Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-08-18
STATE AND PENINSULA

Rev. Mr.. Gaunt, of Claymont, is now
in charge of the Coleman Clergy House
at Rehoboth Beach.
A tea at Hillside Mills, the c untry
estate of General T. Coleman dupont,
Melted the Red Cross $525.
The Maryland State Tax Commission
will make tour of the State next week,
the first stop to be EIkton, Monday.
The Board of Visitors and Governors
of Washington College, Chestertown,
has elected H w. Vickers secretary
Postal Inspector Plummer, of Will
mlngton, has receive notice of his
transfer to either Lynchburg or Peters
burg, Va.
A seven foot shark, weighing fully
$50 pounds, was caught in seine a.
kits Hammock by crowd of Dover
fishermen
For the first three registra, ion days
for the special wet" and dry cleo
ton in Wilmington next fall 14,09l
voters have registered.
Within few hours after it was pub
lished in Wilmington that the army re-
cruiting office would accept negroes for
enlistment, % made application.
In an effort to increase the wheat yield
next year in Sussex county, meetings of
farmers with Delaware Agriculture Col
lege experts are to be held at several
farms.
The Delaware Fish Oil Company sold
its plant on Lewes Beach at public sale,
Saturday, for $4,000 bid by Albert w.
Robinson, of Laurel, who is claimed to
represent syndicate.
J. F. Dooley, of Minneapolis, who
has been installing heating plants in
school houses in lower Delaware for
several months. was killed at Cannons
as he was crossing the tracks in an
automobile. He is survived by widow
and two children.
Residents Of Sussex county are to
be greatly benefited by a move made
by the County Commissioners at meet
ing this week when County Engineer
William E. Hawkins was authorized
and directed to proceed with the INSTALL
ing of road markers at all of the
principal cross roads in the county.
Owing to the prevalence of sharks at
Bowers Beach, bathers are tile shy
of going into the wa err. A farm wire
pen where persons battle in safety has
consequently cen erected in the bay
by cottagers at South Bowers. One of
the seines landed shark recently that
measured ten feet and one inch from
tip to tip.
High bids submitted by several con-
tractors at the meeting of the Levy
Court Tuesday for building two sections
of the Lincoln Highway, about eight
miles in length may postpone the wo:k
indefinitely. The bids averaged about
$50. 600 mile, and the highway event
ualy will cover % miles.
Scenes of patriotism We're enacted at
the Betsy Ross House, 239 Arch street,
Philadelphia, recently, when the finish
ing touches were put on two immense
American flags, one of which will be
presented to French Ambassador JUS
serand, who will in turn present it to
President Poinc ire, of France.
Actual experience in trench digging
by sol Tiers of Company G and l located
at the state armory in Dover was wit
messed last week by many Dover citi-
zens, when the soldiers were put at
work digging a trench running from the
State armory to st. Jones River, some
three or four hundred yards distant
The Delaware troops, soon to leave
for Admission, Ala, will not cease to be
Delawareans, although since midnight
last Saturday, the regiment has been
unit of the national army and ceased to
be under the authority Of the State
which gave it birth. The regiment viii
be identified as Delaware troops and as
such will be known whether they are in
training camp or on the firing line in
France: