Middletown transcript., 1918-04-20
STATE AND PENINSULA

aware State Fair again this year.
About 10000 officers and men are on.
gagged in coast patrol work of The Navv
Don't cavil against our Allies. Thew
fought our war three years before we
began.
Thirty women wearing trousers are
working as pipe filters in New JERSEY
chemical plant.
Fifteen carloads of oysters shells are
being spread on the road leading to Del
mar from Laurel.
the annual convention of the Sussex
County W. c. 7. U. will be held in
Georgetown, May 16.
A Georgetown seed company has Of
fered $50 for the largest yield of pota-
toes in Sussex county.
The United States is appropriatine
$1,000, 900, 900 for uses in carrying on
the war against Germany.
Nine mill dams in Sussex county have
been washed out, leaving breaks in the
county roads at those points.
The Newark Red Cross provided
luncheon for 22O soldiers who passed
through Newark in motor truck, this
week.
Governor Townsend made the call for
a AVN the War for Permanent Peace"
Convention, to be held in Philadelphia,
May 1918.
Charles l.. Hobbs, bookeeper in the
Denton National Bank, has been ap-
pointed an examiner under State Bank
Commissioner Downes.
Plans are being made to train from
100 to 300 conscripted men at Delaware
College during the summer for war
work along mechanical lines.
The proprietors of the Chestertown
cannery are contracting with farmers
to grow tomatoes at $27. so ton, about
double the price of the last year.
The Government has over 5000 men
at work building the munition plant at
Perryville, and within the next months
the force will be more than doubled.
Postmaster 0 C. Giles, Of Elkton,
reports that during the first three
months of the year there was sold in
Cecil county Sill, 1913. 81 is War Savings
Stamps.
Mrs. George Wesley Priest was elect
ed president of the Delaware Associa-
ton of College !. omen. at special
meeting held on Wednesday of last
week.
To Frederick and its 100 per cent pa
triotic citizens belongs the great
honor of having won the first Liberty
Loan Honor Banner to be awarded to
a Delaware town.
Because Of the great demand Tor
trained men from the Wilmington
shipvards, the faculty OF Delaware
College decided at meeting this week
to institute course in marine trans
pcrtation next fall.
Strawberries have begun to blossom,
and peach, pear and plum trees are
mass of blooms in Sussex county. NO
damage has been discovered that was
done by the cold winter weather and
good crop is expected.
Reports are received every two weeks
bv the Food Administration from the
10 binder Irvine establishments OF the
country. According to receut state
ment there will be an ample supply OF
Irvine for the 1918 harvest.
The Delaware Chapter Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross was requested to collect
in this State ten tons of wearing ap-
parel for the sufferers of Belgium. and
northern France. Instead Of ten tons,
16 tons have been collected.
Peninsula packers, it was learned this
week, probably will not be awarded
any Of the Government contracts Tor
canned tomato supplies for the Army
and Navv. as a result of the protest by
the packers and growers against the
basis price fixed by agents.
Miss Julia Clark. 70 years old, of Bet
terton. will receiv: $4,000 insurance
from private J. E. Potts who was killed
in battle in France. Miss Clark was
Potts foster mother, taking him under
her care at the death of his mother,
when he was II months old.
Because of the excessive bids for
road building in all three Of the counties
received at meeting Of the state
Highway Commission, they rejected all
bids and ordered re. advertising to be
opened on May Is. Much to the surprise
Of the Commission but SIX DDS were
presented.
1t is stated in the last issue OF tne
Good Roads Magazine that at the next
session Of the Pennsylvania Legislature
there will be presented bill providing
for the construction of highway LOU
feet wide from southwestern Philadei-
phia ts the Delaware State line, ana
finally to Washington.
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