Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-05-25
STATE AND PENINSULA

Hebron camp near Salisbury, will
open July 18th, and continue for 10
days.
Ground has been broken for a new
bank at Perryville which will start with
a capital Of SIS, 1000.
Joseph Shannahan has resigned as
cashier Of the Savings Bank, Belair,
and enlisted in the army.
The Sons Of Della ware will hold their
annual dinner at Delaware College,
Newark, today Saturday..
The Kent County School Board has
decided to build a new high school at
Galena and will shortly ask for bids.
DR.. John J. Hopper. of Chesapeake
City, has enlisted in the Aviation Corps,
and will shortly leave for Princeton.
Bishop Monaghan, of Wilmington,
Del, confirmed class OF so youths at
the Catholic service in Ridgely on Sum-
day.
Word was received in Dover of the
drowning at Cape Girardeau. Mo-, of
Judge B. Frank Davis, formerly of
Milford.
Miss Ethel M. Dole, Government food
demonstration agent in Delaware, has
resigned and will return to Illinois. her
former home.
While Howard Benson was driving
between Earleville and Town Point,
Saturday. his automobile took fire and
was totally destroyed.
Governor Townsend has appointed
former Lieutenant Governor Menden-
hall, Of Wilmington, member Of the
State Council OF Defense.
The students of the Havre de Grace
High School have invested during the
past four months nearly $4,000 in Thrift
and War Savings Stamps.
Farmers around Lewes claim that
nearly all the peaches and plums are
killed in that section. There is a good
prospect for cherries and apples.
Governor Harrington has appointed
former state Senator William ". Beck,
of Chestertown, member of the State
Tax Commission to succeed Levin W.
Wickes, resigned.
Mr.. Irwin 7. Kepler. of the Elkton
Banking and Trust Co., has been elect
ed Secretary of the Mutual Building
Association of Cecil county, vice the
late Charles S. Peacock.
Maryland sheep growers, at meet
ing held in Baltimore, last Wednesday
determined to increase the number of
sheep from 225, 900 to 100000 in the
State. Governor Harrington made an
address.
The annual school elections in Sus-
sex county will take place May 20.
Under new law, the new boards of
education will be obliged to raise the
tax rate, as all teachers salaries have
been raised.
The Deibert barge building plant in
Elkton, after being in existence for 80
years, has closed due to the inability to
get lumber. The boat builders have
accepted positions at Hog Island, Ches-
ter and Wilmington.
Although most of the male residents
of Ocean View are seafaring men and
large majority are doing transport ser
vice, an effort will be made to hold the
annual "Home Coming" for which
Ocean View has been famous in Au-
gust.
An appeal to club women of Ameri-
ca urging them to assist the American
Red Cross in raising 500, 900, 600 for
war relief work, has been issued by
Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, president OF
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs.
The State Highway Commission Mon
day awarded it's first contracts for new
roads, the mileage aggregating 27.83.
and the cost 81, 474, ZIG. 70. They are
located in all three counties, one road
being that connecting Wilmington and
Philadelphia.
The news that Delaware's State
Treasury will be enriched by nearly
four hundred thousand dollars as re-
suit of the new Income Tax Law will
be pleasing to all advocates OF good
roads and better schools, as this revenue
will be applied to such purposes.
The office of the U. 5. Boys Working
Reserve in the Old Federal Building at
9Th and King Streets, Wilmington. is
receiving a number of requests from
farmers for boys to work on the farms.
The State Director, Mr.. Charles War
iier, makes az appeal to all boys over 10
years of age who have no employment
to enroll for this work.
The shortage Of strawberry plckers
was somewhat relieved this week when
three carloads of foreigners arrived
from Philadelphia, sent by representa-
tives of the Government, to whom ap-
nea, had been made for pickers through
Governor Townsend, one Of the largest
growers and Gamers in the State.
Boys and girls from the Philadelphia
~! .Loota have also been