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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
A white Thanksgiving.
Two inches of snow Tuesday night.
Miss Olive E. Jackson has been
appointed assistant at Colora public
School.
The ground was covered with
snow for the first time this winter
on Tuesday night, when fully two
Inches of the fleecy flakes fell.
Another temporary bridge has
been erected over the Little Elk
creek at Red Mill, to replace the one
recently carried away by the freshet.
Sheriff-elect J. Wesley McAllister
has appointed Lew.is A. Seth, of Elk
Mills, as his Deputy, to take effect
when he enters office on December 1.
The dwelling of R. B. Merritt, Sr.,
af Warwick, Cecil county, was total
ly destroyed by fire on Sunday after
-noon of last week. Most of the
JMThousehold goods were saved.
* The Havre de Grace Banking and
Trust Company has secured quarters
for 800 or more persons who will be
employed permanently at the new U.
S. proving grounds, at Aberdeen.
! School Commissioner Wilmer J.
Falls of North East, has been ap
pointed a clerk in the office of the
Circuit Court for Cecil county and,
will enter upon his new duties De
cember 1.
J. Harry Knode, of Washington
county, who will succeed D. L. Kauff
man as Agricultural Agent for this
county, will enter upon his duties
' Dec. 1. Mr. Kauffman will go to
Sussex county, Del.
Lewis Powell, aged 13 years, of
Chesapeake City, while gunning, was
accidently shot by the discharge of
his own weapon while climbing over
a clump of bushes. The injured lad
was taken to a Wilmington, hospital.
Roland Lockard, aged 15 years, of;
North East, tripped and fell while
looking at his rabbit traps and a
sharp piece of the trap entered one
eye. He was taken to a Baltimore
hospital', but it is feared he will lose
the sight of hid eye.
Luigi Russ, an Italian, aged about
50 years, employed on the B. & O.
R. R„ was found dead Friday morn
ing in.’ a bunk car at Singerly. Cor
oner Litzenberg summoned a jury of
inquest. A verdict of death from
natural causes was rendered.
It is reported preparations are
being made for the establishment of
auto truck service between Oxford
Philadelphia and Oxford and
Btßaltimore. for the carrying of parcels
post matter. The proposed service
will probably be established some
time next month.
The two “yeggs,” Edward Wilson
and Joseph Martin, who were cap
tured by Sheriff Atkin, near Bel Air,
October 28, and turned over to the
Pennsylvania authorities, have been
sentenced to four years in the Atlan
ta, Ga., prison, for robbing the post
office at Roaring Springs, Pa.
The Local Draft Board has classi
fied the names of those registered in
Cecil county for service when called,
in accordance with the recent in
structions issued from Washington.
The Board is ready to select Cecil's
quota when the next call is received,
and it Is expected at almost any time
n6w.
The Elkton News reports the work
of concreting West Main street in
that town, from Mack all avenue to
9ed Mill crossing has been com
f ‘pleted. and the street will be opened
I to traffic as soon as it is dry. The
contractors are now finishing the
work of surfacing North street,
above the railroad.
T. F. Grier, real estate agent, has
sold for Wilbur and Clifford Spotts,
their farm of 88 acres, with stock,
implements and crops, to Joseph P.
Armstrong, of Ladysmith, Wiscon
sin, who will take immediate posses
sion. The farm is in Lower Oxford,
near Mt. Vernon. Spotts Bros, will
to their father's farm, near Cal
iF vert, Cecil county. v
Thanksgiving was very quietly ob
served in our town. Business was
1 practically suspended and the day
V devoted by many of our residents to
visiting, family reunions and the
popular big dinner, with turkey,
goosey duck or chicken as the piece
de resistance.
Services were held in the M. E.
church in the morning with an ap
propriate sermon by the pastor, Rev.
1. Reed.
RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY, MD., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1917.
Migs Helen Shepherd, of Wilming
ton, fs visiting home folks in Rising
Sun.
i
. Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Koons are
visiting relatives in Frederick coun
ty, Maryland.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Buffington
, visited Swarthmore relatives on
Thanksgiving.
Dr. and Mrs. T. B: Moore enter
tained J. L. Stephens and family at
i Thanksgiving dinner.
Miss Orpha C. Pyle, of West
■ Chester, is visiting her nephew,
Charles S. Pyle and wife.
H. M. Duyckinck and family are
spending the week in Talbot county,
where Mr. Duyckinck is enjoying the
gunning.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stubbs, of
Delta, were guests last week of Miss
Nann MfcCoy and sister, Mrs. Jennie
Whiteford.
J. M. Sterrett is entertaining a
jolly house party of six young ladies
and young gentlemen from Swarth
more College.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilson and
Mrs. Lucy Wilson were Thanksgiving
guests of J. M. C. Carhart and family,
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Hudders Greenfield and
daughter Jean are spending the week
with Mrs. Greenfield’s mother, Mrs.
Jennie Gillespie.
Mr. and Mrs. George Quigley and
sons, Charles and Carton, of George
town, Pa., were recent visitors of Mr.
Ferree Johnson and family.
Edwin Haines, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
L. Haines and Miss Elizabeth , R.
Stephens spent Thanksgiving with
Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Micheals, Media.
- Charles C. Vansant, Of Wilming
ton, and Mrs. Josephine C. Bouchelle,
of North East, were married in Elk
ton last week by the Rev. George P.
Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Ewing, of
Fourth district, announce the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Reba Ewing, to Joseph ScarboroughT
of Chester, Pa., on Thanksgiving
Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Cameron
had as recent guests at their home
on South Queep street, Dr. and Mrs.
Lithgow and son, of Chester, Bright
A. Zimmerman and sister Mrs. Ida
Lauder and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. West, of
Orangeville, Md., former residents
of near Rowlandville, visited friends
in Cecil cbunty this week prepar
atory to leaving on Monday next for
Sabinal, Texas, for the winter, where
a brother of Mrs. West resides.
Willamina D. Ward entertained
the following young ladies Wednes
day evening to tea at 5.30 and later
to see Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
The little company were Miss
Deborah E. Sterrett, Miss Linda
Buffington, Miss Virginia Sllcer, Miss
Dorothy Ryan, Miss Elizabeth Mc-
Namee, Miss Lillian Ryan, Miss Anna
Ryan, Miss Elizabeth Cooney, Miss
Isabel Pogue. *
The Colora Branch of the Needle
work Guild of America will hold an
entertainment and spelling bee in
West Nottingham chapel Friday eve
ning, Dec. 7. Admission 10 cents.
Refreshments and fancy articles for
sale.
A valuably horse belonging to T.
Morgan Owens, of Perryville, slipped
on the greasy planks approaching
the Havre de Grace end of the Sus
quehanna bridge, and . fell. The
animal was so badly injured that it
died in a few minutes.
The Inter-State Milk Producers
Association will hold their annual
meeting on Monday, Dec. 3, 1917, at
10 a. m.. Bourse Building, Philadel
phia, Pa. All members are request
ed to attend in person or proxy, as
this is a very important meeting.
Milo D. Campbell, president Na
tional Milk Producers Federation,
will address the meeting.
Commissions have been awarded
to 160 Marylander’s at the Second
Officers Training Camp, Ft. Myer.
Among the number are Thomas M.
Garrett, of Elkton, and John S.
Strahorn, of Annapolis, formerly of
this county, both of whom have be
come First Lieutenants. Two weeks
ago 48 were commissioned for
special duties, among whom was
Lieut. Raynor Garey, of North East.
WEDDINGS.
EstUl—■Collins.
Miss Rebecca Hope Collins, daugh
. ter of Rev. and Mrs. Vaughan S. Col
' lins, of Salisbury, formerly of Port
Deposit, and John Dice Estill, of
West Virginia, were married at the
bride’s home at 10.30 o’clock Satur
day morning, Nov. 17. The wedding
. had been set for February 7th, 1918,
) the anniversary of the wedding of
the bride’s parents, but as the groom
decided to enlist in the service of
“Uncle Sam”'immediately the wed
g ding date was set for Saturday.
Because of the short notice and the
war conditions very few friends were
e notified. The marriage was perform
ed in the parlor of the Salisbury dis
trict parsonage, the bride’s father
n performing the ceremony,
a Wooleyhan—Griffith.
Mr. James Carroll Wooleyhan, son
of the late James A. Wooleyhan and
~ Mrs. Wooleyhan, of near Chesapeake j
City, and Miss Isabel Moreland I
Griffith, youngest daughter of Mr.
t and Mrs. Charles Griffith, were quiet
, ly married at the home of the bride’s
parents in Cecilton, Friday after
j noon, Nov. 16, by Rev. J. L. Pretty
man.
They will make their home in
Wheeling, West Va., where the
groom has a position with the Whit
f aker Iron Company.
3 Brooks—Hilton.
i Mr. William C. Brooks and Miss
Emily Hazel Hilton, daughter of Mr.
t and Mrs. Charles S. Hilton, of Balti
-3 more, and a niece of Mrs. Clarence
. C. Strickland, of Elkton, were Car
ried Nov. 17, at the home of the
bride’s parents. West Forest Park,
* Baltimore. They were attended by
: Mr. Roland Brooks, a brother of the
> groom, and Mis? Gladys Hilton, a
sister of the bride.
1 Otley—Ewing.
: Mr. J. Wssley Ewing, of Blake,
. announces the marriage of his
daughter, Mazie E., to Mr. Willem S.
Otley, of Philadelphia, on Wednes
day, November 14, in Media, by Dr.
S. H. Leeper. After December 1
■ they will receive their friends at
their recently purchased home 6617
i Springfield Avenue, West Philadel
. phia.
i Riley—McClune.
Glenn C. Riley, of Rising Sun, and
Miss Miriam E. Y. McClune, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McClune,
[ of near Collins, Colerain township,
Pa., were married Thursday, Nov.
22, by Rev. Dunkle, of the Lancaster
Avenue M. E. church, in Lancaster.
Robinson—Denny.*
i Miss Ada M. Denny, daughter of
[ Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Denny, of
* Elkton, and Mr. Walter R. Robin
: son, of Newark, Del., were quietly
married Nov. 16, by Rev. E. P. Rob
( erts, pastor of Newark M. E. Church,
j Murphy—Worthington.
Mr. Joseph Murphy and Miss Pearl
! Worthington, both of Colora, were
married on Wednesday evening, Nov.
27, in Mt. Pleasant Pafsonage by
Rev. O. E. James.
* — .
1 Arrested For Theft Of Hay and Corn.
' George Harvey Hollett, a young
. white man who recently moved from
( Wilmington to a small tenant house
' near Appleton, Cecil county, was ar
rested last week charged with steal
l ing hay and corn from farmers in
• that neighborhood.
The accused drew a revolver on
the Sheriff and his Deputy, but was ,
1 disarmed by Deputy McAllister be
-1 fore he could use the weapon. Hol
-1 lett refused to make a statement, but
• his wife admitted helping him steal
■ corn from the field of Paul Peterson.
1 Both the man and woman are held
at the jail for a hearing.
When Hollett was arrested he had
a large bunch of keys in his posses
sion, and in the attic at his home the
officers found 14 bales of hay and
straw, which had been stolen from
\ the field of Elwood Zebley, and 60 ;
baskets of corn stolen from the field
of Paul Peterson. The accused had
, only been living in the house a few
weeks.
,
Alien Enemy Arrested.
1 After a three days’ hunt by the
; United States Marshal, Robert Stetn
huebler, an alien enemy, who was
. found at work on the Aberdeen
[ Proving Grounds, was arrested and 1
. taken to Baltimore. He was work
| ing under an assumed name. His
home is at Blythedale,-and he is said
, to be the son of a wealthy German
landowner and a man of education
and refinement. Suspicion was direct- ;
ed toward him when he disappeared
from his home and all trace of him i
was apparently lost. When the au- :
1 thorities found him working at the ,
■ proving ground under an assumed
name and in the capacity of laborer |
they concluded that he was there for ,
no good reason.
■ 9 1
Dr. Watt, District Supt., will
i preach at Mt. Pleasant M. E. church
on Sunday evening, Dec. 2, at 7:30
o’clock. After preaching the third •
Quarterly Conference will be held.
ORGANIZED FOR WORK.
Three District Conventions Of County
- Sunday School Association
t' Held ’
f Three District Conventions of the
3 Cecil County Sunday School Asso
- elation, were held November 21, 22,
; 23 at Bay View, Cherry Hill and
, Chesapeake City. The attendance
t was not as full as we had hoped for,
i but those who were present were
t very milch in earnest, and ready to
- carry back to their schools a report
. of the most helpful and inspiring
: addresses and discussions on Sunday
> school work. We believe much good
- will be the result.
District organizations were effect
’ ed, officers of which follow:
Central Section, 6th and 9th Elec
tion Districts'.
President, Rev. B. A. Matzen, Zion;
Sesretary, Mr. Harry S. Triihble, Bay
View; Elementary Supt., Miss Minnie
H. Carhart, Zion; Teacher Training,
Rev. L. E. Haddaway, Bay View;
Home Dept., Mrs. William Murray,
Zion.
North Eastern Section, 3rd and 4th
Election Districts.
President, Mr. E. H. Gallaher, Big
Elk; Vice Pres., Mr. Harry N. John
son, St. Johns’; Secretary, Mr.
Joseph R. Grant, Cherry Hill;
Elementary Supt., Mrs. Harvey
Mackey, Moore’s Chapel; Seconday,
Mrs. Anna R. Campbell, Cherry Hill;
Adult, Mr. Edward Todd, Baldwin
Chapel; Teacher Training, Mr. Cole,
Rock; Home Dept., Mrs. L. T. R.
Ward, Cherry Hill.
Southern Section, Ist and 2nd
Election Districts.
President, Mrs. M. D. Nutter,
Chesapeake City; Vice Pres., Mr.
Leroy Allen, Chesapeake City; Secre
tary, Mrs. Rena E. Berswanger,
Chesapeake City; Elementary Supt.,
Mrs. Addie Arrants, Chesapeake
City; Secondary, Mrs. John Hudson,
Chesapeake City; Adult, Rev. M. D.
Nutter, Chesapeake City; Teacher
Training, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Banks,
Chesapeake City; Home Dept., Mrs.
Louisa Briston, Chesapeake City.
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New Draft Regulations.
New regulations under which the
remaining availables of the nine mil
lion men registered for military duty
will be called for service were an
nounced by Provost Marshal-General
Crowder.
The regulations are coincident
with the division of eligibles into
five classes and the circulation of
the official questionaries discussed in
previous announcements. ...
The new regulations repeal all pre
ceding regulations, cancel all exemp
tions and discharges granted under
the old system, and restore every
registered man to his original status.
He will have to undergo all examina
tions anew and present his claims for
exemption again.
As the new classifications . make
more liberal provision for leaving
men with dependants in the classes
to be called last, it is virtually cer
tain every man who had a legitimate
exemption on the ground of depend
ency under the old regulations will
receive the same status under the
new rules.
The first class, which embraces
men wholly without dependents, is
expected to bring in 2,000,000 men. j ;
C. & P. Telephone Company Hearing. ,
The Public Service Commission
has set the sth day of December for
a hearing in the matter of the ap- ,
plication of the C. & P. Telephone (
Company for an indefinite postpone
ment of hearings on its proposed
new schedule of rates. The Tele
phone Company desire that the rate
schedule be not taken up until after
the war when business conditions
will have become normal. ,
- ,
Endowment For Wesley Collegiate j
Institute. j 3
A campaign among the Methodist ,
Churches of the Wilmington M. E. .
Conference to raise a fund of $2lO,- (
000 for endowment of the Wesley (
Collegiate Institute at Dover, Del., (
has been successfully launched. (
Every Methodist denomination is
represented and the money will be
raised by December 20, when the
campaign is closed. i
* j
Sylmar Road Closed. I
Work on the Rising Sun-Sylmar i
road has been suspended for the ;
winter. About three-quarters of a i
mile of concrete was laid when ma- 1
terial gave out and it was impossible
to get more stone and cement. The
road has been closed to travel by
order of the State Roads Commission 1
until Dec. 20, 1917, so that the .last 1
section of concrete laid will be thor- t
oughly set before subjected to traffic, i
Any one violating the order of the 1
Commission will be prosecuted. t
*
Rev. H. Framer Smith, of Elsmere,
Delaware, will preach at West Not- f
tingham Presbyterian Church on '
Sunday, Dec. 2, 1917. , <
DEATHS.
y Mrs. Emma Ewing.
Mrs. Emma Ewing, widow of the
late Edwin E. Ewing, died suddenly
of heart -trouble, on Saturday, Nov.
B 24, at her home in Rising Sun, Md.,
in the 76th year of her age. She Ife
survived by three sons, Cecil E. and
j Evans E. of Rising Sun and Halus,
a of Philadelphia. *■
Mrs. Ewing was a daughter of the
’ late Andrew McMurphy, and was
j born near Odessa, Del. On-account
£ of the early death of her mother, the
, greater portion of Mrs. Ewing’s girl
) hood days were spent with her
I maternal uncle, Benj. F. May, in
Elkton, Md. She was married in
. 1865 to Edwin E. Ewing, at that
time Editor of the Cecil Whig, and
they resided in Elkton until 1876,
when they removed to Topeka, Kas.
After several years’ residence in the
west, the family moved to High
lands, N. C. and later back to Rising
1 Sun, Cecil county, Md., in 1885,
1 where she was residing with her son
Evans at the time of her death, her
husband’s demise having occurred in
1901.
Her funeral was held on Tuesday,
Nov. 27, with interment at West
Nottingham cemetery.
RobertW. Tunstall.
Professor Robert Williamson Tun
stall, for the past 16 years teacher of
Latin and foreign languages at Tome
School *for Boys, Port Deposit, died
of pneumonia on Tuesday night, Nov.
20. The body was taken to Norfolk.
Va., for burial.
Professor Tunstall was born at
Norfolk, December 18, 1851. He
was the son of Robert Baylor ’Tun
stall, and a brother of Richard Bay
lor Tunstall. He was graduated from
the University of Virginia in 1874.
September 3, 1901, he was married
to Isabel Mcßoberts, of Washington.
From 1874 to 1878 he wa: private
secretary to the late Andrew Reid,
of Baltimore, and for two or three
years while serving in that capacity,
was a member of the local staff of
The Baltimore American. From 1,878
to 1882 he taught in various schools
in the South, and was principal pf
the Norfolk (Va.) Academy from
1882 to 1900. He was a member o\*
the Phi Beta Kappa and of the)
Protestant Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Jacob W. Bird.
Mrs. Mary Wilson Bird, wife of
Dr. Jacob W. Bird, died Nov. 18 at
their home at Sandy Spring, Mont
gomery county, Md., after a brief
Illness of pleuro-pneumonia, aged 33
years.
The deceased was the daughter of
the late John E. Wilson, of Elkton.
She is survived by her husband and
three little childern, also by her
mother, Mrs. Hannah Wilson, who
resided with her; three sisters, Mrs.
Warren J. Haines, of near Elkton;
Misses Bertha and Hannah Wilson,
of Philadelphia, and five brothers,
Prof. Winter L. Wilson, of Lehigh
University; John E. Wilson, Esq.,
Everett 8., Harry and Frederick
Wilson.
Mrs. J. Walter Jackson.
Mrs. Elizabeth E. Jackson, wife of
J. Walter Jackson, formerly of Char
i lestown, died at her home in Wil
! mington, Del., on* Nov. 22, after a
I short illness, aged 52 years. Be
sides her husband she is survived by
three sons and one daughter, viz.,
Walter, Price and Bayard, of Wil
mington, and Mrse Smith, of Charles
town. Funeral was held Sunday
afternoon, at her late home 108 E.
24th St., Wilmington; interment at
Riverview Cemetery.
P. Barry Moore.
P. Barry Moore, a son of the late
Michael and Martha J. Moore, form
erly of Principio Furnace, died Nov.
15, at Concordia, Kansas, where he
had been located for a number of
years. He is survived by his wife,
also by four sisters and two brothers i
—Mrs. A. B. Schhader, of Mount
Carmel, Pa.; Mrs. A. H. Leighty, of
Carney’s Point, N. J.; Margaret K.,
Cecelia, Joseph H. and Leo M. Moore, ■
of Havre de Grace.
Miss Emma Weaver.
Miss Emma Weaver, daughter of
the late Charles Weaver, died at the
home of her sister, Mrs. W. A. i
Cameron, North East, on the 19th
inst., of heart trouble,'* in the 45th
year of her age. The interment was
at the Methodist cemetery, North ,
East. , i
■ ■—— i
Charles Oliver. t
Charles Oliver died Nov. 21 at the i
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ]
William E. Oliver, in Elkton, after ;
a long illness of kidney trouble. He ]
was 27 years of age and is survived ;
by his wife, his- parents, a sister and <
two brothers.
An interesting revival is in pro- i
gress at Mt. Pleasant M. E. church. <
The meeting will continue over Sun- <
day evening. 1
PENINSULA HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
e Meeting In January To Be Addressed
y .*
By Several Distinguished
’ Speakers.
s
j Governor Harrington, of Maryland,
and Governor Townsend, of Dela
ware, will be among the speakers
3 who will address the meeting of the
3 Peninsula Horticultural Society at
t Cambridge, Md., on January 8, 9 and
, 10, 1918. Dr. William Frear, of
. Pennsylvania, Samuel Fraser, of
p New York, Howard W. Selby, of
i near Philadelphia, Horace Roberts,
, nf New Jersey, and Prof. T. C. John
. ion, Director of the Virginia Truck
I Experiment Station, all experts in
their lines and all fine speakers will
be present. Besides these the men.
, who have done so much for the Hor
. ticulture of the Peninsula by their
work at the Experiment Stations of
Delaware and Maryland will be pres
ent to read papers and give advice
towards solving the problems that
our farmers find confronting them
at this time. Besides these speakers
there will be many of our best
farmers on the program.
The premium list is liberal, especi
ally in the prizes offered for apples
and all kinds of vegetables. All of
our readers who are interested
should send to Wesley Webb, Dover,
Delaware, and get a copy of the list
tree of charge.
Tolin W. Barnes Fatally Injured By
Auto.
This community was greatly shock
ed to learn of the death of John
Wesley Barnes, on Friday, Nov. 23,
in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Mr. Barnes, who was a native of
this section and had conducted a
boarding house in our town for
twenty-five years past, had but re
cently disposed of his household
goods at public sale and left Rising
Sun on November 5 for Greensboro,
where he expected to make his home
with his son, Samuel H. Barnes.
It appears Mr. Barnes was cross
ing a street in Greensboro about
dusk on the evening of Thursday,
Nov. 22, and stepped directly In
front of an auto which, on account
of his partial deafness and the dark
ness, he failed to hear or see.
tl a machine was running slowly but
3truck the unfortunate man with
sufficient force to knock him down.
He was helped up by the young man
who had driven the auto, and ap
parently was not hurt much, other
than severe braises on the hip and
elbow, and was to walk to his
home, the young mm accompanying
him and securing medical aid.
Some time later his ,-on, Samuel
H. Barnes, returned to the house and
it was while telling of the accident
that Mr. Barnes lapsed into uncon
sciousness and did not rally, remain
ing in a state of coma until he passtd
luietly away on Sunday morning,
Nov. 25. In falling Mr. Barnes had
evidently struck the back of his
head on the street with such force
as to cause the rupture of a blood
/essel at the base of the brain, death
inally resulting.
The deceased was a son of the late
John Barnes and was born 73 years
ago on the old homestead near town,
at present owned by H. L. Glack
m. His wife, who was Miss Ida
3uckley, daughter of Mrs. Belle and
he late John W. Buckley, of this
town, has been dead some years.
One son survives, Samuel H. Barnes,
of Greensboro, N. C.
The body was brought to Rising
Sun on Tuesday afternoon and
funeral services held on Wednesday
afternoon in the M. E. church. In
erment was made in West Notting
ham Presbyterian cemetery.
* :
New Sheriff Files Bond.
J. Wesley McAllister, Sheriff-elect, ■
has filed his bond for $25,000, signed
by J. Groome Steele, Henry Vinslng
or, W. D. Bratton, Emerson R.
Crothers, Fred H. Leffler and E.
Kirk Brown as sureties. Mr. Mc-
Allister will move to the Jail prop
erty this week and assume his duties
Dec. 1.
Retiring Sheriff Richard K. Barnes
will return to Carlestown with his
family and resume his store business.
It is said Mr. McAllister is the first
man to be elected Sheriff of Cecil
county for a second term.
' *
The Tolchester Company has pur
chased from Sevenson A. Williams
and heirs, the wharf property above
the bridge, in Havre de Grace, now
occupied by Silver, Spencer ft Co.,
and will use the same for the steam
boat landing after the first of the
year, 1918. The new owners are re
pairing the old wharf, driving.new
piles and putting it in first-class
condition.
*
Twelve public schools will be
closed in Harford county, as a result
of the Federal Government taking
over the southern end of that county
for army proving ground*.
A’O. 1.5.