Middletown transcript., 1917-02-03

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sored before it appears on the screen
will be made in bill that will likely be
introduced in the General Assembly dur.
ing the present session.
On Saturday, as James E. Carroll,
superintendent of Kent county public
schools, was attempting to board train
for Harrington, after it had started, he
missed his footing and was dragged
some distance before he let go.
Of the 450 houses being built at the
new DUPONT village near Plant No. l,
at Carney's Point, 120 are about rs per
cent. completed and so others about
half dcne, more than 400 workmen be-
ing engaged in the undertaking.
/ DR.. Raymond Clinton Reed, Of Della
ware College, has been elected men,
Der of the faculty of the Maryland Ag-
ricultural College, and will be in charge
of the Department of Animal Hus-
bandry, at a salary of $500 per year.
The Wilmington Juvenile Court and
Probation Association will ask the Leg
islature to provide salary for Judge
Prickett, increase the salary of Proba-
tion Officer Farra and provide for two
additional probation officers at $3.50
! each.
Delaware Senators are talking of hav-
ing paintings depicting scenes of the
original Indian period, that of the
Dutch, Swedes and English and the
, States ratification of the Federal Con-
stitution decorate the vscant panels of
their chamber.
Although many farmers in Sussex
county have grown peanuts on small
scale, the profits last year were so good
that it will result in a much larger
acreage this year. Some of those raised
were equal in size and flavor to any
raised in the South
John A. Messick, the oldest person on
Deals Island, Nd, celebrated his
eighty fourth birthday Tuesday. He
and his wife have been married fifty
nine years. and having no children of
their own have raised and educated ten
children from poor homes.
William B. Megear has been reelected
president of Wilmington Chamber of
Commerce; Joseph Bancroft, first vice
president, and Frederick Brady, second,
! Clarence c. Killen was continued as
secretary, with John E. Krduse as as
sistant The directors adopted ESQ.,
luton favoring the Webb bill.
Rehoboth is in the grip of a revival,
under the direction of Rev. y. w.
Jacobs. of the NJ. e. Church. The
whole town is feeling the effects of the
services; stores and pool rooms close
during the services, which are attendt d
by large congregations. Many men of
the town have been converted.
That it cost nearly 200 dairymen il
Pennsylvania Maryland and Delaware,
from whom statements were received.
more to produce quart of milk during
the year ending September 3O 1916,
than they received for it, is shown in a
report just submitted by the Tri-State
Milk Commission to the governors of
those three states.
A report has come to the State Com
missioner of Education, DR.. Chas. A.
Wagner, that one of the Sussex county
school districts is studying the tax law
pamphlet in a serious mood Not only
are parts of the pamphlet read and dis
cussed in the Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion meetings, but the pupils of the
higher grades are studying it Also
Assessments on many properties in
the city and county have been boosted
materially, as property owners will find
when they receive their new tax bills.
The increase in assessed valuation in
many cases has been made voluntarily
by the property Owners, who filled out
blanks furnished them to set forth the
true market value of their properties
Mrs. Patience Culver, of Laurel, aged
S5 years, was buried on Saturday after
noon. Services were held in Horsey Grove
Methodist Protestant Church, the Rev.
e. NJ. Cuftum, officiating. She leaves
eight children, 73 grandchildren, 81
grandchildren and II great grand
children. A photograph of the families
was taken a short time Lefore Mrs
Culver's death, with only two or three
of the descendants absent.
Greenabaum brothers, Gamers at
Seaford, are having a building 20 feet
by 40 feet wide and "a feet high, erected |
under the supervision of Charles Ackey,
in which they intend to make pulp from |
tomatoes and when refined will become |
catsup. They have already received
several carloads of cans for the purpose
and will soon begin to arrange the ma
chinery. The factory is expected to
start operations when the season opens.
The final report of the County Build
ing Commission has been submitted to J
the judiciary and shows that the total
cost of the new City Hall was $780,
652 81, and of the new county Court
House, 1904, S75 IS. The Commission
has $14,4OO to turn back to the city and