Middletown transcript., 1922-10-14
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items Of
the Past Week
In THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

| Miss Ina Barnes, county supervisor
visited the Odessa school Tuesday after
noon to observe the work of the vari-
GUS rooms.
Carpenters are making alterations to
| the Naudain property for the new
| Piggly Wiggly store, which will open
here in the near future.
! Mr.. Victor Joseph has sold his farm
on the road leading from Middletown
to Odessa, containing 40 acres to Mr..
Hiram Pleasanton, of Odessa, the price
paid being private.
When his motorcycle skidded while
driving along the State Road near
Galena, Md, Raymond EicholtZ, of
the state police, was thrown and badly
cut on the head and face.
The cunning season for squirrels in
Maryland will close with saturday s
shooting and reopen on November 10,
when the season Tor partridge, phea "a
SAINT, woodcock and rabbit opens.
! The Odessa Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion held its first meeting at the school
last Friday afternoon. Plans were dis
cussed tor providing some playground
equipment and other necessities.
More than no delegates were in
Smyrna Wednesday from all parts OF
the State to attend the 43d annual State
Convention of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union. The meetings
were held In Asbury Methodist Episco-
pal Church.
The sweet potato yield in lower Della
ware this year VIII exceed million
baskets, according to broker who is
one of the largest buyers OF sweets"
ON the peninsula. The acreage is one
of the largest in the history of the PEN
insula, and the yield is the most pro-
life.
The Delaware state Teachers AS
socIa ion will hold It's fourth annual
meeIlng at Dover, November and lO.
Educational leaders OF national repu-
tation have been secured to address the
general sessions and to meet with the
teachers In their round-ta table discussions
of their problems.
At meeting of the Delaware City
High School students Monday afternoon
III tine school auditorium, an A thletic
Association was formed, bylaws drawn
up and officers elected for the current
oGliooi NCdl do lOllOWS. IldE-
vey Heal; president. Evelyn Ba-
lock; treasurer, MISS Phyllis Mason;
secretary, Merle Yearsley.
The woods along the deep cut of the
Chesapeake q Delaware Canal where
Gahagdn Construction Co. is working,
caught fire late Fnday afternoon.
Every available man of the local canal
force at Chesapeake City and of the
Gahagan Consul auction GO wele rushed
to the scene and succeeded in cutting
off its course after some hard work.
Superintendent Olin e. Mcknight of
the NiddletoWn schools, and W illam
Price were in conference with the
Board in reference to the Cecil county,
Md, school board granting permits and
paying tuition of $40 each for students
In the Middle Neck section who are in
attendance at the Middletown SCHOOLS.
The Board decided not to issue these
permits.
Every indication points to the oyster
dredging season in lower Delaware and
the Chesapeake Bays being the best in
a long term of years. For the same
reason that the past summer was a
bountifuI one for crabs, the oysters are
ldL tlllS dIl anu oy oteI packing uOuSSS
which nave not operated for several
years are preparing to open up and pro
| vide employment for thousands of men
i and women during the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Metzler, of
Stamford, Conn, have purchased
through David E. Peters, representing
the Strout Farm Agency, Is acres of
land including the buildings from Mr..
and Mrs. John z. kirkpatrick, situate
on the stone road south f CHM corner,
near Townsend. The Metzler's with
their interesting family of six children
took possession on Wednesday evening
of this week. He is professional
truck gardener and home decorator.
The kirkpatrick are erecting a new
bungalow on 53 acres of their land
holding on the opposite side of the road
They are planning on taking Sunday
dinner in portion Of their new home,