The midland journal., 1911-06-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The work OF oiling the Rising Sun
Calvert section of State road was finished
last week.
The o6-acre George farm in Elk Neck
has been bought by William S. Evans. of
Elkton, for $500.
DIR. H. Arthur Mitchell has been ap-
pointed physician in Elkton for the Penn
sylvania Railroad. succeeding the late DIR.
Charles M. Ellis.
Happy Valley, on the Susquehanna
river. near Port Deposit, has been select
ed as camp site by the Central Y. M. C..
A. of Baltimore. The camp will open
on June 26 and close July II.
Owing to several residents of the town
having recently been bitten by dogs, Elk
ton Town Council has decided to rigidly
enforce the ordinance requiring all dogs
running at large in the town to be
muzzled.
Wednesday, June ID, was Flag
Day. the anniversary of the adoption of
the Stars and Stripes. as the standard of
the United States. A number of homes
in town were bedecked by Old Glory in
honor of the day.
h Owing to lack of funds the School Board
has instructed the Treasurer, to omit the
mid-terrf. payment of teachers, making
the full paymcat of salaries when the last
quarterly apportiohment is received from
the State about July ro:>,.s
George M. Diedman. of Baltimore,
Secretary of the Maryland Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, visited
sElkton last week in the interest of the
Society with the view of establishing a
branch organization in that town.
The Principle Furnace Cornet Band
held very successful festival on Friday
and Saturday evenings last. The gross
receipts were over $500, about $I5o being
cleared. The proceeds will be devoted to
the purchase of number of new in
struments.
A young man named Frank Gowitzer,
employed on the farm of Curtis litter,
near Town Point, Cecil county. last week
drove off with horse and buggy belong
ing to his employer. He was later located
in Philadelphia, arrested and the team
returned to its owner.
A fire company has been organized by
the citizens of Chesapeake City with the
following officers: G. H. Reusss president;
]. S. Hopper, vice presidents,Z. T. Love-
less, secretary; H. w. Caldwell, treasurer;
]. P. Steele, G. N. Bennett and Waitman
Smithers, trustees; Chief of fire depart
ment, Benz. Carpenter; Chief Engineer,
John M. Brown; Ist asst. G. H. Reuss;
end asst, William Brown; Chief Pipe
man, DIR. c. c. Laws.
An unusually pleasing program was
efcndered by the Sabblth school on Sun
day evening last in the Methodist
Episcopal church of this town. in celebra-
ton of Children's Day. consisting of
choruses, recitations. motion songs by
the little folks. etc. The pastor. Rev. T..
H. Webster, delivered short address APP
.propriate to the occasion. The cbancel of
the CHURCH was profusely decorated with
flowers. The seating capacity of the main
auditorium was taxed to its utmost to
accommodate the interested audience.
Herbert Kirk, of near town, met with a
serious accident on Saturday night. Co
ing up to his room to retire for the night
he used the back stairway, and mistaking
his way in the dark hallway pitched head
foremost down the front flight of stairs.
The door at the bottom of the stairway
was closed and was struck with such force
as not only to be broken but to tear
the latch completely off. Mr. Kirk was
severely hurt about the head and shoul-
ders. portion of one ear being almost
severed and requiring several stitches to
hold it in place. Fortunately no bones
were broken.
Sunday was the hottest June II since
the establishment of the weather bureau
in 1874. The hot wave extended all over
the country, and while the mercury here
got up to o4o, other places sweltered
under still greater heat. Late at night
the atmosphere was cooled by a threat
ened thunder gust, but it rained little.
In Baltimore the mercury reached ooo,
in Washington 1919, while the report
from Yuma, Arizona, is the temperature
was IIoo.
Weather reports show that June II. of
1893 and 1894, until Sunday, jointly held
the record for June lis, with oI degrees.
The coldest lime II was in Ioo7 with so