Middletown transcript., 1922-07-01
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Many Condensed News Items ol
the Past Week
IN THIS AND NEARBY POINTS

A big racing matinee will be held at
Sudlersvile on July 4.
Rev. Francis Burgette Short, of New
York. will make an address at Cecil
toms Fourth of July celebration.
Arrangements are being made to
place number of memorial windows
! in the Odessa Methodist Church.
The annual Children's Day exercises
will be held in Forest Presbyterian
Church. tomorrow, Sunday morning,
at TO- 80 o'clock.
The Pleasant-Summit w. C. T. U.
will hold its next monthly meeting at
the home of Mrs. Viola Pleasanton,
Thursday, July 9th.
The concrete highway from Odessa
southwark has been finished and is now
open to traffic, the State Highway de-
partment announces.
The Boy Scouts cleared nearly $25
from their bake sale held Saturday.
The scouts will use the money to pur-
chase camping equipment.
The next session of the Delaware
State Legislature will be asked to give
Wilmington representation of five
Senators and ten representatives
Some one has said good way to test
''home brew is to place three drops
on dogs back; if the hair comes off
the brew is ready for consumption.
More than 300 persons attended the
annual reunion of the Pencader Gene
terry Association Sunday. in the PEN
cader Presby terian Church, Glasgow.
Secretary of State Benson reports
that receipts from Delaware automobile
licenses for May We're $4,000 more
than in May last year, and for April
were $l1, 200 more.
The Chesapeake City Firemen's An
nual Carnival will open this Saturday
evening, and continue throughout the
following week. All arrangements
have been completed and rousing big
time is expected.
The apple prospect in Delaware is
fine. A crop of about 500, 900 bushels
is forecasted, against $4,000 last year,
and SOL 200 bushels, the average for the
past five years. A commercial crop of
l30, 600 barrels is thought likely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bender celebrated
their silver wedding anniversary Sat
urday by entertaining number of
their friends and relatives at their home
on Clinton street, Delaware City. They
received many gifts of silver from
friends as remembrance of the occa-
sion.
The Council of the Boys and Girls
Community Club, of Delaware City,
met at the Manse W ednesday evening,
at o'clock, to make arrangements for
the summer camps at the wide waters
of the canal about two miles from that
town. 1t is expected now to have the
girls leave for camp on July IL.
The automobile is still one Of the
chief kings of homicide. 1t seems to
defy dethronement as sovereign of
slaughter. Auto accidents are creating
such a casualty list that their cause
should be carefully studied to deter.
mine what habits and practices among
motorists most frequently get people in
trouble.
Sixty young men. Delawareans will
attend the Citizens Military Training
Camps at Plattsburg, Font Hancock
and Camp Dix, beginning August 2.
According to information given out by
the Board of Selection, Governors is.
land. New York City, Al will be sent
to Plattsburg from Delaware, 19 to Fort
Hancock and one to Camp Dix.
Twenty new schools are under con.
struction in rural sections of Delaware
and nine more will be started in the
fall by the Delaware School Auxiliary,
of which DR.. Joseph H. Odell is pres
ident. The auxiliary has the ad-
ministration of the funds given by P. S.
DUPONT for educational purposes. Tota
cost of these schools is placed at about
$500 900.
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