Middletown transcript., 1917-07-14
STATE AND PENINSULA

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College Summer School.
About 1, zoo, 900 more quarts of berries
have been shipped from the Peninsula to
date than at this time one year ago.
Bids will be opened July 10 for the
construction of four-story dormatory
at the Women's College at Newark.
Microphones have been placed on
City Hall roof in Philadelphia to warn
the city of the approach of hostile air.
crafts.
Elkton dealers have given notice that
the price of milk, beginning next Mon
day, will be increased from 9 to 10 cents
quart.
DIR. P. R. Fisher, of Denton, and DR..
]. R. Downes, of Preston, have been
commissioned first lieutenants in the
Medical Corps.
Wilmington Italians held big me-
mortal service in the Queen Theatre for
their fellow countrymen who have been
killed in the war.
The stockholders of the Delaware
Fish Oil Company, of Lewes, have d.
rected the officers to liquidate its affairs
and sell the plant.
The Firemen's Carnival in Elkton will
open Monday, July Is. Preparations
are being made to make the affair the
biggest and best yet held there.
The campaign for recruits for the
militia to date has been productive OF
422 men for the First Battalion, 284 for
the Second and 422 for the Third.
A wharf at Jennings Landing on
SMYRNA river was sold at sheriff's sale
last Saturday to Elisha Webb of the
SMYRNA Steamboat Co. for $500.
Drivers of motor trucks of the Wilson
line in Wilmington went on strike for
an increase of 81 a week in pay, having
rejected bonus offered by the company.
Professor George E. Dutton, of the
English Department of Delaware Col
lege, has gone to Harvard University
to continue some research work in the
library.
In the six years he was Assistant
City Solicitor in Wilmington, John F.
Lynn, whose term has just expired,
saw 80, 900 persons brought before the
City Court.
The Wilmington Board Of Education
has inaugurated swat the fly cam
paign, to conclude July 81, and will give
prize TO every child who captures 1000
or more flies.
Plans have been made for the longest
suspension bridge in the world to be
built across the Delaware river $50 feet
above Arch street, Philadelphia, and to
cost $4,000, 600.
The names Of all Wilmingtonians reg
istered for military service and then
serial numbers are posted in the ola
Court House, and hundreds have eX-
amined the list.
A Seaford marble yard has received
contracts for monuments to be erected
in honor of Confederate and Union SOL
ders at fredericksburg, Easton and
Chestertown, Md.
Miss Annie l.. Cooper, teacher Of do
nestle science in the Chestertown High
School, has been appointed county DEM
onstrator of home economics for the
summer in Kent county.
General Charles Bird has received a
letter from H. P. Dawson, chairman OF
the Red Cross War Council, thanking
the people of this State for their gen.
erosity in the campaign for funds.
Samuel H. Baynard, defeated candi-
date for reelection as president OF the
Wilmington Board of Education, has
filed a statement showing campaign
receipts and expenditures of 1862. IL.
Adjutant General I. Pusey Wicker
sham has been appointed by President
Wilson dispensing officer and agent for
the Government in the State of Della
ware in connection with the selective
draft.
New Castle county taxes for the en-
suing fiscal year aggregate $79l, AZ
for county, $751; 945 81 for poor and $lO4,
26OO2 for road purposes, making a
total of 1858, 521 upon an assessment Of
500. 922, 208.
The enrolment of the Delaware Sum-
mer School, at Newark, includes 70 from
Sussex, "A from Kent, AZ from rural
New Castle, "a from Wilmington, "a
from Maryland, from Pennsylvania,
from Virginia.
Assurances are given by the Delaware
and Maryland Traction Securities Com
pany, Inc, that work will begin in 80
DAYS on the construction Of trolley line
from Elkton to Cambridge, Md. Further
assurances are given that there is album
dant capital behind the enterprise.
The scarcity of farm labor has so far
failed to reach alarming proportions in
the State Of Delaware, according to the
State Department of Agriculture and
County Agent H. H. Zimmerley. The