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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
JACOB TOME INSTITUTE


Class Day exercises of the Senior
School for GIRLS, Jacob Tome Insti-
tute, Port Deposit, will be held Tues
day evening, June 10, 700 o'clock
in Washington Hall. The Com
mencement exercises will be held in
Memorial Hall, Thursday, June r.
at 800 p. M, with address by Presi-
dent Joseph H. Apple, of Hood
College. The members of the grad
uating class of 1924 are:
College Course Lee Bart.
lett, Ina Rose Bartlett, Perry Point:
Linda Ann Burlington, Rising Sun;
Helen Christine Cameron, Port De
posit; Lena Griest, Liberty Grove:
Margaret Montgomery Maffitt, Perry
Point; Margaret Meng, Dorothy
Schochet, Port Deposit; Helen Doris
Warner, Willamina Duyckinck Ward
Rising Sun.
Commercial Course-Malinda Ora
ham Campbell, Virginia Catharine
Craig, Mary Nesbitt, Port Deposit
Margaret Elizabeth Tedlie, North
East; Hazel Virginia Woodrow, Row.
landville.
General Course Martha Tosh
Julie Catharine McKelvey, Rising
Sun.
Commercial certificate given tt
Grace Rhoda Boyd, Perryville.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
POWER PLANT TO BE
ENLARGED

Announcement is made that an ad-
ditional $3,500,000 Is to be spent at
HOLLYWOOD, Pa, for the enlargement
of the electric plant An auxiliary
steam plant will be installed so that
during the low water periods in the
year the maximum amount of
electric current ian be manufactured
at all times.
The new company will be in
corporated under the laws of Penn
sylvania and allied with the Pennsyl-
vania Water and Power Company
and the Consolidated Gas, Elecric
Light and Power Company of Balti-
more. The new plant will adjoin the
present one of the Pennsylvania
Water and Power Company at Holt
wood. Contracts for the building oi
the first two units have been placed
in New York.
The new plant will increase the
output Of the present HOLLYWOOD plant
by 25 per cent.
The same interests which manage
the Pennsylvania Water and Power
Company will direct the new plant
Charles E. F. Clarke, of New York
is president of the Pennsylvania CON-
pany, and j. q. Aldred, New York, Ii
chairman of the board of directors
A. c. Bedford is a member of the
board, as Is Sir Harry 8. Holt, oi
Montreal. j. e. Alfred and Co.,
New York, will finance the new
$3,5O0,000 power company.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
J. G. CONNER TO WED
MISS DICKEY

The following is taken from the
Gazette, Trenton, N. j.:
Considerable interest has been
aroused in the announcement of the
approaching marriage of John G.
Conner, Of the Conner Millwork COM
pany, and Miss Frances r. Dickey,
daughter of s. r. Dickey, president of
the Oxford National Bank, Oxford,
Pa. The wedding will take place
June 7 at the Dickey home. The
couple will reside in Trenton.
Miss Dickey, who was graduated
from Wellesley college in 1906, was a
student at the West Nottinaham
academy, West Nottingham, Md, at
the time Mr.. Conner was principal OF
the institution. For some years she
has been giving her time to the
Board of Home Missions Of the Pres
byterian church. She taught in a
mission school in Porto Rico for
seven years. Miss Dickey has done
settlement work in New York and
Chicago, and in order to better fit
herself for this calling, she, took a
course at Johns Hopkins university,
from which institution she was grad
uated as nurse. At the present
time she has charge Of the infrmary
of the Ashville, N. c. Normal school.
Mr.. Conner is a director of the Y.
M. C. A.; vice-presidents of H. M.
VOORHEES, & Brother; director OF
the Trenton Trust company; presi-
dent Of the Trenton Council, Boy
Scouts of America, and member OF
the Kiwanis club, and president OF
the Lafayette alumni of Trenton and
vicinity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
WILL BUILD BOTH ROADS
Fulton and Little Britian Highways
to Maryland Line Will Be Con-
structed by the State

to Maryland Line Will BE Con-
structed by the State
The hopes of Southern Lancaster
County will soon be reality in the
road building line, assurance having
been officially given that both of the
State roads on the Sproul system will
be built from Unicorn to the Mary
land line. The one by way of Full
ton House, Goshen, Wakefield and
New Texas will be known as the pri-
mary road, to be constructed of
concrete and to be two feet wider
than the road, which will be of less
expensive material, and go by way of
Fairmont, Elm and Wrightsdale
to the Maryland line at Rock Springs.
Advertising for bids for construc-
ton will soon be in order and
work started, likely next month.
These roads will be built and main
tanned entirely at the States expense.
Mush credit for the decision of the
State Highway Department in this
matter is due to State Senator Hons
her, of Strasburg, who has been an
ardent advocate of good roads and
used his influenc towards having both
of these roads built.
Each of these roads traverses
rich agricultural sections and accom-
dating many people residing along
them and close to them. Neither OF
these townships now have foot OF
state improved highways. These
roads are quite distant from each
other, more so than several improved
state roads in other parts of the
county and state.-Quarryville Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
WHAT cHAuTAuouA STANDS

FOR
A saner and more normal family
life.
An educational policy which treats
the child as an individual.
Connection of our church life with
our everyday life.
Better physical health for individ-
uals and the race.
No moro war; and recognition
that individuals and nations are
mutually dependent,
A recognition that governments
are for people, not people for govern
ment.
The refusal to subordinate hui
manity to industry.
The making of business a means.
not an end,
The conservation of personal
and natural resources.
The development of leaders in cur
social, political and economic life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
RISING SUN HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES

The commencement exercises of
Rising Sun High School will be held
in James M. E. church of this town,
on Monday evening, June 8, at
o'clock.
The graduating class is composed
of Rachel Janette Reed, Mildred Re-
becca Snyder, Loena Belle Umberger
and Richard Lee Hanna.
The following is the program:
Selection Orchestra
Professional
Invocation Rev. G. c. Harris
Quartette Selection
Rising Sun Male Quartette
Essay-Advanced Education
Richard Hanna
Selection Orchestra
Essay-Pushing to the Front
Mildred Snyder
Commencement Address
Mr.. John McSparren
Quartette Selection
Rising Sun Male Quartette
Presentation of Diplomas
Mr.. Hugh w. Caldwell
Supt. Cecil Co. Schools
Benediction Rev. G. C. Harris
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
NEW BRIDGE


Mrs. Eugene Cook, who, has been
training for a nurse, in Philadelphia
Hospital, is at the bedside Of her
father, Mr.. Stuart, who has been
very i'll, but is reported to. be some
what better.
Miss Blanche Graybeal has resign
ed as principal of New Valley School.
Miss Mildred Lindamood entef-
tanned few Of her girl friends in
honor of her twelfth birthday, on the
18th. She was the recipient Of
several very pretty gifts.
Eli r. Coulson, U. s. NJ, who has
just returned from Panama, has been
spending a few days with the home
folks. His ship, the U. s. s. Dale.
now stationed at Norfolk, Va, will
shortly sail for a two years. cruise In
foreign waters.
The Community Sunday School.
recently organized at the Peoples
Church, is being well attended.
Seventy-fve persons were in attend
ance last Sabbath.
Miss Amelia Blanchfield has re-
signed as principal Of New Bridge
school.
Mrs. Weiant, who formerly con-
Quoted the store at Oakwood, is very
i'll at the home of Mrs. Belle Todd.
Mr.. F. L. Lindamood received word
OF the death of his mother at
Christiansburg, Va, last week.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
RESOLUTIONS

On the death of Miss Mary Cameron
Whereas, In the providence Of God
Miss Mary Cameron, a faitful MEM
Der of the Woman's Missionary
Society of West Nottingham, was
called from this life. to join those
gone on before.
Be it Resolved: That we testify to
her love for and faithfulness to our
church and society.
Resolved: That we rejoice in the
victory over sin and death, and grieve
not over our loss, for our loss was
her eternal gain.
Resolved: That we extend our love
and sympathy to her bereaved family
and pray for the comfort OF their
christian faith.
Resolved: That we publish these
resolutions in the Midland Journal,
send a copy to her family and
engross them upon the minutes of
our society.
MRS. T. P. MCKEE,
MISS AIDA JENKINS,
MRS p. s. ROWLAND,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06

At the recent session of the Mary
land Legislature a law was passed
which will delay payment of bills
against the county-for work on
county roads and all other bills
The law, which applies only to Cecil
county, requires the County Commits
sioners to publish in two county
papers all bills at least ten days. be-
fore passing upon or paying such
claims. The idea of the new law is
to give the citizens and taxpayers of
the county an opportunity to learn
about all claims against the county
before they are paid.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
SACRED CONCERT

The Bible Glass of Mt. Pleasant
M. e. church, near Colora, has ar
ranged for a sacred concert to be
given on the church lawn, Sunday
afternoon, June Is, at 200 o'clock.
The concert will be given by the
Polytechnic Band, of Baltimore. This
is a fine musical organization, COM
posed of 25 first class musicians and
the program rendered will be a
treat to all who hear it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
NEW rRANsAnssIoN lame

A new transmission line 10 to be
erected from HOLLYWOOD to Lancaster
to carry current for light and power
to residents of the section through
which 1t runs.
The present line from the Pennsyl'
vania Water and Power Company
plant to Lancaster is not owned by
this company but by the Conestoga
Transmission Company and. is no:
available for the use of residents
along the route.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
ORPHANS. COURT

Bonds Approyed-Joseph P. Bow
yer, executor of Guy H. Roope: Lidie
D. Reynolds, executor OF William
M. Reynolds.
Accounts Passed-Fifta account OF
William ]. Sterrett and Charles s.
Pyle, guardians OF Deborah E.
Sterrett; first and final account of
Emma s. Minister. executor of Jacob
j. Minister.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
CHURCH REMOVES BAN

The General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in ses-
sion at Springfield, Mass, by vote
of to / has rescinded the rule
that since 1874, placed ban on
dancing, card playing, and other
amusements, The indulgence in
such pastimes is now left to the in
dividual conscience. The rule should
never have been passed, and it's re-
peals means much in the matter Of
holding to the church the young
people. with whom it has been a
source Of irritation,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
MRS. HERBERT C. ROBERTS

MRS. HERBERT C. ROBERTS
Mrs. Dorothy Ray Roberts, wife OF
Herbert 6arlteA Roberts, died May
25, at their home In Baltimore from
pneumonia,
Mrs. Roberts was a daughter Of
George and the late Elisa Jane Me-
Quilkin, of Elkton, and was 81 years
of age, She is survived by her hus-
band and two little daughters.
Dorothy and Margery Roberts; also
by her father, George McQuilkin, of
Elkton. and a brother, George Nc
0uilkin. of Merchantville, N. ].
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06

The Ladies Aid Society of Webster
Community Church, at Webster, Har-
ford county, will hold festival in a
tent on the grounds of the new
church on Thursday evening, June
IL, II stormy, come the next
evening.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
DEATHS
WALTER @. PAxsON

Walter o. Paxson died May 23 al
his home in Doylestown, Pa. He
was So years of age,
MIR. Paxsen was born in Little
Britain, Pa, in 1872. He was
formerly connected with the Phila
delphia North American and the Eve
ming Bulletin.
He ia survived by his wife. Mrs.
Sarah Paxsen. and one sister, Mrs
Wayne Reynelds, 0xfeFd. The de-
ceased was son of Franklin and
Letitia Paxsen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
SUIT FOR DAMAGES SETTLED

The suit of the Trustees of James
M. E. Church, of Rising Sun, against
Louis Blaustein, trading as the
American Oil Company was on Fri
day settled out of Court by the pay
ment of. $4,000 to the Trustees
Joshua Clayotn and VIM. Pepper
Constable, Esqs., were counsel for
the Trustees.
The suit was the outgrowth of the
fire on Jute 13, 1921, caused by an
oil truck of the Company, that result
ed in the burning of the church.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06

Help the Chautauqua guarantors
by purchasing a season ticket.
Remember, single admissions do not
help the guarantors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06

Get the Chautauqua spirit lend a
hand for the uplift of the community,
Buy season ticket at $3.50.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06

II you can nj attend all the. ses-
slons OF Chauta qua remember It is
cheaper to buy season ticket, even
though you hav to miss more than
half the entert nments~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
MAY 81

MAY 81
Perryyille 6, Rising Sun S
IL innings.
Charlestown 8, North East 0
Providence 6, Bay View 2
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-06

SCHEDULE FOR JUNE z
North East at Rising Sun
Providence at Charestown
Perryville at Bay View
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
Fort Whitentdn
and Minor to Tell
About Negro Hero

The first mass meeting Of "Negro
Week" will be held tomorrow night
when Robert Minor, editor of the
Liberator, and Lovett Fort-White-
man of the Chicago Labor Defender,
speak on Frederick Douglass, the
great negro abolitionist, at Wendell
Phillips High School, seth street and
Prairie avenue.
Minor and his colleague believe
that Douglass work was far more
effective in shaping the abolition
movement than the work of the men
who are more generally Landed in the
pages of history. And his career
was colored with more of the light Of
adventure made up as it was Of
hair-breath escapes and marvellous
heroism.
Fort-Whitemen Is a delegate to
the All-Race Assembly sitting thru
next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
The Milford mining company

The Milford mining company is
protected by liability insurance.
The pumps that have been installed
are lowering the water level in the
mine but the swamp mud is believed
to have filed most Of the drifts and
slopes and It will take weeks and
maybe months to remove the bodies.
A l5-year-old boy, Frank Hvrntin,
is credited with saving the lives Of
the seven miners that escaped. He
was some distance from the main
shaft, heard the rush of the water
and ran to the mouth Of the level tel
ling the men to "get on top"
So close was the water to the men
who escaped that Harvey Hosford,
the last of tho seven to reach the col
lar Of the shaft, was wet to the waist.
Superintendent H. 7. Middlebrook
did not go below Tuesday, altho it is
said that it was his custom to make
one trip down every day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09

from the lake and had asked
that it be drained. They were
unorganized and no attention
was paid to their protest altho
it is impossible that the Mil
ford mine engineers could not
have known of the increasing
danger as the working-face
was driven on a slant up to-
ward the bottom of Rabbit
lake.
Absolutely no precautions had been
taken against such a catastrophe as
occurred altho it was an imminent
danger for the last three or four
months, as is shown by the fact that
the drowned miners were standing
about the bottom Of the shaft at the
close Of the shift when overwhelmed
by the food of mud and water.
Death by Few Minutes.
The few minutes spent awaiting
the cage to take them up cost them
their lives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09

but 10 seconds elapsed between the
time the valve was turned and the
time Gee Jon was entirely un-
conscious.
They said they believed he was
dead six minutes later.
1t usually requires from 10 to II
minutes to bring death by hanging.
Witnesses agreed that the chief
sign Of approaching death which they
saw was a slight twitching of the
body.
Thomas Russell, an American born
Mexican, who killed his Indian bride,
was to have died with Gee Jon, by the
same experiment. But his sentence
was committed late Thursday after
noon to life Imprisonment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
Chicago Workers Get Big Start
In Daily Workers Sub Campaign

The active DAILY WORKER boosters meeting, Thursday
night agreed unanimously that the goal set for the sub
scrpon drive of 1000 readers object easily within
our reach for the period set of one month.
The campaign will begin definitely Sunday, Feb 10TH and
terminate March 10TH
All branch DAILY WORKER Agents received adequate
supply subscription books and took upon themselves to make
that each their whole membership would do active
work.
Those present at the meeting organized themselves
vanguard of the drive ready to take the lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09

CIllS new means Oh luIllCClng
capital punishment. He died in
a little cell house of stone; ten
by ten feet square, sitting apart
from all else in the prison yard
of the Nevada State Peniten-
tiary here.
For two years he has waited, while
courts, prison boards, politicians and
finally experts" on poisons and
deadly gases, debated first one
phase and then another of his fate.
Finally, the highest tribunals avail
able to him put the stamp of the laws
approval-the stamp which meant at
least legal acceptance by society-on
lethal gas as a more humane method
of taking human life than the firing
squad or the hangman's moose.
Today was appointed as the day for
the great experiment-the official test
on a human subject of sciences new
est development.
The condemned man faced death as
he awakened this morning with only
little more certainty than might a
man desperately i'll. He knew the
day on which he was to die but not
the hour. That detail, under the law,
was withheld from him.
At 9:37 a. m. three guards march
ed with the Chinaman from the con-
demned row Of the state penitentiary
here, forty yards across the prison
yard to the lethal chamber. He walk
ed quietly, with practically no sign
Of nervousness.
The door was closed behind him and
he was bound hand and foot to a
heavy metal cot.
The process, all of which had been
thoroly rehearsed, required but a
moment.
Immediately when the death cham
Der door was closed, three guards
spun wheels which turned the valves.
There was hiss Of the poison gas
rushing under pressure thru the con-
duits and into the cell.
Watchers at the death house win
dow saw only slight tremor of the
body and then the mans head fell
suddenly to the right side and the
doctors declared that he was dead.
Three minutes elapsed between
the time the gas was introduced into
the death chamber and the time the
physicians made their preliminary
announcement Of death. It is believ-
ed that death came even mora quick
ly than that.
Thirty persons, mostly newspaper
men, watched the execution thru
the little window in the death cham
Der.
Immediately after physicians said
they believed Geo Jon dead, a cur
rent of fresh air was forced into the
death chamber and later guards en-
tered and brought out the body.
Doctors, while waiting for the cell
TO be cleared Of gas. estimated that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
FRENCH COMMUNISTS
GET THE GOAT OF
PREMIER POINCARE

PARIS. - 1--WE stood enou,h
I'm going" shouted Premier Poin.
care in the Chamber of Deputies
this afternoon after some particu-
lariy bitter and personal heekIins
by Communist members
Poineare stalked out of The
chamber. followed by his cabinet
and the session was suspended BY
the president.
There was an uproar In the
chamber.
Finally, the premier returned
and the session was resumed.
Deputy Peret pleaded with the
Communists to cease personal in
veetives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
Still Chasing aNickx.

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. s.-A
nationwide hunt was on TODAY for
Jules p. (Nicky) Arnstein, central
figure in the $5,0O0,000 bond theft
investigation in New York four years
ago. and now sought on a warrant
charging him with obtaining $4,000
in a wire tapping swindle in Youngs-
town, Ohio, in July, 1922.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
House Committee DisauolDs Scheme to
Force Aliens to Become y. S. Citizens

WASHINGTON

wASHINGTONMembcrs Of the House committed immigration
hasten disavow the Davis alien registration measure 6s and to
forcing citizens will be favored
by that committee
BILL enforcing this rule the mmi
continually under espionage he violates strike
niuncion-out no be thrown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
Science With Cold Cruelty
Watches LoU's New Death Mode

CARSON CITY, New, Feb. 8-A civilization which was
Mortified Germany introduced poison gas as weapon of
war today seized that its legal
taking the laws toll of "a life for life"
Once regarded too horrible hydrocyanc acid gas
this morning used to bring "a kindly sleeping death to
condemned to die for murder.
Gee Jon Chinese, representative of the worlds oldest
civilization is the who recorded to die by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
Stomach Ache Is Over.

WASHINGTON, Feb. s.-Formea
President Taft is now considered
virtually to have recovered from thu
attack Of indigestion which sent him
to bed on Wednesday. his doctor said
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09
SINCLAIR PAID Denver POST FOR ITS SILENCE
Workers Protested Against Death
That Lurked in Lake OUer Mine

CROSBY Minn-Refusa to drain Rabbit lake because It
furnished ice to the town the vicinity of the Milford mine
for the death of the AZ miners caught
when it broke into the drift which followed the
ganese iron ore.
The DAILY WORKER correspondent learned today that
long last August the miners had discussed danger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09

QUEBEC, Feb. S.--Breakinr Of q
natural ice bridge and the sweeping
away down the raging st. Lawrencs
Of nine persons proved upon inves-
hgation today TO have resulted In
no casualties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-The Los
Angeles conference for German re-
lief, which has been organized under
the auspices Of the Friends Of Soviet
Russia and Workers Germany, viii
hold a mass meeting Sunday, Feb.
nth, at 2 p. M, in Blanchard hall,
233 S. Broadway. There will be
prominent speakers and good music.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09

Each party branch will cover par
ticularly the immediate territory in
which it is located, and every work
mans home will be visited. Our
comrades will approach their shop
mates and union members. When
this campaign gets well under way,
Chicago will know that the DAILY
WORKER is in existence, and our
comrades promised that they would
see to it that the natives sit up and
take notice of this fact.
Each branch DAILY WORKER
Agent has big task in organizing
their membership for the campaign,
and the meeting advised that where
ever possible they secure a commit
tee to assist in the work. A thousand
new subscribers by March 10th is
the slogan and an extra prize will
eventually be provided for anybody
who can give a good and sufficient
reason why this number cannot be
reached.
Anyone who wishes to participate
in the campaign but who was unable
to attend the meeting, may secure
supplies and register for the drive at
the Office of the Workers Party,
Room 307, 166 w. Washington St., or
at the DAILY WORKER, 1910 NJ.
Halsted st. Members OF the Work
ers Party are urged TO get into touch
with their DAILY WORKER. branch
agent Immediately so as to become in
formed Of the duties and privileges
OF all participants in the campaign.