The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-07-14
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Leslie Camp opens on Wednesday next
for two weeks.
Miss Beatrice Riley has been appointed
principal Of Oak Grove school, near town.
Mayberry Bros, Pennington. have
placed a handsome new delivery wagon
in service.
John A. Morgan, of Elkton, has an
noupced his candidacy for the democratic
nomination as Sheriff.
A fall from a load of hay while in the
harvest field resulted in a fractured arm
for Jacob Slicer. Of Colora.
The tax for the town of Elkton this year
has been fixed at so cents on the 500, an
increase of five cents on that of last year.
Adam Peoples, of Port Deposit, Speaker
Of the last house of Delegates, has an
nounced himself candidate for re-elec-
tion.
During the storm Friday night lightning
kstruck sycamore tree on the farm of S.
NJ Lockwood. near Warwick. and killed
six cows.
Attempting to fill the tank OF gasoline
stove without turning out the blaze, Mrs.
Minnie Karl. of Elkton, was seriously
burned last week.
While playing with job press in the
Office of the Port Deposit Times, one day
last week little Howard Bell had the ends
of two fingers on the right hand mashed.
W. Rodney Price. son of John R. H.
Price, of Middle Neck, Second district,
has qualified as a naval cadet and will
shortly enter at the Academy, Annapolis.
Edgar E. Touchton, Sylmar. has a
brood of eight partridges hatched by a
bantam hen. Fifteen partridge eggs
were placed under the hen, ten of the eggs
Matching.
Company E. of Elkton. left Singerly
station by train on Thursday of this week,
for the annual encampment of the Mary
land National Guards af Frederick where
they will remain ten days
Little Misses Mildred and Edna Kimbie,
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Kimble of near town, are the happy
possesors of pretty little Shetland pony
ard cart, gift from their parents.
The long continued drouth in this sec
ton has seriously effected the water
supply. numerous wells and cisterns are
dry, and have been so for weeks, not a
few Of our citizens being compelled to
haul water for domestic purposes.
The first new wheat was received this
year at the warehouse of Duyckinck,
Sterrett & Co., in this town on July 6. and
the price paid was So cents Per bushel.
On the same date last year the first de-
livery of new wheat was received. when
} 90 cents was the price paid.
II Miss Mary c. Anderson, of Fair Hill,
who has had charge of the Commercial
Department of the Cecil County High
School since its beginning, will not return
to Elkton in the fall, but go to Newark
and take charge of the new Commercial
Department to be established in the High
School there.
Rev. ]. P. Otis, pastor of North East
M. E. church, has been presented with a
handsome gold watch by Flag Council,
Jr. o. U. A. NJ, of Newark, DEL, of
which he is member. This is the second
gold watch received by Mr.. Otis to replace
the one lost in the recent fire at North
East. Elkton friends, who were the
donors of the one destroyed, presented
him with new one some weeks ago.
After few hours respite on Saturday
from the hot wave of last week, another
intensely torrid one swept along Sunday,
sending the mercury high in the nineties.
On Monday the temperature was higher
STILL the 1902 mark being reached Mon
day night was possibly thehottest exper-
fenced this summer, sweltering humanity
gaining but little refreshing sleep.
A welcome rain on Wednesday morn
ing tempered the atmosphere, laid the
dust and freshened things up wonderfully.
A keg of beer furnished liquid refresh
ment for a party Of men who held drunk
en- revelry by the spring in the meadow
near the railroad station on Saturday
night, their ribald songs. obscene lang
uages and vile curses making the night
hideous. This crowd of peace disturbers
held high carnival until the small hours
of Sunday morning, their drunken
debaucherv being one of the most dis
graceful affairs that has ever taken place
ia any community. and the participants
should be hailed before the court and
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