Middletown transcript., 1921-02-26
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week

Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS
Compulsory physical training will be
instituted at Delaware College next
September.
Colonel Joseph Hanson celebrated his
seventy sixth birthday anniversary last
Wednesday.
The Parcel Post Sale held by the
| Parent Teachers Association on Friday
evening netted $88 for the Association.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
closed Sunday night in order to make
urgent repairs to the locks at Chesa-
peake City, Md.
The annual meeting of the Odessa
Loan Association will be held at Davis
Bros. office, Odessa, on Monday, Feb.
18th, at 7 O'Clock.
Washipgton's birthday was very
quietly observed Tuesday. about the
only observance being the closing of our
banks and the post office.
Members of the Blackbird branch of
the Y. F. B. were entertained Friday
evening at social at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. S. R. Townsend.
Because the price of fertilizer has
not been reduced, mary Delaware
farmers will not plant peas or tomatoes
for canning factories this year.
County Commissioner Irwin G. Griffith
of the Second district, Cecil County,
Md, has announced his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for Register
of Wills.
More than S1OC, 900, 900 worth of au'
tomobiles will be exhibited at the an
nual show of the Wilmington Automo-
bile Trade Association, opening on Feb
ruary 28th.
Bishop Hamilton, of Washington, D.
c., will preach in Summit Bridge M.
E. Church Sunday afternoon, February
9th, at 2.30. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Rural school teachers of New Castle
county have asked the Assembly to
grant them hearing on all school legis-
lation now in the body before final con-
sideration is given.
The contract for carrying the mails
between Middetown and Earleville,
Md, has been awarded to William B.
Loller. Term begins July l, 1921, and
continues for four years.
The Blackbird Home and School
League held its third monthly meeting
in the school building Thursday evening
when important Legislation now before
the General Assembly was discussed.
Pre-war prices will soon prevail in the
ice cream parlors, judging from reduc-
tions mace recently. Phosphates have
dropped from II to cents, including
war tax, and plain sodas and sundaes
have also dropped, it is said.
Pleasant Summit W. C. T. U. will
hold the next meeting at Mrs. Hester
Ellison's on Thursday afternoon, March
Sd. at the usual hour. Members please
be prompt as pleasing program is be-
ing prepared for the afternoon.
A miscellaneous shower was given
Miss Anna Biddle on Saturday evening,
at her home in Chesapeake City, Md.
The marriage of Miss Biddle and Mr..
Clarence E. Pearce, of Middletown,
will occur in the very near future.
T. ]. Curry, aged 66 years, one of the
Oldest active school teachers in Cecil
county, Md, and for the past few years
principal at Perryville high school, died
Tuesday night from a stroke of
paralysis. His wife survives him.
While wood choppers were cutting
cord wood in Tybout's woods, near
Blackbird, last Saturday, for ex-Sena-
tor Edward Hart, piece of newspaper
was noticed in hollow place in large
maple tree, which. upon investigation,
proved to be wrapped around a quart
bottle containing more than a pint of
aged whisky.
The death tate in Wilmington, in
proportion to population, is greater
than any other city in the country,
said C. H. Wells, state health commits
sioner, quoting the weekly bulletins is
sued by the Department of Commerce,
Bureau of Census. In February IL is-
sue of the bulletin, Wilmington is re-
ported with AZ deaths.
Mr.. Thomas johnson met with an ac-
cident while on his way to work We'd
nesday morning, by slipping on the icy
side walk on North Broad street, and
was picked up unconscious. He sus-
tanned sprained arm, cuts about the
head and several bruises about the
body. He was taken to his home on
Crawford street, where he received
medical attention.
A recent announcement by the Bu-
reau of Fisheries, Washington, D. c.,
that pollution is responsible for the de-
cline in the catch of shad in Delaware
| river and bav is of mnch interest