The Midland journalvoi. uv

. RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY, MD., FRIDAY, MAY 20,1927 . io

TOWN AND COUNTY• *•

Short Paragraphs of Events in the CountyDuring the Past Week.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

ESTATE OH MRS. E. S. FRANCE

Appraised At 91,050,654.00 InStock, Bonds, Etc.

1 Edwin W. Levering, of BakerWatts & Co., Baltimore, and JohnH. Kimble, of Port Deposit, ap-pointed appraisers of the personalestate of the late Mrs. Evalyn S.Prance, wife of Dr Joseph I. Prance,

k former U. S. Senator, of Port De-posit, by the Orphans’ Court of thiscounty, filed their appraisment atthe session of the Court on May 11.

' It lists the various stocks, bonds,etc., owned by Mrs. France, articlesof jewelry, silverware, two auto-

. mobiles, and cash on hand, withvalues as follows: Stocks, bonds,etc., $1,035,293; jewelry, $9,800;silverware, 2,097.50; cash $663.54.Total appraised value $1,050,654.96.

The furniture and real estate,chiefly the city residence on MountVernon Place, West, in Baltimore,and the farm and home, Mt. Ararat,of Mrs. Prance, near Port Deposit,have not been appraised, and swellthe total value of her possessions.

VISITING FARMERS INSPECTCECIL ASPARAGUS FIELDSForty asparagus growers from

various parts of Maryland, under theleadership of Dr. T. B. Symons, dir-ector of extension of the Universityof Maryland, spent last Thursday ona tour of the asparagus fields of Ce-cil county. Growers from Caroline,Talbot, Kent, Cecil and Carrollcounties were in attendance, as wellas a number of representatives fromthe University of Maryland.

Leaving from the county agent’soffice visits were made to the fieldsand packing sheds of Herbert Paul,George B. McKeown, Wallace Wil-liams, Reginald Constable and Wil-liam T. Goode.

The asparagus acreage of each ofthese growers average over twentyeach of prime cutting age and formsa concentrated industry just southof Elkton. The quality of aspara-gus was a revelation to the visitors.Of special interest was the very eflic-cient way in which the product waspacked and marketed, each growerhaving a special name to identify hisproduct on the market.

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MOTOR POLICEMAN SUFFERSBROKEN LEG

George V. Haggerty, a Statepoliceman, suffered a fracture 1 of theleg and other injuries when hismotorcycle struck a tree Wednes-day night, May 11, as he wasanswering a hold-up call.

Haggerty is 25 years old and isa son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hag-gerty, of Port Deposit. The acci-dent occurred at Kingsville nearBel Air. Haggerty said that some-thing had become deranged in themechanism of the motorcycle. Hewas taken to the University Hos-pital, Baltimore.

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BOOZE JOINTS RAIDEDSheriff G. Clinton Logan and De-

puties in a recent raid of three boozejoints at Octoraro arrested Henry DeMaolo. Dominick De Maolo and Lew-is Velotto, white, and John Davis,colored. The men were held underSSOO each by Police Justice Gove S.Scotten for the' September term ofCourt, on charges of having liquorin possession for sale. \ The headsof barrels were knocked out of anumber of barrels of wet goods bythe officers.

Three colored women who couldgive no excuse for their presence inthe shacks were each fined $25 andcosts on charge of disorderly con-duct.

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ANNUAL HEALTH CONFERENCEThe annual conference of health

officers and boards of health will beheld under the auspices of the StateBoard of Health, at Osier Hall, Bal-timore, Friday and Saturday, May27 and 28. The sessions on Fridaywill be devoted to special problemsof public health; those on Saturdayto public health nursing activities.

Invitations to attend the confer-ence have been extended tp physi-cians, health officers, public health

. nurses, county commissioners, may-ors of all cities, members pf towncouncils, State, county and local su-perintendents and commissioners ofschools and others interested in pub-lic health activities throughout theState,

COLORA WOMAN’S CLUBThe Colors Woman’s .Club met in

the club room May 3, Meeting call-ed to order by the President. Re-sponse to roll call was “What to doto be a well dressed woman.’’

Minutes or April meeting wereread and. accepted. The Club pur-chased fifty Poppies, “In Memor-iam,” from Miss Pancoast to sell forthe American Legion and AmericanLegion Auxiliary.

Miss Pancoast gave a demonstra-tion. designing the costume as to thecolor and neck finishes.

Mrs. J. E. Emery gave a humor-ous reading.

The leaders were Mrs. Pierce,Mrs. Emery and Miss Gervin.

ii OPENING OF CHESAPEAKE &

DELAWARE CANAL!

President Coolidge Pressed Button

r Formally Opening Waterway1 The Chesapeake and Delaware' sea-level canal, built by the Gov-

ernment at a cost of more than' $10,000,000, was formally opened’ to- commerce Saturday, with PreSi-" dent Coolidge, three Governors,

’ Army and Navy officials and severalMayors participating in the dedica-

’ tory exercises.; At 12:30 o’clock President Cool-

’ idge, in the temporary White House,at Washington, pressed a button and

1 the bridge at Reedy Point over the’ thirteen-mile-long waterway which

connects the two bays lifted to allow' the passage of a flotilla of fifty ves-’ sels carrying more than 1,000 people’ on an inspection trip through the' canal.

Exercises presided over by former1 Mayor J. Hampton Moore, president

of the Atlantic Deeper WaterwaysAssociation, were held at ReedyPoint at 3 P. M., after participantsin the celebration had returned fromtheir round trip through the canal.

The marine procession mobilizedat Wilmington, sailed to the turn-ing point in the Elk river, belowChesapeake City, and then returnedto Fort duPont, where the exerciseswere held.

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CORBEAU—CALDWELLMiss Alfcia Norwood Caldwell,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T.Caldwell, formerly of Liberty Grove,and Mr. Francis t Lloyd Corbeau,were married on Saturday, April 2,at Chestertown, Md., by the Rev.W. F. Cockeran. They were at-tended by Mrs. Robert Traynor, ofIrvington, N. J., and Mr. EverettMoore, cousin of the groom, ofNewark, Del.

Mr. Corbeau is the son of Mr. andMrs. Charles Corbeau, of Bethle-hem, Pa. Mrs. Corbeau was grad-uated from St'. Johns School, atMountain Lakes, N. J., in the cjassof 1924. She is now a student atthe Morovian College for Women, atBethlehem, where she is continuingthe college year. In June thenewly-weds will go to Russia, wherethey expect to make their home.

SIXTH DISTRICT AUXILIARYThe annual meeting of the Sixth

District Auxiliary of Union Hospitalwas held April 27 at the home ofMrs. Stanley McVey, in Rising Sun.The regular business was transact-ed, then the secretary and treasurerpresented their yearly report, asfollows: Receipts $155.34, expbndi-tures $137.43 —balance $17.91. Re-ceipts from dues, bake, etc. $155.34,fall donation, cash $5, value fall do-nation, groceries, cereals, etc.,$57; Needlework Guild’s donation$23.60—total $240.94. This aux-iliary spent $60.80 for sheeting, thisamount making 55 sheets, and 11pillow cases. The members of theauxiliary made a special drive TagDay, February 22, receipts tromthat were $lO5 after expenses forprinting were paid. The membersof the Auxiliary wish to extendthanks to all those that contributedin any way to the success of the FallDonation and the drive on Tag Day.

CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANYWINS LEGAL DECISION

Judge Stanton in Circuit CourtNo. 2, Baltimore City has handeddown a decision that the Consolidat-ed Gas and Electric Company of Bal-timore was within its rights in ex-tending Its servce to Havre de Grace,and that under provsions in its orig-inal franchise as granted by the Leg-islature, the Public Service Commis-sion has no authority to regulate theexercise of a franchise. At thesame time he refused to issue the in-junction requested by the NorthernMaryland Power Company to re-strain the Gas Company from oper-ating in Havre de Grace.

The fight between the Gas Cam-pany and the Conqwingo interestswill undoubtedly extend before thePublic Service Commission and willprobably be heard further in StateCourts, In the meantime the Gas ,Company is busy installing serviceto citizens of Havre de Grace, manyof whom are disconnecting the ser- ,vice lines to their homes from thelines of the Northern Maryland Pow-er Company, now a subsidiary of the iPhiladelphia Electric Company, andother Conowingo interests.

RUN DOWN BY AUTOFilomena Santro, aged seven

years, daughter of Guiseppe Santro,track foreman of the P., B. & W. R.R. at Charlestown, was returningfrom the store when she was struckand injured by a car driven by J. H. ,Crowden, of Richmond, Va. Shewas taken to Union Hospital, Elk- iton, where she died the next day.

The accident occured near the iSantro home below Charlestown. i

i DEATHS

MISS ANNIE E. PRICE! Miss Annie E. Price died May 8,

at the home of Mrs. I. E. Price,Cecilton. She was 76, and had suf-

-3 fered for years from cancer. The- deceased was the daughter of thei late Mr. aud Mrs. Jeremiah C. Price.

1 She is survived by one brother, Jer-emiah C. Price, of Golt’s, a number

. of nieces and nephews and several1 grand nieces and nephews. lnter-

- ment was made in St. Stephens’cemetery.

> MRS. SALLIE KARSNER1 The death of Mrs. Sallie Karsner,

■ widow of Dr. Wm. C. Karsner, oc--1 cured May 4, in Chesapeake City, at' the home of her daughter, Mrs.

* Richard S. Wallis.* Mrs. Karsner was 75 years of age.* She was a daughter of the late John

W. and Hannah Bayard Bouchelle,of Bohemia Manor. One daughter

; survives: Elsie, widow of Richard1 S. Wallis; also by a sister, Mrs.

Emma Craig, of Chesapeake City1 and Baltimore, and a brother, Ben-

jamin Bouchelle, of Philadelphia.Interment was made in Bethel ceme-tery.

FRANK TITUSFrank Titus, aged 83 years, a

former resident of Elkton, died onMay 5, at his home in Kansas City,Mo., where he was long a prominentattorney. He studied law in Elkton,under the late Hon. AlexanderEvans in the Sixties and located inJoplin Mo., removing later to Kan-sas City. His wife, three sisters:Mrs. E. B. Smith, Mrs. G. G. Rowe,both of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. H.M. Burton, of Philadelphia, andthree brothers, Edward E., of Cin-cinnati; Lincoln &., of Columbus,0., and Harry M., of Philadelphia,survive him.

WILLIAM M. FADELEYWilliam M. Fadeley, Chief of

Police of Havre de Grace, aged 71years, died May 9, at hia home fol-lowing a short illness of heartdisease. Besides his widow, Mrs.Mary Elizabeth Fadeley, he is sur-vived by six sons, Harry Fadeley, ofPerryville; George, Chas. and Wil-liam, Jr., Frederick, and WalterFadeley, of Havre de Grace, andfive daughters, Mrs. Annie Hines,Mrs. Jessie Vancheri and Mrs. Kath-leen Lavelle, of Havre de Grace;Mrs. Bessie Burns, of Elkton, andMrs. Nellie White, of Perryville.Interment was made in Angel Hillcemetery.

EPWORTH LEAGUE ORGANIZEDAt the invitation of Rev. and Mrs.

Clarke about sixty young peoplemet at the parsonage, Tuesday eve-ning, May 3rd. The object of thismeeting was to form some sort ofa young people’s organizationwhich resulted in an EpworthLeague with officers from Hopewelland Asbury churches.

President, George McCullough;Ist Vice-President, Miss Fay Mc-Fadden; 2nd Vice-President, Mrs.Margaret "Whitaker; 3rd Vice-Presi-dent, Mrs. Cora Krummell; 4thVice-President, Mrs. Arthur Ben-jamin; Secretary, Mrs. George Mc-Cullough; Treasurer, Miss VirginiaCraig.

After a pleasant social hour weadjourned to meet later in a Cab-inet meeting at the call of thePresident.

Secretary.—

ELKTON BANKING AND TRUSTCOMPANY

The annual meeting of the stock-holders of Elkton Banking andTrust Co., was held in Elkton May10, when the following directorswere elected: J. Frank Blake, Car-roll H. Cameron, Frank P. Conrey,Emerson R. Crothers, Lambert W.Davis, William J. Davis, Joseph T.Grove, J. Otis Kennard, Irvin T.Kepler, Harvey H. Mackey, RobertJ. McCauley, David B. McDowell.Harry W. Pippin, Carroll C. Short, 1S. Claude Sykes, John H. Terrell,Joseph T. Tyson and William T. Vinsinger. 1

The Directors organized by re-electing the old officers:—Harvey 1H. Mackey, President; Dr. S. ClaudeSykes, Vice President; Irvin T. Kep- ■ler, Treasurer; Lynn B. Gillesp’e, 1Assistant Treasurer; Carroll C. 1Short, Cashier, Cecilton; Walter G.Pratt, Cashier, Chesapeake City, andJoseph T. Tyson, Cashier, Rising 1Sun.

ORPHAN’S COURTBonds Approved—Sarah J. Scott, 1

executrix of Howard Scott; WilliamK. Briscoe, executor of Ida Gross 1Briscoe; George W. Vauhan and Jos- 1hua Clayton, executors of Sarah iVaughan.

Accounts Passed—Second and fi- :nal account of Cornelius C. Tome, 1executor of Peter Tome, and distri- '•bution struck on same; first account 1of Oma Dalton, guardian of Ada Dal- !ton et al.; fourth and final accountof Mary E. Clayton, administratrixof Mary Clayton Price.

PEN MAR LEAGUE

Big String At Shoot On Rising Sun

■ Gun Club GroundsThe big bunch of shooters keep

s coming, and a string of ninety3 faced the traps at Rising Sun on. Saturday, May 7.

Norman Wright and Rodney Kingr divided high honors by clipping off

1 49 each. Falls, Duyckinck„ Bill- Taylor, Osborn and the Armour’ brothers were close on their heels

with 4 8 breaks each.The next shoot, and the last

League shoot of the year, will be, held at Elkton, May 21.

Elkton leads the League now byt two targets, over Woodlawn, the. runner up. The prize winners of

Saturday were:Class A, Wright and King; Class

i B, Pusey and Hilaman; Class C,, Meyers and T. S. Riale; Class D,

■ W. S. Evans and H. Taylor; Classl E, Cochran and J. Ragan. The, scores follow:

Woodlawn Club—King 49, Falls *• 48, Osborne 48, L. Abrahams 47, W.

Jackson 45, H. Jackson 45, Rutter45, Jones 43. Total 464.

Rising Sun Club—Duyckinck 48,Armour 48, W. Taylor 48, Griel 47,Silver 46, H. Ewing 45,Richards 45,Robertson 45, Tosh 45, J. Riale 45.Total 462.

Elkton Club—Wright 49, Wendl-ing 47, Ott 47, Schaeffer 46, Pryor46, Holden 46, S. Evans 45, Bouchelle 45, Tomlinson 44, H. Jackson44. Total 459.

Oxford Club—Armour 48, Hila-man 46, Cameron 45, Meyers 44, El-liott 44, Rohdewalt 44, Anderson 44,Stoner 44, Passmore 43, Morsey 42.Total 444.

The individual scores were asfollows: —Gilpin 40, T. S. Riale 44,Seal 41, Johnson 30, W. A. Chicman37, Shoemaker 39, C. H. Mason 39,Bostic 42, Racine 40, Gallaway 39,N. Reynolds 33, Bay 42, Beck 43,Rowland 38, Alexander 33, G. Scot-ten 39, F. Coulton 34, Pusey 43,Coates 38, C. A. Miller 39, Xennard33, Sloan 40, J. W. Abrahams 29,Simon 44, R. Gibson 38, H. Taylor41, Charles Taylor 44, C. P. Taylor39, J. Taylor 42, C. E. Mason 33,Charsha 35, J. Rogers 37, Crouch 3 4Croft 43, C. W. Mason 32, Phillips41, Launstren 44* Peterson 46, Ho-over 33, T. H. Riale 38, Richards 37,Baker 49, Baldwin 42, B. F. Rey-nolds 38, Dawson 29, F. Rogers 39,H. Coulbon 40, W. Ewing 43, Herr44, W. S. Evans 41, and H. Heath44.

BOARD OF EDUCATIONThe Board of Education met in

regular session on Tuesday, May 10.Those present were Mrs. Eleanor J.Moore, President; Fred Lewis, Vice-President and J. E, Crothers.

The minutes of the regular meet-ing of April 11 were read and ap-proved, and sundry bills were exam-ined and ordered paid.

The Board re-organized by re-electing Mrs. Eleanor J. Moore,President and Fred Lewis, Vice-President.

Upon the recommendation of theSuperintendent, Miss Lula H. Crimand Miss Fannie B. Miller, wereelected Supervisors of Schools for)the ensuing year. \Alfred B. McVeywas elected Attendance Oflicier andMiss Lidie D. Sager, Clerk.

The following resignations werereceived and accepted:

Mr. J. B. Deaver Cooke.. Assistant,North East High School. Miss Au-drey M. Abrams, Principal, NewBridge School. Miss Helen Stoudt,Home Economics Teacher. Elk-ton and Chesapeake City. Miss Hel-en M. Thompson, Principal, Jeffer-son School. Miss Hilda M. Brown,Commercial Teacher, Elkton HighSchool. Mrs. Ethel Hall Wilson,Assistant, Rising Sun ElementarySchool. Miss Nella A. Kite, Princi-pal, Chestnut Grove School. MissAlice R. Hager,” Assistant, CalvertElementary School. Miss Hilda A.Cavitt, Assistant, Elkton ColoredElementary School. Miss A.la Field, Principal, Port DepositColored School. Miss Pattie E.Thomas, Assistant, Port DepositColored School.

Trustees, whose terms expire thisyear, were re-elected and new trus-tees elected to fill vacancies causedby resignations or death.

Under conditions which were tobe agreed upon by the County Sup-erintendent and the President of theLocal Baseball League at Cecilton,permission was granted to use thegrounds of the school property atthat place.

The Board then considered the re-organization of various high schoolsthroughout the county, which re-or-ganization was necessitated bjr thepassage at the last Legislature of anew high school law, in which thenumber of teachers in the highschools was determined by the num-ber of students enrolled in theschools.

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An honest day’s toil makes a softpillow at night.

, Painters are giving the dwellingof J. T. Cameron a new spring dress.

Singerly Fire Company, of Elkton,has changed its annual carnivaldates to August 19-27.

The annual Rally Day for thepublic schools of Cecil county will beheld at - Elkton on Friday of thisweek.

Canners are offering farmers inlower Cecil county, $lO per ton togrow sweet corn, and $13.50 for to-matoes.

Prospects are for a good straw-berry crop on the Eastern Shore,with the early varities nearly readyfor picking.

Two car loads of cattle that failedto pass the tuberculin test wereshipped from this station last weekto Baltimore.

The Ford sedan of Frank Bryson,near Elkton, was stolen Friday nightwhil£ parked at Elk Mills, and hasliot been traced.

The banks in Rising Sun will notbe open for business on Saturdayevening, May 28, on account of theholiday, Memorial bay, Monday.

The congregation of Elkton Pres-byterian Church, has voted to in-crease the salary of their pastor,Rev. Irvin Wagner, S3OO per annum.

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The treasurer’s report of therecent carnival held by Havre deGrace Fire Company and the Hos-pital in that town, shows aboutSIOOO will be cleared.

Reports from various sections ofthe Eastern Shore, where peas arecanned extensively indicate that thecrop, for harvesting next month, willbe a large one this season.

_ $ The new bungalow of J. Leroy(|Ap£ykes, near Elkton, was destroyedlire of unknown origin on the

\ night of May 6. A large chickenhouse was also burned.

The body of Chester Moore, of*

Rising Sun, who fell into the riverwhile engaged at work on the Cono-wingo dam on April 9, was recover-ed at Rock Run on May 7.

A vacancy occurred in the post-mastership at Cecilton on April 29."The receipt of applications by theUnited States Civil Service will closeJune 1. The Salary of the office isSI6OO.

In the recent short story contestheld by the League of ' AmericanPenwomen, second honors wereawarded Mrs. David Scott Frazer, ofElkton, for her manuscript, "TheClock.”

A number of Caroline county as-paragus growers made a trip to thiscounty, last week, and inspectedsome of the large asparagus bedsin various parts of Cecil. Theywere met by County Agent Bartil-son, who conducted the tour ofinspection.

Mrs. Katherine N. Travers, ofAberdeen, was killed almost In-stantly on the evening of May 10,about seven o'clock, when her Dodgesedan collided with a truck of theConsolidated Gas and ElertricCompany on the Philadelphia roadbetween Short Lane and Aberdeen.

Dr. F. H. Benjamin, Veternary incharge of Tuberlin Testing, in theNinth District of Cecil county,reports that the test has been givento 85 lots of cattle, numbering 887head, of which 305 reacted to thetest. The percentage of cattle condemned in the area /jwas 34.27.Seventeen cattle owners refused thetest,

Contributions received by theCecil County Chapter of AmericanRed Cross for the account of theMississippi Flood Relief Fuudamount to $1,277.76 so far. Thecounty's original quota was BL--200.00. The appeal has met witha splendid response. More moneyts needed for the fund, and the chap-ter will be glad to forward anyunhvr conti Ibutions.

A lighted match carelessly thrownon the floor by an employee at theWilson & McNamee garage, in Kls-

Jf ing Sun, about four o'clock Satur-■ day afternoon, caused a blaze thatinstantly assumed threatening pro-portions. An alarm was sounded,but fortunately the services of the

' firemen were not peeded.as a handextinguisher was brought into playAnd soon had the blaze extinguished.

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Miss Letitia Maxwell is visitingrelatives in West Chester and Phila-delphia.

Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing and daugh-ter, Shirley, were Baltimore visitorsduring the week.

Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Raiman andson, of Swarthmore, were guests ofMr. and Mrs. Joseph Cameron, Sun-day.

Miss Elizabeth Jump and MissLaura Price, of Baltimore, wereweek-end guests of Mrs. Howard M.Wilson.

Mrs. H. L. Glackin, of near town,sustained a successful operation atRichards’ Hospital, Port Deposit, onSaturday.

R. M. Balderston, of our town,attended a meeting of Dolco Lightrepresentatives, in Norristown, onTuesday.

Mrs. Granville Richards, of Balti-more, is spending some time withher parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L.Shepherd.

Dr. R. C. Dodson was in attend-ance this week at the annual conven-tion of the American Medical Asso-ciation, in session in WashingtonMay 16 to 21.

Mr. and Mrs. A. M. McNamee en-tertained on Sunday Mrs. AlicePugh, Mrs. W. G. Crowl and Sher-wood, of Oxford.

Mrs. Fanny Crothers, Baltimore,and her sister, Mrs. Sami. Myers,Lancaster, were recent guests ofrelatives in .this section.

Messrs. Abe Mendenhall, Joe Men-dehall, of Blue Ball, and HarrySmith and J. Harry Maxwell leftMonday on a motor trip to Michiganto purchase Holstein cattle.

Mr. and Mrs. Ewin Lamar Davishave announced the marriage oftheir daughter, Ewin Lamar, toon Tuesday, May 3, in Washington,on uesday, May 3, in Washington,D. C. -The groom is a former CecilCountian, son of the late Capt.W. Williams, of Fredericktown andPort Deposit.

The cool weather Tuesday eve-ning was very much against the out-door festival held at Zion by theladies of the M. E. church. Theattendance was only fair. Musicwas furnished by the CommunityFire Cimpany Band, of Rising Sun.

Services at Janes M. E. Church,Rev. J. C. McCoy pastor, will be asfollows on Sunday, May 22: SundaySchool, 9.4 5 a. m.; preaching 11 a.m., subject, “Christ and the Womanof Samaria.”

Jr. League, 6:45 p. m..; Sr. Lea-gue, 7:15; Jr. Choir will havecharge of the evening service at7:45 o’clock.

Miss Julia Prettyman, daughter of,Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Prettyman, ofZion, won award in a silver medalcontest in the Valentine Conserva-tory Hall, Wilmington. Miss Pretty-man was awarded a silver medal,after the rendition of seven pianoselections. She is a graduate of the1927 Burrowes Course of Music and

a member of the 1929 graduatingclass.

Mr. Frank J. Crawford, while dig-ging in his garden in Havre deGrace, found a silver piece of moneydated 1776. The words are indis-tinct but thecoin has the appearanceaf a British piece and very likelyhas been untouched by human handssince the days of the Revolution.The coin is the size of a dime andand is very thin.

The fourth annual cruise of theEastern Shore Society of BaltimoreCity will be held June 3-5, on th£'‘Alabama.” The itinerary will in-clude Yorktown, Norfolk and Vir-ginia Beach. The total cost per per-son will be s2l, and reservationsmay be made by enclosing check forthat amount tQ R. Earie Greenlee,204 Union Trust Building, Balto.

Alice Mosteller, of Oxford, a prac-tical nurse, has instituted suitagainst Win. T. Watterson, of Ox-ford, to recover $1635 for servicesrendered to defendant by her ashousekeeper from April 20, 1924, toMay 29, 1926, at sls per week.

A meeting in the interest of Sab-bath observance will be held by theLord’s Day Alliance in the M. E.church, at Elkton, on Sunday, May22, at three o’clock. Dr. HarveyEwing will address the meeting.

The teachers and pupils of NewValley School, will hold a festival onThursday evening, May 26. ifrainy above date festival will be heldnext clear evening.