Middletown transcript., 1918-09-14
STATE AND PENlSNULA

STATE AND PENlSNULA
The police Of Wilmington made 26l
arrests last week.
Republican primary election for Kent
county will be held Saturday, Septem-
Der %.
Adam B. Keen, Of Rising Sun, has
been appointed Deputy Game Warden
for Cecil county.
Edgar ). Dublin. licenced pilot of
Laurel, has been called into the navy
with the rank Of first lieutenant
Lieutenant John N. Rhoads, now in
France, has sent his friends in Milford
a German helmet taken from battle
field.
The old flour and grist mill at Wyom-
ing, after being thoroughly remodeled
and new machinery installed, is now in
operation. ..... ........
The Diamond Ice Company is planning
to erect a $25O,O0O storage plant at
Pennsylvania avenue and Union street,
Wilmington.
Misses Mary Houston and Harriet
Wilson, teachers at Georgetown, have
resigned to accept positions in the New
ark High School.
Edmund Mitchell, food administrator
for Delaware. has taken new Office quar-
tiers in the Odd Fellows Building, at
Tenth and King streets.
Negro women have been placed on the
elevators in the DUPONT Building, Will
mington, to take the place of operators
who will soon be drafted.
The first pilot to volunteer for service
in the navy is Thomas j. Virdin. Of
Leves. He has been made lieutenant
and appointed to supply ship.
DIR. Joseph B. NAPLES, ST., of George
town, has been elected county physician
in place Of DR.. George James, Of SeIby-
vile. who has entered the army.
The Maryland State Board cf Health
has ordered all wells to be pastuerized,
so as to stamp out all typhoid fever,
which is caused by impure wells.
Frank VI. Soper former member of
the Legislative and well-known "apple
king'' of lower Delaware, has announced
his candidacy for State Treasurer.
Mark E. Slime. supervising principal
Of the Laurel schools which opened
Monday. wrote from his home in Eliza
bethville, Pa, that he has been called
to army service.
Foundations for 275 Of the 500 or
more houses being constructed at Union
Park, Wilmington, by the Government
have been laid. There are 1000 men
at work on the operation.
Handicapped by lack Of teachers, the
pu.ic schools of rural New Castle
county opened Monday. A number OF
teachers have taken positions in local
offices and industrial plants.
Having decided to discontinue the an
nual exhibition, the directors OF the
Kent and Queens County Fair Associa-
ton have sold all their buildings, fences,
ETC., which netted about $4,000.
Members of the Diamond State Lodge,
Brotherhood of Railroad Locomotive
Engineers, in Wilmington, have entered
3 protest to the proposed increase in
rates by the Wilmington G IS Company:
Plans were laid Wednesday in George
town by number Of prominent farmers
to form a Farmers Exchange on the
same lines which have proven so sue
cessful on the Virginia Eastern Shore.
Among the Grand Jurors summoned
for the September term Of the United
States District Court in Wilmington
was Major J, Danforth Bush, who is
with the 59th Pioneer Regiment in
France.
James Hall Anderson. prominent
Dover attorney. has been appointed
Chief Game and Fish Warden for Della
ware. to succeed Major John P. LeEevre
whose military duties haze compelled
him to resign.
Under thu auspices of the State Sum
day School Association. the older boys
and girls of Kent county will hold their
first conference Saturday, September
%. in the Dover PRESBYTERIAN Church.
Prominent workers will make addresses.
The corn crop near Bridgeville is now
ready to be harvested and on account OF
it recurring so much labor to top and
strip the fodder many are cutting it from
the ground and stacking in the fields
for winter feed, and then later they can
shuck the corn.
The city of Cleveland, Ohio. has adopt
ed novel plan for honoring it's soldier
dead. For each Cleveland soldier WIFI
loses his life in this war Victory oab
will Re planted along one Of the bou'e