Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

for colored students, near Dover, June
5th to July 10th, under the supervision
of Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson.
The commission in charge of the new
public buildings in Wilmingt ton asked
Council for S32, 900 with which to meet
its expenses during the fiscal year be-
ginning July l..
The Engineering Departmental Della
ware College has offered the services OF
the teaching staff and the equipment to
the Government if they can be of any
service during the war, and June Is will
open, near Newark, a training camp.
Wilmington carpenters who went on
strike for 55 cents are leaving the city
for other places, where they are being
paid 55 and 60 cents an hour.
Guardsmen on duty at the Bethlehem
projectile plant below NeW Castle have
been taken off and night guard of five
posts substituted.
Wilmington Council adopted by unan-
imous vote, an ordinance prohibiting
the manufacture, sale or use of fire
works Of all kinds within the city limits
until after the war.
The managers of the Milford Emer
gency Hospital have elected Mrs. e. W..
Marshall, president; Mrs. George Hall,
vice-president; Mrs. William C. Smith
and Miss Lena Smith. secretaries, and
Mrs. S. j Abbott, treasurer.
The Eastern Shore of Virginia, is do
ing its part toward preventing food
famine. According to reports it has
planted this year $4,000 acres in white
potatoes and has greatly increased its
acreage in other crops, especially OF
sweet potatoes.
A check for 81, 1884, ,625. ss, in payment
of the munition tax for 1916 has been
forwarded to the government by the
Hercules Powder Company, of Will
mington. On May Z the bill from the
government was received. Although
the bill was not due until June 6, the
check was forwarded the next day, May
8, in order to assist the government as
much as possible in these crucial times.
For number of years strawberry
growers in this county have been secur-
ing foreign laborers from Wilmington,
Baltimore and Philadelphia, to help pick
the berries, but this season they are
compelled to secure the needed help
elsewhere, as the help cannot be had,
owing to war, and many of them re-
turning to their native countries to
fight
Automobile licenses netted the Mary
land State Roads Fund S615, ,29o. 81 for
the year ended April, 3Oth. The .otal
amount received by E. Austin Baugh-
man, State Motor Vehicl- 90 nmiSsioner,
was $769, ,O93.O2, including the fees re
ceived from busses and trucks running
over regular routes. One-fiftn OF the
amount goes to Baltimore city
One thousand one hundred men is thc
number of Delawareans liable to con-
scription under the new conscriptlol
bill passed by Congress. There are ap-
proximately $4,000 men in the State
ranging in age from q to 80 ears
The men in the Coast Guard Service
were notified last week that there would
be no vacation this summer, as has
heretofore been the custom.
Walter Burton, who has conducted
the Hotel Henlopen at Rehoboth Beach
for several years, has leased the Hote
Rodney, at Lewes.
The coming Fourth OF July will be ne
time for celebration by fireworks unles:
the kind are displayed where they will
do the most good.
The Kent County Building and Loar
Association will issue a new Series O.
Stock beginning with May 3lst Due
will be SOC per share per month.
The home nursing class in the Cen
tury Club building at New Castle, unde
the direction of Miss Esther Cross. ha
shown another increase Of 70 member
within a week.
The Wilmington Y. M. c. A. at
banquet launched campaign to secur
$25, 900, Delaware's share of the So, 200,
900 needed for the National Y. M. c.
war work
All the employees Of the Krebs Pig
ment Chemical Company, at Newport
have Joined the Red Cross. MIR. Krebs
head Of the company, paying one-ha
the membership fees.
The prospects tor big peach crop 9
the Eastern Shore are the most promi
ing for years. There have been +
blighting frosts.
The Odd Fellows, of Elkton, had
large flag swung to the breezes Tuesda.
Young women are now in the emplc
of the freight division offices of tt
Pennsylvania Railroad at New Castle
Members of the Wilmington M.
Preachers Association have volunteers
their services to the Committee on d.
fense for the military registration.
The annual commencement of Il
Union Hospital Training School fl