Middletown transcript., 1918-11-02

l,>SThe Maryland game law allows the
killing of ducks on and after November
4.
Reports from rural sections Indicate
that quail and rabbits are more numer-
ous than for several years.
Between August LIST and October -,
1918, eight and half million pounds of
sugar were issued in Maryland.
A thief entered the home of Arthur
Potts, Chestertown, and stole about
$500 from desk in the sitting room.
At a meeting of the Georgetown
Board Of Health it was decided to con-
tinue the quarantine for another week.
William Ray Baldwin, of near Elkton,
has been commissioned major in the
Ordnance Department, Washington,
D. C..
The Boy Scouts Of Dover have COM
pleted packing 26 barrels of peach pits
and have turned them over to the
Red Cross.
According to Charles H. Ten Weeges,
State Fuel Administrator, all industries
and citizens in the State are receiving
their supplies Of coal.
A gun club has been organized at
Laurel with these officers: David 0.
Moore, president; William T. Bennett,
secretary and treasurer.
A new $500 X-ray apparatus has just
been installed in the Havre de Grace
Hospital. A bedding X-ray unit will
also be added to the hospital.
Milford shipyards have raised the
price Of labor to 70 cents an hour and
claim that at the lower cost of living it
is better than at 81 an hour in the cities.
Word has been received by his mother
in Milford that Major William Marshall,
with the Delaware regiment in France,
sustained broken leg in an automobile
accident.
The Wilmington police picked up five
youngsters Monday who bad stolen milk
and bread as runaways. The parents
of the boys in Cleveland, Ohio, have
been notified.
Many farmers around Laurel report
excellent luck with turkeys this year.
Prospects are that considerable reve-
nue. for the farmers wives this winter
will come from the sale of fowl.
Chesapeake Haven, summer resort
established at Grove Point at the mouth
of Elk and Sassafras rivers, in Cecil
county, has been placed in the hands OF
receivers. The war knocked the plans
of the promoters.
Unable to obtain boarding houses for
their women clerks, the dupont Powder
Company have leased the Berl property,
one of the largest private dwellings, at
No. 1903 Market street, Wilmington,
and it will be converted into boarding
house.
Frank E. Williams, editor of the Cecil
Wing, Elkton, has learned that his son,
Lieutenant Frank E., Jr., who was in
jured in battle in France early last
month, has lost the sight of one eye
and the sight of the other eye is serious
ly impaired.
Hog cholera has broken out at Laurel
with alarming results. In and right
near town more than 100 fattened pork
ers, weighing from It's to $50 pounds,
have died during the past few days and
the losses have fallen principally upon
poor people.
Agents for the U. S. Government,
after making thorough canvas of the
woodland of the county, have found
about $50 fine walnut trees. Such tree $
are in great demand at present. being
used for gun stocks and propeller blades
for airplanes.
Wilmington's Board of Water Com
missioners Saturday gave first and
second readings to resolution provldina
for an increase in water rates, effective
January l, 1919. The present rate is
so cents per 1000 cubic feet, and the
new rate will probably be IS cents.
Arrangements are being made fol
raising the flagpole at Milford, bought
with money collected at the community
sing few weeks ago. The pole is OF
iron, sixty feet long, and will be placed
in the center of South Walnut Street in
front Of the Milford Trust Company.
Just half a century ago the Crane
Lodge, knights of Pythias, was organ.
lied in Delaware and a golden jubilee
will take place in Wilmington, Novem'
Der -, IA and Is. No efforts are being
spared to make the celebration one am
ply BETTING the wonderful progress q
the third largest fraternal order il
America.
Condemnation proceedings brough
by the Government against 81 propert!
owners on tenants Of land near Mt
Pleasant and Port Penn wanted 4
make room for a railroad spur to thu
Rockwell Marlin Company shell-loadir,
plant started in the District Court Mon
day. Judge Wooley presided. Th'
Directing owners are represented b!
four attorneys.
News has reached Seaford that Lieu
tenant Luther A. Davis, of that town