Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Fort DUPONT is still waiting for Cen
eraI Pershing's visit.
How about your subscription? The
label will tell you no w you stand.
AS soon as weather conditions will
permit, the contractors will resume
work on our improved streets.
The plant Of the Delaware City Water
Company, now being operated by z.
Earl Baum, receiver. will be continued.
Miss Lucy Stapp, of Chesapeake
City, Md, has been appointed clerk in
the County Commissioner office in
kton, Nd, at salary of 81, 200 per
year.
The yacht, Bud, Jr., of Philadelphia,
which was sunk in the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal last week, will be
raised and take to a shipyard for re-
pairs by Captain C. A. Marsh and Son
of Philadelphia.
The ice in the Bohemia river has be-
gun to move, causing span on the
bridge to give way, making travel be-
tween CeclIton and Elkton impossible
over the State road route. Workmen
are making repairs.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Heldmyer, Jr.,
who recently returned from their
wedding trip, will begin housekeeping
IN the residence on North Broad street
which the groom recently purchased of
Mr.. John P. Mcintyre.
DR.. J. D. Niles, of Townsend, has
rented offices in the building of Mr..
Tolbert " iIiams. two doors east of The
Peoples Bank, where he will spend
few hours each day in looking after his
practice Of this section.
There has been change in the sched-
die of the Easton- Wilmington motor
truck service, the northbound truck
leaving Easton half hour earlier in the
morning, and the southbound truck
leaving ,iddletown a quarter of an hour
earlier.
The Smyrna White Rose Minstrels
completed their weeks tour of engage.
ments with a second exhibition in
Smyrna Saturday night, and on all
hands their program was declared to be
one of the best ever given by the asso-
citation.
Frank E. Williams. editor of the Cecil
Whig. has announ ced himself a candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
Congress, in the First Congressional
district, of Maryland. The District is
now represented by William A. An
drews, Republican, of Cambridge.
All income tax returns must be made
to the Collector Of Internal Revenue by
March Is. Those who fail to comply
with the law will be subject to penalties
for its violation. A warning has been
issued to the effect that the entire fami-
Iy income, no matter who earns it,
must be reported.
Thirty or more young men of Smyrna
assembled at the Hose Room on Thurs
day evening last to discuss plans look
ing to the organizing of Smyrna Cor
net Band. Other towns it is argued,
have a musical organization, and as
there is known to be considerable musi-
cal talent in that town, it is felt by the
promoters that a band of twenty or
thirty pieces can be gotten together.
Prominent Episcopalians of Delaware
are beginning in earnest movement
for the consolidation Of the Easton and
Wilmington dioceses under one head.
Members of the Maryland episcopaue
are understood to be opposed to the
movement, but local churchmen point
out that the two bishoprics are now
empty owing to the resignation of
Bishop Kinsman and the death of Bishop
Adams.
A sergeant, couple of privates and
fireman who have been doing garrison
luty at Fort Delaware, an isolated is
land in the river near Delaware City
have turned the laugh on their COM
rades. The quartet volunteering for
this lonely outpost duty comprises Ser
geant Packer, Frivates Hainey and
Russell and Fireman KIifk, Of Fort du
Font. They discovered that the shores
were alive with muskrats and now have
about $4,000 worth of pelts to split when
they are relieved this spring, in addition
to the accumulated pay that they could
not spend at the lonely outpost.
"Everywoman," one Of the
greatest pictures ever produced,
will he fha affrsrfInn n tho 0nnra