Middletown transcript., 1920-05-22
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

LVVAL uAl j ElvuvUO
Many Condensed New. Items Of
the Past Week
in THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Mrs. L. L. Arts has been elected
president of the Smyrna New Century
Club.
Walter Gill and N. B. Donovan have
been reelected Commissioners at Town.
send.
The annual Sunday School convention
was held Tuesday in Blackbird M. E.
Church.
Middletown farmers fear the straw
berry crop has been damaged by the
late frosts.
Josiah Marvel will be the speaker at
the Memorial Day exercises at Della
ware City.
The annual reunion at Old Drawers
will be celebrated at the church on Sun
day, June 4.
Two dredges have started repairing
the river bank between Delaware City
and Port Penn.
Old Blackbird mill, owned by Theo-
dore T. Ferguson, is being repaired and
new machinery placed.
The annual dance for the benefit of
the Chesapeake City Volunteer Fire
Company netted $135.98.
The number of troops at Fort DUPONT
is rapidly growing less, as many of the
soldiers are being discharged and few
are 1e. enlisting.
On Sunday, June 13, Children's Day
exercises will be given in st. Paul's M.
E. Church, Odessa, for which special
program has been prepared.
The 215th anniversary of Old st.
Anne's will be celebrated on Sunday.
June 10th. Excellent speakers have
been secured for the occasion. g
List of letters remaining unclaimed
in the Post Office for week ending May
13, 1920: Mrs. Mildred Laws. DR.. F. x.
Beller, James Booth, Frank Baynard.
A pie social was held at Taylor's 8
Bridge School on Friday evening. Ice
cream, cake and candy were on sale.
Proceeds for the benefit of the school
picnic.
Last Friday Miss Frances Williams,
of near Odessa, made misstep, fell
and broke her leg. She received first
aid treatment and was then taken to a
Philadelphia hospital.
Eugene Cullson, 14-year-old boy OF
Delaware City, landed eight big carp
with hook and line in the Chesapeake &
Delaware Canal. One Of the fish
weighed over IL pounds.
Bluefish, which seldom appear in
fresh or brackish water. are being
caught in large numbers by Delaware
Bay fishermen from both the New Jer-
sey and Delaware shores.
The bar-room of Old Blackbird hotel
has been remodeled and made into w.
C. T. U. lest rooln. Supper was served
there on Tuesday for visitors to the
Sunday School convention.
Catches of sturgeon in the Delaware
River during the last two weeks have
netted fishermen small fortune. The
returns have been invariably larger
than anything experienced in recen
years.
Mrs. Eunice Wilson of this town
was the purchaser of the property solt
under an order of Orphans Court b!
George L. Townsend, Jr., to settle tn
! estate of Emily G. Roberts. The pric
was $1,000.
Officers from Fort DUPONT, local off
; cials and State officials addressed pub
lie meeting for the purpose of improv
ing local sanitary conditions, at Dela
ware City. City Council plans to adop
health ordinances.
. Republicans of Red Lion hundre
q will hold a get-together meeting in tn
) fire engine house at Delaware City thi
D evening at o'clock P. M. All Reput
' lican voters of the hundred are urge
d to attend as important business will b
E transacted.
At the request Of the Postmaste
General the United States Civil Servic
Commission has announced an examin,
ton to be held at Dover on June 16. fl
the position of postmaster at Towr
send, I,el. This Office has an annu,
- compensation of $1,000.
, Time to Retire. Buy Fisk Tire
+ SHALLCROSS GARAGE.
= n nHsa Il n