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The Midland Journal.
VOL. XL.
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
.jcull moon Wednesday next. The Cecil Farmers’ Club met on
. . xr „n Wednesday with I. Wayne Reynolds,
Thursday next, November 29, is ngar
Thanksgiving Day.
The dwelling of Mrs. Jennie Tay- Meade Boldier bo vls ited home
lor is being brightened by a new Sunday
dress of paint.
~ ~, , . _'. Edwin Haines and family enter-
New timetables will go into effect tained week Mr and Mrs
on the Maryiand Division of the P„ Vanneman of Baltlmore .
B. & W. railroad, November 25.
.. . , Mr. and Mrs. Jesse T. Cameron
. Among those who have been pro- ~
moted at Camp McClellan, Anniston, motoml to B altimore on Sunday and
is C. Otis McCauley, of Co. E, to a Vlslted Cecll E- Ewln ® and famil y-
First Lieutenantcy. Mrs. Mollie Reynolds, of this town,
A big motor furniture van came has accepted the position of matron
from Baltimore on Tuesday and of Unlon Hospital, Elkton, entering
moved the household goods of Rev. u P° n her dutiea there Wednesday.
F. H. Huffman to that city. Mr. and Mrs. Zachariah Leonard,
The ladies of Rowlandville M. P. of Calvert, will celebrate their 40th
church will hold their annual oyster wedding anniversary on Wednesday,
supper in the basement of the November 28, from 6 to 10 p. m.
fcpfturch Thursday evening, Nov. 29. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Roberson, of
Y* While sharpening tools on an Freehold, N. J., were visitors last
emery stone in the Elkton foundry, wee k at the home of the latter s
several days ago, Jacob Biddle, a Parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Biles.
moulder, severed the end of one of Raynor Garey, son of editor Geo.
his fingers. O. Garey of North East, has been
A Bible Study class has been or- commissioned First Lieutenant in the
gantzed by members of the Epworth si S nal Corps of the Aviation Derpart-
League and Sunday school of the M. ment > u - S. Army.
E. church, with Rev. H. E. Reed as Ross B. Cameron, son of Mr. apd
leader. Mrs. H. R. Cameron, of Port Deposit,
Revival meetings which have been has been graduated from the aviation
in progress at the Octoraro M. E. sch ° ol at Prmceton, N. J., and will
... ~ . receive immediate orders,
church for the past four weeks, .
closed on Sunday night. There were Frank Sheppard, son Ernest, Wil
-25 conversions. mington; John Sheppard, son John ;
During the fire-fighting at the E. Ne J Hudders Greenfield
Kirk Brown dwelling in Elkton last and friends Coatesville. were Sun
week, a man named Stevens fell from da y auto Vlsltors in Rlsm S Sun
the roof and broke his arm and was Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Reed and Miss
otherwise bruised. Carrie Hambleton represented Janes
Philadelphia contractors began M- E - Sunda y Sch ° ol at the institute
work last week in building a four ln Asbury M. E. church, Wil
track line on the P. B. & W. Rail-; mington, on Monday and Tuesday.
road between Newark, Del., and Mr. and Mrs. William Ramsey of
Bacon Hill, a distance of nine miles. Barns i e y ( announce the marriage of
The Principio Mite Society will their daughter, Gertrude Lillian, to
hold a poultry and oyster supper at Mr. James William Hetherington,
the home of Mrs. W. W. Dill, Jack- of Philadelphia. The ceremony took
son, Saturday evening, November 24. place in Philadelphia on Saturday,
Supper 26 cents. Ice cream for sale. Nov. 17th.
Rev. Henry Chamberlaine, of the Miss Hazel Hilton, daughter of
Diocese of New York, a former resi- Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Hilton, of
dent of Cecil county, has accepted West Forest Park, Baltimore, who is
a joint call to St. James Episcopal well-known in Elkton, where she has
Church, Port Deposit, and St. Marks, frequently visited her aunt, Mrs. C.
Aikin, Cecil county. C. Strickland, was married Saturday
Chas. Lawson, of this town, was to Mr. Wm. Crouch Brooks,
badly scalded about the face and Harry Burkins and family on
hands on Friday last, by a bursting Wednesday moved to the Gifford
steam pipe of the boiler used at the ( j we ijj n g > G n East Main street,
crusher on the Rising Sun- vaca t e< j b y t be f a mily of Rev. Mr.
Sorters Bridge road work. Huffman. J. M. Holden will occupj
An overheated stove in the kitchen his recently purchased dwelling on
of the residence of E. Kirk Brown, South Queen street, vacated by
Elkton, caused a fire on Wednesday Burkins.
afternoon that badly damaged the number of young ladies oi
rear portion of the dwelling before Rjslng gun> j nter ested in the Red
being quenched by Singerly Fire Co. Q rogs movement, have organized a
. John 6. Constable, of Elkton, who Five Hundred Club. Meetings will
has been at the Officers’ Training be held every other week and the
Camp at Fort Myer. Va„ has been dues paid devoted to Red Cross pur
honorably discharged, the examining poses. The first meeting was held i
surgeons deeming him physically un- °n Wednesday evening with Mr. and
able to stand a rigorous campaign. Mrs - Albert L. Buffington, when four
. tables were played and an enjoyable i
If a member of your family is in evening spent,
the war service, you are entitled to . 1
display a service flag at your home. Rev. F. H. Huffman preached his
The flag has a red border around a last sermon as pastor of West Not
. white center upon which a blue tingham Presbyterian church on
Iktar is placed for each member ln Sunday morning last to a large con-
IwMCylce.' gregation. Rev. Huffman and family
left on Wednesday lor their new
Bfrs. J. L. Moore of North East bo me in Baltimore, where he has
from The New England acce pted the pastorate of Babcock 1
Hrelty Yarn Co. sufficient wool to Memorial church. Their many 1
Huake an army blanket, the squares f r j en( i s j n G ur community are truly
r of which are to be knit by the girls sorr y to see them go, and wish them
of the 6th, 6th and 7th grades of we n j n their new location.
North East public schoo.l.
At the corn show held last week
The new train schedule to go into by Londongrove, Pa., Grange, first ,
effect Nov. 25, will put the north- p r j Ze was awarded to A. J. McCue of
bound passenger train, bringing the Avondale, second to Crowell Bros.,
first morning mail and the daily an d third to Thomas L. Passmore,
papers, on nearly its original time in ,
reaching Rising Sun, —an hour Fire in the basement of the public (
Earlier than at present. school building at Avondale, Pa., was
discovered shortly before the open-
The public schools of the county j ng bour Monday morning and extin-
l>e closed all of next week. The g U j sbe( j by a bucket brigade before
<pH[fiual Teachers' Institute will be mucb damage was done,
fheld in Baltimore on Monday, Tues
l day and Wednesday, while Thanks- A full grown doe was seen by ,
L giving day, the 29th, and the day Charles Aument of Quarryville Fri-
Wollowing are legal holidays. day afternoon as he was gunning in ,
that neighborhood. He followed it j
last block of concrete on the f or some distance, but the animal j
B&d between Sylmar and Notting- disappeared in a ravine.
Ham was laid'on Saturday/and there
riß now a completed stretch of im- The boiler and pump formerly
r- p ro ved roadway from Sylmar to used at the United States Fish Hatch-
Oxford. ing Station, at the Battery, below
Work on the Rising Sun-Sylmar Havre de Grace, is now doing service I
road is progressing slowly with less at the lake trout and white fish i
than half a mile of concrete laid. hatchery at Charlevoix, Michigan. 1
RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY. MD., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1917.
JURORS FOR DECEMBER TERM.
Judge Constable Draws Jurors For
Next Term Of Circuit Court.
Chief Judge Albert Constable of
the Cecil County Circuit Court, on
Saturday drew in Elkton the follow
ing jurors of the December term of
Court: —
First District —Howard Benson,
Edgar F. Bishop, Andrew J. Scho
field, Jas. A. Brown, John M. Terry,
John F. Coppage. /
Second District —T. Harry David
son, Thomas J. Ford, Robert Ford,
William Price, Harry Kibler, Thomas
R. Baker.
Third Distriot-Irvin H. Deibert,
Daniel M. McCauley, Robt. Rudolph,
Frank L. Bryson, M. F. Magraw,
Jonathan V. Carter, James Keithley.
Fourth District —Amos L. Ewing,
Stephen Vincent, Samuel T. Miller,
Wash. Pennington, S. S. Mackie..
Fifth District —William E. Owens,
H. E. Simpers, James H. Lynch,
George Digman, Philip A. Richard,
"Augustus Carlson.
Sixth District —William T. Jenness,
E. Hughes Keilholtz, Cecil Cum
mings, William T. Slicer, James H.
Maxwell.
Seventh District —John S. Frantz,
George M. Christie, Walter E. Pat
ten, James H. Touchstone, Foster T.
Nickle, Payton Patterson.
Eighth District —George J. Lid
dell, Charles A. Grubb, William W.
Fulton.
Ninth District —J. Cecil Biles,
Charles O. Hasson, George Kirk.
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Struck By Auto.
The ten year old daughter of Wil
liam H. Hohn, of Port Deposit, was
run over and seriously injured in
that town Wednesday morning of
last week, by an automobile. Her
leg was broken, she suffered numer
ous cuts and bruises, and her condi
tion is serious.
The little girl, ran into the street
directly in front of the machine,
which could not be stopped quick
enough to avoid striking her.
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, "Ducks Numerous On the Flats.
The wisdom of the Federal laws in
protecting migratory birds is evident
in the great number of ducks on our
flats —more than there has been seen
for years. The first three gunning
days saw probably 30,000 ducks
killed, and each succeeding -gunning
day records good “kills.” Owing to j
the restricted markets for their sale,
our gunners and dealers are some
times puzzled to care for them. —
Havre de Grace Republican.
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Weight Limited To Seven Pounds.
By order of the Postoffice Depart
ment the weight of parcels for and
from the American Expeditionary
Forces in France, is limited to 7
pounds instead of 20 as heretofore.
The order became effective November
1 and the modification became neces
sary because of the fact that the
French railway companies will not
carry over their road packages in
excess of 7 pounds.
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Price Of November Milk.
The Interstate Milk Producers’
Association has agreed with Phila
delphia dealers, upon the price to be
paid for November milk, $3.57 f. o.
b. Philadelphia, which is equivalent
to about $3.12 per 100 lbs for 4 per
cent milk delivered at Rising Sun.
An agreement was also made that
four cents per upit would be paid for
each unit above 4 per cent, and a
deduction of four cents made for
each unit below 4 per cent.
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A Beefless Day.
The beefless day, tried out recently
by the .hotels on the Peninsula,
proved so satisfactory that the hotel
managers will have a beefless day
every .week which will be Tuesday.
On this day guests will be provided
with fowl and other substitutes for
heef, so as to allow the government
the opportunity to save for the
soldiers the beef which would other
wise be consumed by our average
citizens on this day. This policy, has
been put into effect all over the
United States and it is estimated that
many hundreds of thousand pounds
of beef will be saved thereby for the
soldier boys.
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Scott—Mackey.
Miss Dianna Scott, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Scott, and
Howard Mackey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jarett Mackey, both of the Fourth
District, Cecil county, were quietly
married at the home of the bride,
Saturday. Only the immediate fam
ilies were present.
Holstein Heifer Test.
Woodrow & James have just
finished an official test on one of
their registered two-year-old Hol
steins, making a record of 14.6392 of
butter; milk 344 pounds, seven days.
I. RAILROAD WRECK AT OXFORD.
r Fireman Injured—Engines and Cars
Derailed and Tracks Torn Up.
if A bad wreck occurred in Oxford
n yards on Thursday evening of last
week, which resulted in the serious
f injury of fireman Joseph J. Albany,
the smashing of two engines and
i, several cars and a large amount of
i- other damage, causing a delay of
■, several hours in train service and re
quiring a gang of 200 men to work
.- all night before matters were
1, straightened out.
s The northbound passenger train
due here at 4.45 p. m. crashed into
a locomotive in Oxford yard, that
, "had been run out onto the main
, track preparatory to being placed on
. its proper storage track for the
, night.
, | The engineer of the passenger
train saw the obstruction in time to
, apply the air brakes and jump, but
,! the momentum of the train carried
, it into the other locomotive with a
crash. The engine jumped the track
, and plowed through freight cars
- standing on the side tracks. This
. stopped its progress and caused it
to overturn, pinning fireman Albany
, beneath it. In the coaches were
. about thirty passengers, who fortu
nately escaped injury.
It required about three quarters
. of an hour to release the fireman.
He was taken to Oakwood Sani
tarium, where it was found he had
sustained a broken leg, badly lacer
ated scalp and was seriously scalded
from the waist down.
The clearing up of the wreck was
a stupendous task. One engine was
- overturned and almost completely
= wrecked, and the other one greatly
1 damaged, baggage and mail coaches
f overturned as well as freight cars,
' and tracks torn up.
- At midnight and at six o’clock in
- the morning, a lunch prepared by
Landlord Hoffman, was served to
t the wrecking crew.
, Rough estimates of the damage
: done, place the cost of the wreck
at $25,000.
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Fruits, Jellies, Preserves, Pickles,
i Etc., For Cecil County Boys
At Camp Meade.
All who wish to contribute any of
1 the above articles are asked to leave
: them with Mrs. Chas. S. Pyle, Rising
! Sun, and with Mrs. Wm. Wilson,
’ | Colora. And those who are planning
1 j trips to Camp Meade are asked to
’ take with them from time to time
such things as are left with these
two ladies so the boys may receive
some of the good things along and
not all at one time, and if those go
ing down will co-operate in this way
. it will save packing and shipping
l and also breakage, which might
■ occur as well as the on ac
count of the congestion in shipping
at present. Packages may be mark
ed for special ones, but it is to be
. hoped that a generous supply of
these things all boys like, may be
; given for all the Cecil County boys
at Camp Meade.
We do not forget our other Cecil
County boys in other Camps and
trust some of our women may ar
range to receive these things to go
to Anniston and elsewhere where our
boys are stationed.
Favors Jail Sentences.
Exasperated beyond further toler
ance, State Motor Vehicle Commis
sioner Baughman has declared in
favor of Jail sentences instead of
fines for the automobile fools who
will not respect the speed laws and
the regulations designed to protect
the traffic. Colonel Baughman is
convinced that the payment of fines
does not hit the right spot. _ He be
lieves languishing in county jails for
several days, perhaps weeks, will
bring the speeders to a realization of
their - responsibilities on the high
ways.
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C£RD OF THANKS.
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The Chrysanthemum Tea Com
mittee wish to extend thanks to the
ladies who so kindly assisted in the
soliciting, and to the public who
responded so generously to their
appeal. The total amount in the
hands of the Committee being $lO2.
Ethel Briscoe Mary Smith
May Allee Lidie Campbell
Grace Wilson Verna Grason
Clarence Dickinson, colored, of
Doe Run, Pa., was arrested Saturday
by constable Ringler charged with
being a slacker in attempting to
escape military duty. He was taken
to Camp Meade. There is a reward
of SSO for each slacker captured.
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The real estate of Mrs. Millicent
R. Tong, deceased, consisting of ten 1
acres of land and dwelling house,
at Andora, Cecil county, was sold at
the Court House door on Thursday
last by Robt. C. Thackery, Attorney, i
to Walter Blackson, for $2,085.
PLANS SHAPING UP FOR LEGIS
LATURE.
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Prohibition, Racetracks And Annex
-1 ation Eexpected To Occupy
l Chief Places.
■, From the Baltimore News. •
1 With the next session of the Mary
f land Legislature less than seven
f weeks away, things are shaping
- themselves for the big fights that are
i to come. So far as can now be seen
s the really big contests will be over
annexation, liquor and race tracks,
l There will be other hot fights, but
3 these three now loom big and until
t they are disposed of the others will
i look small by comparison.
i The annexation fight will be waged
3 between the advocates of the city
bill, which provides annexation with
• out a referendum of any kind, and
) those who contend that there should
t be no annexation except upon a
l referendum to the voters of the ter
t ritory to be annexed. And this, con
: cretely, is all the difference between
i the Democratic and Republican State
i platforms, with some members-of the
: Legislature on each side refusing to
- be bound by their party platforms.
> Dry State Fight Coming.
On liquor the Anti-Saloon League
has announced that it is to make a
1 fight for a dry State without a refer
endum. They want to dry up all
Maryland at one swoop. On the
1 other hand, the liquor people, that is,
the distillers and wholesalers, are
saying they will speqd no more
money on a fight, that the fights of
the last few years and especially that
1 of last fall, cost them an enormous
sum and they do not feel like spend
ing more on a lobby at the Legisla
-1 ture in the face of approaching na
-1 tional prohibition. So if this pro
gram is carried out it will be for the
wet forces in the two do
their fighting alone without help
from a powerful third house.
Race tracks, of course, will make
1 a big fight. They have an enormous
income at stake, one so large that
they do not take the public into their
confidence concerning their financial
affairs. Report has it that they have
already offered the State a toll of
J2OOO a day to be permitted to con
tinue as they have been indefinitely.
There will be plenty of other bills
of general or State-wide interest.
The State Conservation Commission
will have measures to provide for r
State-wide gunner’s license which
will stir up the usual kick. Another
will deal with the crab law and will
either reduce the minimum size of
the crabs that may legally be taken
or allow a percentage of under-sized
crabs, as i 3 allowed in the catch of
oysters.
* Automobile Commissioner Austin
E. Baughman will seek a revision of
the motor vehicle laws with the view
to getting better regulation of traffic,
but the outline of this measure has
not, yet been drafted.
The Legislature, aside from organ
izing and naming the employees has
only one office to fill—that of State
Treasurer. That may or may not
produce a fight among the Republi
can leaders. The number of minor
places will be determined by each
house for itself, only limited by the
amount of money to be appropriated
with the approval of the Governor.
With the two houses of opposite
politics, each may try to outdo the
other in economy, but on the other
hand, each will have to withstand
the greatest pressure for places for
the faithful.
And it should be, if not a really
good show, at least interesting.
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COURSES IN ENGINEERING.
State College Developing Men in Five
Branches of that Work.
Five different courses in Engineer
ing are being taught at the Mary
land State College. So much prom
inence has recently been given to the
development of the college along
agricultural, biological, and chemical
lines that the work of the engineer
ing division is somewhat lost sight
of. As a matter of fact, the State
College offers degrees in Educational
Engineering, Rural Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering, Civil En
gineering and Electrical Engineer
ing. Standard work is being done
in all these departments. The
course in rural engineering is new j
and the College is to develop it in ,
such away that its work can be
peculiarly adapted to Maryland, j
Maryland offers great problems to 1
the rural engineer in the building of
sewerage and water systems for ito
small towns, the drainage of its
marsh and other lowlands, and in
bettering conditions on the farms.
The development of the new branch
of engineering is along the lines of
the general policy of the State Col
lege—to do everything possible to
develop the latent resources of Mary
land and to improve country life.
COUNTY BOARDS TRANSACT
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Board Of Education—County Com
missioners and Orphans'
Court In Regular
Session. '
Board Of Education.
The Board of Education met in
regular session Nov. 13. Present—.
Messrs. Smithers and Falls.
Minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved, and bills ex
amined and ordered to be paid.
John A. Bruff, of, Baltimore, was
appointed to a scholarship at the
Maryland Institute, and Theodore
Dent, of Drayden, to the scholarship
at Charlotte Hall School, both for
the school year 1917-18.
The resignation of Miss Florence
R. Scott, No. 4, Third, was received
ind Accepted.
The Board ordered the public
schools closed November 26, 27 and
28, that white teachers may attend
the meeting of the Maryland State
Teachers’ Association at Baltimore,
and the colored teachers attend an
Institute at Baltimore. In accord
ance with the school law, November
29 (Thanksgiving) and the day fol
lowing are holidays, and the schools
will be closed on those days also.
County Commissioners.
The County Commissioners met in
regular session Nov. 13. Present, J.
Frank Blake, President; J. Turner
Cameron and William R. Cameron.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved, and sundry
bills examined and ordered to be
paid.
Petition was received for the re
pair of a number of roads in the
Fourth and Ninth districts.
Letters were received from the
State Roads Commission and Warren
I. Haines in reference to the con
dition of the Cowentown road. Also
letter from Elwood Conner In refer
ence to roads in Eighth district.
Frank B. Evans, Dr. Howard Brat
ton and Thomas, B. Miller appeared
before the Board in reference to ap
propriation of SIOOO for Union Hos
pital.
The Board decided to install two
toilet rooms in the Court House.
Orphans’ Court.
The Orphans’ Court of Cecil Coun
ty met in regular session Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week. Pres
ent—Hon. James J. McCauley, Chief
Judge; Hon. Milton S. Sentman and
Hon. Alexander P. Jackson, Associate
Judges.
Sundry claims against estates of
deceased persons were examined and
passed.
Bonds Approved.—Bond of John
R. H. Price, Administrator c. t. a. of
George W. Merritt; bond of Lizzie
A. Janney, Administratrix of Milli
cent R. Tong; bond of Samuel T.
Logan, Administrator of Rhoda Bell
Logan; bond of John S. Patchell,
Administrator of Cecil K. Patchell;
bond of J. Wesley McAllister, Sheriff
if Cecil County.
Accounts Passed.—First Account
af J. Walton Campbell and Lewis A.
'tirk, Executors of Edwin C. Cather,
and distribution struck on same;
irst and final Account of James S.
Merritt, Executor of Beuna Vista
Purdy, and distribution struck on
ame; first and final Account of
Henry M. McCullough, Administrator
c. t. a. of James Nelson, and distri
bution struck on same; first and final
Account of Judge Victor B. Wolley,
Executor of George S. Woolley, and
distribution struck on same; first and
final Account of Sarah E. Miles, Ad
ministratrix of Martha R. Holland;
second and final Account of Paul G.
Brumfield, Administrator of William
O. Brumfield, and distribution struck
on same.
Court adjourned to meet in special
-ession on November 22, next.
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BREAKS BUTTER RECORD.
The world’s record for butter pro
duction has been broken by
Acme, a Holstein cow owned by A.
W. Morris & Sons, of Woodland, Cal.,
in a test conducted under the super
vision of the University of California
It was announced Saturday.
The cow yielded 1331.41 pounds
of butter in 365 days, 1167.96
pounds of butter in 305 days, and
2426.51 pounds of butter in two
years. In each instance the records
displace those established by Key
stone Beauty Plum Johanna, a Hol
stein owned by Stevens & Sons, of
Pennsylvania, it was contended.
Aagie Acme’s milk production in
605 days was 22,092.8 pounds.
The teacher and pupils of New
Valley school will hold a “raTellng’*
social in the school building on Dec.
4. If stormy, the next fair evening.
Ladies are requested to bring rag
balls with names inside. Ice cream,
cake and candy for sale. Proceeds
for school purposes.
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