The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-12-21
Merry Christmas to all +!
Tuesday next is Christmas.


life will be the January sales.
saturday, the 22nd, is the first
day Of winter. and the shortest day
in the year.
Christmas mail will be placed in
the boxes but there will be no win
dow delivery on December rs.
Several Of the cottages along the
river shore at Hances Point were
broken into and ransacked recently
BY unknown parties.
The public schools Of the county
win close for the Christmas holidays
Friday afternoon. December Fl. and
. reopen Wednesday morning, Janu-
airy 2. 1929.
DR.. G. II. Dana, who recently NOV
ed to Chestertown from Baltimore,
has Eeen appointed clinical denta
expert for the schools of Kent
county.
A petition signed by virtually
every citizen Of Port Deposit. asking
that free delivery be inaugurated in
that town has been forwarded to the
Postofice Department by Senator
MiIlard q. Tydings.
The goods stolen from the home
of Samuel Sturgen, in North East,
robbed on two different occasions,
were located in Philadelphia last
week BY the police, but the thief
was not apprehended.
The Hartford County Public Ii.
bfary, Incorporated in 1913, reports
that it is entirely out of debt, includ-
ing the costs Of its property at Bel
Air which was s2,122.O0 and its inn
provement to the extent Of $2,S52.
Al second Save-A-Life campaign,
similar to the one conducted in the
fall Of 1927, will be held by the
Motor Vehicle Commission during
February, while the State Legisla-
fure is in session, e. Austin Baugh-
man, Commissioner, has announced.
rhe Government has asked fo'
4or Turning Basin on the
yrth side Of the Canal. 1000 west
II The new bridge, in Chesapeake
Z civ. It is to be dredged IL feet at
low tide and is to be $50 feet wide
and 500 feet long. Bids will be
opened yanuary 4.
In a recent old fashioned spelling
bee conducted at Beacon College,
Wilmington, under the jurisdiction
of Prof. Fl. f.. Hudson, Miss Naomi
4. Reynolds. secretarial student,
won high honors by winning the
contest. Miss Reynolds is a high
school graduate and she lives at
Perryville. this county.
The oficers elected by the Cecil
County Unit OF the Alumni Associa-
ton OF the Maryland State Normal
school for the ensuing year are:
president, Mrs. Maxwell Fields;
vice-president, Miss Ida Kimbie;
secretary-treasurer, Miss Katharine
N Bratton; chairman Of program
committee, Mrs. William Leeter.
Corporal Roger p. Elderkin, OF
the Delaware State Highway Police,
who was injured on December 2,
when his motorcycle collided with
An automobile on the Glasgow road,
had his left leg amputated at the
delaware Hospital last week. The
bones in the leg had been broken IN
four places and his foot badly cf''sa-
no assist in the enforcement OF
Eighteenth Amendment, The
men of Chesapeake City have or
pized a club with the following
oficers: Mrs. &. M. Wilseg, Presi-
dent: Charles C. Carty. vice-prest-
dent Mrs. Grover Everett and Miss
Florence B. Locke, secretaries. ano
Mrs. John NJ. Reed, Jr., pubiicity
chairman.
y. IN order that the Chesapeake
~ Deleware Canal will be kept
OF Ice this winter. the 40-foot
n NJ-5 has been detailed from
york. The launch Is equipped
eak through ice and it is ex-
\ that with this craft patroling
anal trafic this winter through
svaterway will not be held up
Asreezing. weather comes.
in Jeremiah Baker Chapter
has decided. to ofer Q