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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
The issuing of the new motor
licensee for 1918 has begun.
Governor Townsend has appointed
Robert E. Shilling Superintendent of
public schools in Kent County.
Miss Mary A. Ford, of North East,
has been appointed as principal of
the Sandy Hill school, at Spade,
Nebraska.
Farmers around Perryman, Har
ford county, and the Proving
Grounds are paying 75 cents a barrel
to husk corn.
Rev. A. Burtis Hallock of Bel Air,
Maryland, will preach at West Not
tingham Church on Sunday, Decem
ber 9th, 1917.
The postofflce at Aberdeen has
doubled its business in the past four
weeks and if it continues it will be
necessary to have another clerk.
Major H. Arthur Mitchell, of Elk-
H ton, has been promoted, being taken
| from his Regiment and placed in
f command of the 113th Field llos
- pital.
The Slater saw mill outfit has been
set up on the Alexander Briscoe
farm, near town, where the wood
leave has been purchased and will
be cut.
Thrown from the buggy Miss
Rosa Montgomery, of near Colora,
suffered a broken shoulder blade and
Miss Grace Hines sundry bad bruises
about- the face and head.
A number Of boys of Cecilton and
locality have oragni'zed the “Cecilton
Corn Club," for the coming- year
with George H. Padley, president,
and James Black, secretary.
The Skirving farm, containing 23
acres, situated in the Sixth district,
has been bought by Addison B.
Freeman, from James F. Evans,
assignee, of Elkton, for SI,OOO.
While holding a pig to be butcher
ed Norman J. Cashell, of near Iron
Hill, was bitten by the animal, the
end of his left thumb being com
pletely severed at the first joint.
Seized with an attack of vertigo,
Mrs. Howard B. Pierce, of Coates
ville, formerly of Colora, fell against
a window and received a badly
lacerated arm by shattered glass.
Palmer Tatman and Leslie Bris
tow have purchased a tract of land
adjoining the camp ground, near
Chesapeake City, from Carroll
Wooleyhan, and will begin the erec
tion of dwellings.
first seagoing barge built by
/the Deibert Brothers of Elkton at
their boat yeard at Havre de Grace
was launched Saturday afternoon,
Nov. 24. It was named Northern
No. 14, Wilmington, Del.
The commissions of Irvin G.
Griffith and George R. Ewing, com
missioners-elect, arrived at the
office of the Clerk of the Court, last
week. The Board will organize on
Tuesday, December 11.
Arrangements are being made for
the reopening of the chrome pits
near Rock Springs. These pits are
located on the West and Wood prop
erties, and have been closed for 3G
years by court litigation.
After a brief illness of compli
l cation of diseases, George W. Mil-
I burn, one of Elkton’s most respected
m colored men, died at his home Sun
■ day morning, Nov. 2 S', aged 74 years.
He was a veteran of the Civil War
Hand is survived by his wife, one son
H and daughter.
The Maryland State Roads Com
mission has prepared a bill to be
presented to the General Assembly
when it convenes in January, asking
for an appropriation of $500,000 to
construct unfinished gaps in -the
State highways through incorporated
towns and cities.
The large two-story brick mill
* building in Elkton, owned by the
i V Elkton Developing Company, and
[ l for Several years leased by the Dei-
Manufacturing Company, and
Hoperated as a textile mill, has been
T leased, by the A. J. Reach Company,
I of Philadelphia, which will manu
-1 facture sporting goods at the plant.
V A revision of the Liberty Loan
subscriptions, made by the Maryland
Committee, shows that in the First
Loan, Issued in June, Cecil County
stood first on the Eastern Shore and
1| sixth in the State, and in the Second
jP Loan, issued in October, second on
r* the Eastern Shore and seventh in the
State.
RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY, MD., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1917.
The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. {
Claude Buck Saturday, and left a {
fine boy. {
W. P. B. Lockwood, of Amherst, 1
Mass., was a Rising Sun visitor 1
during the week. .
C. E. Dare and ‘family, of Rose- \
mont, Va, spent the Thanksgiving c
holiday with Dr. G. S. Dare and i
family. (
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. West, of
Sylmar, left on Tuesday for Braden- g
town, Florida, where they will spend
the winter months.
Miss Bertha Tyson and Mrs. Chas.
S. Pyle represented Rising Sun W. C. r
T. U. at the National convention in t
Washington this week. f
The Five Hundred Club was very *
pleasantly entertained on Wednes- t
day evening by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. t
E. Buffington, four tables being
present to enjoy the evening. (
With a large number of invited 1
guests present, Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. (
Leonard celebrated their fortieth
wedding anniversary at their home
near Calvert, Wednesday night' of
last week. t
r
I. Irvin McMullen and Miss Elsie
R. Pearl were quietly married in c
Elkton, on Saturday, Mr. J. Clarence t
Mackee acting as witness. The bride g
and groom journeyed on to Balti- g
more for a short stay. t
Miss Reba S. Ewing of Lewisville, 3
Pa., and Joses W. Scarborough of a
Chester, Pa., were married at the s
home of the bride’s brother-in-law, 1
Joseph Lort, Elkton, on Thursday, '
November 29, by Rev. J. A. Brew-
ington, the bride’s pastor, officiating. c
Miss L. Virginia Brown, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Webster 'Brown,
Calvert, was united in marriage to
William D. Irwin, son of Mr. and ;
Mrs. Norris B. Irwin, Lombard, by
the bride’s pastor, Rev. J. C. McCoy, j
at Zion M. E. parsonage on Satur-
day evening, Dec. 1. j
A pro re nata meeting of the i
Presbytery of New Castle was held
at Newark, Del., Thursday, Decern- <
ber 6, at 2 p. m., to take action upon 1
the request of Rev. Thomas Kerr for 1
a transfer from the Buckingham 1
Presbyterian Church at Berlin, Md. 1
]
Dean Winifred J. Robinson of j
Woman’s College, Newark, Del., has
accepted an invitation to be one of
the advisory committee of the Land
Service Commission of the Women’s
■ National Farm and Garden Agso- i
ciation. It is proposed that the
> Women’s College of Delaware take 1
an active part in training women for i
work on farms and gardens.
All fire insurance companies have ]
, increased their rates ten per cent, on
account of the war taxes and the '
L general increase in the cost of tran
sacting business. 1
r The business men of Galena, Kent
> county, have organized a company
3 for the purpose of installing an elec
- trie light plant in the town thus do
i ing away with the old-time coal'oil
lamps.
At a recent meeting of the Board
" of Trustees of Delaware College, the 1
l reccommendation of the committee
" on instruction was adopted changing
• the day of .folding the commence
r ment exercises from Wednesday to
1 Monday, and also the tuition on non
resident students from $25 to SSO a
_ year, beginning September, 1918.
0 A rural mail-carrier, Milford
*' Walker, 35 years old, of Fallston,
’ Harford county, was arrested last
0 week by Postoffice Inspector William
0 J. Dixon and United States Deputy
1 Marshal Manner, and “charged with
stealing registered letters from the
1 mails. The authorities stated that
e more than a score of charges had
been chalked up against him and a
" dozen witnesses had been procured,
d
a Th 6 shortage of sugar in Sussex
'• county has recently been relieved by
- the distribution, by the John G.
-• Townsend Canning Company, of
n several barrels of sugar left after
d the preserving season, to those em
it ployed at the factory.
y Local residents, while not able to
d obtain the commodity in large
d ; quantities, manage to get enough to
n supply their immediate wants. Sev
e eral hundreds of pounds were dis
posed of by the company.^—Ex.
A DEADLY PLAYTHING.
Colored Lad Loses Life By Discharge
Of Rifle.
While several negro boys were ex
aming a rifle in Cecllton, Sunday
afternoon, Nov. 24, James Cooper,
aged about 16 years, was shot in the
head by Charles Garrison, Jr., also
about the same age. The wounded
boy died in a very short time. The
rifle had been borrowed from a
neighbor, and Garrison pointed it at
the other boys several times, and
finally it was discharged with fatal
results. The boys had all been
playing together and were friends.
It is alleged, the Garrison boy is not
mentally bright.
Coroner H. D. Litzenberg held an
inquest, and the jury rendered a
verdict that Cooper came to his
death as the result of gunshot
wound in head by hands of Charles
Garrison, Jr.
State’s Attorney Clayton has or
dered the arrest of Garrison pending
a full investigation.
Legal Advisory. Board.
Governor Harrington has an
nounced the appointment of mem
bers of the Legal Advisory Boards
for the four Legislative districts of
Baltimore city and the several coun
ties of the State, to assist the mili
tary draft boards in connection with
the second draft for the new Na
tional Army. The committee for
Cecil County is composed of William
T. Warburton, chairman; Omar D.
Crothers and Henry L. Constable.
♦>
, Delaware Banks To Merge.
Stockholders of the Citizens’ Na
tional Bank of Middletown, have
received letters from the Delaware
Trust Company, of Wilmington,
offering the choice of two proposi
tions. The first, to buy outright the
stock of the bank, par value SSO per
share, at $137 per share; the second,
to give a share of the new stock and
$37.50 in cash for two shares of the
stock in the bank, as part of the
arrangements about to be completed
under which the Middletown bank
would be merged with the Delaware
Trust Company and become a branch
of that institution.
Ewing—Hilaman.
At the parsonage of the M. P.
Church, Bayview, Md., Wednesday,
Nov. 28th, Miss Mabel Alice Hila
man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Hilaman, Chrome, and Mr.
Leon Vansant Ewing, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Ewing, Blake, were quietly
married by Rev. E. L. Hadiway.
They were attended by Miss Lenna
Crowl, of Philadelphia, and Herbert
Ewing, brother of the groom. The
bride wore a brown travelling suit
with hat to match. The honeymoon
was spent in Washington. They will
make their home at Blake, where
Mr. Ewing is engaged in farming.
*
Congregational Meeting.
Rev. B. A. Matzen of Zion was the
minister in charge of the service at
West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church on Thanksgiving Day. His
address was most appropriate to the
occasion. Following the service the
annual Congregational meeting was
held as usual. Reports were received
from the President of the Board of
Trustees and from the Treasurers of
the various organizations of the
Church.
The election of Trustees for the
year 1918 resulted in the choice of
the following: M. E. Flounders, Dr.
Ernest Rowland, W. N. 'Wilson, Isaac
Yocum, T. Calvin Riley, Robert T.
Cameron, Ell T. Reynolds, *T. N.
Hite and Jos. T. Richards, Jr.
*
The Centennial Of The Easton
Gazette. •
The Easton Gazette will celebrate
its one hundredth anniversary the
fifteenth of this month. It is the
oldest paper on the Eastern Shore.
There were papers established before
the Gazette but they are not in exist
ence today. The Republican Star,
for instance, was established in 1799
and was discontinued in 1832. Its
name was later revived but the new
Star was consolidated with the
Democrat, a more recent publication,
and has since been known as the
Star-Democrat.
But the publication of the Gazette
has been continuous, and were we to
add the eight years previous to 1817
that the paper existed as the People’s
Monitor, we could claim 108 years
as the age of the Gazette. But when
Alexander Graham purchased the
People’s Monitor in 1817 he changed
the name of the paper to the Easton
Gazette and Eastern Shore Intelli
gencer, issuing the first number De
cember 16, 1817, with the folio Vol.
1, No. 1. In a few years Mr. Gra
ham dropped the Eastern Shore In
telligencer tail to the paper’s name
and continued it ' simply as the
Easton Gazette. —Easton Gazette.
FREIGHT WRECK ON B. & O,
Fifteen Freight Cars Derailed and
Smashed.
Shortly after 3 o’clock Monday
morning one of the most serious
freight wrecks on the Philadelphia
Division of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in recent years, occurred
near Harmony Station,- about six
miles north of Elkton. Fifteen
freight cars were derailed and
smashed, and both main tracks
blocked for several hours. All traf
fic over the Baltimore and Ohio
lines had to be diverted to the line of
the Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Railroad from Perry
ville. The train was coming north
when an arch bar on one of the for
ward cars broke as it was passing
Harmony Station. This dropped and
derailed the car. When the car
left the tracks it dragged 14 other
cars with it.
DEATHS.
Mrs. A. C. McCurdy.
Mrs. Abbie McCurdy, wife of Dr.
A. C. McCurdy, died suddenly at her
home at Towson, Md., on Monday
evening, from heart trouble, aged
GO years. She is survived by her
husband.
Edward Mulherin.
Edward Mulherin, probably the
oldest person in this section of Cecil j
county died Wednesday morning at
the home of his daughter, Mrs.
James Shea, near Rising Sun. The
deceased was in the 97 th year of his
age. He was a native of Ireland,
but came to this country early in
life.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyson.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyson, widow of
the late William M. Tyson, died at
the home of her son, William T.
Tyson, at Singerly, Tuesday, Nov.
27, aged 87 years. She is survived
by three children, William T.,
Amanda and Emma J. at home. The
funeral was held Nov. 30, with in
terment in Cherry Hill M. E. ceme
tery.
James T. Woodrow.
James T. Woodrow died Nov. 30
at the home of his son-in-law, John
Atkinson,- Porter’s Bridge, from the
effects of a paralytic stroke he sus
tained a few days prior to his death,
aged 78 years. His parents were
Josiah and Catharine Hilton Wood
row, who were residents of Cecil
cou.ity. The deceased is the last of
a family f eleven children. He is
survived his wife, one son and a
daughter, Mrs. John Atkinson, Por
ter’s Bridge; Howard Woodrow,
Pilottown, and a stepson, Richard
White, near Rowlandville.
Mrs, Catherine E. Alexander.
Mrs. Catherine E. Alexander,
widow of 'the late William Henry
Alexander, died Nov. 24 in North
East, at the home of her son-in-law,
Andrew Meekins, in the 71st year of
her age. Death was hastened by a
frsfetured arm sustained several
weeks ago. She is survived by the
following children: John and Eli of
North East, and James and William,
of Wilmington, Mrs. Andrew
Meekins and Mrs. Charles Reynolds,
of North East, Mrs. Victoria Owens
, and Mrs. Wallace Reynolds, of Per
ry ville, and Mrs. Jennie. Interment
was made in North East M. E. ceme
, tery.
Mrs. Minerva A. Dean.
Mrs. Minerva Anne Dean, widow
of the late Israel R. Dean, died sud
denly from a parlytic stroke about
8 o’clock on the morning of Thanks
giving Day, at her home in North
East. Only a few minutes before
i being stricken, she was ednversing
with members of the family, ap
i parently as well as usual. Mrs. Dean
i was a daughter of the late illiam
, Scotten, for many years manager of
the McCullough Iron Works at
i North East, and was in the 76th
. year of her age. She is survived by
three sons and three daughters: Rev.
I John H. Dean, and Joel H. Dean, of
i North EaSt, and William S. Dean, of
r Baltimore; Mrs. S. S. Boyd, of
s Coatesville, Pa., and Mrs. S. S. Biles
, and Mrs. Walter J. Hall, of North
s East. One brother, Samuel Scotten,
of Wilmington, also survives her.
s Interment was made Sunday at
> Cherry Hill.
r
s Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea
> To win the war 'gainst Germany; ,
i He’s in the fight for liberty,
3 Brave Bobby Shafto!
1
Christmas Seals will help to care
- For his health while he is there; *
- Don’t forget to do your share
• For Brave Bobby Shafto!
It will pay you to make an early
a inspection of our Novelties, and
a Special Hate for Christmas gifts.
McCOY’S, Rising Sun, Md.
MEETING OF CECIL FARMERS’ CLUB.
The Farm Tractor Discussed From Practical First
Hand Knowledge.
The Cecil Farmers’ Club met on
the 21st of Nov. with I. Wayne
; Reynolds on their beautiful old
homestead north of Rising Sun, Md.
President John H. Kimble called
> the meeting to order near the usual
time, and the following members
responded at roll call—J. H. Kimble,
I. Wayne Reynolds, J. S. Cullen, Jas.
H. Maxwell, Wm. R. Cameron, Robt.
T. Cameron, M. L. Thompson, Jos.
T. Grove, M. C. Reeder, C. R. Biles,
J. Harry Maxwell, C. Canby Balder
ston, Elwood Balderston, Reuben
Reynolds, A. H. Mendennall.
Among the visitors was the new
County Agent, Knobe, graduate Md.
College of Agriculture; Wm. King,
Lancaster county, Pa.; Dr. E. Row
land, Liberty Grove, and William
Reynolds, Rising Sun.
The Secy, read the minutes of the
previous meeting which were ap
proved.
Experiments being asked for by
the President, Elwood Balderston
reported that they had found the
10-20 tractor purchased in the early
| summer, fully equal to the .claims
made for it, doing excellent and
rapid work in all kinds of plowing
and harrowing. Had plowed some
thirty-five acres of wheat ground
this fall, twenty-five of which was
sweet corn ground,—the crop had
been pulled for the cannery,—and
the stalks were turned under thor
oughly with a three-gang plow,
worked with double disc harrow and
seeded in good order, considering
the very wet season at the time of
seeding. Used it for filling the 200
ton silo, with abundant power.
Scraped roads; plowed and worked
an eight acre orchard with better
satisfaction than with teams; ran
the binder; the hay loader; plowed
and cultivated some sixty acres
during the summer,—-in fact was on
the job wherever needed, and not a
dollar’s worth of repairs during the
season.
He would not adivse the purchase
of a tractor, however, unless the
purchaser could give it his personal
attention or could give the manage
ment to one whom he knew was
thoroughly familiar and interested
i with this class of machinery, as
more machines are condemned for
want of proper care than any other
cause.
Mr. Knobe attested to this, where
a man thought he could run a half
day without sufficient oil on the
cylinders, which cost the manage
ment some $ll.OO for repairs. He
said that he ran a second tractor on
. this Virginia dairy farm, looked
after both tractors thereafter, and
had no further trouble, and recom
mended them for good and rapid
work.
A. H. Mendenhall said he had a
, splendid stand of clover. He har
rowed the wheat ground before sow
ing.
’ C. C. Balderston spoke of an in
vention that is promising to be use
j ful, to soften the hulls of clover
. seed so it will germinate better; as
usually a large percentage never
germinates owing to the hard hull
or shell on the seed.
M. O. Reeder found “home grown"
(Lancaster county) seed germinated
, much better than western seed. The
seed was sown alternately in strips
’ across the field, and the difference
' in favor of the “home grown” was
’ plainly visible from the public road.
He also had good results this sum
' mer in running a single cultivator
’ once in the row through a portion
of his corn after it had "tasseled."
1 -
PROTEST AGAINST APPOINTMENT OP ROBERT CRAIN
t
i WHEREAS, Mr. Robert Crain, Attorney for the National Brew
' era’ Association, has been appointed a director of the War Savings
Fund Campaign for Maryland, and
! WHEREAS, This work will require the support and co-oper
t ation of the ministers, Sunday Schools and different church organi-
I zations of the state and, since there is at the present time a cam
i paign being waged in the state ai. i nation for the prohibition of
i the liquor triffic, be it therefore
, RESOLVED, That the Head tuarters Committee of the Anti-
Saloon League of Maryland, earne ,tly protest to Secretary McAdoo
t and Frank A. Vanderllp against the appointment of Mr. Crain for
the reason that he stands diametrically opposite to those upon whom
he must depend for success of the Thrift Movement as evidenced by
the fact that for a number of years Mr. Crain has been the Attorney
and recognized lobbyist of the liquor interest of the state and nation
* which today is wasting foodstuffs in the manufacture of intoxicating
liquors.
We further submit that an apeal from the Brewers' Attorney
to the children to save their pennies would not be so well received
as if it came from a business which had been fair to the childhood of
the country.
We further protest against the appointment of the Attorney of
the Brewers’ Association for this peculiar kind of work at this time.
r If you think it unfair to place the attorney and representative
1 of the brewers in a position of prestige which can be used to the ad
vantage of the saloon, write Hon. William G. McAdoo, Washington,
D. C-, and protest against the appointment of Robert Crain,
\ i
The moisture was conserved, and the
results showed in the husking.
Mr. Knobe, who succeeds D. H.
Kauffman as County Agent, prefer
red not to discuss farm problems at
this time, but gave a short account
o£ his work for three years past on
1 large dairy farm in Virginia. He
said in part:
“We used two 16-35 h. p. tractors,
one of which I managed, and we
averaged 14 acres in 10 hours. The
Grand-Detour plow was used, —four
bottom —and we could automatically
raise one or all of the bottoms at a
time, making it very convenient in
passing obstructions. Filds contain
ed 60 to 100 acres and were plowed
in lands, always turning on un-plow
ed land. Filled two silos capacity
of 400 tons ensilage. Silos were
16 jf 36 ft. and averaged 4 tons
ensilage per foot. Fed 70 head
milk cattle, ration ensilage 40 lb. per
day with 10 lbs. clover or alfalfa
hay, 1001 b. cotton seed, 100 lb. lin
seed. Cattle were usually out dur
ing day with corn fodder and straw
for roughage. '•
I. Wayne Reynolds, Reuben Reyn
olds, and John S. Cullen were ap
pointed a committee to suggest ,what
action, if any, this Club should take,
n regard to the following resolution,
that is proposed by C. Baley Littlz,
of Baltimore. *
“Be it Resolved, that the Cecil
Farmers’ Club of Cecil County ap
point a committee of three to urge
upon Congress, the Department of
Agriculture, and all Farmers Organ
izations of this country the necessity
of enacting legislation looking to
ward the standardizing and improv
ing of farm machinery in the inter
est of economy and efficiency.”
Dinner was then announced by the
hostess, Mrs. Reynolds, and Wm. R.
Cameron, J. Harry Maxwell, and A.
H. Mendenhall were appointed com
mittee on premises. On re-conven
ing after partaking of a bounteous
and well served dinner Wm. R.
Cameron on behalf of the committee
reported the corn all in the cribs, —
a fine crop some 1500 bus.; 600 bu.
oats, a nice lot of broom corn,
Plymouth Rock chickens, sir nice
shoats, five cows,—averaged $20.00
sach per month during summer; 6
steers, 500 bu. wheat threshed and
mos(sly sold, fine lot of wood ready
cut for winter.
Mr. Knobe called attention to the
meeting called at Elkton the pre
vious day to organize a Farm Loan
Association, and hoped to have a
sufficient amount of stock subscribed
within a few days to effect an organ
ization.
The valuable work of the Inter
state Milk Producers’ Association
was discussed at some length, and
the following resolution was passed
and a copy ordered to be sent to the
Association.—
Resolved, That The Cecil Farmers*
Club endorses the work of the Inter
state Milk Producers’ Association in
ts work to advance the interests of
farmers in the just values of all milk
products.
President J. H. Kimble extended
a very cordial invitation to the Club
members and their families to at
tend the National Farmers’ Congress
to be held at Jacksonville, Florida,
next November. A special train will
be run and a large delegation is de
ired, so that all farm problems will
have a square deal.
The Cecil Farmers’ Club considers
itself greatly honored in that Its
(Continued on last page.)
NO. 16.