The midland journal., 1917-05-11

Wednesdays variety of weather
included thunder, rain, hail and
Snow.
The weather for the past week or
more has been cold, wet and about as
disagreeable as it is possible to ex-
perience
Calvert Epworth League will hold
anniversary services on sunday eve
ming, May goth.
District Superintendent: Watt oc-
cupied the pulpit of Rising Sun M. E.
church on Sunday evening last.
The Boy Scouts have reorganized
their company in North East, wlsh
James Rittenhouse as Scout Master.
Ward Brown, contractor, has be-
gun work on the piece of improved
road from Miller's Corner to Cowen-
gown.
b The ladies of the Seventh District
Union Hospital Auxiliary realized
$50 by card party and dance held
in Port Deposit.
Sunday, May 18th, the second
Sunday in May, is Mothers Day.
The emblem of the day is white
carnation,-wearo one.
St. Patrick's jubilee Bazaar, held
recently in the Firemen's Hall,
Havre de Grace, netted the congre-
cation between $3.50 and $500.
The dam at Stubbs Mill, near
Pleasant Grove, was washed out as
a result of the heavy rains of last
week. and is undergoing thorough
repair.
The teacher and pupils of Wash
ington school, near Bay View, will
hold a festival May Is on the school
lawn, for benefit of library fund. All
are invited to come.
Communion service will be held
at West Nottingham Presbyterian
church next Sabbath morning, May
13. Preparatory service Saturday
afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock.
A temporary bridge has been
erected across Little Elk Creek near
Elkton, for travel between Philsdel-
phia and Baltimore, while the new
concrete bridge is being built.
The pupils and teacher of Row
landville school will hold a festival
on Thursday, May II. Ice cream
cake and the usual good things on
sale. Proceeds for school fund.
William 8. Evans, ESQ.,, as AS
signee has sold four properties on
Collins avenue, Elkton, to William
4 Sterling Evans, Standley Evans and
eReginald Constable jointly, for $3.50
The Cecil Farmers Telephone
Company has purchased from Mrs
r. M. Hunt the building on South
Queen street in which the exchange
is located. The purchase includes
the large stable directly in the real
of the building.
Running in front of an automobile
in Perryville, Donald, ten year old
son of Maurice e. Cole of that town
was knocked down by the machine
before it could be stopped, and ha6
his arm fractured. The lad owes
his life to the fact that the machine
was running very slowly at the time
The Tooth Anniversary of the
founding of Sunday schools il
America will be observed at the Wes
Nottingham Presbyterian Churcl
Sunday morning, May goth. The
hour of the regular morning worship
has been given over to the service
and it is hoped that there will be {
large attendance.
Accidents and delays are so fre
uuent nowadays on the Contra
Division as to be hardly worthy o
record. One of the numerous delay
on this division of the railroad oc
Cured Saturday night, when thu
Gilligan passenger train, ordinaril,
due here at about GAS in the eve
ming did not reach Rising Sun unit
about 1890 o'clock. A freigh
wreck at Port Deposit caused the de
lay in traffic.
The P. E. Sharpless Co. mill
plant, in this town, which has re
gently been working on large order
of evaporated milk for the U. S
Navy, has been placed under instruc
ton by the War Department a
Washington to give precedence to al
orders of the Government. If un
able to procure a sufficient loca
force to operate the plant to its ut
most capacity the Government wi
=. furnish mechanics and skilled work
men.