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The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Died From Injuries.

Charles Let's, of near Principio,
died in Chester hospital, Jan. 81,
from injuries sustained by being
struck by train at Lamokin station.
Mr. Let's for number of years past
had been employed as a signal main
tainer ON the P. B. & w. Railroad,
and he was at work when the acci-
dent occurred. One of his legs was
broken in several places and his
skull fractured The unfortunate
man is survived by his wife, who was
formerly Miss Garrett, daughter,
Mrs. Harold Stewart, of North East.
and young. son. He was AZ years
old.
The body was brought to North
East for interment at the Methodist
Cemetery, on Sunday afternoon.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
CHARLESTOWN IN AN ELECTION
MUDDLE.
Little Town Has Big Legal Battle On
Hand.

Charlestown, Cecil county, isn't
very large, but it has big fight on
hands just at present, the outgrowth
of a municipal election.
Robert Calvert and Carroll AL
gard, the two judges at the recent
town election held in Charlestown,
who were recently arrested on the
charge of rejecting the ballot of Hen
ry Miller, one of the registered voters
of the town, were given hearings be-
fore Magistrate Isaiah Biddle last
week and both held under $1,000
bond for action of the March grand
jury. On Monday there was
special session of the Circuit Court
to hear mandamus proceedings insti-
tuted by John ]. Graham, Harry r
Barnes, Henry Murphy and Bayard
G. Black, who were declared elected
town commissioners of Charle3tow1
at the recent election to compel the
old board of commissioners to de-
liver over to them the charter, pa
pers and other property of the town.
The old board has refused, alleging
that the election of the eonte2tants
was illegal, null and void
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
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REOPENING OF FISH HATCHERY
DEPENDS ON LEGISLATURE.
Shad Industry Disappearing Because
State Fails To Protect Fish.

The Government has decided to
close the shad hatchery at Havre de
| Grace, operated for years past by the
| Federal Government until the State
of Maryland awakens to the fact that
its shad industry is fast disappear
ing under the present prodigal FISH
laws and materially revise the pres
ent statutes relating to fish nets in
the Chesapeake bay and it's tribu-
aries. aHk
On top of this, officials of the
Maryland Conservation Commission
said that following tour of inspec-
ion of the five hatcheries located on
the Eastern Shore and heretofore
run by the State, it is probable that
all of them will be closed.
The State Conservation Commits
sloners give the same reason as the
Federal Government for their action,
that it was an utter waste of the
peoples money to operate any of the
hatcheries so long rs the State laws
permitted the fishermen to spread
IOIo oSt OOo IAO 1ltCI 0O
thickly that the shad were unable
to reach the shallow reaches of the
tributaries to spawn.
While the regulations of the Fed
eral War Department say just how
tar out into the bay or river an OBJ
3truction shall extend, because of
The refusal of the State to force the
fishermen to increase the distance
between their nets, the result is al
most a blockade of all streams and
rivers of the bay. Prevented from
reaching their spawning grounds,
the shad have been steadily decreas-
ing until last years catch was less
.han third of the catch of 1897.
In addition to the fact that it is
useless to keep the hatcheries open,
when it is impossible to get the
ipawning shad for their eggs, the
Commissioners point out that the
last Legislature failed to appropriate
l single cent for their maintenance.
Secretary of Commerce Redfield
has advised Representative J. Fred
1d1UOIC IIldI IuS SOVOAA-
ment does not propose to dismantle
and remove the Havre de Grace fish
hatchery, which was ordered closed
few days ago. Mr.. Talbot called to
see the Secretary and discuss his
,uture plans for the hatchery. Mr..
Redfeld said the closing order is
temporary and if the next Maryland
legislature takes steps to protect
spawning fish the hatchery will
again be opened.
DEATHS
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Suits For Divorce pocketed.

Mrs. Jennie E. Brown has docket
ed suit in the Circuit Court at Elk
ton, for divorce from her husband
Charles E. Brown, on the ground
of desertion. The bill states that
the parties were married December
%, 1914, and resided together until
January IL, 1916. That one chila
was born as a result of the union.
Alleging abandonment and deser-
ton Walter S. Jamison has docketed
suit in the Circuit Court for a
divorce from his wife, Bertha M.
Jamison. The bill states the parties
we're married July 10 1902, and re-
sided together in Cecil county until
November 7, 1918.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
I" Ground Hog Saw Shadow.

The ground hog didn't have a
particle of trouble seeing his shadow
on Friday last, if he came out. But
if he were a wise animal he laid low,
as Friday was cold and disagreeable,
dispite its sunshine.
According to the old superstition,
SHOWS, rains, sleets, and every other
sort of cold and disagreeable wealth
er may be expected for six more
weeks, because the ground hog GER
tainly saw his shadow if he poked
his nose out.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Port Deposit Fears Ice Gorge.

The Port Deposit correspondent
reports fears of an ice gorge in that
town, as the Susquehanna river is
jammed full of ice, piled to the
height of fifteen or twenty feet o:
more in places.
Early Sunday morning the ice
moved and jammed, backing the
water at Rock Run in the street and
on the railroad tracks, pushing the
ice in some parts of the town almost
on the railroad tracks. Some of the
houses on the riverside of the street
had water in their cellars as we'll as
in their back yards. The river il
packed with ice and still making
more
The midland journal., 1917-02-09

Efforts are being made to revive
the Hartford county agricultural fair.
A new organization has been formed
and subscriptions for stock are being
solicited. The organization is. to be
known as the Hartford Agricultural
and Dairy Association" the incor-
porators being Messrs. James T.
Norris, VIM. A. Wheeler, Albert
B. Twining, George e. Silver anc
Winfield B. Scarf. The principal
Office of the Association will be in
Bel Air.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Samuel Tosh McDougal.

Samuel Tosh McDougal, died
february in Bridgeport, Con-
neticut, from neuritis, aged A
years. The deceased was a native
of Rising Sun, and was a son Of the
ate Samuel McDougal. He was a
painter by trade and had been
located in Bridgeport for some years.
His wife and four children survive.
The body was brought to Rising Sun
on Wednesday and interment made
at Brookview cemetery.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Spear-Baker.


Miss Olive Lucille Baker, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William H.
Baker, of near El!-ton. and Mr..
Norman Thomas Spear, son of Mr..
James 3. Spear, Of near Chesapeake
City, we're united in marriage by
Rev. ]. e. Eggert ct Chesapeake City
Presbyterian manse. on January 20.
Way-Williams.
Glenn Way, son of the late Frank
L. Way, Colora, and Miss Mary Will
liams, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Williams, West Nottingham,
were quietly married Saturday, Jan.
27, at Bel Air. They were accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton
Tyson, Rising Sun. The bride and
groom will reside on the Way farm,
near Colora.
Hohn-Jones.
George A. Holm and Miss Florence
Jones were married at Port Deposit
Methodist parsonage by Rev. F. x.
Moore, ON Wednesday afternoon,
January 81, at 1.30. They were
attended by Edgar Holm, brother of
the groom, George Jones, brother OF
the bride, and Miss Garrison. The
couple motored to Perryville after
the ceremony and took a train for
Washington. On their return Fri
day evening, Mrs. a. j. Holm,
mother Of the groom. entertained at
dinner, after which they took pos
session of their newly furnished
home, known as the McClenahan
office.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
The Trade Of the Peninsula

From Wilmington Every Evening.
At the annual meeting of the Del
marvia Press Association, held in
Wilmington last Monday, numbe
of newspaper publishers from the
Eastern Shore of Maryland were
present, and the spirit of mutua
interest and cooperation among tn
newspapers of the Peninsula wa
particularly marked. The discussion
at this meeting emphasized to
unusual degree that Delaware an,
the Eastern Shore are becomin'
better acquainted and more closel.
associated every year, and that the
interests of one are the interests
both.
Those who recall the dinner tend
cred by the Wilmington Chamber o.
Commerce to the newspaper publish
ers and prominent citizens of the
Delmarvia Peninsula at the Hotel dr
Pont, three Years ago, will recognize
in the above the practical result
which this affair was intended to
promote. That Wilmington ha
profted very largely by a better
acquaintance with our good friend
and neighbors throughout the
Peninsula there is not the leas,
doubt, and may we not hope that o.
the other hand our friends and
neighbors have derived some ad'
vantages in knowing Wilmington
better? 1t developed at th', pres
association meetinA that la"g
volume of trade on the Easter
Shore which formerly centered il
Baltimore and other points had beer
diverted to Wilmington, and to sucf
an extent that baltimore has recent
ly been making some investigation
to find out the reason for its loss in
business.
Wilmington has asked for the
trade of rural Delaware and the
Eastern Shore in no selfish spirit.
The advertising slogan has been
'If you cannot buy it at home, buy
it in Wilmington" and it has been a
slogan that has achieved results mu-
tually satisfactory. If Wilmington
merchants can give the people of the
Peninsula what they want in the way
of merchandise, and being much
easier of access than Baltimore and
other places, why should we not
have this business? The best reason
in the world that we should is the
fact that we are securing a larger
share of it every year.
A plan is now being worked out
by the press association, the object
of which is to give Wilmington a
more intimate knowledge of the
Delaware and Eastern Shore towns,
and it is sure to be productive of
good results. There are many good
people in Wilmington and county
who know and appreciate the splen-
did country between the two bays to
the south of us, but there are thous-
ands who are not the least familiar
with it except, perhaps, in a gen
eral way. An acquaintance to be
thoroughly agreeable must be thor
oughly mutual, and Wilmington
merchants and it's citizens generally
have much to gain by a closer asso-
citation with the good people of rural
Delaware and the Eastern Shore.
Let us make no mistake about this
Nowhere in this broad country of
ours has nature been more kind, nor
can a better or more hospitable
people be found than in the good old
Eastern Shore of our sister State of
Maryland.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Mrs. Mary Carter.

The body of Mrs. Mary Carter,
whose death occurred at the home Of
her sister, Mrs. Bailey, in Missouri,
where she had been on visit, was
brought to the home of her niece,
Mrs. F. L. Cauffman, in Lancaster
county, and interment made in Penn
Hill burying ground.
Mrs. Carter was the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Haines, Fulton
township. Her husband, Joel Car
ter, died several years ago. Two
sisters survive. Mrs. Bailey and
Mrs. Brown, both of Missouri.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Teachers Meet At North East.

The Primary Supervisor of Cecil
County held a group meeting OF
rural teachers of the Fifth District
in North East, on Friday, February
End, in the High School building. 1t
is planned to make these meetings
as practical as possible and, for this
reason; demonstration lessons form
one of the main features at most of
the conferences. A class in fourth
grade Geography was conducted by
Miss Emily Moore, one of the teach
ers of the school. This was followed
by a discussion of the lesson and a
consideration of topics in Geography,
which are especially applicable TO
rural schools.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Farm Buildings and Live Stock
Burned.

Fire on Sunday evening destroyed
the barn, wagon shed and other
buildings on the farm of Maris Nc
Mullen, near Steelville, Chester
County, Pa. Four horses, eleven
COWS, several pigs, three calves, a
large number of chickens perished,
all the farm machinery, wagons,
harness, with the crops, including
over 200 bushels of potatoes were
lost. The fire is believed to have
been of incendiary origin.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Chicken Thieves Sentenced.

Henry Clay Butler and Chester
Butler, who made wholesale raids
on poultry houses in Highland town
ship, Chester county, have been
to nine months each in
the county Jail by the Chester Coun-
ty Court.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
Cows Bring High Prices AT Public
Sale.

At the public sale of DR.. G. S.
Dare and G. T. Dare. Wednesday, on
the farm adjoining town, six COWS,
two heifers and bull brought total
of $500. Five of the cows brought
respectively $1O3, SOL, $50, $S1 and
$50. The young bull $53, The
stock was all Holstein,
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
officers OF Del-Mar-Via Press Asso-

The Del-Mar-Via Press Associa-
ton at it's annual meeting in Will
mington last week elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Thomas
D. Dunn, of the Dover Index; vice
president, S. E. Shanahan, Of the
Easton Simultaneously secretary
and treasurer, William F. Metten, of
the Every Evening; executive COM
mittee; Colonel Theodore Townsend,
of the Milford Chronicle; S. E. Shan
ahan, of the Easton Star-Democrat;
Fred Usilton, of the Kent County
News, Chestertown.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
DEATHS.
Mrs. Lulu Bouchelle.

Mrs. Lulu Bouchelle, of near
Cecilton, died Jan. 27, from tubercu-
losis, aged 81 years. She was a
daughter of the late Lambert Bould-
en-. Two small children survive;
also her mother, six sisters and three
brothers.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09

Do you know that a free dress
pattern is included with the club Of
tour magazines that we are givins
in combination with The Midland
Journal for only 70 cents extra.
Send your order by mail or phone nm.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09

A few Winter Hats formerly sell
ing at $500 and $500. now $500
$3.50 and $2.98.
McCoys, Rising Sun. Md.
The midland journal., 1917-02-09
WEDDINGS.
Daniels---Staats.

Mr.. and Mr. Samuel Il. Daniels
of the Second district have announc-
ed the marriage OF their son, Flech-
er ]. Daniels, and Miss Elizabeth
Stats of Townsend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-04
BOLD ''WAR BABY"
1S-Year-OId Youth on First
Flight Amazes Veterans.
SwoOps Down on Infantry, Has
Pistol Duel With Officer.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs.

With the British Army in the Field.
Aug. Am eighteen-year-old war
baby" making his first flight alone
over enemy territory was awarded
the palm today among England's air
men for sheer audacity in the amaz-
ing list of aerial experts heralding the
opening of the Flanders offensive.
The youngster swooped far over the
enemy territory and then swooped
back, flying within a few feet of the
ground. He spied a detachment of
German infantry. crossing a bridge,
and promptly let loose with his ma
chine gun. Utterly disregarding the
hail of rifle fire they turned upon
him, he circled back and forth, barely
over their heads his machine gun
rafting away. He saw four or five
corpses before the Germans gave way
and sought shelter in nearby bitches.
more, found his quarry too well COW
cred up-and then winged blithily on
his way.
Fights German Officer.
Next he swooped over an open mo-
tor car on a wide road, letting loose
his machine gun fire at an officer in
the tonneau. The machine turned
into a side road and its driver opened
wide the throttle. The officer turned
against his adversary. few feet aloft,
and began firing with his automatic
revolver.
The war baby" felt he would not
be so unsportsmanlike as to return
the officers feeble pistol fire with his
machine gun, so he stopped the latter
and from the air staged a revolver
duel with the flying enemy. Suddenly
the automobile was damned to a stop.
The British plane. fifty feet above and
twenty-five feet behind, could not
stop. but the aviator hurriedly circled
back. then he saw his adversary being
dragged into a house. Meanwhile a
perfect rain of anti-aircraft shells and
machine gun bullets spat all about the
plane. The pilot twirled around a
few times, shot into the skies, disap-
peared into clouds and by and by came
home unframed.
Nearly all of the aerial fighting on
| the foregoing was just an incident,
was at attitudes of less than 200 feet.
The clouds hung so low that flying
had to be at this level If ayiators ex-
pected to see anything. One fight
I close to the first line trenches began
! at 200 feet a1oft and ended at fifty
when the Britisher forced the German
/ to turn and side slip down to death.
Dispersed 200 Troops.
| Another British aviator impudently
ran his machine along the ground OF
| German aerodromes behind the lines
| actually firing his machine gun thru
/ the open doors of the sheds. Rising
again, he dropped bombs over three
sheds and silenced the enemy machine
gund an "archies."
The same pilot machine gunned two
German officers riding along a road
on horse back and later dispersed g
| column of 200 troops and crashed
| down one of two enemy planes thai
rose to do him battle Then he
| swooped back to let his machine CUR
/, fire play death in a crowd of Germans
! who had assembled around the wreck
of the German plane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-04

the Vaccinations included plans to
burn and dynamite bridges. democrat
ize traffic in general and to rob and
plumber whenever the opportunity Of
fered.
Fear Getting Poison.
Hillside homes visited early today
by members of the posses presented
only women and children as occu-
pants, with occasionally an armed
man, showing the effects of an all
night vigil. At most of the places the
possemen were told there were no men
present. Close inquiry invariably
failed to elicit further information.
Officers and posse members have
been warned not to accept food or
drink at unfriendly farm houses. Wo-
men and children left behind by the
recalcitrants were said by officers to
have been instructed to poison the
food and drink of any visitor who car.
not give a prearranged signal.
Captains of the outlaw bands wear
red ribbons across their breasts. Re-
ports of neglected crops in the district
occupied by the DIRECTORS have been
exaggerated. according to posse mem
bers.
y Estimates of the number of men en-
rolled in the DIRECTORS ranks vary
The popular belief, however, is thai
they number between 500 and 900.
Center of Disturbance.
This neighborhood. according to au-
thorities, appeared to be the center oil
the DIRECTORS organization, which ex
tends northward into Hughes county
south into Pontotoc county, anC
northwest into Pottowatomie county
Two arrests had been made early thi.
morning. A youth giving the name O.
Jabez Benefited. brother of an ALLEGED
captain of the southern" district, and
man giving he name of ]. D. Man
Galley, about so years old, were in tn,
hands of a posse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-04
Last Group of State Troops Into
Service Tomorrow.
Kansas Share Under New
Summons Is S,144 Men.
10 FRANCE BEFORE WINTER
Best Trained To Be Sent Is War
Departments Plan.
Training Camps for Previously
Called Ready August Is.

I Washington. Aug. 4.-The United
States will call into active service to-
morrow its last group of national
6uArdsmen, numbering 75,745 soldiers.
At the same time, all militia troops
aot now federalized will automatic9ll lily
be summoned.
With this latest call, the country
has an estimated total of 100000 or
more national guardsmen ready for
Intensive training in southern camps.
The states called tomorrow, their
Strength and their training camps are
as follows:
California, s,591; Utah, 1858; Ari-
Mexico, 1,276, to train at Linda Vista
Calif
! Arkansas, 5000; Mississippi, 4,43s,
and Louisiana, 2,SS8, to train at Alex
andria, La.
Kentucky. s.164. and Indiana, g.
49, to train at Hattiesburg, Miss
along with West Virginia, called July
! 5 and now assigned there.
Kansas, S,144, and Missouri, 14,145
to train at Fort Sill. Okla
4 Alabama, 5,4S7; Georgia, 5,629, and
Florida, 2,S42, to train at Macon, Ga.
According to present schedules,
framing camps will be ready for use
august Is. Those called tomorrow
VIII hold themselves in home stations
Just as troops called earlier.
Train IntensiveIy Until Spring.
With this mobilization completed
khe war department proposes to send
q portion of the better trained units
abroad between now and winter the
the bulk of these troops will be train
ed intensively until spring.
There is talk also of convertine
some of the canvas camps into canton
nnents. Secretary of War Baker has
indicated how extensive such a shift
might be.
: General Mann, head of the national
guard, and his quartermaster officers
predict there will be sufficient sup
plies for the guardsmen, tho for SONS
time it has been necessary to rur
without heavy reserves, due to drair
IN supplies caused by outfitting the
Regular army, particularly the ex-
peditionary forces.
Plenty of wholesome food will be or
hand. The staples-beef, potatoes
onions and bread-will be furnished
generously white vegetables obtaina Ole
about camps will vary the usual ra
lions.
Trench digging, use of mortars
hand grenades and bayonet drill will
be part of the intensive training.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-04
UNIONS TO FIGHT 1T
Organized Labor, 5000 Strong, VIII
Combine Against the Poll Tax.

Organized labor, 5000 strong, has
pledged itself to aid in the fight on
the poll tax law passed by the last
legislature. The pledge was made
Friday evening at a meeting of the
Topeka Industrial Council. The eoun-
Gil is following in the wake of the
East siders and Santa Fe shopmen
who initiated the fight and who al
ready have pledged money and moral
support of the propaganda
George Helwig, chairman of the
East Side Anti-PoH Tax association,
has announced that a mass meeting
to protest against the tax will be held
at Ripley park one night next week
The Santa Fe shopmen, the East
siders and organized labor all have
their shoulders to the wheel now
in the fight against the poll tax law