Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-05-08
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Many Condensed News Items O.
I the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Several light frosts have been report
ed the past week, and more are predict
ed
The highest single catch of shad BY
Port Penn fishermen this season hal
been about 60.
Levy Court Tuesday authorized Coun.
ty Engineer Grubb to advertise for bids
for road work in Middletown. -.
Tomorrow Sunday will be Mothers
Day and preparations are under way
for proper celebration in the churches.
w. T. Davis, cashier of the Millington
Bank. has resigned and he will be
! succeeded by Owen L. Phillips, of
Masseys.
Miss Bertie jefferson and Preston
Becvk have been placed in charge of the
physical training classes of the Della
ware City school.
The moon rose in eclipse Sunday
evening, and its peculiar appearance
puzzled many persons until they realized
what was the matter.
Plans are being discussed in New Cas-.
tie for the construction of an up-to-date
sewer system, as result of the re-
quest Of many citizens.
Capt. Carlton Coulter, Jr., has re-
signed as commandant of Delaware
College cadets and has been succeeded
by Capt Ralph Dickinson.
The Senior Glass of the Chesapeake
City High School will give their annual
entertainment at Masonic Hall on Tues
day evening, May IL, at eight o'clock.
By the collapse of scaffold on a
windmill on farm near Galena, Nd,
William Steele sustained a fractured
ankle and Harry Shaw painful injury of
the body.
The Chesapeake City annual town
election held Monday afternoon resulted
in Frank B. Conrey being elected mayor
and John Reed and S. S. Sawtell COM
r issioners for a term of two years.
There were three tickets in the field.
A number of members of the survey
party that has been engaged in work on
the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal have
been laid off in the Delaware City Sec
ton. Numerous carpenters have been
given work on the waterway.
Newark Council has fixed May 26 as
the date for special election to decide
whether or not the Council shal! be
authorized to bond the town for SIS, 200,
under an act passed by the Legislature,
to enlarge the water and electric light
plants.
Fishermen at Port Penn have been
making big catches of carp in their haul
seines. This is unusual and the fisher
men are unable to explain why so many
carp are being caught. The shad fisher
men also have been making catches of
:arp in their shad nets.
John Tugend and Eugene Armstrong,
'had fishermen of Delaware City, land
I'd sturgeon that netted them $252.
The fish contained 70 pounds of roe,
which brought $3.50 a pound and dressed
L4O pounds of meat. which sold for 40
:ents per pound. They disposed of the
ish in Pennsgrove, N. j.
Fire ignited the lace curtains at the
:ront window Of E. S. jones' barber
hop Monday, and before Mr.. Jones
:ould get his little chemical fire extip-
yuisher working the curtains were COM
'letely consumed, but he prevented the
,laze from spreading. lighted cigar
tump was responsible for the fire.
The election of officers OF the Della
ware City Century Club took place last
Friday afternoon, resulting as follows:
President, Mrs. Raymond Cofer: vice.
presidents. Mrs. John Schunder, Miss
Idle Bradway; recording secretary,
Mrs. Charles Metzger; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Frank Moore; treasurer,
Mrs. Harry Price; directors for three
'ears, Mrs. Eliza Vandegrift, Miss
Alice Reybold, Miss Marion Price.