Middletown transcript., 1917-10-20
SAFE AND PENINSULA

this section.
An X-ray apparatus, costing about
$500 has been instalie in the Harve de
Grace hospital.
The Lewes public school have been
closed for few days on account of the
shortage of coal.
Delaware has pledged to enlist 80 per
cent. of its families for the Hoover food
conservation campaign.
After packing 10000 cases of toma-
toes, about half the usual pack, the
Elkton cannery has closed
The Elkton milk dealers have given
notice that the retail prlce of milk will
be increased to II cents quart Mon
day.
This is to be prosperous year for
the apple growers and all Delawareans
fortunate enough to own orchards, are
happy.
Repairs are being made to the bridge
over the Nanticoke River at Blades
which will cost the County Commission
ers about $500.
The Fire Committee of Wilmington
Council is considering plan to uniform
all paid employees of the II volunteer
fire companies.
Hog cholera at Bridgeville has caused
loss of $4,000 in pork, and the State Board
is lnnoculating swine In the vicinity with
preventive serum.
A canning company has purchased
the 2O5-acre Pratt farm in " est Daver
and will plant the entire acreage in to-
matoes for next years pack.
The postoffice department at Wash
ington is arranging to erect larger
building for the Northeast postCffice,
estimates having been asked for
The nuns in the Visitation Convent in
Wilmington have arranged to devote q
large part of their time in knitting anG
otter reliet ork for the Red Cross.
Uncle Sam has a crop of nearly five
hundred million bushels of white pota-
toes in prospect. This ought to help
reduce the cost of living in this country
Tobacco fund week at the Garrick
Theatre, in Wilmington. netted $7O9. 3d.
which will be used to buy tobacco for
the Delaware soldiers when they 60
overseas.
The body of an unknown man aged
about 45 years, was found floating in the
Christiana River, at Wilmington, evil
dently having been in the water fol
SEVERAL days.
The 84th annual communication Of the
Grand Ledge Of Delaware |. 0. Q. F.,
will be held at Odd Fellows Hall, Tenth
and King streets, Wilmington, on Wed
nesday, November 21st.
Captain Norman T. Kirk, of Ceci;
county, instructor in the United States
Medical Corps at Fort Oglethorpe, Ca,
has been promoted to the rank of major
and transferred to Petersburg, Va.
The output of the country's many
packing est .blishments will be much
greater than was expected. The tota!
Weld for the country will bring many
thousands of dollars to the people.
The Maryland Council or Defense has
appropriated $50, 600 for the equipment
training and maintenance OF the State
Guard, whose establishment was author
lied by the General assembly last June.
The new and higher rates of postage,
3 cents for out-of town letters, 2 cents
for drop letters and , cents for postal
cards, provided for IN the new war reve'
nue. law, will go into effect Novembe,
What is said to be the highest wages
aver paid for farm help is being paic
at Greenvill, Del, by B. DUPONT, father
of T. Coleman DUPONT He Is giving
harvesters As cents an hour, for nine
hour day.
Rev. c.. l.. Candee, pastor of West
minister Presby Church, Whining
ton, will devote one out of every foul
weeks this winter to religious work il
the military camps, and next spring 81
to France.
A canvass of the town of Seafor(
was made this week by members Of thu
different churches, to ascertain the rt
ligion of each citizen, with the idea o
securing a larger attendance at tn
churches.
Wjlmiagton's Water Commis sioner
have decided that beginning January
no water will be sold under measu e
ment for less than 45 cents thousan
feet, the present rate being graded fror
35 to rs cents.
The annual session of the Delawar
State Grange will be held in Newall
in December. Prof. H. H. Haywar
who was appointed State lecturer to sue
ceed w. n. Mccoy, will assist in tn
arrangement for the meeting.
Postmaster O. c. Giles at Elkton, he
been designated by the Department a
the Central Accounting Postmaster fo
the entire of Cecil county, and here
after all supplies for other Offices in tn
county will be distributed through lin