Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-04-27
STATE AND PENINSULA

$29S7.93.
Wilmington seed dealers are com.
planning of the committee IN charge 81
the war gardens selling seeds lowe,
than the market price.
The 3Sth annual encampment If the
Department of Delaware, G. A. r..
will be held at Irish American Hall
Wilmington, on Thursday, May 2.
Delaware has now on the way to the
people Of war-stricken Belgium nine.
teen tons of clothing, bedding, blankets,
shoes, etc., which were shipped in las
cases.
Many bridges over mill dams in the
western section of the county have been
torn away as result Of the heavy on
rush Of water through the streams in
the storm last week.
Acake. four feet in diameter. one
foot high and weighing $50 pounds,
was sent recently from New York to
Paris to be served at Y. M. C. A..
dinner for 2. 400 soldiers.
Dover Council, No. q, Jr. o. u. A.
NJ. has decided to subscribe for $500 in
Liberty Bonds of the Third Series.
The Council also has $500 in the second
issue and $500 in the bank.
In 1856, just after the Civil War
wholesale prices were even higher than
they are now. Cheese cost 68 cents a
pound, butter 50 cents, and brown sugar
Is cents Retail prices were higher still.
The week of May 6 to IL has been
set as the time to be observed as Chill
dren's Week in all the churches. A
continent wide campaign will be carried
on for the purpose Of emphasizing
the religious education of children.
1t has been announced that June 5th
has been decided upon as the time for
the next registration. just one year
from the first registration day. All
male citizens reaching the age of q
since the latter date will be required to
register. r4
Captain George Lothian, Jr., of Elk
ton, is reported to have been drowned
when his barge, the Florence O'Brien,
owned by the Southern Transportation
Company, broke from tow near the
mouth Of Chesapeake Bay during the
recent heavy storm.
DeIaware's contingent of men to be
drawn for military service on May 1st,
is 81, all white. 1t is understood the
men will 60 to Fort Slocum, N. Y, for
training, and will be drawn by numbers
except that agricultural and farm la
borers will be temporarily passed over.
The saloons in virtually all Texas
cities of more than 5000 population have
closed their doors for good as the result
Of the law enacted at the special ses-
sion of the Legislature prohibiting the
sale of liquor within ten miles Of any
army camp. About 1900 saloons closed.
While the boardwalk along the ocean
front at Rehoboth for considerable of
its length between the Belhaven and
Henlopen Hotel. was wrecked by the
waves the new bulkhead saved the cot
tages along surf avenue from being
inundated although it gave way in
places.
Governor Townsend announced the
appointment of Professor E. V. Vaughn,
of Newark, and DR.. H. G. Budd and
Professor A. r. Spaid, of Dover, as de-
Iegates from Delaware to the annual
session of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science in Philadel-
phia, April 26 and q.
The obligations of every man, woman
and child out of uniform to help feed
himself will be greater than last year,
therefore the home gardening activities
ought to be repeated. This is the mes
sage of the United States department
of agriculture to every family. Those
who do not produce can conserve and
save food.
During this first year of war, the
army of the United States has been in
creased from 1884 officers and 202. $40
men to 123, 800 officers and 1,528, 9A
men, and the navy from $1,000 to $780,
600 men and officers. 50 that our armed
forces have grown in IL months from
less than 800, 900 to more than 2, 0Q0, 0O)
officers and men.
Damage Of more than $4,000 was
caused by the storm last week ct Ocean
City, Nd. Cottages of several Balti'
moreans were totally wrecked, other
cottages were seriously damaged. 1000
feet Of the boardwalk facing the sea
was carried away, and the ocean pier
was smashed in places, and fishing boats.
seines, nets and pounds to the value OF
of more than $4,000, were carried out
to sea or buried under the sand.
Save Crimson Clover For Seed
At the presents time we are facing
possible shortage of crimson clover
fow hot hQQn INNS.