Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-07-13
STATE AND PENlSNULA

There are now about 5000 Germans
informed in the United States,
The Draper Cannery at Milton, pu,
up over IL. 600 cans Of peas, and shipped
car load last week.
The annual convention of the Mary.
land State Bar Association was held
June q, % and 20 at Atlantic City.
Asbdry Short, Superintendent Of pub
lie streets in Georgetown, has resigned
to take up war work in Wilmington,
State Teachers Institute will be held
III Newark during the week following
the close of the Summer School, Au-
gust 1924.
AS result Of the State wide dog law
which went into effect on July |, more
than 1000 licenses have been issued in
Kent county.
The regular summer and Saturday
night excursions from Delaware towns
to Rehoboth Beach will be rur this
year as formerly.
Friends in Laurel have been informed
of the death in an automobile accident
in France, of Francis A. Garland, with
the railroad engineers.
Eifty-nine of its members already in
the fighting forces, the Brownson Ii
brary Association, Wilmington, has 2;.
others awaiting the call.
States Attorney Joshua Clayton, Of
Elkton. at the Maryland Lawyers con-
vention held last week in Atlantic City,
was elected vice-president.
Conditions indicate a large tomato
crop on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
and the growers have appealed to wo-
men to help harvest the crops.
The summer schedule for the Whining
ton Fairgrounds went into effect Satur-
day when eight play centres were
opened until the fell term of school.
A total of GIG employees of the Mary
land division of the Pennsylvania Rail
road have joined the military or naval
forces since the outbreak of the war.
Captain Julian Bacon, after 18 years
service, has resigned as keeper of the
light house at tn Elbow of Cross Ledge,
Delaware Bay, and returned to his home
in Laurel.
Rev. Thomas Holloway, pastor of
Second Baptist Church. Wilmington,
who is to become camp pastor at Camp
Grant, Rockford. ILL.,, was granted leave
of absence from his congregation.
From the White House, in Washing
ton, comes the announcement that
President Wilson will recommission for
a term of four years each, all incum- !
bent federal officeholqers in Maryland. !
Though nearly million horses have
been shipped abroad since this war
broke out, the Government reports
$50. 900 more horses, on farms, in this
country. January l, 1917, than January
l, 1918.
With the Philadelphia Food Admins
tration fixing the price of ice cream at
As to SO cents quart. Wilmington lovers
of the luxury are hoping for similar &C
ton, as it is selling for go cents in some
Delaware towns.
The dedication of the First NJ. P
Church and the burning of the mortgage
at Georgetown Sunday drew people
from Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Judge Henry c. Conrad and James N.
Tunnel were the lay speakers.
Having acquired title to 47-25 acres Of
land southwest Of Wilmington. the Lib
erty Housing Company, with q capitaliz.
alton of $10O,Q0O, has prepared plans for
the erection of 800 houses within |
walking distance of the shipyards.
According to the Baltimore Sun.
William T. Warburton has announced
to Robert Grain, Director Of the W. S.
S. Fund tor Maryland. that Cecil has
raised $3.50, 900 for the Thrift Stamps
Fund, or SIS, 900 beyond her quota.
By an order from the Federal Fuel
Administrator for Maryland dated June
Is, retail coal dealers are allowed to
make an additional charge Of % cents
per ton for coal sold on credit. If sold
for cash, the Is cents per ton, addition
81, must not be charged.
Delaware has been awarded the ban
per for the highest per capita contri-
pptipp to the Red Cross fund: She has
contributed nearly double the amount
If any other State in the Union and
the city of Wilmington is far and away
ahead of any other city OF 100000 pop
ulatiQn or more.
County Engineer W. E. Hawkins has
been authorized by the Sussex county
Levy Court to make repairs to the
drawbridge over the Laurel river at
Bethel. at price not to EXCEED s5oo'
The work of extensive shipbuildlng be-
ing under way it is necessary to
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