Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-02-09
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SfHlE AMI FrENlNoULA
Delaware College is so short of coal as
to be compelled to burn wood.
The Maryland Annual Conference
will be held in Baltimore. Md. begin
ming April 3.
Another fish fertilizer factory is to be
built at Lewes as soon as weather con-
ditions permit.
L. H. Sullivan has been elected
president of the Retail Grocers' AS
ISOLATION of Wilmington.
Farmers of Kent County will ask for
a compulsory labor law to be passed IN
order to keep the labor on the farms.
Joseph Berman, Wilmington, has
been appointed Deputy Internal Reve-
nue. Collector for the Maryland district.
The Wilmington Water Board found
more than 5000 water meters frozen,
and had to ha ye them removed at heavy
expense.
A barn on the farm of Arthur H..
Smith, near Rehoboth Beach, burned,
with a loss of 800 bushels of corn and 40
tons hay.
More than $50, 600 of Americas fight
ing men have applied for war risk in
surance, the amount per capita averag-
ing $8,451.
Wilmington Lodge No. 31l American
Federation of Musicians, has raised a
services flag with 16 stars for members
in the army or navy.
Retail merchants of the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce are planning to
hold merchants institute during the
week of February Is.
The Davis. interest in the Elkton-
Chestertown bus line has been purchas-
ed by S. G. Caldwell, of Galena, who is
now the individual prorietor Of the en-
terprise.
Owing to the scarcity and high price
of meat, Laurel authorities have passed
an ordinance permitting the raising OF
hogs, under Ger ain conditions within
the city limits.
Capt. Thomas w. Miller, former Con
gresham from Delaware, has Just been
prom. tied to major and is now attached
to the staff of General Dixon. in the
Ordinance Corps.
Ike State Board Of Health reports no
additional cases Of smallpox since tne
auarantinesof the ease which developed
in railroad construction camp near
Newport last week.
Philadelphia parties have Incorporated
to purchase and operate the Elkton Gas
Works. Extensive improvements are
contemplated as we'll as the widening O.
O the zone of service.
Trappers along the upper Chesapeake
Bav and tributaries report thousands of
muskrats frozen in the marshes and
watermen say many wild ducks have
been found dead on the ice.
Followinga conference with President
Davis. of the Voters Non Partisan Lea
que, the Wilmington & Philadelphia
Traction Company agreed t install seats
for motormen on all air-break rs.
A great meeting Of the Delaware far
mers in Dover, adopted a resolution
ureipg Gvernor Townsend to call
special session of the Legislature to
pass compulsory labor law similar to
that now exis ing in Maryland.
San:ain Muncy, of Dover, is the first
man il the State TO knit scarf for the
soldier. It il handsome and we'll knit
masterpiece, and has been presented to
tne Dover Red ross. 1t took the Cap
tain about two weeks to finish the
scarf.
Senator salisbury has secured
supply of game laws for 1917 giving
definite information as to oleD seasons,
closed seasons, etc.. copy OF which ne
gil! be glad to mail to any one interest
81. Address Senator Sauls; ury, Wash
ington, d. c.
Herds Of rabbits. unable 70 obtain
food during the present blizzard weather
are towering about the barn Of farmers
of Seaford and readily permit them
selves to be shut up in barns and sheds
if food is there. Some farmers are
feeding as high as 50. It is feared that
game birds .ill all freeze or starve to
death, as the deep snow prevents them
from finding any food at all.
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