The midland journal., 1917-02-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mrs. j. B. Slicer is spending the
week in Philadelphia with Mrs.
George England
Mrs. Mollie Mcdowell, Oxford, is
spending some time with her sons,
Thomas and Clayton Mcdowell. near
own
Miss Olive Baker aid Mr.. Norman
Spear were married in Chesapeake
City on Jan. 20, by Rev. John 2.
Eggart.
G.. Ellis Deibert, Assistant Secre-
liary-Treasurer of the Elkton Bank
ing & Trust Company, has resigned,
owing to poor health.
Mrs. Cora Miller was the Friday
Tuesday guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Davis, Warrington; H. Linn
Worthington and family. Howard
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs H. M Duyckincl- en-
,ertained very delightfully."- at a
turkey dinner on SatufdaI evening
asst, the occasion being the thirteen
In anniversary Of their marriage.
In honor of her eleventh birthday,
Grace, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Benjamin Vansa1t, Sylmar, enter
tanned a number of her little school
mates Saturday afternoon. Her
guests were Miss Mabel Reynolds,
Virginia Slicer, Linda Burlington.
Deborah Sterrett, Mary Maxwell,
Catherine Kirk, Ross Cameron.
In the open corn growing contest
aeld at Harrisburg, Paul Coates,
son of William B. Coates, near Gum
Tree, Lancaster county, won first
prize.
The 209 acre farm belonging to
the late VIM. c. Wilson, located near
Lapidum, Hartford county, has been
purchased for $13,500 by Michael H.
Fahey.
The Government fish Matching
station at the Battery, below Havre
de Grace, will not be operated this
'PA4hS bo IL ie"o DCcA uCCIuSu u
abandon it.
y threatening blaze, caused by a
lighted match carelessly thrown into
. waste basket in the Oxford, Pa,
Hotel was discovered in time to pre-
vent serious damage
F. o. Mitchell & Bro, Of Perry
man, Hartford county, large corn
packers, have decided to pay $14.50
a ton for sweet corn in the field dur
ing the coming season.
Tomato growers on the Eastern
Shore are demanding SIS per ton
from Gamers to grow tomatoes for
the coming season, which is an in
crease from SO to SIS per ton over
the prices last year
The Delaware Rhodes scholar
ship at Oxford University for 1917
has been awarded to La Penne
Guenyeur. of Wilmington. He is a
graduate of St. Joseph's College,
Philadelphia and is a student of
Hilles.
Elmore Diebert, P. L. Hopper, R.
H. Leithiser, William E. Veasey and
Walter e. Burns, last week took out
papers Incorporating the Diebert
Barge and Boat Building Company
Of Havre de Grace, with capital
tock of 100000,
The Rising Sun Base Ball Club
has organized for the coming season
with Job Kirk manager, Norris
Reynolds and Taylor Biles assist
ants. M. E. Founders treasurer
A team composed strictly of home
players will be put on the field, and
the County League joined in the
event of it's organization.
The Entertainment Bureau, with
out explanation. sent Judge Fred
Bale, of the Juvenile Court, Colum-
bus, Ohio, on Tuesday evening, to
fill the engagement of DR.. Edwin
Aldine Pound, who was billed to
lecture here on that date.
Judge Bales address was thor
ougly enjoyed by every member of
the audience. His theme was plea
for the boys and girls.-a better
conservation of these, in this period
OF industrial greed, when the rights
Of property-the dollar are over
shadowing those of man.
The speakers presentation of the
case backed by statistics and facts,
was a revelation to his audience.
He showed that through the lack OF
proper care fifty per cent. of the
children of this nation die before
reaching the age of five years, using
this act as O deadly parallel in tell
ing of the false sentiment being
created by "big business" in the in
terest of preparedness. in this coun-
try, while little is being done to con-
serve the future citizenship, upon
which the foundation of the nation
rests