Middletown transcript., 1918-12-14
STATE AND PENINSULA

The School Board has appointed Miss
Elizabeth Dawson, of near Elkton, vice
principal of Chesapeake City High
School.
A steam freighter, 135 feet long, and
with % foot beam, has been launched
from yards in Milford for New York
owners.
A large saw mill IS in operation near
Rising Sun, working up locust timber,
to be used by the government in ship
building.
On account of another serious out
break of the influenza at Betterton the
public school has been closed by the
health authorities.
M. C. Vaughan, of North Carolina,
the newly-appointed agricultural agent
for Sussex county. has taken up his
duties with Offices IN Georgetown.
After five weeks evangelistic SER
vices in the First Baptist Church,
Dover, Pastor Skinner reports 70 con-
versions and additions to the church.
The Peninsula Horticultural Society
has arranged very interesting and
instructive program for the meeting to
be held in Bridgeville on January IA.
Is and 16.
A permit was issued by Building In
spector Preston, of Wilmington, to the
Diamond Ice & Coal Company to erect
$50. 900 ice plant at Pennsylvania and
Grant avenues.
Hog cholera is reported to have
broken out in the Laurel section, and
many people who raised porkers for the
winter are butchering, fearing the dis
ease may spread among the hogs.
The expense account of the Demo-
cratic party at the last election, filed
with Clerk of the Peace Wright at
Wilmington, shows receipts of $l3,-
766. 70 and expenditures $l3,2A
For the first time in their history the
Laurel public schools held session Sat
urday, the Board of Education having
decided upon the innovation to avoid
opening the schools the Monday before
Christmas.
The County Farm bureau of Delaware
through their central Office located at
Delaware College, Newark, will publish
a monthly newspaper for the benefit of
their m ambers and others interested in
the Agricultural development of the
State.
Henry B. Thompson, a prominent
resident of Wilmington, has left for
France to engage in work for the
American University Extension Union.
His daughter. Catharine. and son,
Henry B., Jr., are doing war work in
France.
The Board of Education of Winning
ton has been forced to borrow $175, 900
from the Emergency Fleet Corporation
to construct new school building to
accommodate additional children from
several large building operations in con-
nection with the war industries here.
Dealers in holly and evergreen, in
Sussex, arr swamped with orders for
the Christmas holidays. The demand
is not only greater but prices offered
are far beyond anything heretofore
offered. The prospects for filling Or
ders is not bright. In most cases holly
trees are barren of berries.
With the return of peace conditions
the Elks have decided to resume the
work of collecting funds for the erection
of a new clubhouse This project,
started some time ago, was abandoned
last year on account of the war. OF the
total 500. to be raised $50. 1000 al
ready has been subscribed.
The provisional price to be pal by
the Government for the canned toma
toes which it will buy for the army and
for the navy will be fixed, it is under
stood at $185 for No. standards, with
prices for No. 2 and No. l.
This new price marks a decided change
in the attitude of the Administration in
the matter of prices.
The Moline, a 43OO-ton freighter for
the Emergency Fleet Corporation, was
launched at Wilmington Tuesday by the
Pusey & Jones Company. The craft is
3l5 feet long, A feet wide and Is feet
deep. The ship is of $500 tons displace-
ment and capable of developing a speed
of 10! knots an hour. A sister ship.
the Rock Island. will be launched during
the holidays.