The Midland journal•:'. . ; • * ■ * • • *

VOL; XLIL. RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY, MD;, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1920.

S FARMERS’ INSTITUTES.

Will Be Held At West Nottingham

and Calvert Next Week.

West Nottingham Grange, in co-operation with County Agent Knode,

i of Cecil county, and the Extension■ Dept, of Maryland College of Agri-

r culture, will hold a Farmers’ Insti-tute in West Nottingham Academy5 on Friday, Jan. 23. The ladies of

r the Grange will serve lunch.Beginning at 10 a. m. the forenoon

will be devoted to spraying andl pruning of apple trees and the mix-

r ing of spraying compounds. The■ afternoon to the cutting up of pork* and beef for home curing, and to thel public installation of the Grange- officers. Demonstrations in Home- Decoration and Domestic Sciencewill also be given.

1 The evening will be devoted toHorticulture, Agronomy, Feeds and

l Feeding of Farm Animals, and! Round Table questions.

An Institute will be held in the1 Agricultural High School building,

Calvert, on the evening of Friday,r January 23, and all day Saturday,

' Jan. 24. John H. Kimble, of Port’ Deposit, will speak Friday evening a

- 8:00 o’clock, and an illustrated lec-! ture on Home Decoration will be

given by Miss Stephenson.At 10:'00 o’clock Saturday morn-

i ing Prof. S. B. Day will talk on farm! topics, and at 11:30 Dr. S. S. Buck-I ley will demonstrate stock judging

i on the farm of C. M. Reisler.Miss Wotring and Miss Stephen-

son will be present all day Saturday> and give talks in the afternoon on

‘ the remodeling of clothing, etc. #

A lunch will be served by the1 school at 12 o’clock.

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BOARD OF EDUCATION.

- Mid-Year Examinations Last WeekIn January—Audit Shows

Accounts Correct.’ The Board of Education met in

1 regular session on Tuesday, January13th. Those present were Wm. M.Pogue, President; Dr. Delmar Smith-ers, Vice President, and Wilmer J.

i Falls, Commissioner,i Minutes of the previous meeting

- were read and approved and sundrys bills examined and ordered paid.

Consideration was given to the' Cecil County Plan for Club Work

i which has been submitted to the, State Department for its action.

The Board ordered that the Mid-Year Examinations of pupils above

i the third grade be hold January 28,i 29, and 30. The questions are to be' prepared by the teachers, "and ai copy of such questions shall be pre-

■ pared by the teachers together with> the answers written by the pupils,

shall be preserved at the schoolhouse for six months and shall be

i open to the inspection of any inter-ested person.”

1 The resignation of Mrs. L. G.i White as principal of Franklin school

: was accepted.> The following appointments were

l confirmed:—Rev. J. P. George as> principal of Middle Neck school;- Miss Josephine B. Stearns as prin-• cipal of Warwick school.I A report was read from the Wil-l Ham A. Gillespie & Company, Certi-

r fled Public Accountants, Baltimore,, stating that they made an andit of

s the cash transactions of the office ofthe Board of Education for the yearended July 31st, 1919, and found

r same to be correct. The audit em-braced the examination of the can

> celled checks and vouchers and the; application of same to the cash book.° The balance of cash on hand was on

i deposit in the Second National Banki of Elkton and verified with the bank

) pass book and check book balance.I The meeting was then adjourned.i •>

i Real Estate Sales.} At the administrators sale of real3 estate of the late Thomas Herbert. Cummings, held on Friday last the

home property, near Pleasant Grove,was purchased by Stephen C. Ragan

-for $3,250. The property near- Pilot, embracing a lot of ground and- frame dwelling, was purchased by. Andrew C. Fulton, the present ten-i. ant, for $630. One-half interest in. the Bald Friar property, a frame. dwelling, barn and three acres of- land, was purchased by W. Albert. Caldwell for $405, who owned the

. other half-interest., The Elkton Cannery property on, West High street, in that town, was

sold last week by Robert C. Thack-ery, Esq., to the Victory Sparkler

.. Company, for $3550.1 Robert J. Duhamell has purchased

r from Mrs. Mary L. Burroughs fort SI4OO, her property on Moffltt street.- in the town of Elkton. Mrs. Bur-- roughs has purchased the property-of Philip Ott, on the same street, fors $3788.s Judge Milton S. Sentman has solda his farm at Fair Hill to Alexanderi, 1 McCarns and will move to Northa East.

Abram Hershour has sold his farmof 132 acres in Lancaster county, to

9 Miller Eller, of Kentucky, tor$13,000.

LIGHT AND POWER FROM THE

SUSQUEHANNA.

Rising Sun To Be Connected Up WithThe McCall’s Ferry Plant.

The Commissioners of Rising Sunhave been negotiating with repre-sentatives of the Susquehanna PowerCompany, and it is altogether prob-able that the town will be receivingservice from the plant on the riverat McCall’s Ferry early in the sum-mer.

An agreement has been reachedwhereby the Susquehanna Companyassumes the SB,OOO bonded indebt-edness, placed on the aown for themunicipal lighting plant, and willtake over the pole line and wire sys-tem and give the town day and nightservice.

The Sussuehanna Co. will extendtheir line from Oxford as soon asthe frozen condition of the groundwill permit the setting of poles. Thecompany will supply the creamery atGlen Roy and the Sharpless Co. inthis town with power and light.

The town lighting plant is alreadyoverloaded and its taking over by theMcCall’s Ferry concern will not onlygive daylight service, but will permitfurther extension that the presentplant cannot carry.

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Memorial Fund For Pencader ChurchA fund of seven hundred dollars

in Liberty Bonds has been placed ij)trust by Mrs. Mary E. Cooch, FrancisA. Cooch of Newark, Edward W.Cooch of Wilmington and Mrs. Caro-lina C. Schoolfield of Pocomoke City,Md. for the maintenance of PencaderPresbyterian church.

This is to be known as the EdwardWebb Memorial Fund In memory oiRev. Edward W. Webb, who was pas-tor of the church from 1866-1871.He was the father of Mrs. Mary E.Cooch. This fund may be augment-ed by voluntary contribution. Itwill revert to New Castle Presbyteryif Pencader should cease to exist as achurch.

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Peachy To Quit.The Peach Bottom railroad is to be

abandoned, 204 of the 263 shareshaving so voted at .the annual meet-ing held at Fairmount, Pa. Theofficers of the road reported an engi-neer estimated it would cost thirtythousand dollars to put new ties inthe road from Oxford to Fairmount,and that the present ties were notsafe for traffic.

They also stated the road wasrunning behind at the rate of S4OO amonth, but that in spite of this theyhad continued to .operate until theUnited States Government condemn-ed their engines and they had nomoney to repair them.

Newark Lad Wins First Prize InCorn Judging Contest.

Martin L. Doordan, 12 year oldson of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Doordanof East Newark, Del., won first placein the corn judging contest held aspart of the program for Boys’ andGirls’ Club week. This entitles theyoung man to a free trip to Washing-ton furnished by the Charles WarnerCompany of Wilmington who offeredthree such prizes. Second and thirdplace in the contest were won byboys 4 to 6 years older than Martin,which makeß his achievement all themore noteworthy. (

No Liquor License Court In ChesterCounty.

A lucrative source of revenue toChester county lawyers and hangerson has been shut off by the killing ofOld John Barleycorn, and there willbe no session of the Liquor LicenseCourt in that county in March. Thedate will be omitted on the legalcalendar for this year. The Marchsession has for many years provenone of the lively occasions of thelegal calendar and a harvest timefor members of Chester County Bar.

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Annual Stockholders Meeting.At the aphual meeting of Stock-

, j holders of the National Bank of Ris-jing Sun, held Jan. 13, 1920, direc-

i tors were elected as follows:—A. L.i Buffington, Jesse T. Cameron, A. L.ij Duyckinck, S. G. England, M. E.j Flounders, John T. Neary, W. M.

! Pogue, Chas. S. Pyle, Wm. M Reyn-olds, Jesse Wood, Robt. K. Wood.

’ Officers elected were:—Charles S.Pyle, President; A. L. Duyckinck,Vice President; Mark E. Flounders,

' Cashier.e

| Must Have Lights On All Vehicles.1 The law compels drivers of allvehicles to display a light on theirwagons, buggies or carriages at

1 night and it behooves people to com-’ ply, lest they find themselves invol-| ved in serious suits for damage, re-sulting from “going it blind.” As

' every man wno runs an automobileknows, a wagon along the side of theroad after night is difficult ao see,unless it bears a light. Why takechances?

I It is a well spent dollar that savesa dime.

DEATHS.

1 Miss Annie Jenkins.

Miss Annie Jenkins died January- 6 at her home near Wrightsdale, Pa.,i, aged 77 years. She lived alone,l Miss Jenkins taught school for 40- years in the southern part of Lancas-ter county, and in Philadelphia.j The deceased was a daughter ot

f the late George and Susan Jenkinsand was the oldest one of the family,

i She is survived by five sisters andI one brother.

> Mrs. James R. Foraker.c Mrs. Lydia Foraker, wife of J. R.

5 Foraker of North East, died at thes Eastern Shore Hospital, Cambridge,5 Jan. 2. She was in her 70th year.• Mrs. Foraker had the misfortune to

sustain a fall several weeks ago at• the hospital which resulted in a

1 broken hip, and hastened the end.1 The loss of both her sons underpeculiarly distressing circumstances

• in their early manhood, was a blow’ from which she never recovered. The’ body was brought to North East for’ burial.

Augustus A. Howell., Augustus A. Howell, who for years

operated the Seneca Point farm at. Charlestown, summer home of the

, late Horace Disston, of Philadel-. phia, died at the home of hjs son,f John Howell, near Elkton, on Jan.

7, aged 72 years. Mr. Howell had. been in poor health for a number of

r years, due to a complication of dis-i eases He leaves a widow and tire

children, four sons—John, Harry,5 Charles and Jess, and one daughter,

Mrs. J. J. Graham. The funeral washeld on Saturday afternoon, with in-

• rment at Charlestown.

Mrs. C. V. Howard.Mrs. Carrie V. Howard, an esteem-

ed lady of Elkton, widow of the late! Jacob Howard, died at Union Hos-

r pital, in that town, on Jan. 7, afterabout two months illness from com-

. plication of diseases, aged 75 years.Mrs. Howard was formerly MissCarrie V. Johnson, daughter of the

; late John A. Johnson, of near Elk-> ton. and she spent her entire life inthat locality. One brother, William

; A. Johnson, of Philadelphia, sur-: vives. The funeral was held fromi the home of her nephew, Mr. ArthurRambo, Saturday afternoon; inter-

. ment in Elkton Presbyterian ceme-i tery.

i George N. Bennett,

i George N. Bennett, a well known■ resident of Chesapeake City, died

i Jan. 5 at the home of his sister, Mrs., George S. Woolley, 500 W. 11th

1 street, Wilmington, Del., fromi Bright’s disease, in the 59th year of

his age.Mr. Bennett was born in Chesa-

peake City, where he spent all his1 life. He was the only son of GeorgeW. and Elizabeth Bennett. His

I father owned the first tugboat thati plied the Chesapeake & Delaware

canal.Mr. Bennett engaged in the drug

business for a time, and afterward in. the coal and lumber business with. his brother-in-law, the late George 8.

, Woolley. He was a director of thet Chesapeage City National Bank. Het never married. His sister, Mrs.• Woolley, is the only surviving mem-I ber of the family.

John Thomas Sergeant.) John Thomas Sergeant, a respect. ed and life-long resident of thisi section, died Friday, January 9, ai; the home of William A. Reeder,: near town, aged 85 years. Mr. Ser-

geant had been in feeble health forsome months past and recently suf-fered a stroke of paralysis, his con-dition gradually growing worse,

I until death finally claimed him.t The deceased was a son of Roberti and Rachel Sergeant, and was the, last survivor of a family of three

i sons and two daughters born to

r them. He was born near Rising SunI on what has been known in recent

i years as the Parthenia Coulson. property. His parents died when hei was a young man. Mr. Sergeant fol--5 owed farming most of his long life,t making his home with and conduct-

t ing the farm of the late Henry Bnss roe, adjoining town, for 63 years,from the time he was 17 until 70

i years of age. For the past seveni years he had made his home with Mr.

. and Mrs. Wm. A. Reeder. He never• married, and Clarence Thompson, ofnear town, a nephew, is the only

[ near relative in this There• are a number of other nieces and

nephews residing in Wilmington.. Del., and in North Carolina.( The funeral was held on Monday

• afternoon, services being conductedat his late Lome by Rev. A. B. Hal-

I lock, with interment in West Not-r t.'ngham cemetery.

i OTwenty thousand persons last year

i jaid a fine of $6 each for failure tot file an Income tax return for 1918,

■ although their income for that yearwas not taxable.

TOWN AND COUNTY.Short Paragraphs of Events in the County

During the Past Week.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Pishing through the ice on NorthEast river is a popular sport andlarge catches of perch are being

made.

Only 40 houses are yet to be soldby the U. S. Housing Corporation at

Aberdeen. About sixty of the houseshave been sold to date.

The U. S. Postofflce at Perryville

,s now occupying the new quarters

on Broad street, adjoining and be-longing to the National Bank.

The farm of Harry Buckley, ad-

joining town and containing about92 acres of land, has been purchasedby a Virginia party for $15,000.

Messrs. Brown & Fisher advertiseIn this issue a public sale of 40 head

of horses on Saturday, January

at their stables in this town, eead. elsewhere in our columns.

The dwelling house on the farm

known as the “Delaware Duckery.

near Newark, and occupied by the

family of Charles Mealy was burnedto the ground about noon Monday orlast week.

A carload of horses and mules wasreceived on Tuesday by Messrs.Cooney. Woodrow and James, who

will hold a public sale of the animalsat the Maryland House stables onWednesday, Jan. 21, at 1 p. m.

In the year 1920 four eclipses willoccur, two of the sun and two of the

mpon. The total eclipse of the moon-■''A May 2 will be visible here; the

partial eslipse of the sun on Novem-

ber 10 will also be visible here.

The splashboards are being re-

moved from the top of Holtwooddam of the McCall's Ferty powerplant in preparation for the usualsnring freshets. The frozen condi-

tion of the river greatly facilitatesthe work.

Growers of tomatoes, mushrooms

and other good things in KennettSquare and vicinity are shipping

large consignments of these good

things to New York by auto express.During the holidays tomatoes sold

for 75 cents per pound and one day

last week a Kennett grower shippedan order valued at $3500.—KennettNews. /

Farmers of the vicinity of Cono-

wingo, who contracted with Mr. An-

drews in 1919 to grow tomatoes foi

sls per ton were agreeably surprisedupon making a settlement to bepaid double the price agreed upon

S3O per ton—netting the growers

quite a neat sum even though thecrop fell far below the average. Mr.

Andrews paid $6 per ton bonus oneyear ago.

The Oxford Minstrels are billed toappear in the public hall. Rising Sun,

on Monday evening, Jan. 19, underauspices of the Patriotic Order Sons

st of America. The Oxford boys neverto draw a full house, and always

please their audiences. An entire

nfew program will he given on Mon-day. Tickets will be placed on saleat Buffington's Friday, Jan. 16, andas they are in demand you better getyours early.

Revival meetings are still in/ progress in Janes M. E. church. The

Rev. A. B. Hallock preached onTuesday evening of this week andRev. J. C. McCoy on Wednesday eve-ning. Tonight, Thursday evening,

the Minute Men will have charge ofthe service. Services will be held

, each night of the coming week at

7:30. On Sunday evening theMinute Men will again conduct theservice. Neighboring ministers willcontinue to assist the pastor during

the progress of the meetings. Allare cordially invited to attend theseservices.

George Bowser, colored, whilemaking a purchase in the store of

Henry M. Biddle, Elkton, one morn-ing last week, managed to extract a

sum of money from the pocket of Mr.Biddle’s coat, hanging close to thecounter. The store keeper ‘discover-ed his loss in a few minutes and gave

to the negro,(Calling policemanJHs to join him. The negro was

captured and searched, and, I and a check of Mr. Biddle’sli| in his possession. This being

v portion of the sum stolen,' ' B along the line of flight of the

‘Bias made and the balance of

found $5 2. Bowser wasHd to jail to await a hearing,

was hold by PoliceBotten under S3OO bail for

W. F. Day, of Lynchburg, Virginia,spent the week-end at the home ofAugustus Brumfield and family.

W. E. Patten, who has beencritically ill with pneumonia at hishome on Cherry street, is somewhatbetter at this writing.

Miss Carrie Hambleton and MissRuth Collier are spending some timewith relatives and friends in Wil-mington and Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Van Pelt ofZion, announce the engagement oftheir daughter, Anna W., to Mr.Howard Heath, son of Mr. and Mrs.Wm. Heath of Mechanics Valley.

Miss Anna Elizabeth Barrow andEdgar McCummings, both of thisneighborhood, were married at theM. E. parsonage, Rising Sun, onSaturday afternoon, by Rev. H. E.Reed.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hibbard Yarnall,of West Grove, announce the en-gagement of their daughter, Anns?Booth, to Harry Harlan Yerkes, sonof Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yerkes, ofLewisville.

Mr. Roland Atkinson, of Port De-posit, and Miss Susan Dryden werequietly married Jan. 3, at the homeof the bride’s parents in Baltimore.Only the parents of the contractingparties were present.

Miss Katharine L. Garner andAndrew Oatman, both of Norwalk,Conn., were united in marriage byRev. H. E. Reed, at the MethodistEpiscopal parsonage, Rising Sun, onWednesday morning, January 14.

Senator and Mrs. Thomas H. Rob-inson of Harford county, announcethe marriage of their daughter, MissChloe Robinson, to Mr. Ross R. Cam-eron, of Port Deposit, the ceremonyto take place at their home in BelAir, on Tuesday, January 20th.

A. P. White left Rising Sun forFort Myers, Florida, on Thursday oflast week, where he will Bpend sometime with his son. Mr. White iseighty years of age, and as hale andhearty as a pine knot. He made thetrip to Florida unaccompanied.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Elwood Zebley ofAppleton, Cecil county, announce theengagement of their daughter AnnaB. to A. Engle Conraw of Mopres-town, N. J. Miss Zebley formerlytaught in the Newark schools and isnow a teacher in the public schoolsof Washington, D. C.

Miss Susan Dryden, of Crisfield,i and Mr. Roland Atkinson, of Port

Deposit, were quietly married at thehome of the bride in Baltimore on

> Saturday afternoon, Jan. 3, at fouro’clock. Mrs. Atkinson was teacherin the Girl’s High School of Tome,

’ and Mr. Atkinson, who is the son of■ Mr. and Mrs. George Atkinson, of

Port Deposit, is employed at the1 Ceiil National Bank in that town.

t Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, son of Congressman Thomas. S. Butler, of West Chester, Pa., has

j been awarded the Navy distinguished

I service medal for bravery in actionduring the recent war. The presen-tation of the medal was made bySecretary Daniels in Washington re-

i cently. General Butler is one ofs the eleven naval or marine officersi thus honored and one of the three in

1 Pennsylvania.

The pupils of Calvert Agricultural’ High School will hold a Declamation[ Medal Contest, with other features,

1 in the High School building at that[ place on Friday evening, Jan. 16, at i| 8 o’clock, to celebrate the jubilee of ;* the Eighteenth Amendment. The1 proceeds of the silver offering at the

? door, will be devoted to the Piano;Fund.

BJoseph James, an elderly resident

of Darlington, Harford county, teap-® ed from the second-story window off his boarding house Thursday morn-

ing and sustained serious injuries.1 One of his hips was fractured and it

is feared he suffered internal injuriese The rash act was committed with' | suicidal intent.

B i Mr. James Is about 65 years old1 and is the son of the late Joseph

8 James, formerly a well-known farm--3 er of near Darlington. For the past8 25 years Mr. James was employed ass an orderly at the Union Protestantl ’ Infirmary, Baltimore. He returned® i to Darlington recently, where he oc--1 cupied a room at Henry Selfe’s resi-S dence.

e A man should have plenty of back-r bone for himself—and plenty ol

i hambone for the rest of the family.

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NEARBY NOTES GLEANED BYCORRESPONDENTS.

COLORA.

Prank P. Curry, clerk of the Row-landville Camp Modern Woodmen ofAmerica, has just received from thehead office of the Order a draft forSI,OOO, this being the amount of in-surance on the life of Chester C.Riley, who was killed in battle inFrance Sept., 1918. The draft ispayable to Mrs. Grace Murphy, sisterof the deceased. Soldier Riley hadbeen a member of RowlandvilleCamp for the past ten years.

The Colora Improvement Associa-tion is arranging for a debate fortheir meeaing of Feb. 4th at theschool house. Full arrangementswill be announced later.

Miss Pauline Simmons has return-ed to her home in Virginia afterspending some time with her aunt,Mrs. George Mitchell, West Notting-ham. Miss Simmons was a studentat the Academy.

Mrs. Wm. T. Slicer and daughters,Mrs. Chas. McCardell and Mrs.Philip Foster, were guests of MrsChas. Nesbitt.

Miss Maude M. Reynolds spenaFriday and Saturday with Miss Ger-trude Henderson, Aberdeen.

Miss Eva Foster was a Philadel-phia shopper.

Miss Elsie Kepler is staying withher grandparents and attending WestNottingham Academy.

John and Herman Preston, Phila-delphia, visited their brother Grad-on at the home of their grandmother,Mrs. Helena Preston.

Mrs. William Lambert is ill withtonsilitis.

Mrs. John Harvey has been on thesick list for the past week.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brown havebeen indisposed with very severecolds.

A son has been born to Mr. andMrs. Harry McDowell, Liberty Grove.

Cecil Green, Rowlandville, was iUfor several days.

Charles Brown visited his brotherCecil, at Havre de Grace hospital,Sunday.

A child was recently born to Mr.and Mrs. Egeton Love at the Ewinghospital, West Grove. The familyare former residents of this section.

Mr. King and family lately moTedfrom Virginia to the farm near herewhich he purchased from Clem Way.Mr. Way and family are occupyingpart of the house belonging to hisfather, the late Frank L. Way.

Mrs. L. C. White has been appoint-ed Census Enumerator for theSeventh district.

Samuel E. Ewing had a publicsale of personal property on theCharles J. Davis farm last Saturday,which was largely attended.

Charles E. Moore and Howard W.Pusey are among the fortunate onesin having their ice houses filled.

Walter Nesbitt has purchased afine new car.

Miss Margaret Foster was theguest of Miss Gladys Melvin forseveral days at her home down onthe Eastern Shore.

Lloyd Balderston attended theAuto Show in New York last week.

Charles Ewing, Philada., was 8Saturday-Sunday visitor in this sec-tion.

Haines Reed was a recent guest ofhis brother Howard, and wife, WestNottingham.

John Dabler was a Sunday visitorhere.

Oliver Lambert and family spentNew Year’s day with Mr. and Mrs.William Lambert.

Mrs. Georgia McFalls visited herbrother in Oxford.

OCALVERT.

The JUuth District Auxiliary ofUnion Hospital will meet with Mrs.Frank McKinney Thursday, Jan. 22at 2p. m. This is the month for theannual donation to the hosp'UlContributions of money, cannedgoods and groceries can be left withMrs. McKinney any time this monthby the Ninth District friends ofUnion hospital.

A Silver Medal contest by the O.A. H. S. students will be held in tinHigh School this Friday evening.

A Farmers’ Institute will be heldin the High School Friday eveningand all day Saturday, Jan. 23 and 24.Prominent speakers are expected.Miss Wotrlng, County Home Demon-stration Agent, will have somethingof special interest to women.

Miss Elizabeth Stephens is visitingher sister, Mrs. Charles Reisler.

J. B. Fassitt is attending the Phil-adelphia Auto Show this week.

The heiress is not always an angel.Even riches may take unto them-selves wings.

It’s a great pity that the averageman cannot draw a check as easily ashe can draw an Inference.

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The course of true love doesn't al-ways run smooth. Many a woman Isin love with her husband’a wife.