The midland journal., 1914-07-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

pany, IN west ElKton, mas oegun opera
tons.
Wilson L. Coudon, Of PerryviIle. has
been appointed deputy insurance COM
missioner.
Miss Elizabeth Akin. of Second district
has been awarded a scholarship at the
State Normal School.
las. 6. McIntire. the well-known res
taurateur Of Oxford. has made an assign
ment for the benefit Of creditors.
The special election for the purpose of
voting on the proposed bond issue will be
held in Rising Snn on Monday. Aug. 3.
The suit against the Whitaker estate
has been removed from the Cecil County
Court to the United States District Court
for trial.
The 2Ist annual Local Preachers Camp
Meeting at Leslie. this county. will open
ON Wednesday. July ~, and continue to-
Augusts
festival held July 4th on the Fair Grounds,
in oxford. were $4o3. The net receipts
were $500.
Some unknown thief stole the engine
from The naptha launch of Leland OFT,
near Elkton, while the boat was anchored
in Perch creek.
Hugh w. Caldwell. Of Chesapeake
City. was elected Secretary of Maryland
State Teachers Association, at the recent
annual meeting.
The Cecil County School Board has
awarded Miss Elizabeth Bond four-year
scholarship at the Maryland Institute Of
Art and Design.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Mt. Pleas
ant M. E. Church will meet with Mrs.
Robert Coulter, Liberty Grove, Wednes-
day evening. July 2a.
Fire destroying the newly erected and
completely furnished bungalow of George
Tatam, at Aberdeen. caused the post
ponement 81 his wedding.
Miss Grace Rawlings has been appoint
ed principal of the Liberty Grove public
school and Miss Ruth Crothers TO the
White Oak School, Calvert, by the School
Board Of Cecil County.
During the storm Sunday night the
house occupied by Eli coulson, Sr., and
family near Porters Grove. was struck
and badly damaged by lightning. Fort
unately none Of the occupants were in
jured.
A new Rural Route from Elkton tol
Lewisville. Pa. has been recommended
by Postal Inspector NJ. S. Plummer. The
establishment Of the route would abolish
the post Offices at Cherry Hill and
Providence.
The annual excursion to Betterton will
be given by the Port Deposit Sunday
School on Thursday, July %. Boat leaves
Srt Deposit at I a. m Round trip fare:
hlts. soc; children. 2sc. The public
cordially invited.
Wednesday was St. Swithin's Day, and
as 1t rained, those who believe in the
trnthfulness of the old legend are looking
forward to forty days more of wet wealth
er. This prospect would not be encourage
ing to our harvesters, who already have
had two weeks of wet weather to contend
with.
But four tickets were sold atthis station
on Wednesday for the FIRST COLCHESTER. ex-
cursion. The railroad company made the
excursion complementary one for their
veteran employees. All employees of the
road who had beea with the Pennsyl-
vania company for twenty years or more
were given free transportation on the
excursion.
Violent electric storms swept over this
section on Friday and Sunday nights.
A shock of wheat on the farm of Benj
Reed. near Farmington, was struck by
lightning and burned. Five telephone
poles in the Pennington section were
struck by lightning. Telephone service
suffered considerably by the storms, a
number of phones being put out Of COM
mission.
-rrRev. B. J. Brinkema, pastor of Zion
and Rock Presbyterian churches for the
past seven years, has resigned to accept
call 10 First Presbyterian Church. Milton.
Pa. to take effect September /.
Milton has population of 5000, and Is
on the Susquehanna, about 90 miles above
4 Harrisburg. The new charge has a
membership Of 400 and its Sunday School
numbers $780, The charge pays salary
Of $1,000 with manse.