Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-15
STATE AND PENINSULA

Smallpox has broken out in Crisfield
Md
The recent shad supper held by Ce.
clifton Red Cross Melted about SIT
E. NJ. Savage Of Lincoln City. found
nest Of guinea eggs containing III
eggs.
All the public school teachers iu
Georgetown were reelected with an in.
crease in salary.
The annual meeting of the state Fed.
GRAFTON Of Gu IS will be held at Reno.
both June q and %.
Only 24l cars of strawberries have
been shipped out of Selbyville, as COM
pared with 600 in former years.
A Milford shipyard has just received
an order from the Government for the
construction of two 8O-feet keel tugs.
The strawberry season in Sussex
Co lnty about closes this week with
more than million and half dollars
worth shipped.
Because of break in the machinery.
Havre de Grace gas plant is closed
down, and patrons have been without
gas for sometime.
Laurel's lone dairyman notified his
customers of an advance to ID cents
in the price of milk, and residents scram-
bled for condensed milk.
The finely-bred bull calf presented to
Elkton Red Cross by Frank R. Evans
was sold at public Sale to Fitz Disaroom,
of near Cecilton, for 500.
The owners of the bus line operated
between Elkton and Chestertown have
decided to discontinue business and sell
their automobile at Public Sale.
Cement floors are being placed In the
lower cells, the kitchen and the ''yard''
If the Sussex County Jail, and other
improvements made to the building.
The Maryland State Council Of de-
fence has made an appropriation of 50,
600 to be used for transporting farm
laborers from Baltimore city to the
counties.
The Maryland Council Of Defence re-
.orts that farms in the state are about
5000 men short, and it has appealed to
the patriotism Of the man to help with
harvests.
The State Road Commission through
its chief engineer, has submitted for ap-
prQval of the War Department plans
fer q drawbridgs agrees bohemia River
Il, t;eeil Goantys on the line ef the State
Rad
At q meeting Of the Maryland State
1t Prison Control, Monday, the State
Naa,i Commission agreed to pay at the
Fate Of 81 day man, and the Prison
roard is to gaurd and feed the men
while at work.
The mansion house of the late Peter
F. Causey in MILFORD has been bought
from j. P. Holland of California by the
Milford Trust Company. and it IS SUP
roaas .arGe .al=ta.g l.oase, Vii be
built OF. ths plot. .:.i : ~
friends In Wilmington of DR.. Ralph
D.!Killen regret to learn that he is IN
base hospital in France suffering from
the effects Of being gassed by an ex,-
.llos'se gae-sh:e'l. As ~ amy ooetor
Re na5 lees in the TICK Of ths fighting.
4he Elkton Town Council, through
its attorney. Omar D. Crothers. has FL
Il bill IN the gireMt g;seart sss 9kklyg
.tat 4 reeeiYer be appointed for the
Maryland Wafer Company an the
grounds that it has not complied with
franchise.
Many are now agiating the subject OF
the placing Of cantonment on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, c,alLalal,
.!.af this se.t.o., Of tns Lorptry is, 'oses
Is tie hest which the War Department
could select for the building Of one Of
lhese large camps.
Philadelphia during the next twelve
months will have "a fewer saloons. that
......n:ter Aal,ng RATED t. rieetN tie to.
.luiled license fee., There will also be
i reduction in breweries,| wholesale.
iii,tor dealers and bettlers. thirty, al
.ela.. going ogt St hu4si'44sss;
The state hsh haehery in chesapeake
ray. near the mouth of the sqsaue=
habns. during the season just closed.
Matched about 5o0,ooO,0OO yellow and
white perch eggs and $4,000 shad
eggs. They were placed in the differ
ent waters thrcrghcgt To sl.ai;s. r-
Hiss Bonavsntura Sphinx, : singer,
no has Just returned from Germany
gays the people there are starving as
tie women and children have 20 &c
without food, that the soldiers rnsy &c
t~,4l. Eutts,'is sa.s0 . pound ahd' tea.
so q pound Sugar and -four are not 70
re had at any PRICE.
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