The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-04-29

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flower.
The Summer Session of the Uni
yersity of Delaware, Newark, VIII
open June 27 and close August o..
The zacchino farm of 3S acres,
near Pleasant Hill, has been pur-
chased by James F Evans, OF Elk
ton, for $4,000.
CLYDE e. Matthews, of North East,
has purchased from D. D. Bettinger
his 20 acre farm, near chatham
Pa, for $4,000.
Three bicycle riders from Bridge
port, Conn, enroute to Oklahoma
and Texas, passed through town
wednesday morning.
There will be an entertainment
and festival on the New Bridge pub
lie school grounds, near Cecil Paper
mills. Friday evening, April ~.
The employees of Powers Foun-
dry. Elkton, have been notified OIL
an 8 per cent cut in wages, due TO
the drop in price of iron products
Notices have been posted in the
paper mills of the Kenmore Mills at
providence, this county, OF lO per
cent reduction in the wages OF the
employees.
Threshermen Of the Eastern
Shore, at a meeting held in Easton.
decided to reduce the price OF
threshing wheat from 10 cents to 8
cents per bushel.
The Havre de Grace race track is
assessed on the Hartford County tax
books at $155,S59, but the owners
value to the Racing Commission
places it at $639,560.
Twenty-one properties in Hartford
county were sold at Bel Air for un-
paid taxes at bids ranging from $40
the lowest to $3.50 the highest. Last
year there were seven such sales.
Thomas B. Miller has sold his in
terest in the Keys & Miller Lumber
Company, Elkton, te s. j. Keys and
William ]. Davis, who will continue
the business under the same firm
name.
Rev. Joseph Brown Turner, D. D.,
OF Port Deposit, will occupy the
pulpit at West Nottingham Presby-
terian Church on Sunday. May 1st.
The Sacrament Of the Lords Supper
will be administered.
Traders licenses, as also those
for cigarette sales, restaurants,
garages, shoe shine parlors, moving
picture halls, etc., must be renewed
ON or before May at the Court
Clerks office in Elkton.
The Johns Hopkins University an
nounces that its summer courses
will be open from July to August
-. These courses, which include
practically any subject, are open at
the tuition fee OF SIS for public
SCHOOL QtuC0Ed pAA tSeSStsS%S'
Richard wainwright Fisher, a
Port Deposit boy. and a student OF
the Tome School, has been awarded
the William H, Taft medal for the
best thesis on the given subject
..Why Should the United States
Maintain Strong Naval Defense?'
The Aberdeen Enterprise cites
this instance: That the farmers
financial worries are many and war;
led is again proved by the recent
sale of six cattle by Mr.. Oscar john
son. of Perryman, for $5OS, which
had been fattened and which cost
Mr.. johnson $512.
Richard L. Davis. of Camden, n.
J., has been lodged in Elkton jail
charged with bigamy. He was mar
riedr in Elkton by Rev. William r.
Moon, on August 20 last, to Mrs
Hattie Dodson, widow, of Camden.
It is alleged that Davis had wife
living at the time.
The Shelton properties in the
First district were sold last week al
public sale. The two acre lot with
improvements. on the road at Bo-
hemia Bridge was purchased by
Walter Price. Of Philadelphia, fol
seS60, and stoney Battery farm OF
2s7 acres by standley Evans, OF
Elkton. for $500.
DR.. G. l. Benson, of Port Deposit,
met with painful accident last
week. He was called to the country
at an early hour one morning and in
crossing the yard after reaching his
destination, fell over low wall
fracturing' his right wrist. Despite
his injury he attended his patient
and then drove his auto home with
one hand.