Middletown transcript., 1917-03-24

AKent County, ID, has as..ed for bids
for new high, school building at Ga
lena.
Easton has organized a Red Cross
branch, with Colonel Oswald Tilghman
chairman.
Tt is said that trains on the branches
of the Delaware Railroad i'll soon be
run by electricity.
! Following large run of pe en- and
herring, fish are being sold in George
town at five cents.
The steamer which lies between Fred
erick and Phila elphia has gone to Phil
adelphia for repairs.
One fisherman along Lewes Beach
picked up 1900 laths that fioated ashore
from the barge Ionian.
Trinity P. E. congregation, Winning
ton. has subscribed $1222 toward fund
of $4,000 to pay off its Indebtedness.
Though Laurel has new fire engine,
it would be Of no use il case OF fire,
as Council has not form lily accepted it.
Attempting TO remove cartridge
from revolver, Joseph Mercni, New
Castle, shot himself through the left
hand.
John T. Stoop will be candidate for
president of New Castle Council at the
election cf April 10, opposing James }.
Whalen.
Because of the U-boat net and mines
in the lower Delaws re River and Bay,
shad fishermen will be restricted to the
upper river.
Joseph Kraujeski, aged IS, alleged to
have induced smaller boys to steal, was
sentenced to the workhouse for one
year, in Wilmington.
Practically every one OF the 25O men
appointed on the defense committee in
Wilmington by Mayor Price has signilied
his willingness to serve.
Fire DESTROYED Hudson Bros bakery
at Georgetown recently, entalllng loss
of 500, ,0OO., The insurance will not pa
for half the loss machinery.
Small boys broke into Lewes High
School the other night, and after des-
troying considerable furniture, stole a
teachers watch from a desk.
Two big search lights have been erect,
ed to light the Delaware River and sur,
roundings at the Bethlehem Steel pro
jectile plant, at New Casie
The body of the aged W "- NJ.
along the Baitimore & {
tracks, in Miim!ngt"E, " '.n..ne,' a
that of Alexander tefEu
Council candl ;,t"@ = .e -,ri
district, New Castle, ...,.ui- Gaze,
Whitlock, and from Tile ti'st, Lou
Duncent md George b. Neef
Epworth Methodist Church, Rehobotl
Beach, is anxious for the return OF Pas
tor, Disston W. Jacobs, and has Offered
him an increase of 5000 in salary.
Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, of Milford
perhaps the oldest woman in lowe
Delaware, who died Sunday would hav
been 100 years old in few weeks.
The Board of County Commissioner
of Cecil Co., Md, in session at Elkton
decided to appropriate $4,000 and spen
that and $5, 600 additional on the roa
from Cayots Corner to Town Point
this year.
G. H. Afford, for several years tn
State Agent for Maryland, resigne
that position at the close of Februar
to accept the position Of Agriculturis
and Field Agent for the U S. Depar
ment Of Agriculture.
The deposits of the Elk ton Bankin
and Trust Company, as reported to tn
comptroller at the bank call on Mare
S, are more than 100000. This is a
increase of more than $l0O, 900 for tt
new institution only three years old.
First steps toward demolition Of Il
old Wilmington Court House and bea
tifcation of the square in front of tt
new city building will be taken with Il
letting of the contract for razing Il
building, bids for which are due Mar'
27.
The Women's College of Delawa
will again offer scholarship Of S10O
the girl passing the entrance examin
tions with the highest standing. tt
student must be resident of this Sta
and make an average Of at least IS p
cent. covering fourteen units.
The National City Bank of New Yor
says that the world is entering up
ayear of scarcity. The wheat crop
1916 was fifty millions of bushels und
1915. and the Canadian crop was
million bushels short. The crops of 4
gentina, France, Italy. Australia a
India. were all about 25 per cent belo
The summer school at Delaware c
lege, the primary purpose of which
the training of teachers, as well as
,rou;do hioh school students to me