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The Midland Journal
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VOL. LX.V
Tire Supply
Warning
Given
Quota For June Will Not
Meet The Demands
Officials Say
Although the number of new pas
senger car tires available to State
motorists under rationing in June
is 45 per cent above the May total,
officials of the Maryland OPA have
warned that the supply would not
meet the demand of eligible motor
ists.
With a backlog of 8,000 new-tire
certificates yet to be filled because
the May quota was exhausted, Leo
McCormick, State OPA director, and
J. William Eggleston, State rationing
officer, have advised ration boards
to “screen all aplicatlons carefully”
andj to release tires to those engaged
in “most essential” operations first.
“If the ration quotas remain at
present high levels, we may absorb
the backlog in several months,” an
OPA official said.
“Meantime, we have urged inspec
tion stations and ration boards to
require recapping of tires wherever
this is practicable. This policy must
not be relaxed.
“Although more synthetic tires are
being released for private car use,
the recent relaxation of eligibility
requirements for new tires means
that so many motorists are eligible
to secure them that the supply is en
tirely inadequate.”
Under the new rules, all B and C
card holders are eligible for new
tires. Previously, only C card holders
could get certificates for new casings.
In May, Maryland’s quota for pas
senger cars was 16,930 tires. This
month it is 24,612. The small truck
tire quota was 3,4 48 in May; it is
4,438 in June. But the quota of
large truck tires, the stock of which
is described as critically short, stood
at 1,401 in May, and was set at
1,422 for June.
Bradlley Dewey, rubber director,
announced 1,600,000 new passenger
and motorcycle tires had been alloca
ted for civilian use in the nation in
June, an increase of 2,000,000 over
the May quota.
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Youth Recreation Council
A Youth Recreation Council has
been organized at Elkton. H. E. Mc-
Bride, County Superintendent of
Schools, has been chosen chairman;
Mrs. Henry Young, vice-chairman;
Ellis Rollins, finance chairman and
treasurer, and Mrs. Rhoda Sutton,
secretary.
It is proposed to raise a budget
and engage at least two play ground
workers to organize during July and
August regular daily schedules of
games, activities and school events
for the young people of the town, es
pecially for the children and youth
under 18 years of age. Play grounds
at the Elementary school and at Eder
Park and at the high school will be
used. Civic organizations and indi
viduals are being asked to contribute
to the fund which will make this
program possible.
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Curfew Law In Effect
Elkton’s curfew law making it uff
lawfui for any boy or girl under 16
years of age to be on the streets of
that town, unless with their parent
or guardian after ten o’clock at night
is working well according to a re
port of the town police, as they have
not had a single violation. The pen
alty rests on the parents of a violator
and is a fine of SSO and costs or 20
days in jail-
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Post Chaplain
At Fort Miles
Rev. Howard Davis, of near Lewes,
Del., formerly of Perryville, a retir
ed Methodist minister, has been as
signed duties as post chaplain at
Fort Miles, replacing Chaplain James
H. Bishop.
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Calvert High School
Commencement
The sermon to the graduates of
Calvert High School was delivered
Sunday evening, June 4, in Rosebank
Methodist chun-ch by Rev. R. R. Ste
phens.
Class night exercises were held
Wednesday eventng in the High
School auditorium. Commencement
Thursday morning, June 8 at 10:30
o’clock. The graduates: Grace Ewing,
Rosemary Fell, Miriam K. Hall, Jan
et M. Wilson, Mary L. Wilson, James
R. Mendenhall, Frances E. Crothers,
Helen P. Dillman, Betty M. O'Brien,
Nan V. Rittenhouee, Vera Yale.
The seventh grade commencement
eras held at the same time as that
9t the high school.
RlSlNcNglffi, COUNTY, MD„ FRIDAY. JUNE 9,1944
FLAG DAY
JUNE 14 MARKS
167th ANNIVERSARY
The people of the United States
celebrate on June 14 the anniversary
of the adoption of the Star Spangled
Banner as the Flag of their Country.
On June 14, 1777, Congress re
solved;
“That the Flag of the United
States be thirteen stripes, alternately
red andi white; that the Union be
thirteen stars, white In a blue field,
representing a NEW CONSTELLA
TON."
In the 167 years that have passed
the Flag has waved proudly over a
free nation.
It has been carried to the far cor
ners of the earth, In war and in peace
by men haippy to serve under It, will
ing to die for it.
It has been the world’s greatest
symbol of the ideal of human free
dom. It has beckoned millions of un
happy people out of oppression to a
land of real opportunity.
It has conferred upon all worthy
of it the right to the pursuit of hap
piness.
It has provided a haven in which
freedom of worship, freedom of
thought and opinion, were inalien
able rights.
The Flag itself, of course, has
done none of these things, given none
of these rich benefits to America and
the world.
It only represents what America
has done as a nation, and what
Americans have done as a people-
The Flag of tlfte United States is
the thrilling symbol of what America
means to those privileged to BE
Americans.
It Is perhaps the most beautiful
emblem ever raised for the adoration
of any people.
It is beautiful not alone in Its mag
nificent combination of fabric and
color, of Inspiring Stars and Stripes.
Its rarest beauty is in its spiritual
significance, in the ideals for which
it stands, in the lofty principles to
which it imparts the attributes of
everlasting endurance.
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Flags Dedicated
A large congregation attended the
exercises at Rosebank Methodißt
Church, Calvert, on Sunday 4|er
noon, at three o’clock, when two togs
—the Christian and the flag of the
United States —gifts of the Women’s
Society of Christian Service, were
dedicated with impressive ceremon
ies. The newly appointed pastor, Rev.
R. R. Stephens, was the speaker of
the occasion.
The flags were presented by Mrs.
Helen Foster, president of the so
ciety, the congregation rising and
giving the pledges of allegiance.
Other numbers on the program
included:
Origin of the Flags, Mrs. Florence
England; duet, The Old Rugged
Mrs. Miller Hall and Mrs. Charles
Reisler; poem, The American Flag,
Mrs. George Gifford; solo, Miss Ves
ta Kincaid; poem, Salute the Iflag,
Mrs. Norman Fell-
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Appointed To
State War Ballot
Commission
The appointment of State Senator
James W. Hughes, of Elkton, Cecil
County, to the State War Ballot Com
mission has been announced by dov
ernor O’Conor.
Senator Hughes will replace Sena
tor Wilmer Fell Davis, who resigned
because of his candidacy for Con
gress in the State’s First Congres
sional District.
Tentative arrangements for effec
tuating the absentee voting provision
of Chapter 1 on the Acts of the 1944
Special Session of the Legislature
were made at a recent meeting of the
War Ballot Commission, the Gover
nor said. The act became effective
June 1.
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Congregation Ad
mitted To Poto*
mac District
The Glad Tidings Pentecos ta 1
church in Elkton Heights, built prin
cipally by the members of (he con
gregation, has been admitted into the
Potomac District Council of the As
semblies of God, with headquarters
at Springfield, Mo. The Rev. John D.
Tubbs has been appointed pastor of
the church.
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Sgt. Harding In Hawaii
T|S Robert L. Harding of Calvert,
according to a letter to his wife, is
now in the Hawaiian Islands. He
left the West Coast with a Medical
Battalion. While on one of the Ha
waiian Islands, he mat Thomas Ram
sey, also of Calvert, who had pre
ceded him there by some weeks.
Harding is a graduate of West Not
tingham Academy and was employed
before induction with the Philadel
phia Electric Company at Conowlngo.
The Fifth
War Loan
Drive Plans
To Open On June 12th
With Goal Of Six
teen Billion
Texarkana, named for three states
and straddling two of them, will be
civilian America’s forum on June 12
from which Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., will sound
the call for D-Day on the home front.
From this comiparatively small
community, in reality two munici
palities, Texarkana, Texas, and Tex
arkana, Arkansas, the sth War Loan
battlecry “Back the Attack —BUY
MORE THAN BEFORE,” will thun
der to every hamlet and metropolis
in the land.
The ears of the fighting world, in
cluding millions of Americans now
in life-or-d'eath combat with the ene
my, will be turned to Texarkana, as
a tiny radio station, KCMC, a Mutual
affiliate, feeds the story to all Amer
ica and by shortwave overseas.
For the first time, a war loan drive
will be officially opened from a city
other than Washington, D. C., when
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., goes to Texarkana
to speak on a national program
beamed to overseas listeners as well.
The sth War Loan Victory-cry “Back
the Attack—BUY MORE THAN BE
FORE,” will emanate from a town
of 50,000 population which has al
ready started its sth War Loan at
tack.
Our community will have its part
in the sth War Loan Drive. Twenty
four patriotic business firms and in
dividuals of this town and vicinity
are sponsoring a Treasury Depart
ment advertising campaign, When a
full page advertisement will appear
weekly in The Midland Journal, the
name of each sponsor appearing in
the advertisements %very other week.
Our community and Cecil County as
a whole is helping in this big push by
"backing the attack” on the home
front. Read these live advertisements
each week.
Awarded Scholarship
Robert Mcßride, son of Mr. and
H. E. Mcßride, Elkton Heights, and
a senior at the Elkton High School
has received the Alumni Regional
Scholarship for the Washington Dis
trict to M. I. T„ Boston. Mcßride
was first in a competitive examina
tion.
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Waste Paper Drive
The third waste paper drive in
Elkton was held Sunday by the Boy
Scouts who made the collections with
trucks furnished by the Elk Paper
Company Mills at Childs. The pro
ceeds from the sale of the paper goes
to the Scout Building fund.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL MENTION
Among those who attended the
June meeting of the Children's Aid
Society at the home of Mr. Standley
Evans, Elkton, on Friday were Miss
Bertha Balderston, Colora; Mrs.
Mary Taylor, Conowingo; Mrs. Miller
Hall, Calvert; Mrs. Miller, Cherry
Hill; Miss A. Mabel Reynolds, Rising
Sun.
Mrs. Noel Bruce Williams, Miss
Miriam Brown Williams and Mrs.
Jesse A. Zeiger left Saturday night
for Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana,
Where the marriage of Miss Miriam
Brown Williams and Lt. William O.
Zeiger will take place.
Virginia Hovermille had the mis
fortune to fall at school at Calvert
and break her wrist This is the third
time the little girl has suffered a
broken arm.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Fristoe,
Maytown, Va., and Mrs. J. W. Chen
ault. Daphne, Va., are visiting Mrs.
Russell Fristoe.
Mrs. Rufus Benjamin, Sr., Port
Deposit, was the week-end guest of
her daughter, Mrs. Francis M. Ken
nard.
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Mr. and Mrs. William M. Pogue
are visiting their son, William R.
Pogue, and family, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs. Addie Haines, Kenn et t
Square, Pa., is visiting Mrs.' Ettie
White.
Mrs. Walter Umberger, Johnston,
Pa., is the guest of Mrs. Samuel
Keim.
Wilson Ewing spent Sunday with
relatives in Avondale, Pa-
Miss Isabell Pogue is visiting rel
atives in Freehold, New Jersey.
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Graduation Exer
cises Of Rising
Sun High School
Class Of Twenty-Two
Will Receive
Diplomas
The graduation exercises of Rising
Sun High School were scheduled to
take place in the high school audi
torium here at eight o’clock Tuesday
evening of this week, when a class
of twenty-two was to be awarded
diplomas. The program for the ev
ening follows:
Processional, Pomp and Circum
stance, Miss Sara T. Spangler, Di
rector of Music; invocation, Dr. S-
J. Venable; The Victory Is Ours,
Class of 1944; Master of Ceremon
ies, Edward Graybeal; Our Pledge
To Victory; Stout Hearted Men, Ju
nior Chorus; A Knowledge Charter,
Helen MacCauley; A Christian Char
ter, Ellen Clendenin; Let’s Bring
New Glory to Old Glory, Marching
Along Together, Junior Chorus; The
Soldier, Edward McCummings; The
Red Cross Nurse, Helen Fitzgerald;
The Civilian, Henry Coulter; Amer
ica the Beautiful, Junior Chorus;
Our Pledge to Peace; Onward, Ye
Peoples, Prayer of Thanksgiving,
Senior Chorus; The World Is Round,
Mabel Conraid ; Presentation of
Awards; Presentation of Diplomas,
Wm. C. Graham, Jr., Principal; The
Graduates’ Creed, Beverly Martin;
benediction, Rev. Frank White; The
Star-Sangled Banner.
Class Roll —Ruby Anderson, Ruth
Elizabeth Alexander, George Worth
ington Carr, Ellen Ray Clendenin,
Mabel Lillian Conrad, Henry Boyd
Coulter, Francis Leo Durham, Wii
mer Kurtz Bird Fisher, Helen Eliza
beth Fitzgerald, Clarence Edward
Graybeal, Wilbur Roland Kyle, Rob
ert Eugene Lyle, Beverly Alice Mar
tin, Helen Emilie MacCauley, Ethel
Irene MacCauley, Edward L. McCum
mings, Branham Dickson Perry,
Mabel Delia Rawlings, John Albert
Redding, Jr., Norris Eugene Settle,
Hazel LaVenia Trimble, William
Richard Waddell.
Class Flower—American Beauty
Rose; Class Colors—Blue and White.
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Third Application
For Beer Joint License
For the third time application has
been made to the, License Board for
Cecil County, for a license for the
sale of beer at the corner of Cherry
and Queen Streets, in Rising Sun.
The two previous applications were
vigorously protested by residents of
the town, and the board refused to
grant the licenses. The latest appli
cation has been made by Vernon C.
Cowan, and the board will hold open
hearing on Tuesday, June 27.
Guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
Willis Ely were Mr. and Mrs. George
Jackson, West Chester; Mr. and Mrs.
Paul West and daughter, Honey
brook, Pa.; Lieuit. (j. g.) Lionel
Jackson, Bainbridge. Lieut. Jackson
leaves for sea duty on Wednesday.
Joseph Touchton, Jr., Philadel
phia, spent from Friday until Tues
day with his parents, Mr. and 1 Mrs.
Joseph Touchton. Joseph graduates
Thursday from Brown Preparatory
School, Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Ely attended
the Conference of Harleysville Mu
tual Casualty Company at the Lord
Baltimore Hotel, Monday afternoon,
followed by a banquet in the evening;.
Miss Irene Smith, Home Demon
stration Agent, entertained the
Homemakers Club at her home at
Zion on Thursday, June 1.
Mrs. Ruth Hall and son David,
Richmond, Va., and Miss Evelyn Don
sife, Frederick, are visiting Mrs.
Emma Donsife.
Lieut, (j. g.) and Mrs. Edward
McClellan and daughter, Carol, are
visiting relatives in Knoxville, Tenn.
Mrs. Hilda Wood, Baltimore, was
the week-end guest of Mrs. Marian
E. Fehr.
Rev. J. W. Prettyman, of Zion, is
a ipatient in West Grove, Pa., Hos
pital-
Mrs. Carrie Cameron is improving
in health at the Havre de Grace hos
pital.
Children's Day, June 18, at the
Methodist Church.'
Harry Roberson and Edward Gen
try spent Memorial Day in Pbilada.
AMERICAN RED
CROSS ACTIVE
I IN COUNTY
The regular monthly meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Cecil
County Red Cross was held In Rising
Sun, May 25, with 14 persons pres
ent-
The chairman reported SIO,OOO
left in the chaipter treasury from last
year and a balance of $277.98 In the
camp and hospital fund. SIOO.OO was
donated by the Moose Lodge for the
■ War Fund, but was received too late
' for that purpose and was turned
over to the chapter for other uses.
The canteen went into action In
1 Elkton on May 4 to assist 12 families
: left homeless by a fire. Food was pre
' pared for 50 people and a surplus left
over was given to the USO. These
families were also helped in other
ways by the Red Cross.
The quota of surgical dressings for
June and July is put at 120,000 a
month, with the probability that the
1 army and navy will ask that the
quantity be doubled. There is urgent
need of surgical dressings workers
in all branches.
It was reported that 168 pints of
blood had been obtained at Perry
Point in May at the time of the visit
of the blood donor unit. The unit
will be in Elkton again on June 19
and 20. Fifty units of plasma are
now in storage at the emergency hos
’ pital in Elkton.
The Home Service chairman re
ported 115 cases in May. This work
seems to be definitely on the Increase.
A room over Frazer’s drug store
1 on Main street in Elkton has been
procured for a monthly rental for
’ the Red Cross office. The Secretary
is there from 10 to 1 daily to answer
inquiries or to give Information-
A special fund of SSOO was set up
for production work. It was voted to
1 make and fill 432 kit bags to be paid
for by the Chapter.
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Burkins-Dixon
A very pretty wedding took place
. in Mt. Pleasant church Sunday, June
4th, when Miss Mary Martha Burkins
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bur
kins, of Colora, became the bride of
Mr. Francis E. Dixon, of Colora. Mr.
Dlxca has made bis home with Mr.
and Mrs. Lewi Balderston for several
years.
The bride’s dress was of white net
over white silk and she carried brides
roses. The briedsmaid wias Miss Lu
cille Suskie, Colora, who wore blute
net over blue silk and carried yellow
. roses. The best man was Mr. James
Dixon, Colora, brother of the groom.
, The flower girl was little Miss Doro
. thy Ann Reynolds, niece of the bride.
. Rev. J. Howard Link, pastor of the
• church, performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Joseph Pogue played the wed
, ding march.
’ A reception was held at the home
, of the bride’s parents immediately
. after the wedding, for the relatives
and a few near friedns.of the bride
! and groom. One and twenty-eight
were served with ice cream and
cake- The bride received several
beautiful and useful presents, includ
ing money. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon left
for a short honeymoon and on their
. return will be at their new home
! near Colora after June 11.
Both are graduates of Rising Sun
■ High School.
1 Those from Rising Sun who at
i tended were Mrs. Joseiph Pogue and
daughters, Josephine and Patsy; Mr.
and Mrs. Allee McNamee; Mr. and
. Mrs. William McNamee and son,
. Billie; Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Jones;
Mrs. Cecil McMullen; Mr. and Mrs.
, William McMullen and family; Mr
r Clifford Marker.
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Baldwin-W asem
Mr. and 1 Mrs. Robert L. Baldwin,
[ Jr., of Perry Point, announce the
, marriage of their daughter, Ensign
. Marie Reed Baldwin, USNR, to Lieut.
Edgar Frederick Wasem, Jr., USNR,
- son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wasem, of
i 401 Balsam Avenue, Bakersfield,
: California, on Wednesday, June 7.
Ensign Baldwin is a graduate of
Perryville High School and attended
, Jacob Tome Institute, Western Mary
■ land College and Beacom College.
Lieut. Wasem is a graduate of
Stanford University and he and the
bride are stationed at Norfolk Navy
l Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia.
! The wedding took place in the Nor
. folk Navy Yard Chapel, Portsmouth,
Virginia.
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Announce Marriage
Announcement has been made by
1 Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Smith of Brown
field, Texas, of the marriage of their
daughter, Mlbs Ruby Nell Smith and
, First Lieutenant Roger Wheaton
’ Clapp, USA, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
Rowland Clapp, of Greenway, Balti
more and Port Deposit. The wedding
; took place May 14 at the First Bap
tist Church in Brownfield.
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Tick can be dangerous. Beware of
. eyen buying on it.
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Maryland Dem
ocrats Fail To
Back Roosevelt
1
Convention Votes To Send
Uninstructed Delegates
To Chicago
Maryland Democrats in State
convention, Friday in Baltimore, de
clined to indorse a fourth term for
President Roosevelt, failed to com
mend the domestic policies of his Ad
ministration and sent an “uninstruc
ted” delegaton to the party’s nation
al convention at Chicago.
The State convention did commend
“the leadership of President Roose
velt. and the Congress” on the prose
cution of the war and “President
Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Hull” for the conduct of the coun
try’s foreign relations.
It further recommended the con
tinuance of “a” Democratic national
administration and Congress to pre
vent interruption of the war effort.
And, as a sort of a garnishing on
the day’s (proceedings, the delgates
adopted unanimously, along with all
the rest, a States’ rights resolution,
praising Governor O’Conor’s State
administration for being “alert to
the protection of State authority and
the preservation of the liberties of
the individual citizen.” This reso
tion concluded:
“We commend this attitude which
is in keeping with the traditions of
our State, and upon the completion
of the war we call for the prompt re
turn of full State authority in all
normal fields of State activity.”
Sipeaker Sam Reyburn of the
House of Representatives, convention
keynoter, called for the post-war
encouragement of free enterprise,
adoption of sound tax and fiscal pro
grams, the reduction of government
al control and the re-establishment
of local resonsibility in government.
Governor O’Conor made the ad
dress of welcome to the delegates,
praised the Congressional candidates
and Senator Millard E. Tydings, who
was to be renominated by the con
vention, but avoided reference to
the Presidential situation.
Senator George L. Radcliffe took
the chair as temorary chairman.
The following slate of 24 delegates
each with three-quarters of a vote,
to cast Maryland’s 18 votes at the
National Convention, was presented
to the convention and referred to
the resolutions committee, whose ap
proval was foreseen:
State Comptroller J. Millard Tawes
State Senator R. Fulton Waller,
of Wicomico County; A. Fletcher
Sisk, W. Grayson, Winterbottom, Jr.,
Senator Tydings, Senator Radcliffe,
Representative H. Streett Baldwin,
State Senator James J. Lindsay, of
Baltimore county.
Representative Thomas D'Alee
sandro, City Council Presidenit C.
Markland Kelly, William Curran,
City Comptroller Howard E. Crook,
City Councilman Ella C. Bailey,
James H. Pollack, Robert B. Ennis,
former Representative Ambrose J.
Kennedy.
Governor O’Conor, John S. White,
Speaker of the Maryland House of
Delegates; T. Howard Duckett; Phil
lip H. Dorsey, people’s counsel be
fore the Public Service Commission;
Attorney General William C. Walsh,
National Committeeman William P.
Lane, E. Brooke Lee and Eugene E.
Casey.
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Eshleman-Sheetz
Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Eshleman,
Drumore, Pa., announce the marriage
of their daughter, Mary, to Dell
Sheetz, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Sheetz, Peach Bottom, Pa., which
took place Saturday morning, May
27, at Elkton. Rev. Joel Sturgills of
ficiated. The bride wore a light blue
street length dress with navy blue
accessories and a corsage of rose
buds. The couple were attended, by
Mr. and Mrs. William Armstrong,
of Holtwood, and Miss Jenette Sheetz
of Peach Bottom. The laides are sis
ters of the groom. The bride is a
graduate of Drumore and Quarryville
High School and the groom is en
gaged in farming with his father.
They will reside in Fairfield, Pa.
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Sixtieth Wedding
Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Evans, of
Edgewood, celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary at their home
on Sunday, May 28, with five gen
eration present. They were married
> May 27, 1884, at Baltimore, and have
resided in Harford County since
1912. Mr. and Mrs. Evans are the
parents of eleven children, eight of
whom are living.
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It costs the U. S. Treasury about
one cent to pirnt a dollar bill or
thousand dollar bill.