Middletown transcript., 1917-02-10

The Ches esapeake & Delaware Canal
will close for 10 DAYS repair Monday
morning.
Western operators are leasing land in
the vicinity of Bowers Beach. for the
purpose of drilling for oil.
A civil service examination for motor
ruraI carrier on the Wyoming route has
haen announced for February "a
Ohio oil operators have leased 2O00
aeres of land IN the vicinity Of Bower $
Gaach, along the Bay shore, to drill for
oil.
Eugene Grace, the new president of
the Bethlehem Steel Company, will be
MID an annual salary Of one million
dollars.
Chestertown Daughters of America
celebrated their sixteenth anniversary
with banquet in Fraternal Hall, Mon
day night.
The State Roads Commission, of
MARYLAND, has decided to have three
miles of State road between Rising sun
and Porters' bridge.
John Allen, crossing watchman at
Bear Station Oh the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, has been pensioned after more
than 35 years Of service.
The boat service between Whining
ton and Delaware City will be resumed
Saturday, when the General Gushing
will make the trip to Wilmington.
AS he was entering the plant of the
Krebs Company at Newport to be
gin his days work, William Downham.
aged67. dropped dead from heart disease.
Henry White Baker, vice-president,
and cashier emeritus Of the First Ma
tional Bank, Of Seaford, completed A
wears of service with the bank this
week
Miss Edna G. Barker. of Milford,
secretary of the State Sunday School
Association, has issued request that
February 28th, be observed as "Go to
Sunday School Day."
The Civil Service Commission has an
nounced examinations at Dover and Mil
ford February Oath, to fill the position
uf motor rural carrier at Wyoming and
vacancies that may occur.
The State Board Of Health, at
meeting in Wilmington, decided to ask
the Legislature for an increased appro-
priation for the State laboratory at
Newark and to pass a bill regulating
midwifery in Delaware.
Secretary Redfeld has closed the fish
hatchery at Havre de Grace, because
the Maryland state authorities, he de-
cares, will not prohibit methods of fish
ing which have steadily exterminated
the supply of shad eggs.
Every time you visit the movies y.'u
help to pay the wages of POS, 600 en-
ployes who draw 1880, 600 weekly.
There are q 500 moving picture thea
ters in the United States and about $2,-
900 900, 600 invested in the business.
The forty-ninth session of the Will
mington annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will be held
at Seaford, beginning March % with
st. Johns Church as the conference
seat Bishop William F. Mcdowell, of
Washington, D. c., will act as president.
A good roads meeting was held at
Selbyvile recently, attended by over
800 men from all parts of that section.
Several addresses were made and
resolution was unanimously adopted in
favor of bonding the county for one
million dollars in order to build good
roads.
Fire recently destroyed the big shirt
factory plant of Jackson, Gutman and
Lane Shirt Company at Salisbury, en-
failing a loss of $780, 900 and throwing
over 500 hands out Of employment Gov
ernor Harrington has rendered the com
pany the use of the armory at Salisbury
as temporary quarters until the plant
can be rebuilt. The company carried
about $780, 900 insurance.
G.. Nj. Scott and others, of Dover,
have organized the Blue Hen Canning
Company, Of Delmar, Md, and have
purchased an acre of land of E. E.
Freeny, SOUTH of the town limits. be-
tween South street and the railroad.
A building, 80 x l20 feet, will be erected,
which with the entire plant will cost
about s12, coo. Work on this will begin
about April and be ready for operation
the coming season.
Rushing into burning stable in the
rear Of the hotel near the Pennsylvania
Railroad station, at Bridgeville, Sunday
morning, in his effort to save his father s
horses which had been left there, Myer
Beck, aged II years, a son Of William
Beck, a junk dealer of Dover, proved
himself a little hero, but lost his life.
Several persons attempted to stop the
boy but We're unable to prevent him en-
terlng the burning building.
The promoters of the new S10O, 900
hotel to be built on the bluff east of the
City Park overlooking the Chesapeake
Bay, at Havre de Grace, declare that
work on the structure will begin in the