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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Youth Fellowship
Annual Conference

The Wilmington District Metho-
dist Youth Fellowship Annual Con-
ference will be held in the Newark
Methodist Church, Newark, DEL, on
the weekend OF April 29th and 3Oth.
Registration will start at IL noon
and the first session will begin at
I:45 o. m. on Saturday, April 29th.
The last service will be on Sunday al
ternoon, April 30th. Everyone will
enjoy the banquet on Saturday even
ing.
The theme for the conference is
youth Challenges the Church"
There will be three classes for selec-
ton this year.
They are as follows:
1. Application of the Teachings
of Jesus" by Rev. Arthur j. jack
son.
Q. Leadership of YOUTH" by Rich
ard NJ Green.
3. Post War Plans" by Clarence
E. FWlmer.
The charge for the weekend will
be $2.25. Plan to have more repre-
sentatives of your church at this,
your conference, than ever before.
Roger Merrill
Elkton Sub-District Publicity
Chairman
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
DunsmOre-WOOd

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c. Dunsmore
of Providence, Md, announce the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Mildred Pearl Dunsmore, to Mr..
James F. Wood, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James F. Wood, Sr., of near
Elkton.
The ceremony was performed Sat
urday evening, April Is, at the
manse of the First Presbyterian
Church with the Rev. H. Everett
Mailman, pastor of the church, Off
ciating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Kitchens,
of Elkton, were the only attendants.
The Immediate families and a few
friends witnessed the ceremony.
The bride wore tru-blue crepe
dress and hat with matching acces-
series with an orchid corsage.
Mrs. Kitchens wore navy blue
with a corsage of gardenias.
After a short wedding trip Mr..
and Mrs. Wood will make their home
near Elkton, Maryland.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Major Teeple
Heads Personal
Affairs Section

Friends of Mrs. John B. Fassitt
will be interested to Ter
brother, Major Clifford H. Teeple,
of the Army Air Forces, has recently
been chosen by General Arnold to
head the Personal Affairs Section, as
Assistant to the Assistant Chief-of-
Staff (PersonneD. His comman d
takes in the entire continental U. S.,
with about 100000 men. This Per-
sonal Affairs Section has to do with
insurance, advice and claims regard
ing pensions, gratuity pay and iai-
son with cooperating agencies such
as the Red Cross, Veterans Admins
tration, U. S. Employment, etc. Ma
ior Teeple's headquarters are at Fort
Worth, Texas, although his work
in organizing the section will take
him all over the country. Major
Teeple is one of five of Mrs. Fassitt's
immediate family in the service of
the country. He will be remembered
as a speaker at the Farmers Club
and a frequent visitor in the neigh
borhoOd
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

Report To
Town Meeting

There were only nine citizens pres
ent at the annual Town Meeting held
in Firemen's Hall, Tuesday night
five of whom were Town Commits
sioners. The Treasurer's report was
as follows:
Balance on hand April 81, 1913,
$2,382.64; Receipts, $9,931.7O; To
toll, $12,314.34; Disbursements, So
$500; Balance, $2,477.74. Total in
debtedness of the town, $4,000;
$4,000 for Sewer Bonds; $500 for
restop system, the debt having been
reduced $4,000 during the year. Taxes
amounting to $4,180.31 were paid
during the year, with $1847 in out
standing taxes.
The old Board was nominated to
serve for another year The Board is
composed of J. Earl Tyson, John c.
Hindman, Thomas B. Robertson, Wal
ter M. Cameron, Sr., and Edwin l..
Haines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Blind Navy Gunner Weds

A navy gunner who was blinded but
survived a shell explosion that kill
ed eight of his buddies was married
Friday at Elkton to his school-day
sweetheart.
The principals to the wedding
performed by the Rev. W. F. Hop
kins are Seaman Charles Raymond
Fowler, "a, and Miss Arletta Mary
Chile, IT. Both are natives of Law
renee Kan, although the young
bride for some months has been a
resident of Philadelphia, Pa, doing
war work.
The couple told the minister they
had become engaged before the
groom entered the Navy. During
the sea battle in which his buddies
were killed, Fowler lost part of his
shoulder, his ear, his sight and also
SUFFERED a badly injured right leg.
For many months he was a pa
tient in a Navy hospital in New
York. Then recently when able to
leave the institution he notified his
sweetheart and they met and later
decided to marry, going to Elkton
by train.
The groom said he has made ar
rangements to procure a Seeing
Eye" dog to assist him in travel and
that he expects to be honorably dis
charged from service shortly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Claiborne Ferry
Service To
Be Continued
Bids For New Wharf To
Be Advertised---ROad
Improvement
Improvement

With the announcement by Gov
ernor Herbert R. O'Conor that bids
would be asked on May for the re-
construction of the Claiborne wharf
of the Romancoke-Claibo branch
of the Chesapeake Bay Ferry System,
came assurances also of broadscale
program of construction and resur-
facing that will make for betterment
of the States highways in every Sec
ton.
Work on the Claiborne wharf pro-
ject will be pushed, Governor O'Con-
or made known, to make this service
available as early as possible for the
increasing patronage the summer
months will bring. At the same time,
the Governor was definite that the
work will be of a thoroughly perma-
nent nature thus dissipating any
idea that the abandonment of the
Romancoke-C Claiborne run had ever
been contemplated.
In addition to the completion of a
number of access highway prjects
in the area of important military es-
Establishments, the Governor indicated.
the State Roads Commission will be-
gin, early in May, surface treatment
of approximately 1000 miles of high
ways, 22% increase over the mile
age given like treatment last year.
Among the access roadway projects
that will be pushed to completion in
the near future, Governor OConor
listed the remaining section of Route
222, connecting cambridge Naval
Reservation and Port Deposit, and
the access highway from Laurel to
Fort George G. Meade.
In Calvert County he announced,
work is underway on a section of
concrete highway between Prince
Frederick and Solomons, while in
Anne Arundel County the remaining
one and three-quarter mile stretch
of the new highway connecting the
Sandy Point Terminal with the Gov
ernor Richie Highway, is under con-
In the Baltimore area, Governor
O'Conor made known, the Erdman
Avenue-North Point dual lane high
way work is almost complete, while
in Frederick County the New jug
Bridge across the Monocacy ON Route
40 is about two-thirds complete.
Other work to start in the near
future, the Governor added, will in
clude bituminous surfacing of the
Three Notch Road from State Route
5 near Mechanicsville to JarbosvilIe.
The highway from Jarbosville to
Hermanville will also be improved
he said, and then by way of the coun-
ty road to the South Gate of the
Cedar Point Flight Test Center.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

CIGARETTES
START FIRES

Excitement ran high for a while
Thursday night about 9:45 O'Clock,
when an alarm was sounded and 1t
was reported the American Store at
the corner of Main and Queen
streets, was on fire. The fire COM
pany responded promptly, and the
blaze was soon extinguished. The
fire was in the large awning across
the front of the store. The awning
was folded up and the blaze in it
was directly over the front door of
the building. A portion of the avn
ing was burned and the woodwork
above it charred. 1t is alleged the
blaze was started by some unidenti-
fed boy deliberately tossing a light
ed cigarette up into the folded avn
ing. Had it not been for its early
discovery the fire would have been
a disastrous one.
Another blaze the firemen were
called upon to extinguish occurred
Friday evening when the canvas COW
ering load of potatoes on a truck
caught fire on the highway near
Calvert. The firemen arrived in
time to save the truck and most of
potatoes, although some of them
were pretty thoroughly roasted. 1t
is reported the blaze resulted from
a lighted cigarette carelessly tossed
from the truck cab. The cigarette
landed in the back of the truck, in
stead of on the highway.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Weather Delays Plant
ing In State

A rainy April has delayed planting
and preparation for planting through
out Maryland at least two weeks al
ready. and if it stays rainy another
week, county agents predicted two
serious results:
Farmers will be forced to abandon
hope of planting at least one crop
field peas.
All spring farming will be crowded
into last-minute squirt so intense
that available labor supplies won't
be able to cope with it.
1t is the delay in blowing. however,
that is causing Maryland farmers
concern.
However, there's a bright side to
the story.
The rain is greatly helping hay and
other pasture crops. and the rain has
! virtually assured the fruit trees of a
good year.
I All this water in the ground" a
county agent said. sis going to give
us the best fruit yield this year we've
had In several"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Prospective
High School
Graduates
Diplomas To Be Award.
ed AT Commence
ments June 9th

The public schools of Cecil county
will close ON June 8, when 2l5 High
School graduates will receive their
diulomas. Elkton has the largest
graduating class, which numbers 81,
North East 81, Ceciltons %, Rising
Sun %, Perryville 20, Chesapeake
City 10, Calvert IL, Colored High
II.
The following compose the Senior
Glass at Rising Sun High.
Academic course-Henry B. Coul-
ter Clarence E. GRAPHICAL, Robert b.
Lyle, Ethel l. McCauley, Mabel L..
Conrad, Ruby A. Anderson, Ella K.
Clendenin and Helen E. McCauley;
general course, George w. Carr, Jr.,
Wilbur r. Kyle, Norris E. Settle,
Branham d. Perry, John A. Red
ding, Jr., Wilbur K. B. Fisher, Fran
els l.. Durham, Edward L. McCum-
mings, William R. Waddell, Hazel l..
Trimble, Mable R. Rawlings, Ruth
E. Alexander and Helen e. Fitzger-
aid; commercial course, Beverly A..
Martin.
Calvert Agricultural High, Acad-
emic Course, Grace Ewing; Rose
mary Fell, Miriam K Hall, Janet M.
Wilson and Mary l.. Wilson; gen
eral course, James r. Mendenhall,
Frances E. Crothers, Helen P. Dill
man Betty M O'Brien, Nan v. Rit-
tenhouse, land Vera Yale.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
PerryviIle Burial
Association Officers

The Perryville Burial Association
met in annual session in Perryville
on Thursday evening, April 20.
The report of the secretary-treas-
urer showed seven deaths during the
past fiscal year, with 800 members
in good standing and 16 applications
on file, and $968.36 in the treasury.
The doirectors elected for the en-
suing year were: S. Raymond Har-
ris, Thomas w. Reynolds, Gilmore H.
Owens, A. j. Eentman, Henry H.
Pounds, George B. Taylor, Samuel
T. Rea, Augustine D. Coudon. Will
ton E. Owens, Drew G. Seminar, j..
Ration Pounds.
The following officers wer ere-
elected: S. Raymond Harris, presi-
dent; Thomah w. Reynolds, vice
president; Gilmore H. Owens, secre-
tary-treasurer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Named Delegate
To Presbyterian
General Assembly

At the meeting of the New Castle
Presbytery at Princess Anne Apri!
Is, the Rev. DR.. Sidney J. Venable
pastor of the West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church, was named the
Presbytery's principal representative
to the General Assembly in Chicago
in June.
Rev. Evan w. Renne was elected
moderator. Mr.. Renne is pastor of
the Head of Christiana and Rock
Presbyterian Churches. The session
ended the 46S stated meetings of the
Church group, which met in the
Somerset County Seat Church.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Maryland To Start
Road Program Soon

Early next month the State Roads
Commission will begin surface treat
ment of 98S miles of highways, at a
cost of over $616,OO0. Wilson T.
Ballard, chief engineer, has reveal
ed.
The 1914 program represents a
% per cent increase over the 8O7
miles of state highways given like
treatment last year, but the cost of
the work will be nearly 40 per cent
above the 1913 expenditures of
$4,000.
Work is nearing completion on
the last remaining section of Route
222, from the gate at the cambridge
naval reservation to Port Deposit
and similar progress was reported on
the access highway from Laurel to
Fort George G. Meade
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Awarded $4,000 Damages

Miss Sara e. Kimble, of Oxford,
head of the commercial department
of Media High School, was awarded
a verdict of $4,000 in Delaware
County Court, as damages in a col
lision between a trailer truck and
the car in which she was a passenger
at State and Sproul roads, Delaware
county, January %, 1912.
The verdict was jointly against
Joseph Wilson, driver of the truck;
Joseph Rooney, owner of the truck,
and Mrs. Louise Beck, Delaware
City, Del, owner and driver OF the
automobile in which Miss Kimble
was riding.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Elkton Woman's Club

The following officers have been
elected by the Elkton Woman's Club
for the ensuing year: President, Mrs.
Robert c. Mackey; first vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. F. Rodney Frazer; second
president, Mrs. H. E. Mcbride;
recording secretary, Mrs. Fred Fish;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Robert
G. Gutenberg; directors 1944-46,
Miss Elizabeth Bratton, Mrs. Tobias
Rudolph, Mrs. Ernest Biles and Mrs.
Henry w. Pippin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. V. Martin and
son, of Whittier, California called
on Rising Sun friends ON Saturday.
Mr.. Martin is a former Rising Sun
boy and is spending some time in
the East, representing the interests
OF the ship building organization
with which he is connected.
Thursday evening in the Woman s
Bible Glass room, the April meeting
of the w. s. c. s. will be held, 1880
o'clock. Program in charge of Circle
No. 2, Mrs. Ruth Ewing leader.
Cpl. Marshall Brown, of Indian
town Gap, Pa, spent the weekend
at the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Elwood Brown.
John c. Hirzel, Wilmington Del,
was the weekend guest of his grand
mother Mrs. Jennie w. Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Grason an
nounce the birth of their third
daughter, born last week.
Mrs. S. J. Green, West Chester,
Pa, was the weekend guest of her
sister, Mrs. India White.
William R. Pogue, Oakmont, Pa,
was the weekend guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. William M. Pogue.
Mrs. Florence Founders Whining
ton, Del, was the guest of Rising
Sun friends Saturday.
Mrs. Martha Holmes, Baltimore,
was the weekend guest of Mr., and
Mrs. Clyde Keilholtz.
Mr. and Mrs. N. ]. Reynolds enter
tanned number of friends at din
ner on Sunday in honor of the birth
day anniversary of the former.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Father illustrates
Runaway Marriage

The irate father of a sixteen-year-
old Doylestown, Pa, girl arrived in
Elkton last week in time to frustrate
her marriage to man much older
than herself.
The father secreted in doorway
saw the couple pass and before they
could get into the Court House, the
father foored the bridegroom and
took the daughter back TO the Penn
sylvsins town and 70 school.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
New Library Books

The following recent books have
been added to the Community Lii
brary shelves during April:
Bedford Village" Hervey Allen:
THE Steep Ascent" Anne Morrow
Lindbergh; 1.-THE Nazarene," and
1.-THE Apostle" Sholem Asch; also
the Hills" Frances Parkinson Keyes;
"Dunnybrook," Gladys Hasty Car
roll; THE Chiangs of China" Clark;
"U. S. S. r. Walter Guaranty; "a
Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Betty
Smith; 1.-THE Walsh Girls" Janeway;
Growing Up" Angela Thirkell.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Enlists In WAVES

Miss Lily Amelia Minker, of Per-
ryvillle, has enlisted in the Women's
Reserve of the Navy and left for in
doctrination at Hunter College. the
Bronx, New York. Miss Minker is
the daughter of Mr., and Mrs.
Charles Leroy Minker, Perryville,
and was formerly employed as a
clerk typist for the Aberdeen Prov
ing Ground.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
MunitiOn Plant Closes

The National Fireworks Plant, To-
Gated along the Elkton-Ch Hill
road, near Elkton, that has been en-
gagged for some months past in the
manufacture of munitions, has closed
and a large percentage of the 1000
employees transferred to other plants
owned by the same company Gen.
eral anager Thomas butcher has been
assigned to plant at West Hanover,
Massachusetts,.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Red Cross Contributions

The Octoraro Branch of the Cecil
County Chapter Red Cross compris-
ing the 9Th, Sth, and 9th Districts.
has turned in $2046 to the annual
Roll Call and War Fund Drive. The
individual solicitors who have given
their time and effort so willingly,
and the people who have contributed
so generously have made possible
this fne record.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Red Cross Active

The North East Branch of the
American Red Cross made from jan
uary, 1943. to January, 1914: 2S,32S
surgical dressings, and collected
$1525.5O, including Charlestown,
which was $234.93, for the Red
Cross War Fund.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Seaman Completes
Boot Training

Herbert D. Rittenhouse, S &c, SON
of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Rittenhouse
of Zion, has completed his recruit
training at Sampson Naval Training
Station and is awaiting further as
signment to qualify him for a petty
officer rating.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

A postal card received from Dick
Barnes, a Perryville boy, advises
that he is a prisoner of war in a
German camp The card was mail
ed by him from the Camp on Novem-
Der IL and wishes his friends a mer-
ry Christmas and a happy new year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

The Lions Club held its dinner
meeting Thursday evening in the
dining room of the Methodist Church
served by Circle No. 1. w. s. c. S..
Mrs. Mary Jenkins leader
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28


post. Arthur Ward, oldest son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward, is in training
at cambridge.
Cpl. and Mrs. John N. Williams
and Whitney, North East, and Lit.
William Zieger, Edgewood Arsenal,
Md, were weekend guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Bruce Williams and daugh-
ter, Miriam.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. T. Tyson, Mrs.
Howard Woodrow and Mrs. Rachael
Mcclure returned on Friday from
Mount Dora, Florida, where they en-
joyed months stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Pogue have
received word that their son, Capt.
Benjamin Pogue, is now stationed
somewhere in the South Pacific.
Pfc Robert Fisher, son of Mrs.
Harry Fisher, of this town, has been
transferred from Morgantown, w.
Va, to a camp in Missouri.
Mrs. Thomas B. Robertson spent
part of last week with her daughter,
Ann, in Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Beatrice Patten visited her
son, Emerson Patten and family, in
Baltimore last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Pyle, Phila-
delphia, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Job Kirk.
Miss Louise Dugan has Joined the
WAVES and is at Hunter College.
Mrs. E. Hughes Keilholtz had the
misfortune to fall at her home on
Cherry Street, and suffer dislocat-
ed wrist.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Air Raid Alert Sounded

An Air Raid Alert was sounded
Monday night shortly before ten
O'Clock. There was a eneral blackout,
all our residents cooperating, but
some OF them a little tardily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
Directors Of Com
munity Library

A meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Community Library will
be held Monday evening, May /, at
the homo Of Mrs. !. 3, Eassitt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

The Cecil Milling Co., of this town,
has put in service a fine new Chew
rOlet truck. purchased from the
Dinsmoye Chevrolet Sales Co.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL MENTION

Mrs. Herbert Ward Wilkes-Barre,
Pa, was the weekend guest of Misses
Sue and Letitia Maxwell, Port De-
post. Arthur Ward, oldest son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward, is in training
at cambridge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-28

Mrs. Z. Hughes Keilholtz had the
misfortune to fall at her home on
Cherry Street, and suffer a dislocat-
ed wrist.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-22

CamilIa Wier was entered as patient at the hospital this Rek
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-22
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(continued from page D Ie greatest number. The school Is also contributed a dozen lstsrs.
 adies handling ticket sales h leatre Hobbies are Mrs. R. L. 6fton, Mrs. Esther Miell. | rs. Henry Haag, Mrs. Emil ] lRpdsen and Mrs. Ragnar hDsen.
 Committees were announced ! is week by General Chairman | rank V. Hill.
 Bud Metzgar is chairman of lsertainment and Mrs. Clyde llbreath of publicity and tick 5; assisted by Mary Jensen, stelle Mitchell. Jack Delane, Iartin Jensen and Mrs. Forest Sers.
 Mrs. Edythe Butler is chair ihD for decorations, assisted by rs. Georgia Sulnerlin, Mrs. Eeye Harvey, Mrs. Walter Lar b, James Martz and Eric |ankenburg.
 Don't forget the date-next lturday, with dancing from 8 12, at Blinn's hall!
Kodiak mirror., 1944-01-22
Sergeant York" # 0rpheum Sun.

a great hero was born in Oc- ,ber, 1918, at the Argonne, ben Sergeant York, from Ten bssee, single-handedly wiped | .aB 8 machine gun nest, killing least twenty Germans and pturing l32 others. When he ks decorated, he said that he | Id been impelled to do it to Ievent more killing. l And this, paradoxically ough, was the man who, when Nat war started, became a con
 eDtious objector and refused
 fightl
 ! Through the years since that t tent many sought to get Ser Aant York's permission to tell pe story on the screen, but he ,Bays refused. When the pre- siat war started Jesse Lasky, of sarner Brothers, iourneyed to ! knnessee and convinced him lat the present war would ben { it by the example of his stir
 g story.
 The picture, bearing the E me Sergeant York" and bas-
 on the Sergeant's personal ary, is the result. Gary Coop
 does the best acting of his reer in the lead role, and an ktstanding supporting cast in- hl6es Dickie Moore as the .other, Margaret Wycherly as
 mother, June Lockhart as sister, Joan Leslie as the
 eetheart, Walter Brennan as country preacher, plus forge Tobias, Ward Bond and bah Beery, Jr.
 Although the climax of the elndes war scenes, most of the eture shows York's early life
 Tennessee, filled with anus
 scenes and characteristics of 5 neighboys, his romance, and b struggle to buy 8 farm and Ie out a living.
 The picture is timely in the fIeme; without any preaching
 makes one proud to be an lnerican.
 Sergeant York" will be h own at the Orpheum theatre anday only.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-25

Frults
APPLES-Mclntosh No. /, $3.50.
3.75; Northern Spies No. l. $3.50.
S.75: Greetings. No. l. s3.O0-3.5o;
Steel Reds. No. l, $S.50-S.75.