The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-02-01

/ LIT. ". .. DdT6 WAS tut 6uSrt Auo'
week of B. H. Brown. in Philadel-
.phia. n
Mrs. Ralph Wilson is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. c. Car
hart, Philadelphia.
Mrs. ]. Fred Mcclure, Baltimore.
was the guest last week of her
father, Samuel Tyson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph M. Showalter,
Of Oxford, celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary OF their wedding on Mon
day afternoon.
George King. one Of the Elkton
soldiers at Camp Mcclellan, and Miss
Gertrude L. Barber, of Chester, Pa,
were married in Elkton, on jap. %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chalmer c. Reynolds,
of Sandy Springs, Montgomery
County, we're guests several days
last week Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. l..
Duyckinck.
Lee I. Hecht, Of Havre de Grace,
Matte o. Gauer, of Aberdeen, and
Oliver H. Reeside, Jr., OF Baltimore,
have incorporated the Aberdeen
Amusement Company with $4,000
capital stock.
The Aberdeen Motor Car Com
pany with a capital stock of $780,
900 has been Incorporated at Bel Air,
by Lee /. Hecht, of Havre de Grace,
&c. c. Alban and J. w. Walter, Of
Baltimore.
Burns Bros. have decided to give
the people Of Havre de Grace a real
apartment house, accommodating
thirty families. The apartment will
be located on Green street, and will
be modern in every respect with
janitor and elevator service.
Frank Holmes. colored, is in q
critical condition at Havre de Grace
Hosital with bullet wound in his
stomach as a result of quarrel with
his wife at their home in that town.
It is thought he will die. The
woman has been arrested.
Mrs. Helen M. Shaub. OF Cecil
county. has introduced suit for abso-
lutte divorce in the Circuit Court for
Cecil county against her husband.
Garvin S. Shaub, charging desertion.
The bill states the couple were mar
ried in Havre de Grace May IS, 1918,
and lived there for nearly a year.
Edward p Hill, a promoter, of
Baltimore, was fined $50 and cost
for contempt of Court by Judge Har-
Ian, in connection with the receiver
ship case of Young & Selden Co., OF
Baltimore, against the SusQuehanna
Inn Co., Of Havre de Grace. 1t is
alleged Hill refused to deliver
certain papers wanted in the case.
A colored man, by the name OF
Thomas, was killed by train on the
Penna. Railroad, near Aberdeen one
morning last week. He was employ
ed by the Construction Co. When
found he had quite a sum of money
in his pockets and also had a new
suit of clothes with him. Just how
the accident occurred could not be
ascertained.
Our rural mail carriers have been
experiencing great difficulty in
serving their routes, owing to the
deep snow. The big mail truck from
Oxford to Baltimore did not run on
Monday. On Tuesday it reached
Rising Sun about 1880 a. m. and
continued on to Baltimore, but did
not get back here on the return trip
until about i've o'clock the next day
Wednesday.
The tenant house on the farm ol
David Jackson, near Bartville, Pa.
was burned Saturday afternoon, to.
gether with contents. The house
was occupied by the family of Ira
Thompson. The father and mother
were away at the time, leaving two
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rescued by neighbors. This is the
third fire on the Jackson property
in the last year, as on January 18th
of 1917, the feed and saw mill were
burned and on April 23rd the barr
was destroyed.
i The Snow Hill Messenger report:
two fishermen Of that neighborhooi
making haul of fish in the IndiaI
lriver last week. that is claimed Il
have been the heaviest for man,
years. The men cut the ice thu
river, let their seines dap hder
meath and then hauled \ The!
caught two one-horse wagon ads II
q short time of fine tw pount
perch, for which they were vofferet
$50 barrel before they had unload
ed them. They refused the one
and shipped thin from Dagsboro. ans
at current prices expect to receiv'
nearly $1,000 tor their days work