Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-09-28
STATE AND PENINSULA

OuSSeA Guilty SEVEN are JumUeTIHen.
Growers on the Eastern Shore are be-
ing offered 10 cents basket for Keiffer
pears by Baltimore packers.
Red Cross workers of Wilmington
have opened a weeks campaign to COL
lect 20 tons of used clothing. shoes and
underwear.
Churches of the Wilmington M. E.
conference have begun a Statewide
campaign to collect funds for the preach
'ers' pension fund.
The Sussex County Levy Court on
Tuesday raised the price of feeding
prisoners in the county Jail from 80 cents
per day to 40 cents per day.
Members of the improved Order Of
Red Men from Delaware will join New
Jersey Red Men in presenting an am
bulance to the Camp Dix soldiers.
Milford sportsmen have protested
against the pollution of streams with
refuse from canning factories, which is
said to be killing hundreds of young
fish.
III: Rider, a farmer near seaford.
pas just received returns from his melon
crop, which amount to more than $4,000,
the price he paid for his farm two years
ago,
TO build road on the Lewes beach
from the naval base to the town OF
Lewes, the Sussex county commissioners
have donated Is cars of gray ell from the
county pits.
Ths Maryland State Automobile Com
r.:sslon has begun to aake arrests OF
I'LL divers Of trucks travelling over the
Maryland roads and not carrying a
Maryland license.
The Board of Health reports that
..-4.,y Eases Of Spanish influenza have
peai reported il Wilmington. Every
precaution is being taken to prevent the
disease spreading.
Joseph Herman convicted In Genera:
Sessions Court at Wilmington of en-
bezzling money from the American Ex-
press Company, was sentenced to four
u.onths in the gorkhoqse,
i number Of hcrsemsn Of Sudlersville
md Vicinity haye organized racing and
driving ASSOCIATION with Thomas Smith,
president, r Oscar Hoe, secretary. and
MeaVitt Booker, treasurer;
The Knights Of Fythias in Delaware
are making elaborate arrangements for
celebrating the golden jubilee OF the
order in Wilmington in connection with
the annual meeting of the grand lodge.
};eorge M. Smith, IT Wilmington, on
W6hday became: superintendent of the
Delaware division Of the Pennsylvania
ta,noad. He succeeds P. I. Groves
who has been transffefreed to the post
1f superintendent Of the M9nongahela
division,
According to report in the hands OF
the Maryland Council of Defense, made
by F. B Bomberger, acting director OF
the State agriculture extension work,
r. msIFFy FIJI. ssry}Hs ~ I yHo'e Will
tro3e i Disappointment over previous
expeStationse:
Fte Chagtauaqa fer Georgetown
again next year IS s4ssssrea. ga9afantors
Hqmbering m9re than one hundred hav-
lqg been secured: The atttsnd!aan!!ee this
year at the ghautauAqa exceeded that
Of any previous year since it has been
coming to Georgetown.
More than 9, coo additional nurses will
e re-, lirea to meet lbs lee4s Of the
kr,..ya,ona beEwaen n6M and January1
hrigadier-General Charles Richard. act:
ing sgirge9n- general, says that $4,000
isArsss will! BE- required in lfzs than a
yeas te HAeet the 4eMAaa4d:
70 guard against wholesale outbreak
Of Spanish influenza IN Wilmington,
Mayor Lawson has appointed con-
mlttee of three to confer with the
,.'amen's Committee af the State De
tense Council relative y arIaLglag for
isolated quarters for patients: At ths
CONFERENCE in Mayer Eawsen's Office,
Mrs. Coleman du Pent offered home
in the country, where patients could be
cared for.
Because of so many cases of Spanish
t..l,uen "a an.eug totn tie teasLers a.d
VII pHhils' 81 lSeWafk 'ss;;::sol:: aHHd asia
rrseaatiaqarY measure, rthe B9ard Of
Education has closed the public schools
for the remainder of this week. Prin-
cipal Phineas Morris, Assistant Princi-
Ial Miss Addie Wilson. Miss Mary Hous-
ton and Miss Harriet Wilson are among
tie teachers wts are sick. Ywo dsatna
occurred In Newark Sunday as result
Of the disease, pneumonia having del
veloped. !
,Jash.ngten fSoilsga. Chsstertown,
tas been designated by The Var De:
k.rtment IS, IS A Institution to furnish i
anit Of the Student Army Training
C9fts: This IS bae sf aqf Oldest col:
reyes, beginning its one hundred and
thirty-seventh session on September IL.
This army course offers special induce
ments to young men 10 years old or
over. who satisfy the entrance require
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