Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-14
SUNKEN BARGE BLOCKS
TRAFFIC IN CANAL
Boat Goes Down Near Chesa-
peake City After Being
Rammed by a Tug.


special Correspondence Every Evening
Delaware City, Nov 1.-THE tug
Senator Penrose of the Erickson line
, rammed barge near Chesapeake City
Yesterday about noon. The barge
sank practically in the canal channel
and up to a late hour last night had
not been raised. The accident has in
terfered TO some extent with traffic
through the canal as nothing hut
small craft have been able to pass by
The repair crew of the canal arc work
lhs night and day To raise her at the
earliest possible moment.
One boat load of cindersN for use In
the repair of Fifth street has been un-
loaded and at this time n second boat
- tied up along the canal and is be
ing unloaded. The work of repairs is
progressing nicely and about one quar-
ter of the road has been covered with
the fine Stag.
In spite of the fact that several of
the star players of the local high
school football team are on the Grip
pied list. the locals iourneyed to
smyrna yesterday afternoon and held
the Smyrna High School team to a
scoreless tie. Earlier in the season.
Delaware City High defeated Smyrna
High here by the score of IS to 0.
VI. c. Clark Il Son are hauling
considerable quantity of cord wood TO
Reynolds wharf for transportation
over to Fort Mott for use by the
government post there.
The first public meeting of the
Delaware City Community Welfare
Association was held last night in the
Town Hall with vice president Mrs
William b. Jester, presiding, in the
absence of the president, Mrs. Russell
{. Collie. who recently left here to
make her future home in the Panama
Canal Zone This first meeting
augurs we'll for the success Of the as
sociation this year as the hall was
crowded.
The meeting opened with a song
followed with prayer by Rev. L. w.
Iayfield. The roll-call of members
of the association was answered by
individual readings. The third and
fourth grades, under the direction of
Miss Mildred E. Jester, went through
their daily health exercises and dem
onstrated their games and calistheniCs.
The Story of the Pilgrim" in dia-
logue form was then rendered by
Estelle MAIDEN. After singing by the
assemblage, a demonstration of the
old and new methods of reading was
gwen. VIM. r. Jester. chairman if
the local school board. demons tratcd
the old method and Miss Mildred L.
Jester. third and fourth grade teacher.
who demonstrated the new method
The old system consisted of having the
child read two or three lines, then
stop and have another child finish the
remaining lines of the paragraph The
new method consists of adapting the
several characters or the different
features of the story TO different chill
dren and have each child read that
part of the story in which his or her
particular character or feature comes
in.
a word drill and lesson study plan
was then demonstrated which was fol-
lowed by talk on the comparison of
these methods by Miss Qua Barnes.
Rural Supervisor of New Castle
county.
The business session followed and
Mrs Coles resignation read by Miss
Jester. IT was decided to hold over
the election OF a president until the
next meeting. 1t was voted 10 hold a
community supper in the Town Hall
in the near future, when each family
would bring their own supper and
spend social hour or so following.
After the business session, remarks
were made by all the teachers who
pointed out to the parents the various
ways in which the parents could help