Middletown transcript., 1917-12-08
STATE AND PENINSULy

VII ~
Sussex county farmers are arranging
to sell potatoes and cabbage direct to
consumers in the cities.
Arrangements are being made with
the assistance of the Government to take
school census in Wilmington.
Selbyville has subscribed $1,000 for the
Y. M. C. A. war fund, more than dol
lar for each resident of the town.
A new gas light has been erected on
the jetty in Rehoboth Bay that will oper-
ate for three months without attention.
Dover Council is considering an ordi-
nance providing for S25 fine and 80
days imprisonment for false alarm of
fire.
Health authorities declare there are
only Is cases of typhoid fever in Viii
mington, most of them having original
ed elsewhere.
A large American flag, presented by
his two daughters, flies from 4O-foot
staff at the home of Judge H. c. Con-
rad, Georgetown.
Trustees of Delaware College and the
Women's College at Newark report the
completion of new buildings c'sting
more than 100000.
Dover's municipal lighting plant, run
in connection with the water plant, has
increased it's receipts in three years
from $500 to $l400 a month.
Farmers around Chestertown, Md,
are paying from IS to 81 cts a barrel
for husking corn. This is the highest
price ever paid IN that section.
The Pennsy lvania Railroad is building
two extra tracks from Newark to Iron
Hill giving that section OF the road tour
tracks. and laborers on the job are paid
$357 day.
The business men of Galena have or
-ganzed company for the purpose OF
installing an electric light plant In the
town thus doing away with the old time
coal oil lamps.
The Baldwin Loco motive Works,
Philadelphia, is turning out 20 locomo-
tives week, or more than one for every
working hour OF the day, and the capa-
city will be increasec.
Wilmington's iuel administrators
have discovered that many persons are
boarding coal and have directed thai
such be given no more fuel by dealers
until in actual need of it.
The first seagoing barge built by the
Deibert Brothers OF Elkton at their
boat yard at Harve de Grace was launch
ed Saturday afternoon. 1t was named
Northern No. IA, Wilmington, Del.
The order of Elks has raised fund
of one million dollars and will build
hospital where men wounded overseas
will be fitted up for occupational pur-
suits if not able to return to the army.
Directors of the Hercules Powder
Company have declared regular quar-
terly dividend Of per cent and an extra
dividend of per cent on all Common
stock making total for tue year of 70
per cent.
Governor Brambaugh, in an address
at Thanksgiving service in the recond
Presby terian Church, Pittsburg, maue
the prediction that Pennsylvania sin
the near future" will join the list of
Prohibition States.
Residents of the rural sections have
been warned to look out for tx 0 women
who have been travelling in an automo-
bile collecting two cents can on can
ned goods under the claim that the Gov
eminent is levying the tex.
Governor Townsend on Wednesday
announced the appointment of Robert
E. Schilling, the present principal of
the Greensboro. Md, public schools. as
Of Kopt Cobool-
to succeed the late Dr. James E. Carroll.
Dover is facing a coal famine, none
of the local coal dealers having ton of
coal IN their bins, with no assurance as
to when they will receive any. Many
citizens have sufficient coal for their
heaters, and a scarcity Of nut and stove
coal is the greatest difficulty.
With the announcement from Wash
ington that the War Department is
planning to raise an army of more than
1000, 900 men, the local exemption
boards are preparing themselves for the
enormous task they will have on their
hands when the next call is made.
The Juniata Company, of Philadel-
phie, has been awarded by the Sussex
Levy Court the contract for building
new reinforced concrete bridge over the
MispilIion river at M lford, on East
Front street, for s3,991, subject to the
approva of the Levy Court of Ken;