The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-12-07

licenses for 1918 has begun.
Governor Townsend has appointed
Robert E. Shilling Superintendent OF
public schools in Kent County.
Miss Mary A. Ford, of North East,
has been appointed as principal of
the Sandy Hill school, at Spade,
Nebraska.
Farmers around Perryman, Har-
ford county, and the Proving
Grounds are paying rs cents a barrel
to husk corn.
Rev. A. Burtis Hallock of Bel Air,
MARYLAND, will preach at West Not
tingham Church on Sunday, Decem-
Der 9th. 1917.
The postoffice at Aberdeen has
doubled its business in the past four
weeks and if it continues it will be
necessary to have another clerk.
Major H. Arthur Mitchell, Of Elk
] ton, has been promoted, being taken
from his Regiment and placed in
command of the 11Sth Field Hos
pital.
The Slater saw mill outfit has been
set M on the Alexander Briscoe
farm, near town, where the wood
leave has been purchased and will
be cut.
Thrown from the buggy Miss
Rosa Montgomery, Of near Colora'
suffered a broken shoulder blade and
Miss Grace Hines sundry bad bruises
about the face and head.
A number of boys of Cecilton and
locality have oragnized the "Cecilton
Corn Club" for the coming. year
with George H. Pad1ey, president,
and James Black, secretary.
The Skirving farm, containing 23
acres. situated in the Sixth district,
has been bought by Addison b.
Freeman, from James F. Evans,
assignee, of Elkton, for $1,000.
While holding pig to be butcher
ed Norman j. Cashe11, of near Iron
Hill. was bitten by the animal, the
end Of his left thumb being COM
pletely severed at the first joint.
Seized with an attack of vertigo,
Mrs. Howard B.. Pierce, Of Coates
vile. formerly of Colora, fell against
a window and received a badly
lacerated arm by shattered glass.
Palmer Tatman and Leslie Bris-
tow have purchased a tract OF land
adjoining the camp ground, near
Chesapeake City, from Carroll
Wooleyhan, and will begin the erec-
.tion of dwellings.
- The first seagoing barge built by
the Deibert Brothers of Elkton at
their boat yeard at Havre de Grace
was launched Saturday afternoon
Nov. "a. It was named Northern
No. IA, Wilmington, Def.
The commissions of Irwin e.
Griffith and George r. Ewing, com
missioners-elect, arrived at the
Office of the Clerk of the Court, last
week. The Board will organize on
Tuesday, December IL.
Arrangements are being made fol
the reopening of the chrome pits
near Rock Springs. These pits are
located on the West and Wood prop
critics. and have been closed for sc
years by court litigation.
After brief illness of compli'
cation of diseases, George w. Mil
hurn. one of Elkton's most respected
colored men, died at his home Sun
day morning, Nov. 25, aged "a years
He was veteran of the Civil Wal
and is survived by his wife, one sor
and daughter.
The Maryland State Roads Com
mission has prepared a bill to bs
presented to the General Assembly
when it convenes in January, asking
for an appropriation of $500,OOO tt
construct unfinished gaps in th'
State highways through incorporated
towns and cities.
The large two-story brick mil
building in Elkton, owned by thu
\ Elkton Developing Company, an'
for several years leased by the Del
.1en Manufacturing Company, ant
ouerated as textile mill, has beei
leased by the A. ]. Reach Company
og philadelphia, which will manu-
faeture sporting goods at the plant
Y A revision of the Liberty LOAF
subscriptions. made by the Marylan'
Committee, shows that in the FRS
Loan, issued in June, Cecil Count
stood first on the Eastern Shore am
sixth in the State. and in the Secon'
Loan, issued in October second O.
the Eastern Shore and seventh in IN
State.