Middletown transcript., 1918-09-21
STATE AND PENlSNULA

Der electioh.
The Kent county milk stations are
paving $3.O6 for milk, the highest price
recorded there.
The Selbyville High School has open
Ell library of 1900 worth of books pre-
scented by the town.
The Union Paving Company will be-
gin paving Delaware avenue in Will
mingtor next week.
Miss MAZDA G. Campbell, superintend-
ent Of Union Hospital. Elkton, for eight
years, has left for overseas work.
The Cecil County Nd, Board of Edu-
cation has decided that teachers must
comply strictly with the vaccination law.
Complaint has been made by residents
of Marshallton that an acre of tomatoes
are going to waste on the farm of the
county workhouse.
United States engineers are surveying
at Lewes for the new canal to connect
the Government canal across the beach
to the Delaware Bay.
The schoolboys of Sussex county have
been called upon by government agents
to save all peach stones to be used in
making carbon for gas masks.
Production of motor cars by the Ford
Motor Company has been suspended en-
tirely, to enable TIE company to devote
its entire facilities to Government work.
The State Roads Commission has
arranged to begin working number
of prisoners from State institutions on
the roads in Cecil c,unty Md, on Mon
day.
1t is estimated that million letters
per day arrive in France for American
soldiers. and there is also large volume
of mail for soldiers mailed locally in
France.
The Cecil County Md, Draft Board
.epo7ts 1853 men, 24s9 white and 1863
eoiored, registered last Thursday, 20
GER cent. in excess of the Governments
estimate.
Many young women in the upper-sec-
tioo of Cecil county, Md. in order to
relieve the labor shortage in the can
neries. have accepted work IN the pack
ing houses.
Tampering with mail boxes and the
reading of other peoples letters on the
route through Staytonsville has been
brought to the attention Of the Post
Office authorities.
A Liberty Kitchen" has been open
ed by the Government in Georgetown
under the direction of Miss Eva Miller,
who is giving demonstre tions in home
Ct; hing and economics.
harnael H: BaynarQ, 3 real estate
operator of Wilmington, is planning to
erect q "stag" apartment house at
Twenty.eighth and Washington streets,
to accommodate so men.
Laurel and surrounding country is
again free of smallpox. Seth F. Out
ten and his son, the last to be afflicted,
were permitted to leave their home
Monday and the quarantine has been
lifted:
The National Resources Development
Company, with capital of $25, 600, OOC,
to acquire lands containing oil, coal,
natural gas and other minerals to de-
velop same, was chartered in Dover last
Saturday.
The Wilmington Water Commission
ers have been asked by the Happy
Skating Club to allow the use of the
aoqIey street reservoir next winter.
The request will be granted if the pub
lie is admitted.
Chalmer C. Reynolds, well-known
base bali pitcher. who has been connect
ed with the Maryland State Road Com
mission, has taken position as assist
ant engineer on construction work with
the State Road Commission of Delaware.
Under the auspices Of the State Sun
day-school Association the older boys
and girls Of Kert county will hold their
first conference Saturday, September
Is, in the Dover Presbyterian Church.
Prominent workers will make addresses.
The fall term of the Wilmington pub
lie schools opened Monday with
larger attendance than had been ex-
pected. The shortage Of teachers is
causing much worriment The teach
ing of the German language has been
abo!ished d.
found that IS out of 400 samples of milk
taken from dealers and producers in
New Castle county were watered, it
was decided at conference Of those
interested in Wilmington Saturday to
have the price remain at the old figure
Of u cents quart.
Henry White, negro. who csc aped
from the Detective Bureau in Whining
ton on September by leaping from
window. has been arrested in Chicago,
according to information received. De-
tective Benson left Monday to bring
him back to answer charge of steal
ing the automobile of Charles S. War
wick, local broker.