Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-09
STATE And PENINSULA

Milk dealers in Lewes have raised tn
price from eight to ten cents quart.
Elkton Chautauqua opened Tuesday,
June 5, and will continue for one week
The New Castle Levy Court has elect
ed w. Scott Monckton constable fol
Christiana hundred.
William P. White, city auditor of
Wilmington, has resigned, to take effect
June Is, his term ending June 80.
DIR. Bernard Allen Jenkin, of Will
mington, has been commissioned first
lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps.
Proceeds from the annual concert OF
the Delaware Saengerbund on June "a
will be given to the American Red Cross.
Delaware Daughters of the American
Revolution are planning to hold their
annual State Flag Day at Farnhurst on
June ID
Real estate assessment for taxation
in rural New Castle county this year is
$4.424, 277 in excess Of last year, and to-
tails SIG, 065, 0O7.
Twenty-three boys and girls, the larg-
est class in the history OF the school,
was graduated from the Newark High
School Friday night.
A draft of doctors is being seriously
talked of in Maryland, as only SO Mary
land doctor have been accepted, and
Maryland's quota is 300.
Ray L. Smith, of Washington, D. c.,
is in Wilmington seeking skilled me-
chanics to go to the Panama Canal
Zone for the Government.
According to the United States Geo
logical Survey, Delaware is the lowest
State in the Union, it's elevation above
sea level averaging only 80 feet.
In Wilmington last week there were
IS deaths, 48 births and % marriages,
as compared with % deaths, ~ births
and 26 marriages for the corresponding
week last year.
Attorney General Reinhardt, after a
thorough investigation, has decided on
the kind of lenses and devices that must
be used to comply with the new State
automobile laws.
More than 200 teachers from Della
ware and adjoining counties of Mary
land have already applied for admission
to the Delaware College Summer School,
which opens June %.
The Hercules Powder Company has
declared the regular quarterly dividend
of 2 per cent. and an extra dividend of
2 per cent. on common stock, payable
June Is to stock on record June Is.
Although applications have been made
by more than $50 alien enemies for per-
mits to allow them to pass within the
war zones in Wilmington, United States
Marshal Fairy has issued only about
40 such permits.
Charles Melville Upham, County
Engineer of Sussex, has resigned that
position and has assumed his duties as
State Highway Engineer, to which Of
flee he was elected on May Is. He will
have his headquarters in Dover.
Delaware was the first State to re-
port to the Federal Government at
Washington that plans had been COM
pleted for the CONSUMPTION registration,
although it was announced in some
newspapers on Friday that New York
had this honor.
The Elkton Gas. Co. has lsssed a
circular note to its patrons, stating that
it has been forced to file with the Pub
lie Service Commission a schedule of
revised rates which effect an increase
of about 10 per cent for gas consumed
beginning July l, 1917.
The Delaware Horse Show Assocla-
ton will hold a two-day race meeting
June 18th and 18th at Wawaset Park.
There is a large field of promising
horses and there will be sig races each
afternoon beginning at 2 o'clock with
the last race at o'clock sharp.
The graduating class at Delaware
College, this year. will number % stu
dents, including Clarence E. Reyes, a
graduate of Lehigh University, who is
taking postgraduate work at Delaware
and will receive master of science
degree. This leaves % students who
will receive bachelor degrees.
The Delaware Children's Home Soci-
ETY. has elected the following officers:
President, Rev. T. H. Moore, Middle
town; vice president, Rev. w. S. Now
bray and Rev. H. G. Budd; sec. and
treas, John B. Hutton; executive COM
mittee, T. c. Horsey, Jas. Hughes, H,
G. Budd, W: R: MQwbray, ]. B, Huttons
supt. W. K. Lord.