Middletown transcript., 1918-12-21

STATE AND PENINSULA

The young men of E!ktOn have sent
out invitations to large New Years
eve dance in the Armory.
The public school at Galena has again
been closed by the health authorities or
account Of second outbreak of influ.
enza.
Nine million pounds OF candy for the
army has been ordered by the War J,e
partment. 1t will be rushed over sea
in time to insure plentiful supply fol
Christmas.
1t was learned Monday that durine
the serious fire in EIkton Sunday morn.
ing the Catholic Church and the pastoral
residence adjoining were broken into
and robbed.
The Cecil County Board of Education
has appointed Miss Nettie Stone, OF
brooklyn, teacher of the commercial
department at the Chesapeake City
: High School.
The barge building plant at Chesa
peake City, owned by the Southern
Transportation Company, has closed
down, as the Government commanders
, ed its lumber.
A model village is being constructed
at Naaman's, on the Delaware, several
miles north Of Wilmington, for en-
ployees of the National Anlline and
Chemical Company.
After completing contracts at the
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, estimated
st $12.OO0.00o, the Maryland Dredging
& Contracting Company ceased work
Saturday throwing $500 men out of en-
p'oyment.
Pierre Dupont has given an auto
truck to the boys at the Lewes Naval
Base. Flange wheels have been added
so that the truck can be used on the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks which run
to the base from Lewes.
The Conservation Commission of
Maryland reports that during the year
it has had Matched and distributed in
local waters the enormous total of 4O2,-
373. 400 young fish, of which 81. $50, 900
were distributed n Cecil and 145. .6O7, 400
in Harfdfd county.
The premium list of the 18th Annual
State Corn Show to be held in Bridge.
vile, January 14th to 18th, is about
complete Prof. Grantham, Secretary
Of the Delaware Corn Growers Asso-
citation announces that more than $500
in cash will be awarded as premiums.
In addition valuable sweepstakes will
be offered
Although this has been an unusually
dry fall, the wheat fields are looking
fine about Seaford. The rains of last
week were very beneficial to wheat and
other vegetation. and wheat will enter
the winter strong. vigorous and we'll
rooted. This condition indicates a
splendid crop should spring weather
conditions be favorable.
Many thousand dollars worth of prop
erty was destroyed by fire which
broke out in the Scott Fertilizer Com
pany's plant early Sunday morning.
For time the flames threatened to
take the Radnor Pulp Mills adjoining,
but through the heroic efforts of the
firemen the confagration was confined
to the fertilizing plant.
The annual banquet of the Delaware
College Alumni Association will be held
in Old College Hall, Saturday evening,
Februarye22. This will be the first time
that the banquet has been held in the
college hall. At the same time there
will be memorial service for Delaware
College men who have made the su-
preme sacrifice during the war
The largest war garden in the United
States, located between Georgetown
and Selbyville, along the DUPONT Boule-
ward, produced nearly $4,000 worth of
foodstuffs this year under the direction
Of W. E. Tucker, of Georgetown. The
garden is owned by Colonel T. Coleman
DUPONT. Colonel DUPONT decided to
plant ali the ground not used by the
road
A letter just received from Dean
Allan r. Culimore indicates that he ex-
poets to return to Delaware College
soon. He is now a major in the army,
having been granted leave Of absence
from the college. 1t is hoped that he
will take charge of the engineering
work at the college on January 3, when
the new session begins. Dean Culli-
more was head of the engineering de-
partment before he joined the army
nearly a year ago.
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