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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
Notice To Contractors

Bids will be received for the con-
strnction and erection of high
school at Rising Sun, Maryland,
at the office of the Board of Edu-
cation Of Cecil County, Elkton, on
or before 1880 P. NJ, January 20,
1881, after which time they will
be opened.
proposals shall be in sealed en-
velope addressed to said Board of
Education and marked proposals
for Rising Sun High School"
With proposals shall be included
a certified check in the sum Of
$4,000, or a Bidders Bond IN
like amount, payable to the Board
of Education Of Cecil County,
Maryland. Said check or bond
will be returned after award of
contract; and to successful bidder,
after bond of completion is exc
cuted.
Bids for heating and ventilation,
electric wiring, and plumbing and
sewage disposal will be received
and awarded separately.
Plans and specifications may be
obtained at the office ofthe Board
of Education of Cecil County,
Elkton, Maryland.
The Board reserves the right to
accept or reject any or all bids
By order The Board of Educa-
ton of Cecil County
HOWARD T. RUHL,
Superintendent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
PROTEST AGAINST ANCHOR
NETS

Protests have been filed with the
State Conservation Commission and
with the War Department, by water
men and fishermen of the upper
Chesapeake Bay and of the Elk,
North East, Sassafras and Susque-
hanna rivers, against granting per-
mission to fishermen of Rock Hall,
Love Point and other lower bay
points to place anchor nets in the
waters of Maryland's inland sea
above Pooles Island, which lies of
COLCHESTER Beach.
Local fishermen assert anchor nets
in deeper water than is now allow
ed-to a depth of twenty-five feet
will probably kill fish going to the
headwaters of the bay to spawn and
will thereby cut off the supply Of
fishermen in this locality.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
Philadelphia Electric Company
Petitions For Merger

Application has been made to the
Public Service Commission of Penn
sylvania for PERMISSION to consolidate
several of the electric properties in
York county controlled by the Phila-
delphia Electric Company.
The applications are for sale of the
following properties and rights:
Lower Chanceford Electric Light.
Heat and Power company to the
Delta Water Power company.
Delta Water Power company to the
Southern Pennsylvania power com,
pany.
Delta Electric power company to
the Southern Pennsylvania power COM
pany.
Peach Bottom Township Electric
company to Southern Pennsylvania
power company.
The Southern Pennsylvania power
company is one Of the operating I'M
derliers of u. G. |.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
ELK CHAPTER D. A. r.

The Head of Elk Chapter, Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, was
organized at the home of Mrs. Irwin
T. Kepler, regent, Saturday by Mrs.
Robert A. Welsh, of Millersville, Md,
State regent. The ritual of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution for or
ganization of chapters was used. Twelve
members signed as organizing members.
The officers of the new chapter are regnt,
Mrs. Irwin T. Kepler; vice-regent, Mrs.
H. T. Alexander; corresponding secre-
tary. Mrs. Robert c. Thackery; record.
ing secretary, Mrs. Lynn Biddle Giles.
pie; treasurer. Mrs. Barclay Moore
chaplain, Miss Gratia c. Wells; histor.
ian, Miss Mollie Howard Ash
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
Move To Postpone Date OF
Conference

Efforts are being made to change
the time for holding the next session
of the Wilmington Annual Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church to
the middle of April.
At the last session of the conference,
held in Silverbrook Church, last March,
the conference voted to hold the 1881
session at Asbury Church, near Girls
field, Md, and the Board of Bishops
designated the latter part of March for
the session.
To those who have spent the month
of March in Crisfield no explanation is
needed, for the desire of the ministers
to hold the conference at a later date.
The last session of the conference in
that locality was held in the Crisfied
Church, and those who attended still
remember tie disagreeble weather.
Asblny S.Such is in village near
Crisfield, away from the railroad and
postoffice. While the church is suit
able for the conference, and the people
of that place will care for as many as
they can, necessarily many others must
stop in Crisfield, and in the event OF
bad weather it would prove disa-
greeable experince, and for that reason
the cabinet has requested Bishop Smith,
of the Alabama Area, who will preside
at the next session, to postpone the
time for holding the conference until
weather conditions are more suitable
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
WINS TOMATO CONTEST

Cecil County again has carried off first
honors in the Maryland Ten-Ton To
mato Club contest during the year. Al
the annual Convention and banquet Of
the TT1i-State Packers Association, in
Philadelphia. Harry M. Morris. of Zion.
Cecil county, was awarded first prize,
a 500 gold watch.
Mr.. Morris secured yield of IL. 5
tons per acre on 2.3 acres. This was
the highest yield secured by any tomato
grower in the 1880 contest
The second prize. watch valued al
SIS. was won by Frank c. Jones, q
Hartford county. while the third prize
$50. was captured by Carl Singer, Of
Dorchester county. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
TO RELOCATE RAILROAD
THROUGH ELKTON

Work on eliminating the sharp and
dangerous curve in the line of the Pen
nsylvania Railroad, just north of the
passenger station at Elkton. which has
been discussed for more than twenty
years. will actually be stated soon.
The new line will be located about a
quarter of mile further north than the
present tracks. starring near Big Elk
Creek bridge and connecting with the
present line near what was known for
many years, until the new overhead
bridge was built about year ago, as
Red Mill crossing. at the extreme west
ern section of Elkton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
The Blow That Does
The Damage

1t may not be threatening
at first, but it gradually in
creases in velocity until
we'll, until you wish you had
Wind Insurance.
There's little that can be
done to prevent wind dam
age. Wind hits your prop
erty or it doesn't. If it does
and you have no indemnity,
you're 'all out of luck Bet
ter get some Windstorm In
surance now, while you can.
The cost is low.
CHAS. s. PYLE
INSURANCE
RISING SUN :: MD.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
PUBLIC SALE
AUTOMOBILE

The undersigned will sell at
Conowingo Garage, on
MONDAY, JANUARY IL, 1881
At 10000 O'Clock A. M.
The following machine,
which is sold for storage, terms
Of sale being cash.
MODEL L FORD, 1927
otor No. 14638605
This machine is advertised
in compliance with the Mary
land State Laws, Chapter All,
Acts 1924, Sections 81 and Sc,
and a clear title is guaranteed.
" CONOWINGO9 GARAGE
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
NOTICE

The annual meeting of the
members of The Farmers and
Mechanics Mutual Insurance AS
ISOLATION OF Cecil County, Incor-
porated, will be held in the SEES
sion Building of the Presbyterian
Church, Zion, Md, on Saturday,
January 10, 1881, at two +. M.
LEONARD c. WILSON,
Secretary
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
notice.!

Starting Monday, January
5, 1881, and continuing until
further notice, our stores will
close Monday, as well as Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday
at six O'Clock P. M.
Friday and Saturday nights
our stores will be open as
usual.
Pogue & Robertson,
M. F. Johnson,
Haines & Kirk,
J. S. Pogue, Sons & Co.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church

kev. A. H. Hibshman
Phi. D., Pastor
Sunday School 10000 a. m
Worship at 11:00 a. IN.
Young Peoples Meeting at
700 p. m.
DR.. Hibshman's subject next
Sunday will be "The Prospects
for the New Year." a Boy Scout
service. Promotion OF Boy
Scouts and the awarding OF
merit badges. Boy Scouts and
the public generally are cordi-
ally invited to this service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

Mr.. and Mrs. John Frazer, of
Newark, announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Anna
Margaret, to Mr.. P. 1. Harrison,
of Elkton. The wedding took
place on December 20, al Port
Deposit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
WOODLAND

Revival services will start at Hope
well, Sunday evening, the 4th.
Rev. and Mrs. Arlo A. Brown and
Junior, Of Madison, N. j., were
luncheon guests Of the Misses Abra-
hams, Friday.
Mr.. David Gillespie and Miss Flea
nor Gillespie, of Wilmington, spent
Christmas Day with his niece, Mrs.
M. o. jackson.
The usual family reunions were
held in this section Christmas Day
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Cline hao
twelve at their home. Her aunts
Misses Anna and Alice Garvin, o.
Mount Pleasant, called in the after.
noon.
The Charsha family took dinner
with Mr.. Mrs. Edmund Brown. Miss
Virginia Charsha, of New York, was
among those present. She is the
Executive Secretary of WILDER c.
Whitehead, and leaves with his
party in January on a trip to the
West Indies.
Rev. and Mrs. j. H. Whedbee and
children spent the day with her par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gregg, at New
port, Del.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis White, of Rich.
ardson Park, Del, spent Christmas
Day with their cousins, Mr.. William
Weir and sister, Miss Martha Weir.
Miss Elizbeth Tyson, West Ches.
ter Teachers College, Miss Bruns
Abrahams, TO Amber, Pa, High
School, spent the holidays at their
respective homes.
At the 3rd and 4th Quarterly Con
ference held at Hopewell Church
House, the 18th Rev. j. H. Whedbee
was UNANIMOUSLY invited to return fol
third year.
Miss Fannie Hawley is spending
the week in Coatsville, Pa.
Miss Virginia Abrahams is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Abrahams, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Grace Rawlings returned tt
Baltimore, Saturday, after spending
a few days with the Howard G.
Barnes family, and left Saturday
night-to spend the remainder OF. hel
vacation with friends in North Car
DINA.
Mrs. Carrie Fowler, Miss Ruth
Fowler and Miss BERTHE Warner, Of
Baltimore; Mr.. and Mrs. Bentor
Felty and children, Of Safe Harbor
Pa, spent CHRISTMAS Day with Mr.
and Mrs. H. H. Kirk.
Mrs. Mari w. Jackson, who ha.
been with her daughter, Mrs. Ruff.
Benjamin, has gone to spend the bal
ance of the winter with her daughter
in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs Bernard Cline were
dinner guests of Mrs. Cline's aunts
the Misses Anna and Alice Garvin, O
Mount Pleasant, Friday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
Rising Sun nj. E. Church
j. c. Mccoy. Pastor.

Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
Preaching 11:00 O'Clock.
Junior League 600 p. m.
Senior League 700.
The evening service will be
Mems Night. There will be a
mems choir and a short SER
mon. Come out and help make
this service a success.
Wednesday evening, 7:45
to $3.50 prayer meeting.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

Communities freely discuss
their faults and lackings! But
they hate them to be pointed
out by newspapers in other
towns.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
SUICIDE BY SHOOTING

Ralph M. Mitchell, a Hartford
County farmer, committed sui
eide at his home near Short
Lane on Tuesday morning of
last week, by shooting himself,
sending two charges of No. 10
shot gun into his body near the
heart. He was As years of age.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
American Legion Ambulance
Week of Dec. % to 20, Inc.

The week just passed was another
quiet one for the Legion Ambulance,
with only six trips, all in the county.
The Post is very fortunate in being
able to present most distinguished
group of gentlemen as their January
driving crew. This gang is headed by
j. j. Maloney, assisted by c. X. Elder,
Edward Crothers and Robert Gonce.
Number of trips for week 6; average
mileage per trip 1872; total mileage for
week lis; total trips to date 1929; aver
age mileage per trip 1915; total mileage
to date Al, 761.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
AZ MILES OF PIPE LINE

The pipe line for natural gas between
Conowingo. Md, and Thorndale. Pa. !,
is done. There were 900 employed in
laying these AZ miles of pipe. 1t is said
that manufactured gas will be piped
through this line to Washington. D. c..
when the line from Maryland is COM
pleted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
Card OF Thanks

We wish to thank the neigh
bors, friends and the Fire Com
pany for their splendid help in
connection with the accident at
our home on Thursday morn
ing.
Angela and Carlton Nichols,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Lane
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

HOpewell M. E. Charge
j. H. Whedbee, Minister
Hopewell Charge
Sunday School 10000 a. III.
Divine Worship 11:00 a. NJ,
and 1880 p. m.
Asbury Church
Sunday School 200 y. m.
Divine Worship 800 p. III.
Every second Sunday Sun
day School $50 a. m.
Divine Worship Gao ? m
Though old ache and pains
may or may not hangSQE, evary
day new ones arrive.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

Man is as imaginative as a
child. Consider the queer cults
and strange religions he has
invented.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

Laughter is sometimes the
Incl of a dead hope.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

No one is wholly at peace,
knowing a tooth needs filing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

Moss is not what the rolling
stone wants, but scenery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

There's poetry in everything,
including the waste basket.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

Few men really reform; they
just get tired of their vices.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02

Those who are patient don't
ask to be congratulated upon it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-01-02
Saturday, Jan. 10, 1881

M. U. ZIMMERMAN, Sec.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

of these ex-members. This result
was largely due also to incorrect
methods in the campaign of activi-
cation, to tactlessness and especial
ly to an insufficient theological
campaign.
In the field Of trade union work
our Bolshevization process was
least successful. This is not
merely a. shortcoming of our or
ganizational activities, it is a po-
liticai weakness of the first order.
The organization of the working
class for revolutionary overthrow
of capitalism is possible only if
this working class is drawn into
the revolutionary struggle gradu-
ally through successive struggles
for immediate demands and for
the solution of immediate prob
lens. The winning of the working
class for the revolution is not the
winning of the working class for
certain theoretical formulate. 1t
is rather the winning of the work
ing class for the struggle in its
own immediate interests and the
development of this struggle into
a revolutionary one by gradually
adding in the minds of the work
ers to the understanding of the
immediate interest and understand
ing of their political class inter-
ests.
If we understand this, we know
that our Party can never become
mass Party without economic
mass organizations under our in
fluence and leadership. Our Party
can never attract masses for the
political class struggle if it does
not succeed in organizing and in
leading masses into economic
struggles. A lack of understand
ing of this point also represented
the major weakness of our recruit
ing campaign last year.
The recruiting campaign became
more of problem of arithmetic
than of the class struggle. The
campaign was conducted more by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

the roots of the Party into the
shops and factories will also defeat
the efforts Of the capitalist class
and its government to outlaw the
Party and to illegalize every ac-
tivity Of the Party. The capitalist
class policeman may be able to
prevent the worker from going to
Communist meeting by prevent
ing such meeting; but he cannot
prevent a Communist worker in
the shop from talking to his fell
low worker and from winning him
for struggle against capitalism.
In spite of comparatively sue
cessful recruiting campaign at the
beginning of the year, the rne,nber-
ship of the Party actually remain
ed unchanged. However, the fact
that large section of our Party
membership, in some districts more
than half, are new members, tes-
titles to the fact that the results
of the recruitment campaign were
not mere pretenses. But why no
increase in membership?
A large section of our old Party
members have been so used to in
activity that the activization of the
Party in many instances drove
them out. It would be sxrong to
explain this merely with a. lack of
revolutionary quality on the part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
STAIN ON LEADERSHIP

The workers in the U.S.S.R.
grew up and received their
training in the storms of three
revolutions. They learned, as
no other workers learned, to try
their leaders and to expel them
if they do not satisfy the inter-
ests of the proletariat. At one
time the most popular man in
our Party was Plekhanoy. How
ever, the workers did not hest
tate to isolate him completely
when they became convinced
that he had abandoned the pro-
letarian position. And if these
workers express their complete
confidence in the Communists.
elect them to responsible posts
in the trade unions. it is direct
evidence that the strength and
stability of the Communist Par
ty among the workers in the u.
S.S.R. is enormous. This is one
test of the lndoubted sympathy
of the broad masses of the
workers for the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

(Lenin at meeting OF the Cheka
on the First Anniversary of the
October Reyolution)
Comrades:
Celebrating the anniversary Of
our revolution, I should like to say
few words about the hard work
of the Extraordinary Commission.
It is no wonder that we hear not
only from our enemies but also
from friends making attacks on the
activities of the Cheka. Reviewing
the activities of the Extraordinary
Commission and comparing them
with the attacks. l must say that
the latter are nothing but talk
hardly worth mentioning. 1t re-
minds me of Kautsky's sermon on
the dictatorship which be oeals
with from the angle of bourgeois
politics. But we are speaking from
experience, we know that it re-
quires a very hard struggle to eX-
propriate the bourgeoisie, to estab-
lish a dictatorship.
Marx said that between capital
ism and Communism there is a pc
riod of the revolutionary dictator
ship of the proletariat. The more
the proletariat viii bring pressure
to bear on the bourgeoisie, the
greater will be their resistance. We
know how they dealt with the pro-
letariat in France in 11848 ami we
are surprised to see how people
can forget the most elementary
principles of Marxism when re-
preaching us for being severe We
still remember the uprising OF the,
junkers in October, we must not
forget the organization of i.um-
Der of instructions On the one
hand we have TO learn to perform
creative work. and on the other.
we have to break the resistance of
the bourgeoisie. The White Army
of Finland did not hesitate in
shooting down the workers of that
country, notwithstanding its boast
ed democracy The idea of the need
for dictatorship has deeply pence
trated the broad masses, notwith-
standing its severity and difficult
ty. There is nc other way of
emaneipating the masses except
through the violent suppression Of
the exploiters. And that is just
what the Cheka is doing, that is its
service rendered to the proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
A YEAR OF BOLSHEVIZATION

numerical addition of whoever con-
sented to be added, than of inten-
sive class struggle activities in
which the Party by its initiative
and leadership would attract the
most intelligent, the most active
and the most militant workers in
to its ranks. But whatever the
shortcomings of the Party in this
field still are, the very experiences
gathered during the last year will
be considerable step toward de-
cisive improvement.
The greatest weakness of the
Party is still its inability to es-
tablish a more intimate contact
with the masses which it leads. In
many instances Communist slo-
gans lead the masses, but the Par
ty does not. The basic reason
for this weakness is the sectarian
conception still prevailing in our
Party about the united front tao
tics. Here lies the reason for the
continuing propaganda character
of the activities of the Party. In
the anti-war campaign for in
stance, we have penetrated quite
deeply into the working class with
our propaganda against the threat
ening imperialist war and against
the, impending ip,perialist inter
vention against the Soviet I'm
ion. But we have no organized
mass movement against this war
and intervention.
The greatest step toward the
overcoming of this weakness was
made by the Party during the last
year in the unemployment cam
paign. There, though slowly, the
Party learned to realize the para
mount Importance of real organi-
cation and real struggle and the
indispensability for this real or
ganization and this real struggle
for immediate and partial de-
mands. Our unemployment cam
paign is the best manifestation of
the progressive Bolshevization of
the Party. The next step must be
the application of the experiences
of this campaign to the general
work of the Party, especially in
the anti-war campaign.
On the whole, we are justified
in stating that the last year was
the year of greatest progress of
our Party on the road to Bolshevi-
Not only did the Party
actually improve considerably its
revolutionary quality, but it be-
came more and more conscious of
the gap that still exists between
what it is and what it can and
must do:
The Lenin Memorial campaign
shall be made the occasion for dis
seminating the experiences of last
year within our Party. It shall be
made the occasion to translate
Leninism into living and guiding
principle of every activity of the
Party as well as its erganizational
forms and life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Why theBosses
Hate the GPU


Qenin at a meeting of the Cheka
on the First Anniversary of the
October Reyoluti0n)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-01-22

held their annual meeting at the vii
lage hall. Lunch was served to all in
attendance. Free movies were pre-
scented.
At the advertising day sponsored
by the local lumber yard, Henry
Dahmes drew the lucky number which
entitled him to an individual hog
house. Coffee, doughnuts and sand
witches were served to all that regist-
cred.
Annie Prokosch was a business
caller at Morgan, Thursday.
Quite number of local dance en-
thusiasts attended the dance at Nor
gan Wednesday night for which Ed
dies of New Ulm furnished the music.
A. L. Dugas and O. H. Radatz mo-
tored to Lucan Wednesday afternoon
TO get Tony Match's car which A. L.
is now repainting.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Wohlford were
social callers at the Herman Kla-
bundle home Tuesday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Christ Mack and
family of Willow Lake were social
callers at the Gustave Drummer home
Sunday.
Victor Peterson traded his model
''T" to L. H. Clements for a Dodge
coupe.
Mrs. ]. P. Kagel visited at the O.
H. Radatz home Sunday afternoon.