Middletown transcript., 1918-05-18
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Many Condensed New. Item. O
the Past Week
In. THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
| Time to get out the lawn mower.
The monthly meeting of the Queer
Esther Circle will be held at the home
of Miss Emily Alice, Monday evening,
This year there is more ,eason thar
ever before for burning no powder or
the Fourth of July except at the battle
,froat.
I Dog, are still chasing young rabbits
in woods and branches near town. This
is the last warning to owners of these
CANNES.
List of letters remaining unclaimed
in the Post Office for week ending May
9th, 1918: Mrs. Blanche Goldsboro, Miss
Mollie Thomas, Mr.. Jerome Byard. ~;
George Stouts.
A strawberry festival, under the aus
pices of the Woman's Foreign Mission
ary Society, will be held in the lecture
room of Bethesda M. E. Church on
Friday evening, May 31st.
Don't glut the market with chickens,
live. or dressed, now that the Federal
''closed season" on hens ended May l..
This advice to farmers is given. by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
The first shipment of Delaware
strawberries for this year was made
Tuesday when AZ crates were sent to
New York. The season will be on in
full next week and the yield promises
to be heavy.
Miss Edith Jewell, of Mt. Pleasant
school, won the prize of $3.50, offered
by Pleasant Summit w. C. T. y. for
the best composition on 1.-THE Harm
and Use of Tobacco" presented by
Miss Anna Lynch.
Governor Harrington, of Maryland.
has announced that prisoners in the
House of Correction and the State Pen
itentiary, who are physically flt for the
task, will be put to work on the States
roads this summer.
Mr.. John Heidmyer, Jr., has sold for
Mr.. ". F. Elliott his farm, situated
near Odessa. containing 144 acres to
Mr.. Irving Rawley. Mr.. Heldmyer has
purchased the personal property of
Mr.. Elliott, who will move to Odessa.
Persons trimming thorn hedges along
the public roads should remember that
to throw the trimmings into the road is
in direct violation of the state law, and,
as there has been numerous complaints.
those who violate this law are liable to
prosecution,
We are informed that many straw
berry growers in Sussex county are
blowing up their patches and will not
continue to grow this luscious fruit for
market, and as consequence high
prices will l!n,ass likely be paid this year
for those which are grown.
Investigation by the General Service
Board discloses that there are twenty
one towns Ia Delaware which have
population Of 500 or more. It also re-
veals that the town of Harrington,
which. with its nearby rural districts,
contains 1000 persons. has only one phy-
sician. 1t formerly had three doctors
but two of them have gone to war.
James Startt. 13 years old, son of
Mr.. William H. Startt, who resides on
the Bradford farm" in Middle Neck,
Md. last Friday evening whiles' assist:
ing one of the raen On the {af1.i With q
load OF foadS:;;, va caught ii tie terri: !:
5is ti,an,de;s,r: e;,:' storm and while r;;ding qn
top Of the load was blown BY the severe
wind oil, the load into the fence and
buried under the fodder: When 4@acved
it was founy9l! ou9!n9yl! his Es right thigh was broken.
Pr: NJ. Vaughan was called and re-
duced ud the, the, fracture.
Yhe improved Order Of Red Men Of
the AppoQuinimink Tribe, No. "a, vis-
tied Drawyers Church Odessa. last
Sunday morning. Everything conspired
to make it memorable occasion. A
most inspiring sermon was preached to
them by the pastor of the church, Rev.
E. A. McLaury. The epareh vat hsaV:
tifnlly tr;;la4@aea witt" haea and flowers
! ana Mrs. Leland Pleasaaten contributed
much to the occasion by singing two
beautiful solos.
! A Great Treat Coming
In the Opera Eas.s,' i isszssyH :as;;Hs evening,
June 4tk,h the SnsllenberG Minstrel