Middletown transcript., 1917-08-25

now being made in Germany.
Delaware Odd Fellows will hold a re-
union in Shellpot Park, Wilmington,
Sept. l.
Georgetown is arranging for its an
nual home coming and Chautauqua weel
the second week in September
The Cecil County Md Commissioners
have appropriated $4,000 for an i'm.
proved road between Cayot's Corner anc
Town Point.
Charged with raising check Of the
Reading Railway from $7.O4 to $50. o.
Harry Nentwig was held IN $1,000 by
Judge Churchman, of Wilmington.
The charter of the new lodge of the
Order of Owls, in Elkton, closed last
week with 348 members, the largest
lodge ever instituted in Cecil county.
The wheat being threshed around
Georgetown seems to be above the
standard of previous years, and the
crop in that section is the best ever
seen.
The first unit of the Worth Brothers
steel plant, at Claymont, has been COM
pleted, and a number of the many dwell
Gngs to be built for workmen are ready
for occupancy.
The girls employed by the Hercules
Powder Co, in Wilmington, have do
mated a talking machine and large
number of records to Hope Farm for
the use of the patients.
Postal Inspector M. S. Pummer, who
has been in charge of this federal dis
trict for the past eight years, has been
to Petersburg, Va, and the
order Of transfer becomes effective
Sept. l.
Wilmington is facing milk famine
unless milk is allowed to be retailed at
Is cents a quart, in the opinion OF John
F. O'Neil, vice-president of the Farmer S
Organization.
Alta special meeting of the stock
holders of the Lewes Fisheries Company,
held at their office Saturday it was de-
cided to liquidate and accept an offer OF
1925, 900 for the plant and two fshlng
steamers
The Delaware Fish Oil Company
plant at Lewes, and all equipment To-
oether with a sx-inch water main from
South street to the iron pier, was SOLD
at the Hotel Rodney for $l9,5OO to Al
bert w. Robinson, of Laurel.
Governor Townsend, Of Delaware;
Governor Harrington, of Maryland. and
Governor Stuart, of Virginia, held a
conference in Washington Wednesday
concerning recommendations of officers
for the army division of which the troops
of these States will form part.
DR.. C. P. Marrs, of Clifty, Arkansas,
has invented a machine by which ne
melts cast iron IN five minutes, using
the SUMS rays for heat. The lens is Is
inches in diameter and the focal distance
as inches. 1t can be used any clear day
and in any latitude.
Newark now has its mail carrier sys-
TEN in full working order. Through
the kindness and public spirited acton
of Town Council, nine letter boxes, fur
nished bv the Post-office Department,
have been placed in the most convenient
nlaces inthe town for the convenience
of the patrons of the local post-office.
Fire. which for a time threatened
the business section of ChestertoWn, on
Wednesday night destroyed the pants
factory of Goldheim Bros. of Baltl-
more, and three dwellings, causing a
loss of from $4,000 to $12, 900. Jeffer-
son Bros. and Ira Parks & Sons stores
and the Savings Bank were in danger,
but were saved by the firemen.
A petition was circulated last onday
on the Rehoboth special requesting the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Co. next season
to start the Rehoboth special from Viii,
mington at an earlier hour on Saturday
afternoons The train leaves Whining
ton at 1925 o'clock on Saturday after
moons, and it is thought the patrons
would like to have the train leave about
an hour earlier.
The first troops from Maryland to SET
service in France will be company O
1876 men drawn from the battlion q
which Major Carroll Edgar, formerly O
Elkton, has had command. The picked
men under command of Captain Rober
Gill, will form the 117th trench NIorta
battery IN force of $4,000 men draw
from the National Guard Of 26 State
and the District of Columbia.
Appointments in the army at the For
Meyer Training Camp, were announce
last Saturday and included the following
from Kent County: For Quarter-maste
Corps. William D. Denney, Of Dover
and Henry M. Denney, of Harrington
to be second lieutenants. In field ar
tillery, Frazier Croft, of Clayton, to b
second lieutenant. In Ninth Company
VIM. K. lFrampton, of FELTON,, to b
second lieutenant.
At 7.45 o'clock last Friday night, Com
pany D, First Delaware Infantry, passe