The midland journal., 1916-07-21

Miss Genevieve Turner and Miss Fran
Gina Kirk are visiting in New York.
Miss Ella Pogue is entertaining her
cousin. Miss Dorothy Welsh, of Baltimore.
Thomas Rink is confined to his home
on Pearl street by an attack of typhoid
fever.
County Agricultural Agent Marsh has
depending two weeks vacation at Mag
ara Falls.
Miss Hannah Boyle has moved from
Rock Springs to the John A. Hunter
property, recently purchased.
Miss Marian Cook OF the Nurses Train
ing School of Protestant Episcopal Hos
pital. Philadelphia, is spending her va
cation with Mrs. NJ. ]. Ewing, near
Calvert.
Miss Elva Dean. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs., George Dean. of near EIkton, has
been appointed superintendent of the
hospital at GanorsvilIe. Ca, and left this
week to assume her new duties.
The children and grandchildren of
Sylvester Bowlsby recently celebrated his
8Ist birthday at the home of his son.
Stanley Bowlsby, at Zion Mr.. Bowlsby
is veteran of the Civil War.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Lee Chambers. of Bal
timore, announce the marriage of their
daughter. Marie. and Mr.. William VOL
ley Shaefer, OF Chesapeake City. on Wed
nesday, July I2. Mr.. and Mrs. Schaefer
will be at home after September IS.
Samuel Hambleton. of Baltimore. is
visiting his brother, j. w. Hambleton,
near town, and circulating among friends
Mr.. Hambleton was postmaster at Rising
Sun for sixteen years and has host of
warm friends in this town and vicinity
who are extending him the glad hand
during his visit.
Lester German, of Aberdeen. broke go
out of 100 targets shot al on Monday. at
the eastern handicap shoot, held at
Holmesburg Junction, Pa.
York. Pa, plans to give ST.. 900 week
for the dependent families of soldiers who
went to the front Manufactures of the
city will obligate themselves for large
part of the fund.
At Wateryale. Hartford county. is
located snap bean canning factory. the
only one in Hartford. The cannery is
now in operation and will pack the pro.
duct of 100 acres of beans.
Adam Bonnet, Evelyn Webb and
Randolph Long are undergoing Pasteur
Treatment having been bitten by fox
terrier belonging to the family of DR..
Charles A. Kriete, Aberdeen.
The executive committee of the Pro-
gressive State Committee decided to call
La meeting of the state committee on
ISeptember I3 to determine the future
action and course of the party"
Hartford County School Board has ap-
pointed former principal of West Noting
ham Academy, Walter L. Graefe. of
Owings Mills. instructor of science, in
Havre de Grace High School, at a salary
of $1,000.
Lee L. Hecht hiss been elected president
of the Havre de Grace Banking & Trust
Co., to succeed the late Murray Vandiver.
Mr.. Hecht Is an attorney and has the
honor of being the youngest bank presi-
dent in the state. He is now entering
upon his twenty-eighth year.
Motor Vehicle Commissioner E. Austin
Baughman has sent check to State
Treasurer John M. Dennis for $37 los 6s.
covering the receipts OF his office for the
month of June. The sum represents an
increase of $Io,27oI IS over the receipts
for the corresponding month of last year.
tits reported the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company will shortly begin work
building spur Of track to run to the
grand stand OF the race track of the Har-
ford Agriculture and Breeders Association,
near Havre de Grace. This will save the
patrons of theArack walk of several
hundred yards as at present.
i The Court Of Appeals has dismissed the
Injunction appeal of Havre de Grace
lagainst the Susquehanna Power Co. The
Susquehanna Power Co. seeks to build
a hydro electric plant on the Susque-
hanna River similar to the one at Nc
CalPs Ferry. The City of Havre de
Grace sought to enjoin them from the
work. on the grounds that it would back
water over the city wharves and destroy
the property, and that the dam would
destroy navigation on the river. The
Court of Appeals decided that the river is
not navigable where the dam is proposed