The midland journal., 1917-11-02
Election Day Tuesday next.

Rain, hail and snow on TUESDAY.
Ninth District Auxiliary Of Union
Hospital subscribed for 500 OF
Liberty Bonds.
The ladies of Zion cleared $50 at
the recent supper held in the interest
of the Navy League.
The mercury was down to 28 de-
grees on Wednesday morning and the
air had a real winter twang in it.
Calvet High School realized over
S53 at the festival and entertainment
held Thursday evening of last week.
Arthur Rambo, contractor, is re-
building the belfry of the Elkton M.
e. Church, which was damaged by
fire last spring.
The Medical and Chirurgical So
Acishy of Maryland held it's semi
annual meeting in Havre de Grace
on Wednesday.
Revival services are in progress at
North East M. E. church. Rev. DR..
George w. Willis, of Cleveland
Ohio, is the evangelist.
The Havre de Grace Chautauqua
guarantors paid $1.05 each to wipe
out the deficit resulting from the
Assembly held this fall
October was month of disagree
able weather. Storms were frequent
and heavy, the fag end of the month
being a succession of rains.
The ducking season on the Flats
opens on Friday, November 2. The
season for rabbits and quail does
not open until November 10.
A horse belonging to Walter M.
Smith was instantly killed Saturday
night, when it fell in we'll on the
American Can lot, at Havre de Grace.
Rally Day Services will be held in
the M. E. Church, Rising Sun, Sun
day morning at $50 o'clock. A fine
program is being prepared. Come
out and bring your friends.
The summer home of the Walnut
Lodge Club, an organization COM
posed of Lancaster men, located on
the York county side of the river
opposite Pequea, was burned last
week.
AS a result of the necessary shift
ing of population from the proving
grounds" Aberdeen is experiencing
q boom in real estate, and many
properties are changing owners, at
good prices.
Jesse L. Shepherd, of Middietown,
. Del, has disposed of his grain, coal
nd fertilizer business to Eugene H.
and Edward E. Shallcfoss, and the
firm will assume charge of the busl-
ness on January 1.
Edward E. Baekey, of Havre de
Grace, employed on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad as ticket agent,
has been promoted as the New Eng
land passenger agent, with head
quarters at Boston.
The Havre de Grace Business
Mems Association has taken steps to
raise funds for dredging a channel
to the plant of the Diebert Barge &
Boat Building Co., on Furnace
Wharf. The cost will be between
$4,000 and $4,000.
The report of r. S. Gallaher, treas
urer of the Aetna Fire Company
Carnival Committee, Newark, Del,
shows the gross receipts from the
1917 carnival to have been So
1866; expenses, $3,166.OS, and net
proceeds, $3,57O.S2.
Chief Engineer Phelps, of the Pub
lie Service Commission, has submit
ted reports to the commission to
have the Baltimore C Ohio Railroad
Company provide better protection
at the public crossings at Elk Mills
Singerly, Leslie and Aiken, in this
county.
D. H. Kaufman, county agent for
Cecil county, has been offered the
pOSlLlOu Ol COuA|J "6Oh1 Az
county, Delaware, and it is under
stood that he will accept the position.
He has been county agent in Cecil
Afor a var and is a graduate of the
Pennsylvania State College.
It has been persistently reported
about the streets of Elkton that Paul
H. Cameron had been injured at
Camp Mcclellan. Major Charles B
FINLEY, Jr., writes his father, Charles
B. Finley, Sr., that the report is
absolutely untrue and that Mr.
Cameron, as well as the rest of the
''boys" from Elkton and Cecil county
are In the best of health and hard
at work about their military duties