The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-29

| lTOu WllSOu avenue, WSSI dlOu6
Main street, to the town limits, a
distance of several hundred feet.
Shortstop Preston, of the Havre
de Grace Susquehanna base ball
team, has signed a contract to play
with the Baltimort Orioles next sea-
son.
1t is reported the Rev. Vernon
Lane, rector of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Chesapeake City,
will shortly be transferred tc Okla
homa.
While hunting on the Toomey
farm, near Newark, Del, Morris
Ewing of that town shot a pure
white squirrel. that he is having
mounted.
Democrats of the Fifth district
met in the New Opera House, at
North East, on Thursday evening of
this week for the purpose of form
ing an organization.
| After thirty years of service in the
United States Army, Warrant Officer
Henry w. Loving, stationed at Edge
wood Arsenal, has been retired. He
will make his home at Cambridge,
Mass.
The total vote cast in Cecil county
ON the Repeal question, at the spec
ial election September IL, was 3546,
(which is about 80 per cent of the
registration, and shows woeful lack
of interest.
The recently elected officers of the
School improvement Association of
Calvert are: President, Mrs. H. C.
Mcdowell; vice-president. Mrs. Iva
M. Mckinney; secretary, Miss Mil
dred Cutler; treasurer, William R..
Little.
Omar D. Crothers, Jr, who recent
ly graduated from the Law School Of
the University of Maryland, has To-
Gated in Elkton, with offices on the
second floor of the Rubenstone build
ing, North street.
At the third quarterly conference
of the Cherry Hill district, including
Cherry Hill, Elk Mills and Big Elk
Chapel, an invitation was extended
to the Rev. John R. Diehl to return
as pastor for the fourth year.
Sheriff Albert G. Buckworth has
given notice to all interested persons
chat if the taxes are not paio on the
properties that have been levied
upon, by September 81, they will be
advertised and sold without further
notice.
Senator Wallace Williams, Of Elk
ton, has been appointed an alternate
member of the Veterans Review
Board of Maryland The other
members are: Bushrod r. Watts,
and George j. Clautice, of Balti-
more; Paul Henderson, of Garrison.
Three colored men, Elvin jackson
and Randolph Bowers, both of Ok
ford, and Jess Murray, of Peach Bot
tom, Pa, charged with stealing two
tires from truck owned by Howard
Kirk, of Pleasant Grove, Pa, were
arrested last week, and the tires re-
covered.
The Anthony Groves, Jr., operated
for many years by the Ericsson Line
as passenger and freight boat be-
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia,
has been sold by the Baltimore and
Philadelphia Steamboat Company to
the Chesapeake Oil Transport Com
pany and will be converted into a
barge.
The ghost which has been fright
! ChiA6 h4OtOiA ol vi LAC bCPOott-
Perryville road proved to be the
prank of several young men trying
to brighten some of their more timid
associates. Called upon by the dep
uty sheriff to line up in front of the
lights of his car, the young men pre-
sented. rather an amusing spectacle.
The board for control of wheat
production in Cecil county, officially
known as the Cecil County Wheat
Control Association, has Organized
with the election of John S. Reisler
as president and chairman; r. H.
Baker. vice-president, and R. G. Nc
Dowell, treasurer. Other members
of the group are l.. Wickes Davis,
Chester P. Kimble and County Agent
j. 2. Miller.
The Ladies Aid Society OF Hope
well M. E. Church will hold chick
en- sumner in Honewell Hall nm Fri