Middletown transcript., 1917-07-07
STATE AND PENINSULA

DOVGT CONTRIBUTION TO Cno h6Q CrOSS
of 1000, 900 from Delaware amounted
to $1,000.
Georgetown led Sussex county in the
Red Cross effort to raise money, giving
more than $4,000.
A fire system with electrically driven
pumps and 8-inch mains, is being INSTALL
ed at the Baldt works, at New Castle.
Rev. John W. Chappelle has resigned
from the pastorate Of the Brack-Ex Nj.
E Church to enlist in the regular army
Medical Corps as private.
Within "a hours after receiving the
request for them, the military relief of
the Delaware Red Cross had completed
in every detail 500 comfort bags for the
Navy department.
Arthur McDermott, of Wilmington,
whose patriotic zeal led him to misrepre-
sent his age to gain enlistment in the
field artillery of the regular army, may
be tried before court-martial.
W. S. Corkran, of Delaware College,
Glass of 1910, formerly of Newark, has
been selected for European service
under General Pershing, with the
United States Engineering Corps.
Prof. P. A. Kelly, principal of the
Commercial Department of the George
town High School, has rendered his
resignation to the school board to accept
a similar position at Norfork, Va.
The prospect for large wheat crop
on the Eastern Shore of Md, is very
good. Farmers are making arrange
ments to have it stored in Baltimore
instead of selling it as soon as threshed.
Talbot, Caroline, dorchester, Wi
comico, Somerset and " orcester coun-
ties, Md, owing to law recently en-
acted, will have fewer campmeetings
and bushmeetings for negroes this year
than heretofore.
To aid in the campaign for recruits
for the Delaware militia, the War De-
partment has authorized Governor
Townsend to waive the minimum height
of 81 inches and to accept young men,
otherwise qualified, 62 inches in height.
A letter of recommendation from
Senator Salus, of Pennsylvania, carried
but little weight with the Court at
Georgetown, when Howard Hollis, from
Philadelphia, was sentenced to two years
in the workhouse on charge of "shoot-
ing up Laurel
President James G. Beck and Secre-
tary Clifton L. FARRELL are making ar
engagements to have an agricultural,
cattle and poultry exhibit at the Kent
and Queen Annes annual fair July "a to
27, which will be decided credit to the
Observation-Disclosures peninsula.
Complete rebuilding Of that portion
of the Lincoln Highway from Whining
ton to the Red Clay Creek bridge at
Marshallton, the work to start not
later than August l, 1917, is provided
for in resolution passed by the Levy
Court of New Castle last week.
For getting recruits in the National
Guard, Maryland is on the honor roll.
Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts are the only states which
have surpassed this State in the num-
Der of guardsmen recruited, and for its
size Maryland has done even better
than any of these four States.
The Town Commissioners of Chesa-
peake City have adopted regulations in
regard to the driving of autos thru that
town, and are having them strictly en-
forced. A number of drivers have been
fined for violations of the regulations,
which include speed limit of IL miles
an hour and sounding of the horn at all
corners.
General T. C. dupont, a member of
the State Highway Commission, has
had made at his own expense and pre-
sented to each of the men 'ers of the
commission, a handsome cold badge
with the coat of arms of ,aware en-
graved in the center, and above and
below is inscribed Estate Highway Com
mission"
Two special trains carrying 300 of the
Boy Scouts of America arrived on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland 10 gather
the potato crop of 4,000,GUU bushels.
These Boy Scouts have come from vari'
Gus cities to the relief of the farmers
of Accomac and Northampton counties.
Labor has practically deserted that
territory for the better paying ammu-
milton factories, and conditions were
getting serious.
All shippers of farm produce over the
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany are urged to load freight and ex-
press cars to their carrying capacity
and thereby do their bit to help the
railroads in the transportation problem
which they are called upon to face as
result of the great demands which are
being put upon the railroads to comply
with shipment Of war materials, mu-
nitions and the like.
Through negotiations that have virtu-
ally been completed, the Western Union
Telegraph Co. will again erect telegraph
lines al0no the tracks of the PennSYl-