Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-04-24

The Chesapeake City Firemen'!
Annual Ball will be held in Masoni,
Hall on April 80.
The Smyrna Red Cross has appointed
Mrs. L. Irving Handy, chairman fo1
the Child Welfare Work.
Shad fishermen of the lower Della.
ware plan an organization to secure
relief from pollution of the river.
Daniel W. Stevens has purchased of
Mrs. E. c. Green, sixty feet of land
adjoining his home on South Broad
street. .
Delaware City authorities are plan
ming to make extensive improvements
to the municipal wharf at Clinton
street.
Sparrows and blackbirds have been
eating the young, tender pea shoots
above the ground, causing much
damage.
A musicale was held in Jr. o. U. A.
N. Hall, Cecilton, on Thursday evening
of this week, for the benefit of the
Cecilton Band.
At meeting held in Cecilton Monday
the same vestry which served last year
was elected for the ensuing year for
Final reports of the indoor carnival
held under the auspices of the Guild of
st. Thomas P E. Church, Newark,
show that $3.50 was cleared.
The Methodist Episcopal parsonage
in Chesapeake City, Md, was damaged
by fire on Monday morning, which
originated from gasoline stove.
Sunday closing of the Chesapeake
and Delaware canal was begun during
the old company administration and has
been continued since the Federal gov
ernment took over the waterway last
fall.
Entire reconstruction of the Della
ware Railroad bridge over the Chesa-
peake & Delaware Canal at Cansl
Station, is projected by the United
States Engineer Office, which has
charge of the waterway.
Big Carnival at Smyrna Yes it will
be there all next week on the Smyrna
High School grounds. benefit of Smyrna
Post. No. Ia, American Legion. Help
the service boys of Smyrna Post by
giving the carnival your patronage.
Smyrna is fast getting in shape for a
cornet band. Thlrty-two young men
have joined the musical organization
and have purchased their instruments.
George W. Sylvester is leader and re-
hearsals are held twice a week in Eagle
Hall.
On Monday afternoon vote was
taken and failing to get the required
eighteen votes the McNabb amendment
to the Klair prohibition law to allow
physicians the privilege of prescribing
liquor was defeated in the House. The
vote was 16 yeas and II nays.
The American Fibre Company open
ed its rag sorting department in new
building adjoining its plant in Newark,
which will employ upwards of 30 girls
and 8 or 10 men. The girls will have
an attractive rest room. The company
has broken ground for II dwellings in
the Deandale section of Newark.
The Cecilton High School commence
ment will be held in the NJ. E. Church,
on Friday evening, June 4. The nine
members Of the graduation class are
Alday Clements Bishop, Mayme Are
lee Burris, Evelyn Frances Cavender,
Mary Elizabeth Fillingame, Mabel
Evelene Leybold, Henrietta Margan
Manlove, Madeline Ostrom, Blanche
Pennington Smith, Paul Smith Van
Dyke.
A general rise in pastors salaries,
with minimum Of $500, was decided
at the annual meeting Of the New
Castle County Presbytery in Hanover
Church this week. The Presbytery
unanimously indorsed the recommen-
dations on salaries of the Home Mis-
sions Committee. The minimum salary
includes free use of manse and $500
additional for the use of automobile or
carriage.