Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
STATE AND PENINSULA

Wilmington Board of Health announ-
ces 50 cases of typhoid fever, but as
earts there is no cause for alarm.
The fund being collected in Whining
ton to buy Delaware soldiers. tobacco
when they get to France now amounts
to 1929. so.
George W. Murray has resigned as
teller of the Farmers Trust Company,
Newark, to devote all his attention to
poultry raising.
Three Delaware boys and three Della
ware girls were prize winners in corn
and canned goods judging contests at
Springfield, Mass.
The S4th annual communication of the
Grand Lodge of Delaware l. o. 0 F.,
will he held at Odd Fellows Hall, Viii
mington, Nov. q.
The Chemical Construction Company
;s a new industry, located in the recent
" closed plant of the New Castle Con-
.truction Company.
An epidemic of cholera has broken
ont in the neighborhood of Bridgeville,
and as a result more than So, 600 worth
of pork has been lost.
Stag roads having proved satisfactory
in Sussex county, the Commissioners
have ordered many carloads of this ma
terial from the mines.
Hummingbird, trotter owned by
State Treasurer William j. Swan, of
Rridgeville, has won $500 within week
racing in Pennsylvania. r.
A brass tablet is to be placed on Bar
ret's Chapel, near Frederick. to COM
memorate the meeting of Coke and As
bury at the chapel in 1784.
All the men who struck at the Jesup
& Moore Paper Company pulp mills in
Wilmington have returned, and the
nlant has resumed operations.
A large number of the Gamers of the
Peninsula are now engaged in canning
pears. pumpkins and sweet potatoes,
now that the tomato season has ended
Wilmington's Water Commissioners
has just completed and placed in com
mission a new filtration plant and reser-
yoir with a capacity of $4,000 gallons.
Queen Anne's county. Md, viii have
an agricultural fair this year. 1t will
he held in the Assembly Room of the
CentrevilIe Opera House on November
co.
Prof. I. W. Gordy, principal of Dover
colored schools, has accepted the princi-
palship of the West Chester, Pa, schools
where he will have supervision over ten
teachers.
The suit of Frank Everist formerly Of
Elkton, against the dup ont Building
Company, of Wilmingto.., DEL, for per-
sonal injuries in an elevator accident,
has been settled for $4,000.
Seven hundred thousand bushels of
grain. intended for export to the allies
was lost in fire Saturday which destroy
huge elevator in Brooklyn; New York.
1t is thought the fire was the, work of
German spy.
Lieutenant Colonel Gilmore has ar
rived at Fort dupont and ia ken COM
mand of the defenses of the Delaware
River and Bay, succeeding Colonel Har-
ris. who has been transferred to Fort
Totten, n. Y.
The Annual Kent County Corn Show
will be held at Milford on November Ii
and II in conjunction with the Sussex
County Corn Show and the Nilford
Grange Bazaar. Efforts are being
made to have this corn show surpass
the former county corn shows in both
size and character of exhibits.
All the oysters produced at Bowers
Beach and contracted for by the gov
ernment for cantonment use are 10 be
canned For many years thousands of
bushels were taken out of Delaware Bay
here and sold from wagons in the lower
Delaware. Few oysters are now finding
their way to countryside consumers.
The Georgetown postoffice, according
to a ruling Of the Postoffice Department
at Washington, has been selected a:
one Of the central accounting offices Of
the state. Thirty-two district offices il
this county in the future will have tt
make their reports to the local Office
and secure their supplies Of stamps
postal cards, etc.
The Academy at Dover will hereafte
be known as Wesley Collegiate Insti
tute, instead of the Wilmington Con
ference Academy, and the officers are a
follows: President, Gov. John G. Town
send, Selbyville; vice-president, Rev
R. K. Stephenson, Milford; secretary
Arley B. Magee, Dover; treasurer, Har
ry Mayer, Dover.
At the 3Rth annual convention of th
= Delaware w, &. +. u. which met il
Seaford last week the following officer
were elected: Mrs. s. H. Messick, O