Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-11-16
STATE AND PENINSULA

The reunion of the Alumni Association
of Goldey College will be held in Will
mington on November 20.
Profits in eggs in New York City are
restricted to seven and eight cents in
an order by the Federal Food Board.
The rabbit and bird season opened in
Maryland Monday and in Cecil county
alone nearly 1900 licenses were issued to
gunners.
The schools in Kent county, Md,
reopened Monday after being closed
several weeks on account of the influ-
enza epidemic.
The official board of the Chestertown
Methodist Church has invited the Will
mington Conference to meet in that
town next March.
Many farmers in the upper part of
Kent county have plowed their wheat
fields and are reseeding becaus. of the
prevalence of the f,.
A civil service examination will be
held in Havre de Grace on November %
for the vacant positions of rural mail
carriers in Cecil county.
T. D. Bowers, postmaster at Chester
town, reports sales of Thrift and War
Savings Stamps has reached $3.50, ,0c0,
about half the county's quota.
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 81 an hour in the cities.
The new machinery for the Valiant
Fertilizer factory has been received and
installed and the plant is now in opera
ton. The factory has a capacity of
100 tons per day.
Millions of dollars worth of property
held by American born women who
married German and Austrian noblemen
was seized Monday by the Enemy Alien
Property Custodian.
Corporal Clarence Hammons, son of
Hiram Hammons, of Salisbury, who
was reported missing in action last
August, has been located by the Red
Cross in German prison camp.
The Odd Fellows Rally which was to
have taken place in Salisbury Oct. "a
and necessarily postponed because of
the "fu" epidemic will be held in the
Armory, Salisbury, Thursday, December
5, 1918.
Photographs of the Elkton school
children and relatives and friends of the
boys overseas were taken Thursday
afternoon for use in the "Nile of Smiles"
motion pictures to be shown to Mary
land sol liers in France on Christmas
day.
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. 5. Government.
after making thorough canvas of the
woodland of Sussex county, have found
about $50 fine walnut trees. Such trees
are in great demand at present, being
used for gun stocks and propeller blades
for airplanes.
Edwin G. Tooten, editor of the Del
aware Leader, Laurel, killed large
racoon, last week, which had lost both
hind feet, evidently having been cut off
by a steel trap. The limbs had cured
as nicely as though they had been
amputated by surgeon.
George C. Hill, of Salisbury. has re-
ceived letter from his son, Franklin,
stating that he is wounded in the
shoulder from shrapnel and is in hos
pital in France. Mr.. Hill has also
received word that his other son, George
Jr., has been missing since September q.
A demonstration surprising the ex-
pectation of the most enthusiastic patriot
occurred at Laurel Monday. An effigy
of the Kaiser in cage was paraded
through the streets followed by 1000