Middletown transcript., 1920-04-03
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week

the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Time to ''clean up and paint up"
The robins and blue birds are here.
You can find the sweet scented ar
butus now.
Catches of herring are being made by
the fishermen in the vicinity of Port
Penn.
Herring have arrived in small num-
bers in the locks of the Chesapeake &
Delaware Canal.
Fishermen predict that owing to the
extremely cold winter the shad season
will probably be late.
Although the annual election will take
place in Delaware City early in April,
no candidates have appeared as yet.
DR.. W. Owen Sypherd. head of the
department Of English, may succeed
Dr. Mitchell as president of Delaware
College.
Home economics and agricultural has
been added to the rural school system
in the schools of Cecil county, Nd, by
the State Board Of Education.
At meeting of the citizens of Cecil
toh, Md, held Thursday evening of last
week. it was decided to, reconstruct the
town electric light plant, destroyed by
fire last December.
A number of people from this section
are expected to attend the dance to be
given by the Young Peoples Club of
St. Georges this Saturday. night. A
Wilmington orchestra will furnish the
music.
At the business meeting of the Home
and School Association, of Delaware
City, last Friday it was decided to re-
tain the present officers. program
given by the scholars was pleasing
feature of the day.
Cards have been issued for the mar
riage of Miss Mary P. Walls, of Sud-
lersville. Nd, to Frank w. Tarbutton,
of Smyrna, Del. The ceremony will
take place April 6 in the Sudlersville
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Formal transfer of the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal Company property
to the United States. represented by
Marshal Martin F. Fairy, has been filed
with the County Board of Assessment
in Wilmington. The amount involved
is $2,514, ,28964. ..........
Mrs. Theodore Ferguson, of Black
bird, was given a surprise dinner at
the home of Mrs. F. E. Postles,
Smyrna, Tuesday evening by the jolly
"Indion River Crowd Five courses
were served and all the decorations and
favors were in yellow.
The springlike weather has caused
the asparagus to put up in many patches
and growers are clearing the beds of
the old foliage to be in readiness for
the coming crop, which they expect to
be abundant. Old growers say that the
freezing of the ground during the win.
ter has caused the earth around the
plants to expand, thus helping the roots
to penetrate through the soil.
Although handicapped by the wet
ground the farmers have begun their
spring work of trimming thorn hedges,
painting fences and getting fire-wood
for summer. Heavy hauling, however
is prevented. Farm labor seems to be
scarce in this section and wages range
from forty to sixty dollars month
with board, day help getting from two
dollars to two dollars and fifty cents
day.
The Republicans of Red Lion hundred
will meet this Saturday evening at
o'clock in the fire engine rouse at Della
ware City. The meeting is for the
purpose of selecting delegates for the
Republican State Convention in Dover
on Tuesday. April 20. They will also
select new members for the hundred
committee, to be voted for at the dele
gste election on Saturday, April IL.
Voters of the district are urged to at
tend.