Middletown transcript., 1912-07-06
MARYLAND

MARYLAND
The recent festival netted Union Hos
pital, Elkton, 800 %
Hundreds of Cecil county walnut treei
are being lelled ard exported.
Waylaid near Oxford, Benjamin Felipe
of Principle, was robbed Of SO.
The Wicomico Connty Commissi' ners
have fixed the tax rate at 9I3 cents.
Eighty five guests attended barn rait'
ing on the Lons Crolhers farm near Green
hurst
While climbing fence, Stuart Drennen,
of Havre de Grace, fell ard broke his
right leg.
The 52-acre Brickley farm, near Far
mington, has been bought by Ellis NJ.
Terry for $l280.
The f,urth anniversary of the opening
of St. Patrick's Church in Havre de- Grace
was celebrated Sunday.
Fifty guests attended the ali-lay sever
ty-fifth birthday celebration Of Sa!vester
Bowlsby at ZION Saturday.
katherine Heiser. of Newark, DEL,
has been appointed teacher of Welsh
Tract school. near Iron Hill.
A New York landscape architect has
been commissioned to improve the cam
pus of Tome School, Port Deposit.
Miss Laura McGonigal, of Havre de
Grace. has accepted a position as head
nurse in the Roanoke Hospital, Va.
B. B. Worth has resigned as vice prin-
cipal of Brlair High School to take a
course at Johns Hopkins University.
A horse owned and driven by Edward
Williams, OF WoOdlaWn, fell dead near
North East breaking its neck in the fall.
The stage of the Rising Sun Opera
House will be extended over the pave
ment and the building heightened 20 feet.
Dr.C. W. Perkins, OF Chester, Pc, has
sold his 800 acre farm on Otter Creek to
lbe Wi loughby Beach Company for $lI, !
900.
DR.. Norman T. Kirk, OF Rising Sun,
has been appointed first lieutenant in the
Medical Reserve Corps, United States
Army.
Sixteen members of the Wilmington
Y. NJ. {. A. have started their animal en-
campment near Town Point, along Elk
River.
The officisl members of the churches of
the Concord Circuit have 3ecded to hold
their annual encampment beginning Aug.
2 and continuing 10 day0.
For draWi..g a revolver on Deputy
Sheriff Miller. Justice Joshua NJ. Ash. OF
E kton, fmed Mrs. Hattie R ynods, OF
Chesapeake City, $40.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of former Pres-
dent Roosevelt is the guest Of J. Rush
Street, of Jarrettsvile, where he is recelv-
lag lessons in fox training.
Tine uIrf. | county Sch o. lard has
awarded u. j. SMnahan,, of B, lair, a
contract to erect t.t- room schoOlhOuss |
for culnred chill lren in Hayre de Grace
for $2375.
The annual reunion of the Reformed |
churches Of Mary land, Penhsy lvanis,
Delaware and the District of Columbia
viii be held at the Blue Mountain House,
Ju y I9rh.
Although residing within six miles OF |
zach other, Miss Maggie Nicraft, of Tome
Institute, Inn, met her nephew Ira W.T. i
craft, Of New Bridge, last week for the
first time in 80 yeare.
His horse taking fright at an automo-
bile, Edward SINNERS and his sister, Miss
Emma SINNERS, Of WoodIawn, were
thrown out of their cafriage. the latter
painful il Inries.
WHY BACK TO THE LAND?
The farm j Iurnals have records OF huT
dreds aud hundreds Of farmers who move
-uaIly short distances. Much, If not
most uf the larmeTs's prO6.s 1u'ing the
last decade or two have been made IN the
increase IN the value OF lis land, and to
leash this in' he has to move tU cheaper
land. But this moving Is not 'back-tO
tile land" The back lH and move
ment is u movement OF people out of the
cities. Ak the farmrr aUUnt it and he
wi shake his head. But even the most
pes. imistic frrmer Teial zes that it is a
better time to 90 on the land now than il
has been at any Ninus time. And III