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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
STATE AND PENlNULA

Milford Council reappointed Edward
V. Hendrixson alderman for the town.
The price of bread in Wilmington
will be increased to IL cents for pound
loaf. January 10.
A basin 80 feet deep, mile long and
half mile wide is part of the plan for
Wilmington horbor.
Interest in the movement Tor hos
pitel for Laurel has been revived, two
meetings of the committee being held
this week.
Having acted as q surgical dressing
club during the war, the Georgetown
New Century Club has resumed its reg
ular functions.
Miss Teresa Matthews has been ap-
pointed assistant dietician at Delaware
College. Miss Matthews comes from
LeRoysville, Pa.
To erect a $500, 1000 Catholic college
and high school in Wilmington, Daniel
P. Buckley has closed an option
on piece of land for SIS, 900.
A number Of men employed in the
car shops at Georgetown during war
conditions have been LAID off and the
working force reduced ne 'ly one-hslf.
Ground comprising - block has
been purchased by ~6ysicians and
Surgeons Hosp Wilmington. 1t
is understoe .tagions disease hos
pital wiz led.
DR.. s, &c. Mitchell, president of
Delaware College, has returned from a
trip to Tuskegee< Institute, Alabama,
where he attended a meeting of an edu-
cational asso :iation of which he is
member.
The Newark Board of Education will
confer next week with the School Aux
iliary Committee, which has control of
the P S. DUPONT 81, OOO, 900 fund, rela-
tive to the amount to be allowed New
ark for the proposed new high and
grammar school.
The cells in the Kent county Jail. at
Dover, for the first time in its history,
are empty because there are no prison.
ers to occupy them. One lone inmate,
a trusty, whose tenn expires within a
few days and who could not be induced
to leave, is the sole attendant. The
doors are left open awaiting the arrival
Ct anyone who may desire to occupy
cell,
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
FogePs "White Sale" ad. tells
new. every woman should read.
Its advice saves you money.


The members of Forest Presby terian
Church presented their pastor. Rev. +.
H. Moore, with . pleasant surprise
Wednesday evening. when Miss Eugenia
Beasten presented him with purse OF
500 in gold. Thursday was the 3Oth
anniversary of DR.. Moore's pastorate
of the church and the gift was token
of the high esteem in which the pastor
is held by his congregation.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
Delaware City to Get New Pier

Delaware City, which has always
owned the wharf at the foot Of Clin-
ton street, but which has been the bone
of much contention, now plans to have
real municipal pier operated by and
for the benefit of the town. The mayor
and couhcil have approved an ordinance
providing for the regulation of the pier,
the rates Of wharfage and the appoint
ment of harbor master,
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
Canal Work Halted i,

The plans of the United States En-.
gineering Department for improve
ment of the Delaware ard Chesapeake
Canal has been given a severe jolt by
the provision of the law, drawn up by
the Rivers and Harbors Commission,
which states that all new work on which
the actual cost is 40 per cent higher thar
the original bid must be abandoned.
As the bid on the Delaware Canal
project was made several years ago, the
present cost of construction would be
much more than 40 per cent above the
original estimate.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
Men Wanted In Navy

The Navy Travelling Recruiting Party
of Wilmington, was-in town on Thurs
day and are now making tour of the
lower part of the>state. The object of
this organization is to distribute litera-
ture and place posters in conspicuous
places, calling the attention Of our
young men to the fact that Uncle Sam
Is in need of their services and is Offering
them extra inducement to join the navy.
A postal card address to room No. 4
Law Building 9th and Market streets.
Wilmington, Del, will furnish full in.
formation on this subject.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
Odessa Church Notes

DRAWERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday. January 18th 1920.
9.45 A. n. Sunday School session.
1880 A.. N. Regular morning service
with sermon by the Rev. T. Walter
Houck.
o.SV T. M. ~ DCE1honpr and
song service topl 60 ss. l21 j:
10 FRANK GreT vour 49, All
young people are r..1 to at
tend this service, lsfactlonz
INV r. NJ. EaSts ith SER
mon 10y the I sspend q
pleasant hour letown, Delss .
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
A BRUTAL ASSAULT
Mr.. Charles Derrickson Waylaid
And Robbed
CULPRIT MADE HIS ESCAPE

This community was greatly excited
last Saturday night, when news reached
town to the effect that Mr.. Charles
Derrickson, one of the most highly re-
spected farmers in lower New Castle
County had been assaulted by colored
man at his home, one mile west of Mid.
dletown.
Mr.. Derrickson had been in Middle
town that evening and according to his
usual custom returned home about ten
o'clock and after putting his horse in
the stable and running his vehicle in
the carriage house he stepped to the
back of the wagon to get his news
paper. when the cowardly assailant
sneaked up back of him. and dealt him
a severe blow in the back of the head,
with club.
Mr.. Derrickson fell to the ground
prostrated and the negro jumped upon
his limp form and began choking him,
s4ying IF you hollow I will kill you. a.
The aged man, realized that he was in
a dangerous position and kept quiet,
while the thug raffled his,pockets of his
gold watch and 50 in cssh, then making
his escape.
The assault and robbery occurred
about 1890 o'clock, and the wounded
man was unable to reach his house,
which was about 100 feet from the
place where he was attacked, for about
one hour. His wife realizing his seri-
GUS condition summoned a physician
who found after making an examina-
tion an ugly cash back of one ear and
it was necessary to take several stitches
to close the wound.
Mr.. Derrickson who is nearly 80 years
of age is suffering greatly from the at
tack and if the culprit could be cap
tured he would speedily receive the
just punishment he deserves.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
New Castle Co. Bank Directors

At the annual meeting of the New
Castle County National Bank of Odessa.
the following persons were elected di-
rectors: Daniel w. Corbit, James T.
Shallcross, Alexander P. Corbit, Leon
ard V. Aspril, Jr., Dsniel Corblt, Fran
els B. Watkins, Clarence E. Pool, I.
Janvier Woods. J. Lawrence Crothers,
Theodore Ferguson and Joseph G.
Brown. The board of directors organize
by electing Daniel N. Corbit, president;
James T. Shallcross, vice-prcsident;
Clarence E. Pool. secretary; Joseph G.
Brown, cashier; Prank Davis, assistant
cashier; and May C. Enos. bookkeeper.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17

Note the star. for nex5 weeks
program in thi. paper; Se..ue
Hayakawa, Vivian Martin, Ethel
Clayton. Pauline Frederick, Robert
Warwick, Mary Miles Minter, An
tonic Moreno, elmo Lincoln
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
PRODUCTIVE CORN

Earlier planting of large. productive
varieties of corn is frequently much
more profitable than the normal plant
ing of early maturing varieties. Proof
of this has been obtained in many in
stances, announces the Chief of the
Bureau of Plant Industry, United
States Department of Agriculture. in
reporting on the results of experiments
conducted to demonstrate the practica-
hility and value of the earlier planting
of corn. By much earlier than normal
planting it has been found that larger
varieties ca be profitably grown for
ensilage in northern localities with
much better yields than can be had
from the smaller native varieties plant
ed at the usual date.
In the South, by planting small short
season varieties earlier than normal,
much earlier maturity can be secured,
affording supply Of corn for very
early feeding. Many rather soft valie-
ties that rot badly when planted late
produce sound orn when planted early
in southern localities. The planting of
short and long season varieties in alter
nale rows has increased yields where
moisture IS limiting factor.
Varieties differ, it as been found, in
their ability to adapt themselves and
their grain production to varying
stands. Prolific varieties, when given
increased space. have shown ability to
increase their grain production much
more satisfactorily than have the single
ear varieties, because of their ability
to make up for deficiency in stand.
The studies made by the department
specia lists have resulted in isolating
uniform types within q variety. 1t has
been found that so-cahled varieties of
corn are largely coggfsmerates of many
distinct types, and to arrive at basic
facts in breeding work it is neces ary
to segregate these uniform types.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
duPonts in Dye Industry

One of the most bitterly contested
struggles ever waged for technical and
commercial supremacy is now being
staged between this country and Ger
many for the dominating position in the
dyestuffs industry and the fact that
the DUPONT Company is likely to be the
most formidable competitor on this side
of the Atlantic is Of interest to every
Delawarean. The DUPONT Company en-
tered the field in 1917, after thorough
and exhaustive study of the whole
question.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
ST. ANNE'S CHURCH NOTES
EPISCOPAL


Sunday, January 18th. 1920. The
Second Sunday after Epiphany.
Services: 1890. Morning Prayer and
Sermon.
11.45. Sunday School session.
7.30. Evening Prayer and address.
Sunday evening, the Rev. c. W.
Clash, Rector of Emmanuel Church,
Wilmingto Del, will be the speaker.
Mr.. Clash was for five years Rector of
St. Mary's s:xihedral, Manila, Philip
pine Islands. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all to be present.
The fund to procure an electric Or
gan-blower is we'll under way and we
hope to hear from a number of the pa
rishioners. Send your contribution to
Mr.. William G. lockwood, treasurer of
the Parish or to the Rector. We take
this opportunity of thanking all those
who have thus far contributed to this
object.
II you want to work in the kind of q
church
Like the kind of church you like.
You needn't slip your clothes in . grip
And start on long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really new;
It's knock at yourself when you
knock your church;
1t isn't your church; it's YOU.
Real churches aren't made by men
afraid
Lest somebody else goes ahead;
When everyone works and nobody
shirks, -....
You can raise church from the dead.
And if while you make your personal
Your neighbor can make one, too,
Your church will be what you want to
It isn't your church; it's YOU.
THE CHURCH PERIODICAL LUB
This is q general chul ch organization
waich exists to bring together those
who need reading matter and those who
have it and are willing to pass it on.
The Secretary in this Parish, is Miss
Ethel Brady, and she will be glad to
learn of any people in the parish who
are willing to help in this excellent
work. There are scores of people, no
doubt, who simply waste their maga-
zines after reading them. Miss Brady
can furnish any number of names of
good people hungry for reading matter,
who will be most grateful to receive
them. All it requires to serve this ex.
cellent end is few minutes time given
weekly or monthly as the case may be,
stamping and addressing a wrapper and
sending the magazine on its way.
The Rector and his family have grate-
fuI Acknowledgements to make of the
many kind tokens of remembrances
which found their way to the Rectory
during Christmastide. The signs of
loving thoughtfulness are deeply appre-
ciated and help to make up the genuine
spirit Of the season.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
Newly-Weds rendered Shower

A variety shower was rendered Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel King at their homo
near Warwick, Md, last Thursday
evening. About eighty guests were
present. all spending very pleasant
evening. Mr.. and Mrs. King were the
recipients of many handsome and usf2
full gifts.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
Given Reception

Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Grassland
rendered his daughter Edna Florence,
who was recently married to Mr.. Joseph
B. Bryson, q reception, at their home,
near Mt. Pleasant, last Friday evening
More than 100 guests were present. Mr..
and Mrs. Bryson received many hand
some gifts.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
OBITUARY
MRS. MARY BOGENsHEITZ

Mrs. Mary Bogensheitz died at her
home in Odessa early Thursday morn
ing. aged SO years. She leaves to
mourn her death, one daughter Miss
Mary, and one son William, who reside
at home.
Funeral services will be held at her
late home this Saturday afternoon
and interment will be made in the
Methodist Cemetery, Odessa.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
Pierson-Smith Weddiae

Miss Alice L. Smith, daughter of Mr..
Joseph Smith. of near Warwick. Nd,
and Mr.. VII m Pierson, of Whining
ton, were ly married in 1Bsltimore
last SstuE fternoon.
Mr.. az ~ J. Pierson vii feside in
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-01-17
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Wild ducks were never so plentiful as
at the present time. Trappers catch
them every day in their muskrat traps.
A movement has been started by
owners of automobiles throughout
Cecil county to organize Motor De.
tective Association.
The Delaware College Junior Prom
will be held in the nav ball room OF the
Hotel DUPONT, Wilmington, Friday even
ing, January 80.
The January meeting of the Queen
Esther Circle will be held at the home
of Mrs. W. 7. Pearce. Jr, Tuesday
evening. January 20, at 8 o'clock.
Falling at the home of her daughter r,
Mrs. William Salmon, near Chesapeake
City, Mrs. William Webb. aged 80 years
fractured hip, and is in serious con-
dition.
A Cecil County, Md. Farmers Insti-
tute will be held at West Nottingham,
on January % and "a, under the aus
pices Of the Maryland Agricultural
College.
Benjamin w. Stretch, for several
years swine herdsman at Delaware COL
lege farm, has resigned to 60 to Lom-
bard, ILL.,, where he will have charge of
a farm.
Thieves entered the station at New
ark Centre on Friday night by forcing
open a rear door. They secured about
$40 in money and forced open some of
the ticket drawers but left the contents
undisturbed.
A system of serving hot lunches to
the scholars attending the country
schools. of Cecil County Nd, has been
inaugurated by the Home Economic
Demonstration and is proving great
help since the cold weather set in.
Dorsey F. Hudson, husband of Mrs.
Ruth Shelton Hudson, of Port Penr,
arrived in this country on the transport
Mercury, January 8, and went directly
to Camp Dix, N J. He left with the
first soldiers for France in June, 1917.
and was wounded in the leg July, 1918.
The engineering society of Delaware
College will give reception, next Mon
day evening for Dean Allan K. Cullin-
more, Professor Clarence A. Short and
G. W. Banks, all instructors in the en-
gineering department who have resign
ed and will leave the college next month.
According to the annual report Of the
Chief of Engineers, United States
Army, it is proposed to construct and
operate for three months pipe line
hydraulic dredge in the work of deep
ening the upper level between st.
Georges and Chesapeake City. During
the past year 5l24 boats passed through
the canal, carrying 739l86 tons of
freight, valued at $73, O00, 1886.
A chance in the routine of meeting of
the New Castle County Presbytery is
expected to be considered at the spring
meeting, to be held in April. At pre-
sent, the summer and winter sessions
are of one day each and the spring and
fall sessions, Two days. As conse-
quence, most of the work is done at the
two-day sessions and little interest is
taken in the meetings in the spring and
fall.
Republican farmer., 1920-06-18
COOLIDGE WILL
 FINISH HIS JOB Intends to Complete His Record of Governor of
 Mass.

Boston, June 14-Governor Coo lidge returned to his desk at the state house today to finish his job.'' This was the word which came from the executive chamber in reply to the question whether he would resign in order to devote himself entirely to the campaign, in the interests of Senator Harding and himself.
 The governor will offer to assist in the campaign, but according to his secretary, Henry F. Long, his activity will be conditional on his ability to do full justice to the demands of his present office. He has finished every job he has ever undertaken Id in- tends to complete his record as gover- nor without sighting the job in hand in order to try for another, the sec. retary said.
 To one of the friends who congrat- ulated him on his nomination for the vice. presidency, the governor re- marked:
 "I don't know about that; the gov. ernorship of Massachusetts has a1- ways been considered the second most important office in the United States
Republican farmer., 1920-06-18
DISCOVER PLOT TO KILL LEVINE

London, June 14-An anarchist conspiracy against the Soviet gov ernment is reported from Moscow, says an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Berlin dated Sunday.
 A plan to murder Premier Lenine and M. Bucharin, president of the third internatlonale, during the May Day celebration, failed and the date of the murders was then set for June 21, according to the account.
 Under the second plan Finance Commissary Krestinsky and other Bolshevik commissaries, including M- Zinovieff, also were to be killed.
 Two members of the staff of the leading anarchist newspaper Golos Truda, Janitsky and Forsbach. with General Yeogoroff, former comman- der of the Green army at Kursk have been arrested, the message says It also quotes the newspaper Golos Rabotchi IS declaring that anarchism is spreading like wildfire in Russia. being organized in the "Bakunine' league which has many hundred thousand members.
Republican farmer., 1920-06-18
HUGHES NOW URGES
 CURB ON BUREAUCRACY

utterances which easily defeat them selves. The tendency to crave and assert arbitrary power and assert it, to use power---either economic or po- 1ltica1 power---rutnieSs1y, is more ap- cause of liberty.
 Tt is in the orderly processes oI constitutional government, that is, government of iaw---with power so adjusted as to secure protection from capricious and arbitrary action---in the putting of principles and rules sanctioned by the people in the place
 of tyranny, that we find the security of liberty. Whoever seeks to suibvert these orderly processes is the enemy against whom at once the entire power of organized society should be directed.
 ''The motto for Democracy must be educate, educate, educate. You can find 10 other security than the intel ISence and conscience of the people. But you cannot at once educate and
 stif1e opinion. There is hope in the
 free air, there is tonic in confidence in ultimate success of what you strongly believe to be true, but the
 policy of denying free expression o1 political opinion is death to the re- pubhf for that expression ts its vital \ force"
Republican farmer., 1920-06-18

Wellesley, Mass, June 14-Charles E. Hughes, speaking on "The Patriot ism Of Peace" at the Wellesley College commencement today. urged a curb on bureaucracy.
 'tThe practice of putting large ad- ninistrative powers at the disposal of officers needs a curb.' he said. That patriot in peace demands gov ernment upon established inciples and he should always be ready to con- test of1cialism and bureaucracy, with it's readiness to suppress individual freedom by capricious administrative action and to install in departme ents of a supposed free government what is nothing short of a reign of terror.
 Unless we have in peace time that dominant sentiment which prompts a continuous and self-sacriicing devo- ton to public ends. the sacrifices of patriotism in war will have been in vain. Our national ideals are neither imperialistic nor racial. They are not bound up in anything short of estab- lists-ng and maintaining constitutional government as the sure base of lib- erty.'
 We have too many evidences of a readiness to take advantage of oPpor- unity to establish autocratic admin
 ,tration. The ease with which abuses ave arisen and have been condoned -hou1d give us more anxiety than wild
Republican farmer., 1920-06-18
BOMB MADE OF
 TOMATO CAN Police Are Investigating Waterbury Out
 rage.

Waterbury, June 14-Po1ice inves- tigation has developed that tomato can, loaded heavily with powder and charged with screws, bolts, nails, etc., as shrapnel, was used in the attempt to take the lives of Margaret and Charles Russo and their families at their home at 25 Division street at 11:25 last night. Police this morning extracted several screws, bolts and nuts from woodwork about windows leading to the rooms in which mem bers of the families were sleeping.
 Antonio Garger of Burton street is held on a charge of assault with in tent to kill. and Vingeni Amattini and Gisuppe Amattini Gather and son) On charges of assault.
 The police claim the Amattinis threatened that Garger was going to blow their house up if the members of the Division street families con- tinued to work while the -trike was in progress. Garger was employed as a miner in West Virginia and is said to be familiar with explosives. He was ordered keld under $5,000 bonds by Judge McGrath in the City Court this morning and the Amattinis under bonds of $1,000 each.
Republican farmer., 1920-06-18

British workers had assured the government. he said, that if it would. smash prices and profiteering the workers would ask no further wage advances.
 Central Labor bodies which aided unauthorized railroad strikes were condemned in resolution presented at the annual convention of the AC.er- ican Federation of Labor today.
 The resolution was proposed by T. c. Cashman of Cleveland in behalf of the International Swftchmen's Union. He said that number of central bod ies had aided switchmen during the unauthorized strike in raising strike funds and furnishing them with meet ing halls.
 Cashem urged that the labor bodies in question be condemned md warn ed not to aid any similar strike in the future.
 The International Ladies' Garment
 Workers Union today pressed it's ef- fort to have the federation urge the release of all political prisoners and the repeal of the espionage act. The Central Labor conference body | of New York has placed before, the | from April 1, 1917, to February 2S, l 1920, there were 15.291 men impris- 1 oned as political prisoners, con- | scientious objectors and military Of 1 fenders.''