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The midland journal., 1915-06-04
History OF North Blk parish.

Isaac H Ford, of North East. has at
much labor and expense, compiled and
filed in the Office of the Register of Wills,
in Elkton, Register of St. Mary AIMS
Parish of Cecil county. Md. Mr.. Ford
says 1.-The legal title is North Elk Parish
and its area all of the county north of Elk
River and Il think) line drawn east from
its head to the boundary of the Province.
So the record contains information. not to
be found elsewhere. of the founders of the
county and should be preserved at the
county seat. The book adds about three
fourths OF century to the present mar
riage records which began with the erec-
ton of the State governments.--W
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
Real Estate Sales.

The Jonas Bolinger farm of us acres,
in Elk Neck. has been sold to Stephen
Lesko. of Mount Carmel. Pa,
The IFS acre farm of Frank H. Thomp-
son, near Leslie, to Allen spinks. of Poca-
hontas county. West Virginia.
The Elizabeth Loose farm at Bacon
Hill to Joseph II, Green. of Wilmington.
Del.
The Park Hotel property in Chesapeake
City. this county, has been bought by
John T. Pryor from Edward M. Records
and others. OF Delaware. for 81. 500.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
Property Transfers.

George t. Witworth and others
to William R. and Henry F. Wit
worth, of Elkton, property at
Bridge and Main street, Elkton,
So, 900.
George I. Witworth and others
to M. Bertha Gilmour, of Elkton,
residence on Main street, Elkton,
$500.
Andrew ]. Price to e. Raymond
Garwood and wife, 10 acre pro-
perty in First district, %, 900.
e. Kirk Brown and wife and
Charles P. BARLEY and wife TO
John B. Delaney, of Michigan, 152
acre property in Third district,
$3.50.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
Nearo Held For Court.

Magistrate Harry Jackson. of Perry
Vile. gave Herman Sylvester Hines,
colored, aged I3 years. preliminary
hearing last week, and held him for a
further hearing. without bail, on the
charge of attempt assault upon Miss Irene
Jenevieve Seminar, of Perryville. The
young lady was walking from the home
of her grandmother at Frenchtown. whom
she had been visiting, when accosted.
The negro fed when Miss Sentman threa-
tened to call for some railroad men down
the track.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
High School commencement Week.

This Is Commencement Week for the
High Schools in Cecil county. On Tues
day morning. June l. commencement ex-
ercises were held at CeciIton High School.
The address was made by Dir S A..
Mitchell president OF Delaware College.
There were eight graduates
Tuesday evening the fifteenth annual
commencement exercises were held at
Chesapeake City High School DR.
Mitchell delivered the address TO the class
of five graduates.
At Perryville School the exercises were
held on Thursday. June 8.
The commencement exercises Of Cal
vert Ag ricultural High School win be
held today. Friday, June 4, in the NOR
ming. in Rosebank M. E. Church. Dr.
Lewis. of Western Maryland College, will
deliver the address The graduates are:
M. Alice Brown. Horace Churchman,
Herman Crothers, Lawson Cro;hers.
Thomas Crothers. Cecil Ewing, Eugene
England. Clayton Reynolds and Norman
Fouchton.
Friday evening, June q. commence
ment exercises will be held at North East
High School. There are six graduates
FIVE girls and one boy Hon Emerson R.
Harrington will deliver the addrs IS.
Elkton High School commencement
will be held Saturday, June S. There is
large graduating class, and the address
will be by Hon. Vim. T. Warburon.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
l7-Year Locusts Coming.

Swarms Of I7-year locusts are due TO
visit FIVE counties in Maryland next
month. according to an announcement OF
the Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington. The counties are Carroll. Cecil,
Montgomery, Prince Georges and Wash
ington.
Sections of Virginia and New. Castle
county. Delaware. are also due for a
visitation of the pests.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
DEATHS.
John Barber.

John Barber a well known farmer OF
the Fourth district, died May "a from
paralysis. at his home near Appleton.
aged 72 years. His wife and one daueh-
Ter survive.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
Rufus 3. Rose.

Rufus B Rose died suddenly Of heart
trouble May "a at his bone inNNorth
East, in the goth yearof his age HA was
son of the late Randall w. Rose. and is
survived by his wife and two children.
The interment was at Bay View M. p.
Cemetery
The midland journal., 1915-06-04
West Nottingham commencement.

The one hundred seventy-fourth annual
commencement exercises of West Noting
ham Academy will be held Thursday.
June 10.
The baccalaureate sermon will be de-
livereG Sunday. June 6. at p. m. by
Rev. F. H. Huffman, A. M, Principal.
Trustees meeting Thursday, June 10, at
10 o'clock a. m. Alumni meeting at II
o'clock. Luncheon in the Chapel at IL
o'clock, noon. Commencement exercises
in the Church p. m. Address by Hon.
Blair Lee, U. S. Senator from Maryland
The midland journal., 1915-06-04

A sale of building lots, adjoining the
town of Bel Air, was held last week by a
development company Ninety lots we're
disposed of, the sale amounting to
$4,000.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04

Don't miss the opportunity of obtaining
house dress for little money.-at Buff
6ngton's.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04

Go to Bufington's for the latest In
straw hats. They received another ship
ment this week.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04

Hammocks and other hot weather
necessities now on exhibition at BufSng-
toms.
The midland journal., 1915-06-04

The latest that fashion degrees in mems
ne ckWear At Bufhngton's.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29

as our city paving laws and they know
that every proposal in their road plat
form has been thoroughly tried out In
the laws, of dozens of other states.
Both the bankers and the lawyers as
class are the men at home to whom
other men go for counsel and advice.
AS a rule they lead every movement
for local public good and farmers and
landowners generally should have con-
fidence in their Judgment upon road
law reform. The bankers and law
yers have endorsed everything which
the Times-Republican has ever pro-
posed for good roads in Iowa and it is
time the farmers who constitute the
average legislature silenced their fool
ish fears and lined up with the bankers
and lawyers and newspaper men, all
of whom generally know what they are
talking about before they begin con-
versation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
HEY! DON'T CUT THE CORNER.

The pedestrian who finds himself
halted and chided for attempting to cut
corners when crossing the street should
thank the officer and resolve to reform
his street habits at once. He with the
rest of us has been complaining bitterly
tor vehicles which has made the street
dangerous to pedestrians and he should
hasten to conform himself to regula-
tons made mainly in his own pro-
lection.
The motor driver has rights. So has
the pedestrian. The rights of each
should be fully defined and both should
be strictly held to accountability for
negligence and violation Of the rules.
Let the McDuffs of the department of
public safety lay on and damned be
he who first cries hold, enough"
Don't cut the corners. 1t isn't safe.
You haven't any right to do it, more
than the autoist has to the wrong side
Of the street or to turn in the middle of
the block. We who walk have been
complaining and criticising. Now when
the prospect is for strict regulation of
street traffic let's make good on our
own side.
Ten days of strict regulation with a
few stiff fines assessed for persistent
and defiant violators afoot or a horse
back will set the street traffic running
safely and reform serious condition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29

IL the opinion that IL being dopeA out
by the press Of the state ct the pres
ent time. but like all prophecy Of the
human mind is liable to change. Mr..
Cosson 10 not SO much on dress parade
as Is Allen and Harding. but he has the
reputation over the state for doing
things that appeals to the voter. This
reputation, coupled with his sincerity
and honesty OF purpose. will, In our
opinion. secure to him the nomination
in the three cornered fight Under the
existing laws as enacted by the late
general assembly. he Is the logical can
didate, and is SO considered by the
press of the state. This element OF
strength will counterbalance the pulch-
ritude of Senator Allen and the spe-
cious sophistry Of Mr.. Harding.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
GIRLS LEARNING TO SMOKE?
Cnac Mnjpac 70 nita1


DR.. Dora Martin of Chicago, field
secretary of the ti-Cigarette League
of America, in an interview in The
Capital asserts that the school girls of
Iowa are becoming addicted to the Gig
arctic habit She alleges that the habit
is being acquired mostly by girls in the
eighth grade.
DR.. Martin says she has been making
Investigations and that the number OF
such girls in Iowa is surprising
Surprising is the right word to
use. And The Capital is surprised that
Dr. Martin makes such statements and
is willing to stand behind them. The
Capital has made no Investigations
such as DR.. Martin claims to have
made. but this newspaper is willing to
go on record here and now with the
assertion that ii doesn't believe one
word of DR.. Martins charges relative
to the school girls of Iowa.
Search the world over and you will
not find more wholesome. sensible. at
tractive school girls than You will find
right here in the Hawkeye state. And
such girls do not become cigarette
fends
If DR.. Martin expects her statements
to be believed. let her produce the
proof.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
Topics of the Times

| An echo of the State Bar associa-
ton meeting here is likely to reach
to all parts of the state, and is to the
effect that Judge Salinger is consid-
cred the probable successor of Sena-
tor Cummins when he retires.-Forl
Dodge Chronicle.
Echo" is right The room mus,
have been empty when the suggestion
was made. About the only way Ben
will ever hear the title is to stick his
head in a barrel and shout senator
Ottumwa has raised s150,000 for a
new hotel. A new hotel would be
worth the money in Ottumwa. If any
city in Iowa needs ii worse since Bur
lington built, Ottumwa is the town.
Some fellow has been arrested for
making his own train checks and rid
ing free over the Iowa roads. The
gentleman probably objected to a fare
of cents mile as "confiscatory"
And that new seventeen inch shell
which kills every living thing within
$50 yards of the spot where it is ex-
ploded is another evidence of the
marvellous advancement Of the age"
So the man vino discovered that he
could poison whole camp of cave
jewellers at once must have felt when
he perfected his discovery and put 1t
into operation.
OF course there's a vast moral diff
ference between ,orpedoing the Lusi-
tania and taking over the entire neu-
trail trade OF the United states but
neither should be neglected nor per-
mitted. England also needs a little
turkey talk.
Still it is hard to see how Huerta
could make matters worse than they
are in Mexico or how he could do any
good. Mexico seems to need food and
undertakers most Of anything.
The quietest man in Iowa is Charley
Rawson, of Des Moines, whether you
spell it Charley or Charlie
The heaviest dog tax ever known
will be paid on the dogs of war.-Sioux
City Journal.
And the tax doesn't go to paying
for the sheep they killed, either.
One of the ways to boost the popu-
lation of the farms is to keep more
cows and milk them. And that's way
of boosting bank accounts also.
Without doubt Bryan's spectacular
resignation will attract chautauqua
contracts and Let's quiet refusal to
mix in the governorship free for-an
will not scare away chautauqua man
ayers.
OF course the motor tourist will see
more of the county or take longer to
see it when passing thru on bad
road But it is what he will say when
he gets by that counts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
THE IOWA FARM ORCHARD.

According TO an AGRICULTURAL expert
who has returned to Ames from a trip
about the state the apple crop of Iowa
is TO be better and larger. He says
the trees have been given more atten-
ton this year, more spraying has been
done and the fruit will be better as
well as plentiful
So il appears that the insistence Of
the college men and the urgency of
the newspapers has borne fruit liter
ally as fguratively.
Iowa can raise apples as good apples
as any half arid valley or allegedly
sub Irrigated terrace" on the other
side of the continent, as good as the
hillsides Of New York The trouble all
lies in the unwillingness of the Iowa
farmer to spend his time on any crop
but corn, TO depend upon hogs and cat
tie. He hasn't learned that the or
chardist makes a good living on land
worth a fraction Of Iowa acres and
makes it easier than he. For nowhere
do men work longer hours or more
days and harder than right in the CEN
ter of the corn and hog country. The
fact is that apple culture is paying
industry. Southwestern Iowa is full
of paying orchards that return i'm
mense profit on land and labor.
Some day we shall look after the
farm orchard as a paying part of the
farm. spray trees, pick the fruit and
grade it. A five-acre orchard should,
if cared for and made part Of the ac-
tivities of the farm work, bring more
real profit than a forty-acre oat field
one year after another. 1t would pay
of the hired man, take care of the
new automobile, furnish the funds for
that trip to the coast or the gulf.
The hardest thing to do is to divert
the corn farmer to any other line even
as side line His corn fields fill his
eye. But the time arrives when the
farmer of $500 land will have to con-
slider the orchard and the dairy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
BASEBALL AT CEDAR RAPIDS.
Cedar RAPIDS Gazette.)


Old Man Jinx certainly does insist
on following those unfortunate Bun
MES, wherever they may go. For the
first few weeks of the season the Cedar
Rapids baseball team was something
of joke. After a brilliant opening,
the team slumped off into sand-lot me-
diocrity. Then, a few days ago, it
took brace, and began to WIN at least
fifty per cent Of its games. It's stock
went up, and local fans took heart.
But now comes the hardest blow of
all. 1t has been LEARNED that several
of those hard-earne6 games of the last
two or three weeks are to be thrown
out because the team had violated the
four-man rule, one of the most ridicu-
lous regulations that ever hampered
Class D baseball association. 1t would
be no less ridiculous If some other
team than that of the Dummies had
been made the goat.
If a team like that which represents
Cedar Rapids is TOO good because more
than four Of it's players have been en-
rolled in better leagues in days gone by
we might as we'll say Goodnight"
Who would care to travel across town
to see the sort Of baseball that would
result If Hickey, one of the three or
four real players on the team. were
to be routed and someone poorer than
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
HARMONY PLAN.
nsioux city Journal.

l0AohA Wv SAASA0ssS
The Journal has been disposed to
discourage Iowa newspaper effort to
solve the 1916 primary problem nearly
a full year ahead of time. AS the ef-
fort persists, however, the Journal
hardly feels warranted in failing to
offer such helpful suggestions as may
occur to it from time to time. 1t has
one to offer now.
Considering statutory prohibition q
settled fact until the voters can vote
on constitutional prohibition-which
in all normal probability they will
adopt-this newspaper has not been
able to see, and is not now able to see,
that there will be any occasion for a
fight over prohibition in the republt-
can primary next year. 1t has be-
lieved and still believes that tho so
called vets will make no organized
campaign for control Of the legisla-
ture or state offices, and that such
activity as may be expected fromthem
will be limited to more or less de-
sultory campaign against woman suf-
frage at the referendum to be held
in connection with the primary The
Iowa press is not in unanimous agree
ment with the Journal in Its endeavor
to avoid a disrupting fight over the
liquor question in the republican party.
The burden of opinion in Des Moines,
Marshalltown and elsewhere Is that
the republicans must bring the pro-
hibition question to the front and keep
it there next year While 1t is admit
ted by dry leaders that prohibition may
not be directly involved. it Is insisted
that the question Of law enforcement
will be live issue. The theory Is that
the vets, particularly in the larger
cities, will be eager to discredit pro-
hibition and contribute to its eventual
repeal by encouraging a policy Of nom
of the law on the part of
loca! and state officers. In order To
guard against this. it is said to be es-
sential that none but ardent prohibi-
tionists shall be placed on guard in the
state offices.
The Journal does not believe there
will be any attempt to make use OF
non enforcement as a political asset
next year. It does not believe a can
didate for state office will base
candidacy on such shaky ground. 1t
IS not able to think Of newspaper in
the state that would support such
candidacy The Journal believes the
people Of the whole state, river towns
are ready to give prohibition
1 fair test and to accept 1t as per-
policy il it's accomplishes half
the good expected OF it by its most
ardent advocates. A fair test implies
.igid enforcement. The Journal wants
% see and expects to see rigid enforce
nent in Sioux City. and In every other
thruout the state, whether
L is now wet or dry. It is because OF
conviction that sentiment In favor OF
aw enforcement is earnest and wide
spread that the Journal feels that the
saloon issue may be treated as at least
closed next year
However II law enforcement Is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29

be substituted? Hickey has been our
one Joy and pride, and now 1t seems
that he will be compelled to leave US.
Sad, sad fate, indeed!
Cedar Rapids is good baseball
town. 1t would be better If its team
could get an even break in luck and
one or two new pitchers with the nee
essary stuff" Roy Mellinger will find
it impossible to keep the team near the
top. He will need assistance. But not
all the players in the country can win
a pennant for us if rules" are going
to rob us Of games If the Dummies
violated the rule, they received their
just deserts.
But we confess that we can't say
much for the rule.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
LISTEN TO THE BANKERS AND LAWYERS.

The lawyers, like the bankers Of
Iowa, believe that the time has ar
rived in this state for the building of
hard surfaced roads and that it can
be done with long time bonds without
material increase in the road and
bridge taxes which we are now pay
ing. At Fort Dodge the state bar as
ISOLATION picked up the resolutions
adopted by the state bankers assoc
citation at Davenport the day before
and enacted them as the platform of
law reform to be endorsed by the law
yers of Iowa.
Resolutions Of this kind do not build
any roads but they are of Importance
in formulating public opinion. Many
land owner still fears that bonding
public revenues is in effect mortgaging
his farm but the bankers Of the state
know better. They argue that bonds
merely make available for instant use
in improvements Of "a permanent
character the taxes which we are
going to pay anyway and in order to
guard against loading posterity with a
debt to pay they provided that the
bonds to which they refer must be
serial bonds which are paid in equal
annual installments as the taxes come
in and all we'll within the life of the
improvement. In this way the tax
payer pays the same taxes which he
would pay anyway. Under the present
plan his money will be sunk in the
mud each year as it is paid, while
under the bankers plan ten to thirty
years taxes will be spent at once on
paved roads and the same taxes then
applied to the investment just as a
farmer pays for an adjoining forty
out Of the crops Of a period Of years
instead of trying to buy five acres each
year.
There is fear, too, that laws which
will permit Of road bonds and ASSESS
ment for special benefits are revolu-
tionary. dangerous, new and untried,
but a convention OF lawyers know that
the principle underiies the present
drainage district law of Iowa as well
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
MUST BEAT w. w. MARSH.


The democrats are going to capture
the governorship if possible. In the
person of Wilbur Marsh of Waterloo
they have not only strong member.
but one of the most resourceful men
in the party He is an organizer and
worker with more originality than
any two or three of heretofore ac-
credited leaders. We are personally
acquainted with him, have had oppor-
tunity to judge of his ability and know
something whereof we speak He is
also the financial backing of the lead
ing democratic paper in the state, be-
ing the only directing head able to
make real financial success out of a
democratic morning daily aside from
the river cities. The republican lead
ers have in him man that must not
be stimated-therefore we say:
Make careful selection for 1916.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
LIKE WEST MAIN STREET.
rDayenport Democrat. ]

Wherever the fault lay in the run
ming down of Constable Chinn of Bet
tendorf Thursday, there seems to be
no doubt that the new paving in the
western part of that town has been
used as a speedway by many automo-
bilists recently, and that the constable
was acting in the interest of the life
and limbs of other people when he
risked his own.
The injury to the constable occurred
at nearly the same time as the running
over and killing of little Davenport
girl, in the downtown district Of this
city While conditions in city multi
ply risks, the multiplying of speed by
the driver of car as he gets, out of
the city helps to jeopardize the lives
of people there Adults and children
crossing the street to the electric cars.
or leaving them. have been narrowly
missed by the speeders along the river
drive ii Davenport and the stretch of
Bettendorf paving, and it is only
question of time until someone is hurt
there. unless the running down of an
officer Of the law helps put the scorch-
ers out Of business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
INSISTS on cossoN
[Guthrie Center Guthrian.1

Is the supremacy of the republican
party in Iowa to be imperiled by the
ambition Of men DESTROYS to fill the
gubernatorial chair of the state? Sem
ator Joe Allen and Attorney General
Cosson both represent the predominant
sentiment of the state. and will nat
urally divide the vote OF the temper
ance advocates between them, which
condition will result in the nomination
of Lieutenant Governor Harding. the
candidate of the VETS At least this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-29
a. Masonic Meetings.
STATED COMMUNICATE

darehall Lodge, No 1os A F. & A. NJ.
regular meeting Friday. July le, s:oo
p. m. John w. Wells. secretary; w. H.
Steiner, w. M.
sIoMET CHAPTER. No. ss. R A. NJ.
Special convocation Monday, June 20
for work in Royal Arch degree. L. .
Kilborn, H. p, John w. Wells, Rec'
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No. 20. r. & S. NJ. Monoay
ate: the third Sunday. ]. I. ForOes'
recorder: George Gregory, 7. l. M.
REGULAR coNCLAvE, st. Aldemar
commandery No. 80, K. T. Tuesday.
June %. at o'clock. Regular business.
n. s. Mcfarland. Rec. George Gregory
E. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, Q. E. s.. WEDNESDAY. oals
IA, D. m Business. Anna DoWn'l.s'
1ecretary: Mary Black Collins W. H.