 per cent to
its stockholders.
A Young boy in \ ilford collects the
Old scrap paper from the neighbors and
is making from ten to twelve dollars
week for his trouble.
Members of the New Castle Comfy
Milk Producers Association have de-
cided to continue the wholesale price at
A. cents quart during February.
70 aid the natives Of Ireland against
a possible famine, the Wilmington IRISH
Relief Committee has planned big ba-
zaar for the week Of February IL.
Judge Conrad has appointed Joseph
lift. Alilsboro; Charles +. Jones, Sr.
and George H. hort, Georgetown, to
audit the Sussex County Comptroller's 5
books.
The Wilmington & Philadelphia Trac-
ton Company has notified City Council
that it will purchase nine new double
truck trolley cars to relieve congestion
on its various city lines.
Edward Downs, Charles Downs,
Washington Hickman ard Elmer West,
Aillsboro, caught 100 bushels of black
perch in the Indian River, last week,
for which they received $6G0.
The Pyrites Company, Ltd, with
plants in Wi mington, has secured from
Building Inspector Preston permits TO
enlarge its works by TIE addition CT
buildings that will cost $i6, ,A75.
William Il. Head, on behalf OF the
Presidential electors, filed with Federal
Court, in Wilmington, a certified list oi
the votes cast at the November election
for President and Vice President.
George H. Riley, Of Dover, has 70
Rhode Island pulIets which can beat
The record Of, the Alderfer flock of So
which laid 648 eggs during December,
Riley's flock having laid 1l22 eggs the
same month.
The celebration of the 400th ami
versary of Professionalism during thl:
wear of 1917 is developing such com
mon interest as to draw the various
sections of the Lutheran Church mt
close cooperation.
Governor Miller has appointed Thoma
C. Frame, Jr. of Dover, member o
the Labor Commission Of Delaware, t.
succeed Clarence D. Sypherd. of Dover
Mr.. Sypherd resigned because Of hold
ing fedora position.
At the annual meeting of the vii
mington Chamber of Commerce, JOSEPH
Bancroft, Frederick Brady, W. L. Budd
Joseph S Hamilton. Harrison w. How
ell, Josiah Marvel and George W Sparks
were elected directors.
The launch Ethel, which carries
stevedores to and from the steamers
Deep Water Point in the Delaware
River, cut hole in her bow while try
ing to push through the Ice foes, bu
managed to reach shallow water il
safety.
After more than a quarter Of a cen
turv of unremitting perseverance, tn
friends of the project that the tet era
government shall acquire the Chesa
peake and Delaware Canal by purchas
or by condemnation have won sigma
victory.
The first cargo to go through tn
Government canal which now connect
Delaware Bay with Chesapeake by a
inland waterway by way of Norfolk
was sent last week by George Wicker
& Son, of Lewes- two lighters with
cargo of 1900 bushels of corn.
The Rivers and fIarbors Committe
of the House of Representatives decide