Middletown transcript., 1917-03-31

Gifts for the .Asbury Methodist
Church endowment fund. in Wilmington.
now total $204O6
The dairymen of Milford and vcin-
ity talk of raising the price of milk to
ten cents per quart.
Hebrew Charity Association, Whining
ton, spent 81. 900 in caring for the needy
during the past year.
Rev. Billy Sunday will start his cam.
paign in New York on Easter Sunday
and remain there three mouths
Charles Ben heim. of the Federal De-
partment of Labor, is in Wilmington
investigating the machini Sts' strike.
Dover's Peoples Building & Loan
Association has elected Eldad L. Clarke,
president and Cecil G. Fulton. secretary.
Colonel Grantly P. Postles, of Will
mington, has rendered his services to
the War Department in the event Of
war.
. Fishermen of Seaford spread their
nets in the Nanticoke river in search
for herring. One fisherman caught 200
herring.
On account of the scarcity of houses
in Chesapeake City, the Southern Trans
portation Company will build 25 for its
workmen.
1t is understood that three prominent
men of Seaford are making plans to
build large opera house during the COM
ing spring.
A troop of Boy Scouts have been or
ganized at Laurel, with about twenty
members, the Rev. C. T. Pfeiffer being
scoutmaster.
The Kent County W. C. T U. con-
vention was set for May 3, at Magnolia,
at ameeting of the executive committee,
at Wyoming.
The will of the late DR.. Joseph W
Marsh, filed in Georgetown, disposes OF
about $50, 900 among more than % rela-
tives and friends.
The National Society, Colonial Dame
of Delaware, has appointed committee
to work for the navy in connecnion with
the Red Cross Society.
The Delaware Leader, Laurel, form
erly owned by Sirman anvil, has beer
purchased by Edwin c. Totten, will is
sue an eight page weekly.
The dupont Powder Company has fil,o
plans with Building Inspector, Prestoi
in Wilmington, for the $500, 900 ,idi l@v
to be made to its offic building.
Rev. J. Howard Gray, pas'or o. II,
worth ethodist Church, in Wilml l5or,
was presented with a purse of $500 II
gold by the members of the church.
According to runors, Cedar BeacE
five miles east of i..ilford, has peen Sc
lected by the U. S. Government as :
site for Delaware Bay Notifications.
While Second Assistant Fire Chi
Donohoe, of Wilmington. was respona
ing to an alarm, in Wilmington, his su;
tomobile burst into flames and was badly
damaged.
AS the Lincoln Highway has n length
of 81 miles in Delaware, the $5OO,0O
provided by the Legislature for its I'm
provement means that about $23. 0OO
mile can be spent on it.
Rachel johnson, James Cam ant
James Mason, negroes. are under arres
in Wilmington on charges of violating
the cocaine law, the police clalmln!
they found quantity of the drug Il
their possession.
Eight students, chiefly men who have
returned from the Mexican border, hav
entered Delaware College for secon
term. making total enrolment for tn
wear of 229, the highest attendance /
the history Of the college.
Within the next six months test well
will be driven in Kent county soil to Sc
if oil or gas turks far beneath the SUI
face. Should oil be discovered in De
aware, it will be the greatest lndustr
vet produced by the little Diamond Stat
When the Delaware College Nandoli
Club was greeted by Large audlenc
at the New Century Club Saturday nlgf
in order that thomas r. Wilson, Jr
might hear the concert his room IN tn
Delaware Hospital was connected b
telephone with the hall.
It is planned to make the celebrate
of the 2OOth anniversary Of the ioun'
ing of Dover State affair." snd airea'
the various committees are arranglf
for an elaborate pageant and other GER
monies for the event, which VIII TAX
place in May.
DR.. w. Il. Messick, of Lewes. II
present c .nnery inspector, is an app
cant for reappointment, and 1t IS sa
e6 Of the 1O2 Gamers in the state ha'
signed petition asking his reappon
ment by Governor Townsend Ihom
Jefferson. of Smyrna,is also an appllca
for the position.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has a
nounced that its expenses will be increa
ed total of $1S, OOO, O0o annually for t