Middletown transcript., 1918-08-31
STATE AND PENISNULA

The Milford Fire Department will
hold its annual carnival the last of this
month.
Tie annual Chautauqua in Chester
town will open for seven days session
Saturday.
The Kent County Maryland School
Board has ordered the public schools to
reopen on September l6 -.:s,.-, =.
Apple .pickers and packers from
Frederick are being paid 81 day by
the big Soper orchard management.
In response to President Wilson's APP
peal miners in Maryland have given
their pledge to work eight hours day.
DR.. D. C. Dyer has resigned as chem
ist at the Delaware College experiment
station to accept position with the
General Chemical Company. .-.~.i -.
Miss Mildred Ferguson, graduate of
the Nomen's College, has been ap-
pointed chemist for the Newark cannery
of the P. j.: Ritter Company. a.
State Commissioner of Education
Spaid has announced that the public
schools of Delaware outside of Will
mington will be opened on September 9.
DR.. A. E. Winship, editor of the
Journal of Education. Boston, made an
address at the closing session of the
State Teachers Institute in Newark
Saturday.
j. Martin Pettyjohn, superintendent
Of the County Almshouse near George
town, gave all of the inmates an auto
mobile trip to Oak Orchard and furnish
ed big chicken dinner Monday.
An airship signal has been placed
near the Coast Guard Station, at Ocean
City. A platform to be painted green,
with large white letters. which combi-
uatlon is most easily read BY airmen.' '''-'
Miss A. Louise Phillips and Miss
Catharine T Woodman, both of Will
mlngton, have BEEN awarded scholar.
ships at the Women's College. Newark,
offered by women's organizations of
the State.
). 1t is reported that scarcely one-half
d crop of corn will be gathered in
Maryland this year, owing to the dry
weather The oats crop throughout the
country is very he IVY. 60 bushels to the
acre being an average.
Wilmington merchants. at meeting
Monday in the Hotel DUPONT. decided to
open their places Of business at $50
o'clock each morning and, to- close at
$50 O'Clock in the evening, beginning
September 16. The Saturday closing
hour will be 9 o'clock.
The. officials of the Delaware. -andt
Chesapeake Canal Co. have had two of
their employees sworn in as Deputy
Sheriffs of Cecil county, in order that
they may have authority to quell dis
order or arrest suspicious characters on
the company's property &s1sf
Lewes fishermen are making good
catches of fine croakers, the large size
ones bringing 60 cents a dozen. Lob
sters are also plentiful, but the cushion
crabs, which have always been so plen-
tiful there, are scarce. Fishermen say
many were killed by the severe winter.
Clarence A.. Short, professor Of
mathematics and engineering at Della
ware College, has received orders from
the War Department to report for mill
tary service within ten days at Camp
Meade, Md. He will have the rank Of
major in the adjutant-general's depart
ment.
The will of the late Caleb Sipple PEN
newill, of Dover, probated Tuesday,
shows an estate valued 100000. Be-
quests of $500 and $500 are made to
relatives end charitable organizations
and the balance OF the estate is left to
the widow and daughter, Mrs. Beulah
Lewis. Of Harrington.
Judge Henry c. Conrad. acting chair
man of the State Portrait Commission,
has had hung in the State House at
Dover large portrait of Martin W.
Bates, one-time United States Senator,
donated by his great-grandson. Major
Daniel M. Bates. connected with the
War Department At Washington.
Archie C. Jones, manager of Andrew
Marvel's poultry farm. on the Laurel
road near Georgetown, has young Ply
mouth Rock hen which has made a
record for herself She was Matched
the first week in last February and on
Thursday. August Is, she hatched out a
brood of eleven chicks from her own
eggs.
Members of the Service Citizens of
Delaware, organized sometime ago to
improve the social conditions in the
State, were Informed at a meeting
in Wilmington on Tuesday that Pierre
S. DUPONT, president of the dupont
Powder Company, had set aside securi-
ties to the value of 81, 500. 900, the in
come of which will be devoted to their
work for q period of four wears. This