Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-01-18
MA1z AND PENINSULA

OlA1A ANU : ESNIN0U1A
N. "A. Walieh Has been appointed
postmaster at Millington, to succeed the
late w. Finley Collins.
Ship workers schools at the Harlan
shipbuilding plant in Wilmington have
been discontinued. The schools were
used during the war to speed up teach
ing Of unframed men.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has secured permit from Building In.
spector Preston, of Wilmington, for the
erection of stalls in the roundhouse at
Todd's Cut, to cost $17O, 900.
When notice was posted in the plant
of F. Blumenthal & Co., Wilmington,
of reduction of 20 cents an hour in
wages, yesterday, 46 men. leather
shavers, went out on a strike.
A considerable increase in the num-
Der Of discharged soldiers and sailors
seeking employment in Wilmington was
recorded by the Federal Labor Bureau
for Enlisted Men during the past week.
Major General W. NJ. Black. chief of
the United States Engineers depart
ment, Washington, D. G., will inspect
the harbor improvement plans of Will
mington, prepared by the local Harbor
Commission.
A portrait of the late James H. Price,
for many years an officer of the Grand
Chapter of Delaware, Royal Arch
Masons will be presented to the Grand
Chapter at the annual meeting in the
NJ asonic Temple Wilmington, tomorrow
It is said the Gamers of Seaford,
Bridgeville and Cambridge, Md, will
pay the farmers d cents a pound for
peas next season, and charge them 81
a bushel for seed peas. At this price
it is thought farmers will plant their
usual acreage.
The annual report of the Peninsula
General Hospital, Salisbury. for the
year 1918, as made by Mrs. Irwin, the
superintendent, shows that the Hospita
had very strenuous year, and that the
number of patients increased 81 over
the previous year.
Purchase Of the Chesapeake and Del
aware Canal, and its deepening to
twelve feet, is the principal new project
contained in the river and harbor bill
prepared for the next Congress, which
was completed last week by the House
Committee on rivers and harbors at
Washington.
Several months ago the father of
Henry Washington, of Laurel, serving
with the army in France, received
official notice of the death of his son in
action. A few days ago the family re-
ceived letter from him, written since
the signing Of the armistice, stating
that he was alive and we'll ard hoped to
see them shortly.
An increase of $50 per cent. in the
years Red Cross drive over that of the
preceding year is shown by the latest
reports, $4,000 adults having enrolled
as compared with 5000 at Christmas.
1917. In addition there were 10000
junior members. 1t is believed that |
Delaware went -proportionately ahead
of the record of every other State.
The Baltimore, Chesapeake and At
lantic Railway Company has withdrawn
the steamer, Avalon, plying between
Seaford and Baltimore, and will make
no more trips to Seaford until next
spring, although the steamer will make !
one trip week to Sharpstown, Md. The
merchants of Seaford consider this a
great injustice and will likely make
strong protest to the proper officials.
An important meeting of the man.
ayers and the vice-presidents for the
several counties on the Maryland-D Della
ware Peninsula, who are connected with
he recently organized Church Extension
Society on the Eastern Shore, will be
leld in Easton on January 20, to discuss
plans for the organizations of the
to raise funds for the build
ng Of the new $4,000 Methodist Pro-
;estant Church in Wilmington.
To lose an automobile and $50 fur
'vercoat and to recover both a short
ime later, was the good fortune Of
Joseph Greenstein, of Wilmington.
ireenstein left his car containing the
'oat in front of cigar store, and when
'e came out the machine was missing.
The car was found few squares away,
'ut the overcoat still was missing.
With the arrest, however, of Joseph
'atton, the missing garment was re-
covered.
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