Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-01-26
STATE AND PENINSULA

tinued on Sundays after this month.
In several towns Of the Peninsula
dealers have put the price of milk up to
ID cents per quart, the highest since the
civil war.
Clinton Sparks, near Delaware City.
escaped with few bruises when his
automobile skidded and rolled down an
enbankment. .......
Failure to shut off the water in the
Wilmington public schools during the
recent cold spell resulted in $1,000 dam
age from bursting water pipes.
Former Federal Judge George Gray
will be the speaker at the annual BAN
quet of the Delaware College Alumni, at
the City Club, Wilmington, January 26.
Owing to the scarcity and high price
of meat, Laurel authorities have passed
an ord;aLcs permitting the raising of
hogs, under certain conditions within
the city limits.
Despite the fuel Administrator
warning, some Wilmington retailers are
selling coal at IL cents for 10 pounds,
according to the complaint made by the
Fuel Committee.
Because of heatless Mondays closing
business places, trolley cars between
New Castle and Delaware City will
operate OILY in the morning for the en-
suing nine Mondays.
The Wilmington Y. M. C. A. has
placed its sleeping and bathing facilities
free of charge. at the disposal Of all SOL
diers and sailors who are detained in
Wilmington over night.
Captain William Bertrand, of Lewes,
who was in command of the steamship
Rehoboth when she sank in gale on
the way to France, reported his safe
arrival at an Atlantic port.
Trappers along the upper Chesapeake
Fay and tributaries report thousands OF
muskrats frozen in the marshes and
watermen say many wild ducks have
been found dead on the ice.
Edward +. Pride and Noble Conoway,
both Of Georgetown, are candidates for
the position of Federal equity marshal.
made vacant by the resignation OF
William =. Smith, Of Harbeson.
A meeting Of citizens, members of
the Good Will Fire Company and New
Castle City Council, decided to present
to the City Council plans ttr the pur-
chase of power-driven fire apparatus.
Former President William II. Taft
will deliver the commencement address
at Delaware College, June 10, and Sena-
tor Josiah O. Wolcott. the annual adj
dress to the College Y. M, G. A. Jane 8.
Justice of the Peace Z. V. Hendrix
son, of Milford. was notified last week
that Governor Townsend will appoint
aim to office again for The tern Of four
wears. His term Of office expired on
Saturday.
Ii is reported that there will lie an
other fish house started in Lewes or on
the beach this summer The town has
plenty of available ground and the mer
chants and people of the town say 'the
more the merrier."
The Legislature Auditing Committee
has settled down to work and has about
completed the audit of the books and
accounts Of State Insurance Commits
ssoner Wilson and those of the State
Hoayd of Agriculture.
Seventy-tiv,, members of the E-nevo-
lent Poiner Literary Association in Will
mington, who expect to be called into
the army and sent Is France, are being
instructed in the French language by
Rev. Francis Tucker.
The winter of 1867 was the most
disastrous the range stockmen of the
West have ever known. The lamb crop
for the entire West was Is to 20 per cent
below the average, atld the calf crop
was considerably below nofnsal.
The government has decided on draft
registration Of all young men as fast
as they become q years old as means
of keeping filed the ranks OF the war
army. 1t has decided against raising
the draft age limit above 81 years.
Every German enemy alien in the
country has bsen ordered to register
during the week Of February 9Th. Fin.
gerprints will be taken and registration
cards issued. without which Germans
will be liable to arrest aud interment.
A great meeting of the Delaware
farmers in Dover last week adopted
resolution urging Governor Townsend
to call special session Of the Legis-
iature to pass compulsory labor law
similar to that now existing in Mary
land.
Charles Uphsm, chief engineer Of the
Delaware State Highway Department,
will ate nd the annual convention Of
American Road Builders Association, to
be held IN St. Louis. Mo-, beginning
Feb, and con tinuing four days. MIR.