Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-08-09
STATE AND PENINSULA

Prompt action has about stamped out
any further spread Of Anthrax through
lower Delaware.
Inasmuch as the tomato crop will
likely be both short and late, several of
| the canneries are preparing to can
, peaches.
A survey of the clover-seed growing
area discloses the fact that there will
be about 600 bushels of seed of good
quality for sale in Sussex county.
Open-air concerts will be given by
Georgetown Cornet Band during the re-
mainder of the summer provided the
Council will erect pavilion in the pub
lie square.
Governor Townsend has been selected
, to respond to the address of welcome
for the Eastern States at the annual
conference of Governors at Salt Lake
City, August 18.
The keel for the largest barge ever
built in Havre de Grace has been laid
at the plant of Deibert Bros. It will
be 25O feet in length, 18 feet in depth
and will have $500 tons capacity.
To fight the high cost of living Will
mington women are making trips to
surrounding rural communities in auto
robiles, by train and trolley cars and
purchasing their supplies at the farms.
Having attended the same church 70
years without break, William B.
Gem, Of Wilmington, was presented
with a gold-mounted fountain pen by
the official board of Asbury M. E.
Church, Wilmington.
Farmers in the vicinity of Bridgevllle
are realizing the benefits to be derived
from producers exchange, and be-
fore the summer comes to close it is
believed the organization in that section
will be greatly increased.
The Robbins Hose Company, of
Dover, in preparation for their big car
nival next month have decided to have
one day observed as "Firemen's Day."
and have invited all tn. organized fire.
men of the State and Eastern Shore of
Maryland to participate.
| Work was resumed this week on the
stretch of highway between Laurel and
Seaford. For over year this work has
been at a standstil due to the inability
to get material and labor, the contrac-
4, tors having given their attention to the
Bride eville-Seaford road.
| George L. Medill, of Newark, DEL, ,
has been appointed by Governor John
G. Townsend, State Banking Commits
sioner for Delaware, for term of four
years, at salary of $500 per annum.
The office was created by the recent
General Assembly of Delaware.
| Wilmington Methodists are making
elaborate arrangements for entertain
ing the Bishops of the church when
they meet there in conference in Octo-
ber. The Bishops will map out con-
siderable important work and will be
there for several days. They will be
entertained at the Hotel DUPONT,
A. S. Turner & Son, of Betterton.
Nd, is the first concern around this
part of the country to accept the
agency of an airplane, which sells at
$4,000. 1t is Canadian plane with an
American engine. Expert aviators
have been engaged to instruct the pur-
chasers who desire to travel through the
air.
The Executive Committee of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society has de-
cided to hold the next meeting in Ches.
ter.own, Maryland, on January 6, z and
8, 1920 1t was agreed to engage some
of the best speakers to be found any.
where in the country and to make ar
unusual effort to have large exhibit o1
fruit and vegetables.
Taking advantage of the opportunity
when more than 200 of them are to-
g.ther attending the Delaware Collegt
Summer School the public school teach
/ ers of Delaware have started move
, ment for the organization of STATE
, Teachers Association. Tie teacher:
, feel the need of such an organization
! not onl;. as means of bettering thei
. own conditions, but also to advance
, education generally in the State andel
the new school cole.