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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-07-31
Time to Retire. Buy Fisk Tires.
SHALLCROSS GARAGE.
WARWICK

Mr.. Wilson CHM, of McDonough,
was q recent visitor in town.
Mr.. Charles Pearce, of Wilmington,
visited relatives, near town, recently.
Messrs. Clarence Cullum and Jesse
Vineyard were Philadelphia visitors
Monday.
Miss Mary Cunningham, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting Miss Marie Devlne,
near town.
Miss Kathryn Thornton is spending
this week with Miss Edna Husfelt,
near Earleville.
Mrs. D. Canon, of Philadelphia. is
staying awhile with her mother, Mrs.
Mary A. Lof1and.
Miss Bessie w. Gunkel entertained
her sister, Mrs. Elmer Ernest, OF Sas-
safras. on Sunday.
--Rev.J. N. Link and fsmily, Of near
Baltimore, spent several days of last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. s. d. Wilson.
Mrs. Josephine Wilson. Of near Ches-
apeake City, was visitor at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. K. B. Merritt Sunday.
The ball game between Port Penn
and Warwick, played on the home
grounds Saturday afternoon, was inter-
rupted in the fifth inning by the rain.
The local team will play Chesapeake
City at Warwick this Saturday
Come out fans, and root for the boys
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Time to Retire. Buy Fisk Tires.
SHALLCROSS GARAGE.
How we Bank Our Money

WASHINGTON, JULY 26.-There are
1873 deposit accounts in Delaware ma
tional banks to every 1000 population.
it is announced in q statement issued by
the Comptroller of the Currency.
The total number of deposit accounts
was *. 900 on July l, it is announced.
of which 21,000 were demand deposit
accounts and 5000 were time deposit
accounts. There are 10 national banks
in Delaware.
Wyoming stood first among the
States, with the largest number OF de-
posit accounts, 1874 depositors to every
1000 of population; Montana was next
with $40 to every 1000 population. The
next ten States with the largest NUM-
ber Of deposit accounts in proportion to
population we're in the order named:
Idaho, 293; Pennsylvania, 289; Colorado.
2aO; Oregon, 275; Minnesota, 27l; Iowa,
262; Virginia, 259; California. 248 and
South Dakota, 244; Vermont, 625.
In the South, Southwest and far
West, demand deposit accounts largely
predominated. The banks in portions
of New England and in the northern
central portion of the country had the
largest number Of deposit accounts on
time.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-07-31
Bethesda Church Notes

Sunday, August LIST. 1920.
$50 A. NJ. The Brotherhood meeting
will be in charge of Brother William T.
Pearce, Sr.
1890 A. N. Morning worship. The
administration Of the Lords Supper.
There will be an opportunity given at
this service for joining the church.
There will be no session of the Sum
day School during the month Of August.
Because of this, the Pastor extends "a
special invitation to the members of the
Sunday School. both the older members
and the children, to be present at the
regular services of the church.
7.3O P. M. Evening worship with
sermon by the Pastor.
Prayer meeting each Wednesday
evening at o'clock.
We know the evenings are short and
the weather is often warm. but we can.
not afford to miss Divine Worship. A
welcome to all.
The regular monthly Official Boart
meeting will be held on Friday, Angus
6, 1920.
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COOK
Made His First Address 1t Tx
Woman's College Sunday
GREETED By DELA. CfURCliMEN

Speaking for the first time in Della
ware, Rt. Rev. Philip Cook. of Balti-
more, bishop-elect of the Episcopal
diocese, addressed large audience at
the summer school at the Women's
College, Newark, Sunday night DR..
Cook was greeted following his sermon
by prominent churchmen of the state.
Bishop-elect Cook comes from the
parish of St. Michael's and All Angels,
Baltimore. church which according to
Chancellor Charles M. Curtis. who pre-
sided on Sunday evening, has already
given two Bishops to the church and is
now about to give the third. In his
opening remarks Bishop-elect Cook
facetiously remarked that the name of
the church because of the aforemen-
toned circumstance, may be changed
to "St. Michael's and All Bishops,'
Preceding the sermon, selected
quartette of Philadelphia singers, under
the direction of William Silvano Thun-
der delighted the congregation with
mastery rendition of Rossini's "Stabat
Mater" singing the English version.
The personnel of the quartette was
Miss Eleanor Gerlach, soprano; Miss
Alice McPoyle, contralto; Henry Cur
ney, tenor; and John Wander, sloot bass.
The invocation was given by Rev. Wal
ter G. Haupt, rector of St. Thomas P.
E. Church, and the benediction by
Bishop elect Cook. The congregation
sang ''Holy, Holy, Holy" and the
quartette closed the service by singing
the ''Te Deum" by Dudley Buck.
Bishop-elect Cook in his Introductory
remarks, expressed qualification that
his first appearance before Delaware
audience should be in such a service, in
connection with an institution whose
main thought is that of education.
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Improvement, at Middletown Hotel

improvements at Middletown Hotel
The new dining room of the Middle
town Hotel was formally opened to
accommodate the Bankers of Delaware
for their luncheon on the ed Of this
month, the occasion being the meeting
of the joint, committee on Education
and Trade Acceptances. Everyone was
delighted with the luncheon and the
service rendered, and voted it one of
the prettiest dining rooms in the state.
It is large enough to accomodate one
hundred diners at setting.
The ice cream parlor fronting on
Main Street, will be opened to-day.
for the sale of ice cream, candies,
cigars and soft drinks in bottles.
Sharpless ice cream in number OF
flavors will be served. The soda foun-
tain ordered will be installed in a few
days when all up-to- date drinks, usually
served from soda fountains, can be had.
The installing of the fountain will COM
plete the furnishings of this new enter
prise in Middletown which is credit to
our town and one of the most complete
places of its kind in the state.
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P. & I. Conference

+ A conference of Delaware Parent
Teacher Association members, dele
gates, school commissioners and edu-
Gators will be held in Wolf Hall, Della
ware College, Newark, on Wednesday,
August 4th, at IL o'clock A. M. with q
second meeting at P. N. An informal
round table discussion is planned for
the morning meeting. The Summer
School students will be guests in the
afternoon. Conference luncheon will
be served at the college at so cents per
plate. The afternoon program will pro-
vide good speakers and music. giving
sinspiration Ior the continuance and in
cfeasing the opportunity for service.
Anyone interested in the welfare of
children, community betterment and
education, is urged to attend these SEES
sions.
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Fine pictures, with good stars,
at the movies every evening next
week.
,Huckleberry Crop in State

The huckleberry crop in lower Della
ware is the largest for years. and those
who have taken the time to 60 into the
woods and gather them have found each
days' work very profitable, for the ber-
ries have been selling at 25 cents the
quart. More huckleberries have been
shipped from Sussex county within the
past week than for several years. In
the celebrated CypresA&Swamp. often
referred to as the everglades of Della
ware, farmers and their families have
been busily engaged gathering them
for the past two weeks. 1t is nothing
unusual for man to earn five dollars
per day, while the children are able to
pick enough to amount to 81 and $ per
day.
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della. FARMERS DAY
John H. Hankinson viii be The
Principal Speaker
1000 FARMERS WILL ATTEND

John H. Hankinson, secretary of the
New Jersey Council of County Boards
of Agriculture, of Hopewell, N. j.,
will be the speaker on Thursday, August
9Th, at the Delaware College Farmers
Day meeting and picnic to be held on
the College Farm at Newark.
Director C. A. McCue announces that
plans are being made to entertain and
instruct at least two thousand farmers
guests on this occasion, the summer
agricultural event of the year IN Della
ware. The experimental work of the
college including farm crops, orchards,
small fruits, live stock, ETC., will be
labeled in such way that visitors may
learn the work being conducted for
their benefit and the results to date of
such experimental work. Ghe farm
crops, particularly corn and soy beans,
will be in ideal shape to show the re-
suits of various treatments of fertl-
lizers, manure and the effect of crop
The three County Farm Bureaus
througe their various communities are
organizing automobile parties to make
the trip and as means of interesting
their people in the agricultural work of
their State College.
Each visitor is asked to bring bas-
ket lunch and hot coffee will be served
on the grounds.
In addition to the inspection of the
college farm, an interesting program
has been prepared, and visitors are as
sured of hearing some good addresses
by prominent persons interested in ag-
riculture. The grounds present an ideal
place for picnic.
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Time to Retire. Buy Fisk Tires,
SHALLCROSS GARAGE.
Carnival Open. With a Bang

Saturday, August the 7th, will be a
big day in the Middletown Carnival.
Resides the Cecilton Band Of % pieces.
engaged for the whole period, there
viii be present the Newark Band OF
some 80 pieces, and this splendid
musical aggregation will give series
of delightful concerts in Cochran
SQUARE and at the Carnival Grounds.
Don't miss this tuneful occasion, for
it represents the largest assemblage OF
fine musicians ever seen in town. and
will be something to be remembered.
The Carnival proper will be in full
blast at the Grounds just north OF the
New Century Club House. In the STIR
!. ring words Of Scott: Come one' come
sll r.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-07-31
Eat your Sunday chicken and
waffle dinner in the new dining
room =, n Of the midd|etown Hotel,
Coldest July Day in % Years

Following the torrid heat of last Fri
day and saturday and in the wake of
the severe electric, wind and hail storm
the thermometer took a drop and by.
early Monday morning was down in the
fifties. Monday was recorded the cold
est July day in 20 years. The temper
ature at five o'clock A. M. was Sc de-
grees, within two degrees of the lowest
July record of July 8, 1891. and July
q, 1890, when the thermometer regis
tered "a degrees. A stiff breeze of
from Is to 20 miles velocity blew across
the country from the extreme north
west. and brought enough cold with it
to send the temperature from 80 de-
grees at one o'clock Saturday after
noon down to 56 degrees.
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Big Wheat Crop in Thi. County

As the wheat crop in this county is
being >threshed the farmers are more
and more surprised at the unusually
large yield. This especially applies to
the farms about Middletown and ad-
jacent territory.
Charles Dukes, a tenant on the
Daniel Corbit farm at Odessa, who
finished threshing day or two ago, re-
ports 1900 bushels as the yield of IS
acres. Julian G. Cleaver, at Middle
town has threshed l, 32O bushels from .
40 acre field. an average of 80 bushels.
Earnest Ratledge has harvested a crop
that threshed out 80 bushels to the acre
and Howard Ratledge, also of Middle
town got % bushels and acre from bis
wheat field.
It is the opinion of farmers of New
Castle County that the yield of wheat
in this section of the State will reach
the top figure of Is bushels to the acre
which is much above the average of
the State and the county.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-07-31
Eat your Sunday chicken and
waffle dinner in the new dining
room Of the Middletown Hotel,
$3.50.
Mrs. Georgia E. Coppage

Mrs. Georgia =. Coppage. died at her
home in Odessa, Thursday morning,
after an extended illness, aged 50
years.
Deceased leaves four sons, b. Den
yer, of Wilmington; John c., of Phi)a-
delphia; Edwin j., of Atlanta, Ca; G.
Lou, of Nilmington; one sister, Mrs.
Joseph Enos, of Odessa. and host Of
friends to mourn her death.
Funeral services will be held at her
late, home this (Saturday) morning at
$50 O'Clock, and interment will be made
in Sudlersville, Md, csmetery..
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r Coming Elsie Ferguson in "a
Society Exile" " at the Opera House
next Tuesday evening.


The cup remains in America and Sir
Thomas Upton will have to build .
better boat if he wants to take the cup
across the water. The defender ''Reso-
lute" gave the British challenger,
..Shamrock w." the worst drubbing
of the 1920 regatta in the final race Of
the series Tuesday, of Sandy Hook.
N. r., winning boat for boat by thir-
tsen minutes and forty y-ays seconds,
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Odessa Church Notes

DkAWYE EHS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday, August 1st, 1920.
9.45 A. M. Sunday School session.
7.O0P. M. Christian Endeavor and
song service. Topic: ''Self Improve
ment." Psa. 25:1-12. Conservation
meeting.
7.3O P. M. Evening service with SER
mon by the pastor, H. S. F. Crossan.
Mr.. Cfossan's theme will be, "Spiritual
Armor for the Christians Warfare"
Everybody will find welcome at any
of these services.
The children Of the Sunday School
will be gwen a picnic August 5th, to
Augustine Park. Meet at the church
at 9 o o'clock A. NJ.
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LOCALS DEFEATED Y0RKLYN

In q drizzling rain here last Saturday
the local nine defeated the Yorklyr
team in weird contest, 3to2. Sew
eral of the Yorklyn players failed tt
arrive and they were therefore com
PEELED to use three substitutes. The
rain soaked condition of the ball and
diamond and the almost twilight con-
dition prevented any long hits or sensa-
tional fielding.
The score follows:
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Date Set For Republican Convention

The Republican State Convention will
be held at Dover, Tuesday, August "a,
according to an announcement lnade
Monday by Charles Warner, chairman
of the Republican State Committee,
following his return from tour of the
towns in lower Delaware. The election
of delegates to the convention will be
held Saturday, August q. At this con-
vention three candidates for presiden-
tial electors will be nominated. In ad-
dition, the party will choose nominees
for representative in Congress, gov
ernor, Acknowledgements, attorney
general, state treasurer and state aud
itor.
One hundred and sixty delegates will
comprise the convention distributed as
follows: Wilmington, 40 delegates;
rural New Castle, 38: Kent, 40; Sussex,
AZ. =
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-07-31
MAY NOT KILL RABBITS

AS the result of an omission in an
amendment to the game laws of the
State, passed by the Legislature at the
special session last spring and signed
by the Governor. it is claimed it will be
unlawful to shoot rabbits until a change
is made in the act. The open season
for rabbits was entirely omitted, and
therefore it is now illegal to shoot rab-
bits in Delaware at any time, it is con-
tended.
The purpose of the amendment re-
ferred to was to make it unlawful for
any one to have game fish in his possess
sion during the closed season. The
method Of amending law since the
new code went into effect several years
ago is to cite the entire section of the
old law to be amended, but making the
changes proposed. Such amendments
automatically repeal the former law.
This was done in the case cited, but the
unfortunate part is that the open sea-
son for rabbits in the old law, Novem-
ber Is to December 81, inclusive, was
not included in the amended bill. The
open season for all other game was re-
enacted in the amended bill.
Even in re-enacting the open season
for other game, mistake was made
which may cause serious mix-up with
\ gunners. Instead of using the open
season dates of the game law of 1919,
those who prepared the amendment
used the dates contained in the law of
1916 and number of these had been
changed by the later law passed in 1919.
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Little Folk. Entertained

Little Miss Helen Cleaver entertained
a number of little folks at her home on
South Broad street, Thursday after
noon. from four to six o'clock. Her
guests were Eunice Horsey, Roland and
Marian He!dmyer, Helen and Mabel
Fouracre, Warren and Reed Combs,
Malcolm Cochran, Ann BragdQn. and
Catherine Rickert. Of Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-07-31
OBITUARY


( Rev. Albert Ware, former rector of
the Episcopal Church, Of Massey. Md.
died at his home in that place, last Sat,
urday night, aged 76 years.
Deceased leaves to mourn his death .
devoted wife and one daughter.
Funeral services were held at his late
home Tuesday morning, and interment
was made in the Episcopal cemetery at
Massey.
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STATE AND PENINSULA

Seaford Town Council is improving
the streets with crushed stone.
Every indication now points to Z
bumper crop of Kiefer pears in Della
ware.
Tomato fields around Laurel were
I nearly ruined by Saturday nights
storm.
Lewes Council has built q big pavilion
on Lewes Beach for the use of picnic
parties.
Bridgeville has installed water meters
and hereafter will charge patrons for
the amount of water used.
Because of the scarcity of both cans
and coal, many of the canneries IN Sus-
sex county will be compelled to close.
, Delaware's 8 militia will be re-organized
in accordance with the instructions of
the War Department as speedily as
possible.
All work on the State roads around
Wilmington has been suspended be-
cause of inability of contractors to Sc
cure stone.
Wilmington newspaper women are
preparing to organize baseball team
to compete with other women's teams
already formed.
Orders have been received at Lewes
to allow no one to take photographs of
the Breakwater or any Of the Govern
ment buildings there.
Although the water rates at Reho-
both Beach have been raised by the
Board of Public Works. but one kick
has been received from all the cottage
owners.
Negotiations are under way for the
sale of all building lots owned by the
town of Rehoboth Beach to Whining
ton syndicate. which will improve them
with cottages.
William H. Pearce, until recently
proprietor Of the Howard House in Elk
ton, Md, is having a motion picture
theatre and restaurant erected opposite
the Court House.
At a recent meeting of Washington
College, Chestertown, Md, it was de-
cided to keep that institution open for
two years more by raising $29. 900 a
year in addition to the $35, 900 it re.
ceives annually from the state.
Owing to difficulty in transporting
machinery, Milford will have to remain
without day electric current this sum-
mer. The Light and Water Commits
sion ordered the machinery in the
spring, but cannot get it until fall.
The dupont Film Corporation and the
DUPONT Pictures. Inc, enormously sup
posed to be identified with the E. I. du.
Pont de Nemours & Co., have been dis
solved, following an investigation by
the postal authorities. The two film
concerns, organized in Delaware, had
as their president John T. dupont, re.
tired business man of Montclair, N. J.
George Reed, fisherman and tonge1
on Broadkiln Beach, found a small golG
mine along the Delaware Bay shore
being nothing less than a mine o1
clans, one Of the finest beds evel
found in that section. The clans ar<
very large, six filling quart cup, while
the Price Of So hundred is putting
large balances in the bank for thu
tonger. Reed kept the bed secre
for four days, during which time h,
made over $500.
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Don't forget FegePs clese daily,
6P. NJ; Saturdays, II Pm. We
are offering many bargain induce
ments to shop during business
hours.
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FRIENDS & VISITORS

! 4S2214vD ~ UNA = VANW
Personal Items About People You
See and Know
THOSE THAT COME AND GO
Mrs. L. v. Kirk spent Wednesday in
Wilmington.
Miss Louise Mcdowell is visiting
friends in the Cattskill Mountains.
Miss Harriet Black is entertaining
Miss Lillian Sparks. of Philadelphia.
Mrs. William Dugan and daughter
Miss Helen, spent Wednesday in Will
mington. y
Mr.. William C. Gallagher, Of Ches-
ter, Pa, is spending sometime with his
parents here.
Miss Grace Brady has been the guest
of Miss Margaret Cochran in. East
Orange, N. j..
Miss Rebecca Barns, of Charlestown.
Nd. is the guest of Miss Dorothy Rat
ledge, near town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert B. Gallagher,
of Wilmington, spent the weekend at
their homes here.
Miss Dorothy Ratledge has returned
from q visit with Mrs. F. c. Bratton,
in Charlestown. Md.
DR.. and Mrs. H. B. Mcdowell, are
entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. William G..
Farra, Of Wilmington.
Mrs. Rosa Weber is spending some
time with her daughter, Mrs. Curtis
Millman, at Woodside.
Rev. and Mrs. P. L. Donaghay and
family have returned home from a
months stay at Rehoboth.-
Mrs. Samuel Price spent Wednesday
with her nephew, Mr.. Joseph Walker
and family, in Wilmington.
Mrs. Harry Dempsey. of Whining
ton, visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Echenhofer, this week.
MIR. And Mrs. Edward NJ. Records
have had his aunt, Mrs. 5. F. Hannum,
of Baltimore, Nd, for guest.
Mr.. Robert o. Pennewill, of Salt
Creek. Wyoming, is visiting his brother,
Mr.. A. j. Pennewill and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Taylor and son,
of Asbury Park, N. j., spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Collins.
Messrs. Howard Porter and William
Proud, Of New Castle, spent Sunday
with Mr.. William Dugan and family.
Mrs. Arthur A. McCloskey, of near
Newark, is spending this week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Maloney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis F. Millman and
daughters, of Woodside, were week
end guests of her mother, Mrs. Rosa
Weber.
Mrs Mamie Dinsmoor, of Philadel.
phia, and Mrs. Lynch, of Wilmington,
were guests. of Mrs. George Buehm
Wednesday.
Mrs. Sewell Green returned last
Thursday from a weeks visit with Rev,
and Mrs. Francis H. Moore, at theil
home in Wayne, Pa.
Misses Beulah and Edith Jewell, o1
near Mt. Pleasant, and Mr.. Harry
Thompson, of Summit Bridge, were
| weekend visitors at Betterton, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph P. Hotis and lit
tie daughter Carolyn, will leave to-mor
row for a sojourn Of four weeks il
Hardwick, Mass, and Burlington, VT
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Rash had fol
Sunday guests Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Riggs, Mr.. H. C. Williamson, of Will
mington; Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Rigg'
and daughter, of Claymont.
Mrs. Ephraim P. Jolls and littl'
daughter, left Wednesday for Fort Con
stitution New Castle, N. H., where sh'
will join her husband. Mrs. Joseph c
Jolls and daughter Alice, are spending
sometime with Mr.. and Mrs. Jolls.
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BASE BALL TO-DAY

BASE BALL TO-DAY
Fort dupont nine will meet the locals
at Academy Park this Saturday after
noon. They will bring with them the
Fort dupont band, and concert will
be given.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-07-31

Earned runs, Middletown, l; YorkIyn.
/. Stolen bases, B. Gibbs, Hotis, Seq
elken, Price, 2; Taylor. Three-base
hit, Walker. Struck out, by Price. 5;
by Brittingham. II. Bases on balls, by
Price, /; by Brittingham, 8. Hit bats
men, Walker, Segelken. Sacrifice hit,
Gibbs. Wild pitch. Brittingham. Pass
ball, Weber. Umpire, Moore. "s-.
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Overhauling Ballot Boxes

The Department Of Elections this
week began overhauling ballot boxes to
be used at the election to be held No
vember 2.