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The Midland Journal I VOL. LX LOSE LIVES IN RAILROAD WRECK Engineer And Fireman Vic tims—Both Cecil Countians —Washout Canses Accident When the Cresent Limited, crack New York-New Orleans flyer of the Southern Railroad fell into the Ana costia river, Washington, D. C., at 3:45 on Thursday morning last, due to the collapse of a bridge, under mined by the heavy rains and flood waters, the engineer. A. H- Bryde, of Washington, a native of Woodlawn, Cecil county, and J. Harry Fay, fire man, of Perryville, lost their lives, and thirteen passengers and mem bers of the train crew were injured. A mail car and a coach were hurl ed across the tracks, and a pullman thrown into the stream and partially submerged. Four other cars hung precariously to the roadbed and two cars, off the track, swung directly over the stream, partially submerg ed, saved from toppling into the water only by the pull of the cars in front and behind. Mr. Bryde is survived by his wid ow, and four children. Mr. Fay was a son of J. H. Fay, Jr., and the late Mary Rebecca Fay, of Perryville. He had been em ployed by the Penn .ylvania railroad company for twen., -ive yea’s. He was a member of Harmony Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Port Deposit, and also of the Community Fire Com pany of Perryville. Besides his father, he leaves a widow, Mrs. Ida Wilson Fay and three children; also one sister, Mrs. Paul Patteison, 01 Perryville. His funeral was held Sunday af ternoon, with interment in West Nottingham Presbyterian cemetery. Services at the grave were in charge of the Masons. V OLD FELLOWS WILL HOLD RALLY The annual rally and parade of National Lodge. No. 27, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, will be held in Elktori on Friday, September 22. The parade will be held in the morn ing- * j Among those who have accepted invitations to be present are Gover „or Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland, and Mayor Howard W. Jackson, of Baltimore. Grand Officers from Maryland and several adjoining States will be present, and the de gree work will be by famous Wilm ington Lodges. The sister organizations, the Re bekahs, will also be present, meeting at National’s lodge room in the Ru benstone building, while the Odd Fellows meet at the Armory. The Rally is partly in honor of Grand Guardian Joseph W. Clay. Special District Deputy Grand Mas ter Gove S. Jenkins, and District Deputy Grand Master J. Howard Ash, all of whom are mem ours of National Lodge. > — FARM BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY FIRE Fire, supposed to have originated in the barnyard on the farm of Fred Brady, near Churchtown, this coun ty, tenanted by John W. Bcuchelle and brothers, resulted in the de struction of a large storage barn, the cow barn and wagon sheds, Monday evening. A lot of various kinds of farm machinery, hay and straw were also destroyed. Practically all the live stock was out in the pasture when the fire was discovered. The loss is estimated at about $4,000. <• ■ — LIEUTENANT MAYS FAINTS AF TER BEING BURIED ALIVE Surrounded by one of the largest throngs ever at Holloway Beach, Lieutenant Mays, the man who was buried alive for eight days and seven nights, was dug up Sunday after noon. So great was the crowd that extra precautions had to be taken during the digging up and all were greeted with the smiling counten ance of “Joe” as he became known to his daily visitors. Due to over haste in the process the Lieutenant fainted from dizziness shortly after coming to the surface, but after an alcohol rub and bath he began to be his former self. He lost twelve pounds during his stay beneath the surface. In all the times he has been below the surface on similar attempts, he has never found it so hot as on this occasion. He has been buried when the diggers had to overcome two feet of frost to reach —Ledger, Havre de Grace. RISING SUN CECIL COUNTY, MD., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1933 BRIEFLY NOTED HAPPENINGS Short Paragraphs Of Recent Events In Town And County Monday next, September 4, is Labor Day and a legal holiday. The public schools of the county will reopen on Wednesday next, Sep tember 6th. Wm. R. Orr, a merchant of Street, Harford county, has executed a deed of trust to Michael W. Fahey, attorn ey, of Havre de Grace. With the drawing to a close of va cation days, and the reopening of schools next week, the average small boy is not overly happy. Major Enoch B. Garey has pur chased “Oakington” farm, near Havre de Grace, belonging to the Richards estate, for $107,500. Miss Mary Gyles is hobbling about on crutches, the result of a badly sprained ankle, from a fall on the concrete steps in front of her home on Pearl street. The Elkton Chamber of Commerce has written to the State Road Com mission, favoring the elimination of the grade crossing at Singerlv, three miles north of Elkton. Mrs. Virginia Peery, of Baltimore, formerly Miss Virgania Bowers, of Havre de Grace, secured a divorce last week from her husband, John G. Perry, of Emmorton. Prof. Wright, of Lincoln Univer sity, Pa., occupied the pulpit of Ris ing Sun M. E. Church on Sunday morning, in the absence cf the pas or, Rev. A. B. Frye, who is on his vacation. A night-blooming cereus belong ing to Mrs. T. B. Moore, of this town, put forth a beautiful bloom on Sunday night. The large, waxen flower was greatly admired by a large number who called to see it. The University of Delaware will open its doors to incoming freshmen the morning of Thursday, September 21. This day is set aside as Regis tration Day. Upper classmen will register Monday, September 25, all classes to begin the following day. Miss Katharine M. Bratton of the Elkton High School Faculty, who has been attending summer school at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., for several years past, last week was awarded the degree of Master of Arts and Education by that Univer sity. ' The Harmony Memorial Association will hold their regular meeting and services in Harmony Chapel, Sunday, September 3. Bas ket lunch at noon and services at 2 o’clock. All lot holders and friends are invited to join in this annual affair. T. Morgan Owens, a prominent merchant of Perryville, met with a serious accident in front of his store on Main street in that town, on the evening of August 19, when he slipped from the running board of his auto and fell beneath the wheels of a passing truck. Both his hips and the pelvis bone were broken, and in addition his right ankle crushed. Dr. R. C. Dodson, of Rising Sun, had an experience in trying to reach Elkton, Wednesday of last week. Every highway leading to the town was submerged at some point,-cut ting off travel, and in responding to a call to the bedside of g patient in Union Hospital he made four futile attempts, finally succeeding in reach ing North East, where he boarded a Pennsylvania railroad train to Elk ton. < * JAWBONE FRACTURED IN AUTO COLLISION The Ford car of Virgil E. Davis and the Studebaker of Lester Wil son, of Rising Sun, collided Friday evening on the pike near Emmett Altland's. in Lancaster county, Pa. The Ford was badly damaged. Mr. Davis and daughter, Aleta, were on their way to Elim store when the accident occurred. Aleta was taken to Dr. Steele's office and later to the Lancaster General Hospital She received a fracture of the upper jawbone, several teeth were knocked i out and cuts received about the face which required stitches. She is still in the hospital. Mr. Davis was ; badly cut and bruised about the face 1 and has been suffering from shock. Mr. Wilson was not injured and his car was not much damaged. HAVOC BY WIND AND WATER Storm And Flood Devastate Large Area — Heavy Damage Left In Wake ===== \ It has been years since this sec tion has received the lashing from a storm as heavy as that of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. Beginning with rain Sunday night, the storm wore along Monday and Tuesday, reaching its climax Wednesday afternoon,, with heavy precipitation of rain, driven in sheets before a howling gale. Streams overflowed their banks, trees were uprooted, branches torn from them, telephone and telegraph poles snapped, wires broken, and travel over our highways so com pletely blocked that our Hotel here, as well as every tourist home in and near town taxed to their capacity to accomodate storm stayed tourists. The heavy down-pour of rain caused such a flood of water in all streams that they left their banks and inundated large areas. Highways near streams wore sub merged in places to such a depth as to stop all traffic. At Porters Bridge the Octoraro creek rose thirteen feet above normal level, and it was impossible to reach the bridge from the eastern approach, from Wednes day afternoon until about noon on Thursday. Traffic to Conowingo had to be routed byway of Port Deposit. The water was four feet deep in Dick Myrick’s road stand, and while much damage was done, neighbors and friends gave a hand and suc ceeded in moving the greater por tion of his goods to higher ground. Shedding about the premises was washed away or wrecked. The first floor of the dwelling of Henry Atkinson was also flooded to a depth of two feet, and all house hold goods had to be moved- At the lower end of Port Deposit the street and railroad were under six feet of water when the Susque hanna river left its banks. Resi dents of Port were reminded of ice gorge days. Railroad traffic over the Baltimore Central through Rising Sun was completely tied up from Thursday morning until Monday of this week, the culvert and twenty-five foot em bankment, just north of the S. M. Ward Co. warehouse, here, being washed out. The stream which pas ses under the railroad at that point is ordinarily such a small one as not to win for itself a bette*- name than the “Run,” but it was a raging torrent Wednesday afternoon and night. The stone culvert under the high embankment was not large enough to accomodate the flood of waters, which rose to a height of fifteen feet, finally undermining the dirt fill at this point, the culvert cav ing in, and a gaping hole being made, ties and railroad tracks being suspended in the air. The washout was not discovered, and when the southbound gasoline driven car reached there at six o’clock Thursday morning, it by some miracle crossed on the sus pended tracks, but the rear truck of the car left the rails ajid dragged along, splintering crossties for a CARETAKER FOUND DEAD AT CANNERY Thomas Tobin, aged 55 years, who had been employed at the Colora Cannery as caretaker since the close of the canning season last year, was found dead in his quarters at the plant on Sunday afternoon. August 20. A physician was called who stated the man had only been dead a short time before his arrival. Funeral Director J. Earl Tyson took charge of the body and prepar ed It for burial. An effort was made to locate some of his relatives in Philadelphia, but none could be found. Coroner F. Rodney Frazer,. after Investigating and learning that Tobin had been on a spree, gave a certificate of death from alcoholism. <• HOURS ADOPTED BY BARBERS ASSOCIATION George Ansalvish, of Rising Sun, secretary of the Harford-Cecil Bar ber's Association, wishes us to cor rect the statement published last week, that the hours decided upon were from 7 to 8 on week days, and from 7 to 9 on Saturdays. It should have read from 8 to 7 week days, and 8 to 9 on Saturdays, lie also states that the prices published were only discussed at the meeting and not adopted. distance of one hundred yards or more, before the car was finally thrown from the rails. The train crew and passengers es caped injury, except the conductor, who was thrown against a seat and sustained a severely bruised hip. A large force of men worked day and night, with pile driver and other equipment, from Thursday un til Monday, before the gap was bridged and train service resumed Monday evening- Piles fifty teet in length were driven for the trestle erected. Telephone and electric lires suf fered heavy damage through wires broken by falling limbs and trees, and it has been a stupendous task for large forces of repairmen to re store service to any where near nor mal. The storm and high water caused much damage to cottages and boats along the water fronts at Perryville, Havre de Grace, North East, Char lestown, Elkton, Chesapeake City and other places, and numerous bridges over streams in the county were either swept away or damaged to such an extent as to render them unsafe. The paper mill at Providence, this county, was flooded by high water and machinery and stock damaged. Operations were suspended until the water subsided and repairs made. Corn fields throughout this sec tion are a tangled mass of stalks, and our farmers have suffered heavily. The sweet corn and to mato crops were hard hit. With the canning season on and tons of corn ready to pull and bush els of ripening tomatoes ready to pick, the loss is a severe one. Peach and apple orchards also suffered greatly. Hundreds of automobiles, caught in flood waters at stream crossings, had to be abandoned and left where they were until the water subsided. The storm was general through out the eastern seaboard. The pre cipitation of rain was reported as 7.19 inches. The greater part of this fell on Wednesday, when accord ing to official records the precipita tion amounted to 4.4 inches. On Tuesday the rainfall was .65 inch, and on Monday it totaled 2.14 inches. Since August 1, more than 12 inches of rain has fallen. This is the heaviest since 1931. During August of 1931 the rainfall was 7 1-4 inches. Compared to what is referred to as the “June flood” in 1884, when this section was visited by a cloud burst, older residents who witnes sed both storms, state that of 1884 was the heaviest, as it rained then but one afternoon and night, and the Octoraro creek rose several feet higher, all bridges being swept away and the high water marks at Row landville and Porters Bridge, of that flood, were not nearly reached by that of last week. TO SPEAK AT TEMPERANCE RALLY Horace Greely Eastburn, a lawyer of Wilmington. Del., will speak In the interest of the 18th Amendment at a mass meeting, to be held in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Rising Sun, on Tuesday evening. September 5, at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Eastburn comes highly recommended as a fluent and forceful orator, and un derstanding the law is most inter esting along educational lines. The meeting is in charge of the Sixth District Committee lor the re tention of the 18 th Amendment. . The public is cordially invited. CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING Rev. and Mrs. William R. Moon of Elkton, celebrated their golden wed ding anniversary at their home on North street, in that town. Monday afternoon, August 28th. They were married in Shelby county, 111., Aug. 28, 1883. Mrs. Moon before her marriage was Miss Minnie Lee Reinbold, of that State. During their married life, Rev. Mr. Moon served various Baptist churches in the central west. About fifteen! years ago, they located in Elkton Reducing makes you thin; and also may spoil your temper. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL Items Of Social Nature Of In terest To Our Headers George Logan enjoyed a week-end visit with Paul McCoy, at Cecilton. Mrs. Carrie Cummings visited Miss Anne Witmer in Lancaster, on Sunday. Miss Jeanette Reed visited Mer chantsville, New Jersey, relatives the past week. Mrs. William Henry has been vis iting Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Lunn, of Philadelphia. Miss Mary Mosteller, of Philadel phia, is visiting her sister, Miss Helen Mosteller. Mrs. A. M. McNamee entertained the past week Mrs. [Walter Stubbs, of Lansdowne, Pa. Cecil B. Cummings and Seldon Umberger enjoyed an auto trip to Wernersville, Pa., on Sunday. Mrs. Sara H. Wagner has been enjoying a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Thompson, New York. Mrs. Clyde England and son, of Wilmington, spent the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Nields. Miss Elizabeth Tiffany, of Newark, was a visitor last week at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Louisa Brokaw and family- Miss Edna Mackey, Misses Carrie and Betty Reynolds, of Elkton, were visitors last week of Mr. and Mrs. John Mackey. Mrs. J. C. Twaddell and Mrs. Richard Weinbacker, of Devon, Pa., were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing. Mrs. Emma Cameron, Mrs. Car roll Cameron, Mrs. Mary Cherry and Miss Dorothy Cameron were Balti more visitors on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson K. Patten, of Baltimore, announce the birth of a son, August 24th, who has been named John Henry Patten. The second reunion of the Elias and Martha (Kinsey) Hambletons was held on Sunday, August 27, at Black Barren Springs Park. Mr. and Mrs- Howard N. Brickley, Miss Margaret Brickley and Mr. Howell Brickley attended the fun eral of Mrs. Brickley’s brother, Mr. Arthur H. Bryde, in Washington, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hines, of Fair Hill, have announced the engage ment of their daughter, Miss Mary Virginia Hines, to Amos Stanley, of Elkton. No date has been set for their wedding. Mrs. Mary Mahan and daughter, Mrs. Jennie Denning, of Newark, N. J., were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Wilson. Mrs. Walter Stubbs, of Lansdowne, Pa., was also a visitor at the same home the past week. , Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Miss Frances Hay Hullihen, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Hullihen, of Newark, Del., and Mr. John Augustus Woolley, son of Federal Judge and Mrs. Vic tor B. Woolley, of Wilmington. The wedding will take place in St- Thomas’ P. E. Church, Newark, at 4 o’clock on the afternoon of Fri day, September 8 th. CELEBRATES NINETY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY Mrs. Hanna Watson celebrated her 96th birthday on Saturday after noon. August 26, at the home of her son-in-law, Elmer Brown, Rising Sun. The celebration was planned as a surprise by her granddaughter, Mrs. Joseph Johnson, and Miss Mabel Reynolds. Those present to enjoy the occasion were: Miss Mabel Reynolds, Miss Mary Rey nolds, Mrs. Mollie S. Martindell, Mrs- Harvey Ewing and son, Mrs. Row land Kyle and daughters, Mrs. Les lie Rawlings, Mrs. Alfred Brown, Miss Chrisey Rink, Miss Nettie Mc- Vey, Mrs. Jos. Smith. Miss Celia Jenkins. Refreshments of cake, car.dy and ice tea were served and the guests departed wishing Mrs. Johnson more happy birthdays. ❖ Education can’t make us say bright things, but it can make us understand them. I FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL COUNTY CONVENTION Cecil County Woman’s Chris* tian Temperance Union To Meet At Rising Sun The 48th annual convention of Cecil County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will convene in Rising Sun M. E. Church on Tues day, September 5, with morning, af ternoon and evening sessions, ihe program follows: Morning Session —9:30, devotion al, Miss E. iv. Stephens: aa ~„i of welcome, Mrs. m. . ..gue; .esponse, Mrs. George McCullough; roll call; adoption of program. Fi nance Committee, Miss M. C. Jack ■on, Mrs. Scott Wilson, Mrs. Walter .mu, Mrs. Geo. M. McCullough, Mrs. toward England. Credential Com mittee, Mrs. Iva McKinney, Mrs. Sara H. Wagner. Miss Mary K. Mearns, Mrs. Robt. D. Hart. One Year’s Work, Mrs. Iva McKinney; Our Finances, Miss M. O. Jackson; Pres. Address, Miss Bertha M. Tyson. Music; Election of Officers: Direc tors Reports; Offering; Noontide Prayer, Mrs. Mary Haslup. Lunch 35 cents. Afternoon Session —>1:30 Execu tive; 2:00, Devotional, Mrs. R. C. Simpers: Minutes of morning ses sion, Mrs. Clara B. Keen; Address by Mr. Wm. M. Pogue on county work in regard to vote of Repeal Amendment; report of committees; report of directors; Music;. Offering. Address by State President, Mrs. Mary R. Haslup; Music; supper 25 cents. Evening Session —In charge of the Sixth District Committee for the re tention of the lSth amendment; De votional, Rev. A. B. Frye; special music; speaker, Hon. Horace G. Eastburn, Wilmington, Del. .;. SCHOOL OPENS WEDNESDAY School opens on Wednesday, Sep tember 6th, at 9 A. M. The teachers of the county will have their annual conference the day prior to the opening of schools, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, at Elkion. Pupils entering high school this year for the first time, are request ed to bring their transfer cards and seventh grade report cards with them on the opening day. The principal will be in his office from 9 to 12 a. m. on Friday, Sept. 1. Any pupils entering high school cor the first time, particularly those from other states or counties, will be able to enroll at that time. This is not necessary, but would be ad vantageous for the beginning pupil. Pupils are urged to enroll in high school the first day of school. Act ual school work will take place the first day. A good beginning is very often a great factor in determining he success or failure of pupils. If you are unable to enroll the first day of school kindly inform Mr. Zimmerman of your intention of continuing or withdrawing from school, so that we might have data on this year’s enrollment. A NEW FIREWORKS COMPANY With the completion of the main building and several smaller ones, the newly organized Triumph Fussee and Fireworks Co., whose plant is located along the Blue Ball road, about a mile north of Elkton, has started the manufacture of its pro duct. Several more buildings will be erected, and by the latter part of the month, it is understood, about two hundred people will be given employment there. HEADS WOMEN'S DIVISION OF j N. R. A. Mrs. Albert Constable, of Elkton, has been appointed chairman for Cecil county of the State Woman’s Division of N. R. A. This division will have a house to house canvass made to secure signers lo the Con sumers Pledge, to co-operate in re employment by supporting and pa tonizing employers and workers who are members of N. R. A. Mrs. Sid ney Dixin has been appointed chair man for the Third district. * SUICIDE BY HANGING Miss Mary Margaret Street, 54, daughter of the late James E. and Ada Virginia Streets, Rocks, Harford county, ended her life early Wednes day morning by hanging. The tragedy took place in a garage at the; rear of a Baltimore house where Miss Streett had resided for many 1 years. NO. 7