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The Red Cross Roll Call

Tho nurpose of the Third Red
 ms Roll Call is to renew each ex-
 irius membership and secure as
 auy new members as possible.
 me Red Cross Roll Call is an an
 ual event in which the American
 N Cross submits it's record to the
 eoule and seeks from them renew . of their allegiance.
 The Red Cross needs people quite E much as money and wants not only
 dollar, but the heart, the head, he service, of its members.
 Money given by the American peO- bs and administered by American business genius has made the Red Cpx great business organiza- )aton, but the loyal enlistment of De people themselves has made it a piritual force difficult to parallel b the history of organized endeavor. | The American Red Cross is not ukly wartime organization. For years previous to the great war 2he Red Cross existed in America as peace organization. It's present retivities are but a renewal and ex- ansion of its former program.
 The Red Cross is a cooperative rad co-ordinating, as well as an op- FRatlve agency. One of its primary purposes will be to stand back of tilstlng organizations and to give 'nen its encouragement and support. me Red Cross is continuing and elpandlng it's program in response to leQuests from hundreds of communi- ues in this country that feel the neeo or expert advice in solving their
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FARM NOTES

Progressive Farmer)
 The farmers who have plenty of late vegetables are getting good pric- es for them on practically all mar kets. Nearly every year, late beans, peas, roasting ears, and other vege- tables bring handsome prices.
 Many folks grow the vegetables for sale which their fathers and grandfathersused to grow and neg lect those which have recently be- ours called on nearly every grocery. man in certain town the other day trying to get some green peppers and failed to find them. The grocery man said they could not he obtained. Speaking of green peppers, near
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War Risk Bureau Pays Tribute
 To Red Cross

For more than one and One-half years the Red Cross through its Home Service Sections has develop ed a very unusual organization for handling war risk cases.' was a statement made by Director of the Bureau of War Risk insurance i'll d letter sent to all organizations in terested in the problems of the re- turned soldiers, sailors, and marines. "It has become very expert in it's task and is represented in practical ly every county in the United
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States, through which branches it has distributed several million dol lars of it's own funds to tide over families who would otherwise have suffered because of the delay in re- ceiving the War Risk allotments or Government allowances"
 Because of it's experience the Red Cross has been selected as the clear ing center for all inquiries regarding delayed allotments, insurance, com pensation, and government claims. Other organizations have been asked to send all such inquiries through the Home Service Sections of the Red Cross.
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ness, the effectiveness of humanitari- an organization has been proved, and It would be throwing away one of the principal fruits of victory if we failed to utilize the mobilized force at command for the welfare of humanity in time of peace.
 The American Red Cross cannot afford to rest on it's laurels; it must De progressive institution. This progressiveness is evidenced in these teW months since the signing of the armlstice that eased the wartime work of relief by the public health and home service programs, which are presented and already in exten- slve operation, as the initial steps in a peace-time movement which is fn- tended to have far reaching results. It IS Tor the future that universal Red Gross membership is wanted, and not as monument to the past.
 Report of the Home Service Sec ton Of the Lee County Chapter, cov- ering a period beginning March 18th, 1913 up to Oct. Sth, 1919:
 1,S33 different people and fami- lies have been dealt with by the Home Service Section of the Lee County Chapter American Red Cross. Services including the following:
 Giving money relief; visits to homes of the dependents who were SICK; securing hospital service and transportation for discharged sol dlers who were i'll; securing medical service for dependent families: making investigations for the Bu-
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Rush the corn harvesting.
 All days of the year are good, but the harvest season is indeed glorious.
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RED CROSS REPORT (By Mrs. J. l. Morris)
(By Mrs. J. l. Morris)

welfare, health and community prob lens.
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We might, of course, all get busy and outprofiteer the profiteer.
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The trouble with most of these wars with capital and labor is that everybody wants to be a general.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
Middletown's New School

The County Board of Education has
decided to authorize the issuance of
s2OO. 900 worth of bonds for the building
Of schools to relieve the conditions in
Middletown and the rural section in
this vicinity, where school consolida-
tion is proposed, and for another school
in the vicinity of Elsmere, Richardson
Park and Marshallton, where another
consolidation is proposed.
It is believed that half of the sum
will be used for the construction OF
school at Middletown and the remainder
for the new school in the vicinity OF
Elsmere.
The consolidation at Middletown will
mean school population Of about 4Oo.
Az the section in the vicinity OF. Els
mere is growing rapidly. it is d'fhcuit
y form an estimate of the probable
school population at that place.
The erection Of these two buildings
w;ll mean receiving aid from the fund
recently established by Pierre S. du'
p,n+ nnder which the schools may re-
ce;ve up to so per cent. of the amount
to be expended on the construction OF
the new schools.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
Uniustified Profits

WASHINGTON, AUG. 6--The high
price of shoes was declared to be due
to excessive profits taken by every
factor in the shoe production industry
in report by the Federal Trade Com
mission to Congress made public today.
The packers were charged with having
begun the pyrarniding of shoe prices by
an unwarranted increase in the price of
hides, the supply of which they were
said to control. On top of this increase.
it was charged, the tanners have taken
Exceptional profits" while the shoe
manufacturers have demanded an ''un-
usual Margin" and the retailers have
charged prices that are mot justi-
fable"
The co nmission's report covering the
four-year period from 1914 to 1918, is
the result of DIN exhaustive inquiry into
the price of hides, leather and shoes
begun more than year ago, it was
said. 1t has been in the Presidents
hands for some time, and it is under
stood that he urged its speedy printing
and transmittal to Congress IN connec-
ton with efforts of the government to
combat the high cost of living.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
SEASON FOR HOG CHOLERA

The season is at hand when hog
cholera usually breaks out in Delaware.
Most of our losses from this contagious
disease in Delaware last year were due
to delay on the part of farmers in re-
porting their sick hogs to the County
Agent or local veterinarian. Too often
a farmer believes that some change in
the feed or the weather is the cause of
his hogs going off feed. The disease
makes such in-roads on the herd and
develops so quickly that it is often too
late to do anything in the way of pre-.
vention after a veterinarian is called.
If your hogs go off feed and act sus-
picious call ir your veterinarian for
diagnosis. If none is near or available
have your County Agent secure the
government veterinarian to make a
di agnosis of the trouble with your hogs.
As loyal member of the Farm Bu
reau you should report all sick hogs to
your County Agent whether on your
farm or your neighbors.
Don't go over to see your nelghbors
sick hogs and don't ask him to come
over and see yours if they are sick.
Why rot cooperate through the Farr-
Bureau this year and do everything
possible to prevent cholera losses.
Hogs at $22 per hundred pounds are
worth considering.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
The First Telephone

The first message to be carried by
length of wire, with the human voice
as a medium, was in 1876 From his
room in the upper story of boarding
house at Boston. Alexander Graham
Bell telephoned to his assistant, Thos.
F. Watson, on the floor below: "Mr.
Watson, come here; want you" That
first telephone was adapted only to
sending from one end of the line, so
Watson's reply was to rush up the
stairs, shouting triu.nphantly: Il heard
YOU" 1t was moment of joy for the
inventor and his co-worker, but they
still had many obstacles to overcome.
In the same year Bell and Watson
carried on conversation over a two
mile wire between Boston and Cam
bridge. At the Philadelphia exposition
that year Bell exhibited a crude model
of his telephone, but it attracted little
interest.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
Bethesda Church Notes
>und ay, August 10th, 1919.

Sund ay, August 10th, 1919.
$50 A. NJ. The Brotherhood meet
ing will be in charge of Brother j. Il.
Emerson. Come and enjoy this service.
1890 A. NJ. Morning worship with
sermon by the Pastor.
7.3O P. M. Evening worship with
sermon by the Pastor.
According to the announcement OF
our Superintendent, last Sunday, there
will be NJ further session of the Sun
day School until the first Sunday in Sep
tember. We trust the officers, teach
ers and scholars will enjoy their vaca-
ton and come back on the opening Sun
day with good reports for the summer
and with renewed zeal for fall and win
ter.
The Second Quarterly Conference.
which met last Monday evening, grant
ed vacation to the Pastor. DR.. North
rup will probably leave for short va
cation next week.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
BUYS c. & D. CANAL
Government Pays $2,A6,45l.66
For Inland Waterways
WILL SOON Be TRANSFERRED

A check for $2,346, 451.66 drawn by
the Treasurer of the United States was
paid into the Federal Court for this dis
trict last week, and was deposited in the
sub-Treasury, with the Assistant Treas
urer at Philadelphia, by Commissioner
Mahaffy. This is for the requirement
by the government of the Chesapeake
& Delaware Canal Go. by the govern
ment, and its tranfer will shortly be
applied for by the Fidelity Trust Co.,
in the interest of the former owners.
The difference between the amount Of
the check and the congressional appro-
priations Of s2,5o0.0OO represents the
amount of the award against the prop
erty. made as the outcome of an action
brought sometime ago on behalf of the
government, payment of which was
prerequisite to the transfer. The deed
for the transfer is now being prepared
by District Attorney Charles F. Curley.
When completed this will authorize the
transfer Of the canal property to COL.
J. P. Jervey. L. S. Engineer for the
Wilmington district in whose charge it
will be while the reconstruction work is
in progress. Col. Jervey said it will
take sometime before the actual opera
tions can begin. A dredge will have to
be built for work on the summit level,
and plans for this are not yet made.
This will be of the hydraulic type, de-
livering the silt through pipe line,
which will probably be utilized in fill
work at the canal entrance.
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ODESSA

Miss Helen Sparks is spending week
at Att mt: City, N. J.
Miss Ev,.!yn Crouch spent last week
with Vii. .nington relatives.
Hope Harvey. of Wilmington. is the
gucs. of Miss Blanche West.
Mrs. John Jenness, of Port Deposit,
is the guest of Mrs. O. G. Stevens.
Mr.. John N Coy, Of Fort Valley, Ca.
is visiting his mother Mrs. J. G. Nc
Coy.
Mrs. Lizzie Toppin and daughter. Of
Wilmington, are visiting Mrs. Jay
Orre!l
Mrs. Mary Sparks, of Wilmington. is
the guest of her brother Mr.. Elias N.
Moore.
MIR. Edward Herrick and family, Of
WILMINGTON, are guests of Miss Lucy
Appleton.
Rev. f. H Derrickson, wife and
daughter are spending this week in
Maryland.
Mr.. George Croft, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with his mother Mrs.
Eliza Croft.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Minen and daugh-
Ter nave returned to their home In
Al'oona, Pa.
Mr.. Frank Gremminger has been
spending week with relatives in
Delanco, N. j.
Mrs. William Naylor, of Townsend,
visited Mr.. George Crouch and family
on Sunday last.
Mr.. Harry Bolten and family, of
Galena, Nd, visited Mrs. J. c. Mccoy
on Sunday last.
Mrs. Elizabeth Long, who has been
spending sometime in Wilmington, has
returned home.
MIR. George Moore and son, of Kings
ton, N. Y, visited his sister Mrs. Harry
Wilson last week.
Mr.. F. H. Mather, wife and daughter.
of Langhorne, Pa, have been guests
of Mrs. w. V. Woods.
Mr.. Corbit was at Newport News
last week with the Governor and staff
to welcome the boys home.
In the absence of the Pastor Rev. E.
H. Derrickeon. services will be held az
usual in St. Paul's NJ. E. Church.
Probably Rev. H. C. Shipley, former
pastor, will have charge of the SER
vices.
Preaching services in Drawers
Church, Odessa, Sunday morning at
1890 A. M, Sunday School Las A. M.
and the Christian Endeavor Society
meeting in the evening at z o'clock.
All are welcome at these services.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
Annual Home Coming

A committee of Red Men from Will
mington and rural New Castle county
are rapidly completing plans for the
annual Home Coming day to be held at
Newark on Saturday, August 80.
The occasion as planned will be a
record breaking one for many Red Men
who have Leen in the service of the
country and have now resumed civil
life will be present. It is highly prob
able that a patriotic demonstration of
some sori will take place to welcome
the returned warriors. This annual
celebration usually involves social
jollification with speeches by prominent
chiefs high IN the order. 1'ribesmen
from all over the State make it gala
day, bringing their families and enjoy
ing the entertainment provided on the
spacious porches and grounds of the
Red Mems Fraternal Home.
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WARWICK

Miss BESSIE Thornton is visiting Miss
Husfelt at Earleville.
Mrs. John Price was the guest of
Wilmington friends recently.
Mr.. Harry Poole spent Sunday with
his family at fredericksburg, Nd. g.
The Ladies of the M. +. Church will
serve dinner at the sale of Mrs Cora
Bishop, on August 28th.
Mrs. John Price and Yrs. S. H.
Duryea were visitors at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. X. B. Merritt on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Merritt and
daughters, of Wilmington, we're week.
end guests of his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
R. B. Merritt.
Mr. and Mrs. William Lofland and
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Walker, of Phiia-
deIphia, were Sunday guests of the
formers mother Mrs. Lofland.
Miss Agness Merritt returned home
from Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday
last after very pleasant visit with her
aunt and uncle Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Dulaney.
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TOWNSEND

A series of dances are being held at
the Movie Theatre.
Mrs. John Townsend is visiting rela-
tives in Wilmington.
Daniel B. Jones spent from Saturday
to Monday at Rehoboth.
Alvan Guessford, while cranking an
automobile, unfortunately had his arm
broken.
Mrs, Ruth Harris and Miss Elizabeth
Richardson spent the weekend with
their mother Mrs. Anna Richardson.
D. B. Maloney, Miss Ethelwyn Ma
loney and Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Hutchison
motored to Camden Camp on Sunday.
Paul Hutchison and wife and ]. C.
Hutchinson and wife, Of near Smyrna,
spent Sunday with their sister Mrs.
Walter Lee.
Mr.. Scott Naylor and son Gordan
Naylor and family, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday as guests Of William C.
Naylor and family.
Mrs. John Beauchamp and son
Hubert, who has recently returned
from France spent Saturday and Sum-
day with W. H. Reynolds and family.
Mrs. Anna Bacon. of Philadelphia,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Richardson,
of Wilmington, spent the weekend
with George w. VanDyke and family.
Mrs. L. l.. Maloney entertained on
Thursday Mrs. Jennie Stats, Mrs.
Joseph Pritchard. Mrs. Walter S.
Money, Mrs. George Daniels and Mrs.
w. A. Scott.
While MIR. Sherbourne Collins was
cranking his automobile last Monday
the crank flew off striking Mr.. Collin:
and breaking his nose. The accident
has caused him much suffering.
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Date Of Next Meeting

The Executive committee of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society has de-
cided to hold the next meeting in
Chestertown, Maryland, on January 8.
Z and 8, 1920. 1t was agreed to engage
some of the best speakers to be found
anywhere in the country and to make
an unusual effort to have a large ex-
hiblt of fruits and vegetables. Premi-
ums amounting to two thousand dollars
will be offered. including large prizes
for those who exhibit great variety of
fruit of the highest quality and many
prizes for the smaller growers. With
the large numrer of apple growers all
over the peninsula who have pruned,
titled and sprayed with unusual care
tins year, 1t is expected that the COM
petition will be keen and that the ex-
h'blt will be one Of great educational
value.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
Work a Blessing

Work is a great blessing. You can
not see how but some day you will say
that you were fortunate in your boy
hood days because you were compelled
to work. Because you cannot get
power to do things save by doing them.
Look over the successful men you know.
Get their history. Nearly everyone
was compelled to work in boyhood.
They toughened their muscles by hard
work and sharpened their brains by
looking out for themselves.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
Will Can String Beans

Some of the Gamers in Sussex coun.
ty experinentedi in packing string beans
for the first time, this season. and the
results are said to be so pleasing that
they will engage in the business on an
extensive scale next year. Starting
with the packing of peas, in May, and
following up the season with berries,
beans, apples, peaches, pears, sweet
potatoes, tomatoes and pumpkins in the
order named, it is figured that the can
neries can be kept busy during the year.
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Our New Streets

Our town board has had prepared the
.,o.;f;cations and blue prints for the i'm
nroved streets and will open bids for
.ho;- construction on Wednesday, Aug
not 9th. The specifications were
drawn by the State High way Engineer, a
49, nensrtment and bids will be asked
.o- on,v several iinds Of materials.
The commissioners hope to be IN
work in a very few days after the o'os
are open and they will make every e.,
fort to have both Broad and East " a'n
streets IT. completed before freezing
weather begins.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
IS PURCHASING COWS
County Agent. Bausman in The
West After Pure BREEDS
DISTRIBUTE AMONG FARMERS

County Agent, R. 0. Bausman. is in
the west purchasing one or probably
two car. loads of pure bred Holstein
cows to be distributed among the farm
ers Of the county at actual cost through
the New Castle County Farm Bureau
and the Farmers Trust Company of
Newark and the New Castle County
National Bank of Odessa cooperating.
Although cattle are steadily becoming
higher in prices. and more difficult to
purchase yet it is the hope of the Farm
Bureau Executive Committee that
high class bunch Of dairy cows can be
secured on this shipment. These cows
will cost approximately $500 apiece and
will be of the individuality and the
breeding to make large official records
if handled properly upon their arrival.
The farmers of New Castle County
are appreciating more and more the
possibilities of the dairy industry in the
east. Although dairy cattle are now
higher priced yet due to the export de-
mand there is reason to think that
there is still to be a material raise in
price. More than 1000 head of dairy
cattle have been exported to France.
At the present time an agent is IN the
United States authorized to purchase
5000 head Of dairy cattle for the French
government. 1t is obvious that during
the next several years that the farmer
who has pure bred and high grade dairy
cattle to put on the market will be in a
position to receive some very desirable
prices for them.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
Student Harvesters Return

The six young men, students at Del.
aware College, who have been helping
harvest the huge wheat crop in Kansas,
returned home on Monday. They ex-
pected to 60 into the Dakotas after the
Kansas harvest was over but received
word from the government that no
more men were needed there.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
THE TREATY

For nearly five years We have
been facing such stupendOus issues
that the average man and woman in
our country does not realize the mag
1itude Of the crisis which is nearly
upon US. Will or will not the Senatey
Immediately on its receipt. ratify the
Peace Treaty, which not only includes
but is actually built upon the Leagpe
of Nations? This sounds like .
simple question. but the progress
even the maintenance,-of our civil
.ization depends upon the answer.
BY this time it must be evident to
every thinking person that the Cove-'
nant Of the League Of Nations cam
not be torn out Of the Peace Treaty;|
and it must soon be realized, even BY
those whose eyes are temporarily
blinded BY political antagonisms, that
An attempt to amend the Covenant at
this juncture is fraught with dangera
since the condition Of many countriesl
as q result of hunger and Of general
war upheaval, is so unstable that rev!
olution may break out at almost any
moment if peace between the nations
Is not at once established.
The making now Of reservations 1s
dangerous to the establishment of the
League. because if the United States
eithef repudiates or stipulates for
special interpretations Of certain arti-
cles of the Covenant, other nations
will naturally wish to do the same,
with the result that this great Magma
Charta may become devitalized and
Ineffective, II it can be established at
all.
Surely even though not perfect, the
Covenant represents wonderful step
forward in the life Of the world!'
Therefore let US make sure that the
United States does her part by join
thg the League Of Nations at the
earliest possible moment. To this
end let every man and woman write
to our Senators at Washington, urging,
them to ratify the Peace Treaty I'M
cluding the Covenant, without amend-l
ments or reservations.
Rose Dabney Malcolm Forbes.
Pres League for Permanent Peacc
June %. 1919.
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Base Ball Notes

The attraction at Academy Park here
on this Saturday. afternoon will be
the strong Delaware City Club, with
Rothrock on the firing line for the vis-
itors, and Grant for the locals. Game
called promptly at $3.50 o'clock.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09

While moving hay in the field of A.
v. .Guessford, near Townsend, on v ednes-
day, Henry Pierson, of Townsend, was
struck on the head and rendered uncon-
scious. He was found by Senator Ed
ward Hart, where he had fallen from
the moving machi ,e, and it could no
be ascertained what hit him. Many
think it was something from a passing
aeroplane, which could not be seen.
Aside from badly bruised head MIR.
Pierson is improving.
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First Revenue Collector

Harry T. Graham, of Wilmington,
has been appointed Internal Revenue
Collector for the new district of Deia-
ware. the office having recently been
created by Congress. He will begin
his duties in short time.