Middletown transcript., 1918-10-26
STATE AND PENINSULA

STATE AND PENINSULA
The largest crop of buckwheat ever
grown in the vicinity of Laurel is being
harvested.
Efforts are being made to form q
sheep growers association in Talbot
county, Md.
The Easton furniture factory this
week shipped 7480 ak handles on Gov
ernment order.
An iron flagpole. go feet long, pur-
chased by community subscriptions.
will be raised in Milford this week.
F. M. Soper has purchased of Mrs.
Alexine Thompson, of Dover, her 1873
acre farm near Magnolia, for $4,000.
A fishing steamer came into Milford
Monday, with 9Oo barrels of menhaden
worth about $4,000. caught in one days
fishing.
Farmers are getting their land ready
for wheat sowing, and the acreage will
be the largest ever planted around
Laurel.
Clerk of the Markets Vaughn has de-
stroyed number Of flake" measures
found in use in the street market in
Wilmington.
Because of the ban on public meet
ings the annual co invention of the State
Epworth League. scheduled for Milford,
has been postpone ! indefinitely.
Harry 7. Rash, of Kent county, has
sold his Keifer pear crop, about 25OO
baskets, to packer for IS cents bas-
ket-three times the price paid last
year.
With son in France, Rev. Thomas
C. Davis. pastor of Milford church,
will load shells for the Government in
New Castle on week days to help win
the war.
Tomatoes reached the height of tie
market at Leipseic this week when John
Fenimore of that town. purchased load
of them from G. T. Satterfield, at $1.1
a basket.
Charles Warner, of Wilmington. has
been elected chairman Of the Republican
Citizens League of Delaware. The
new organization will hold reception
in the Hotel dupont Friday afternoon.
The New Castle County Levy Court
has decided to use the Bridge House,
at Market street and Christiana River,
Wilmington. tor morgue. The pres
ent morgue will be used for autopsy
purposes.
Despite the fact that the Street and
Sewer Direc tors of Wilmington war
to change the names of several streets.
it has been found that such changes
can be made only during July and Aug
ust under the city laws.
Several Pennsylvania Railroad Off
cials conferred with members of the
Elkton Town Council this week over
proposed proyements, including the
location of new passenger station and
the elevation of the tracks.
Frank Wood was arrested in Will
mington on charge of driving off a
team owned by the Wilmington & Phila-
delphia Traction Company. Wood said
he had missed his car. The police say
he was tired and wanted to ride home
Only recently organic ed in Sussex
county, the Fern Bureau has shown by
its first effort what such an organiza-
ton can mean in any rural community.
Its members have canned nearly 5000
jars of fruit and jelly for sick soldiers.
They will be sent to the convalescent
hospital.
The scarcity of oysters in both the
Mispillion and Murderkill rivers has
caused the oyster fleet to hunt other
oyster beds. There are usually thirty
boats in the Mispillion river alone. but
now there are not more than five The
oystermen say there are plenty of young
growth but under the lawful size.
Collector of State Revenue John Titus
| has caused the arrest of two Georgetown
merchants charged with making false
afidavits when obtaining mercantile
licenses. Mr.. Titus alleges that one mer-
chant whose purchases last year aggre-
gated SIG, ,227.78, swore they amounted
to but 81, 500 and that another merchant
whose purchases for the same period
aggregated $22. 528. 46, swore they
amounted to but S.. 900.
No "Housing" at Middletown