The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-10-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events. in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Eros. every morning this week.

Frost every morning this week.
Fourteen marriages took place in Elk
ton on Monday.
The Ekton Red Men cleared $II2 at the
carnival held in that town.
Rev. VIM. c. Poole has resigned as
pastor Of Galena M. E. Church to take
course at Drew Seminary.
William Smoothers. colored, of Havre
de Grace was drowned in the Susque-
hanna River Friday night.
Wilson & McNamee have sold Chevrolet
cars to C. A. Beamen. of Bay View, and
Edgar Price. OF North East.
Charged with horse stealing, Walter
Carroll, of Havre de Grace, was sentenced
al court to IS months in the penitentiary.
The special train on Friday took big
crowd to Oxford fair. One hundred and
thirty.fve tickets were sold at this station.
For failure to sound their horns at a
crossing, FIVE automobiles were arrested
in Chesapeake City on Sunday. by Saml.
Biggs, bailiff. and each fined 81 and COSTS
Joseph Perkins has bought the half in
terest in the Elkton Gas Works. owned by
the estate of the late DR.. c. M. Ellis, for
10000.
Real estate agent w. S. Reynolds has
sold to w. c. Reynolds the Jesse w.
Hambleton' farm of 60 acres. near town,
for $4,000.
The home of Samuel Melton, of near
Forest Hill, Hartford county. was destroy
ed by fire early Saturday morning
together with its contents.
Luther Slicer. son of VIM. I. Slicer. Of
Colora, is suffering with bullet wound
in his foot, accidentally inflicted at Rich
ardsmege by another boy.
H. B. Smith, of Newark, has sold
his farm, near Appleton. Cecil county,
containing fifty two and "a half acres,
known as the Alden farm. for $4,000.
We have received the minutes of meet
ing Of Cecil Farmers Club. held Sept. IS.
with H. M Mccullough. near, Elkton.
The report will be published in our next
issue.
John c. Hindman. Jr.. received from
Lancaster last week carload Of manu-
factured ice for his ice cream business,
his store OF natural product being ex-
hausted.
Miss Maggie Reynolds picked straw
berries from patch in the garden at her
home on Cherry street last week. Straw
berries in September in this locality are
e thing.
The newly elected State Central Com
mittee of Cecil county has organized by
electing Harvey H. Mackey chairman,
DR.. Daniel Bratton secretary. and DR.. R.
M. Black treasurer.
R. NJ. ReindollaF, State road engineer
In charge of the road work at Calvert, had
the misfortune to badly fracture his wrist
on Wednesday. while cranking an auto
mobile at Bay View.
The will OF Robert H. Smith. who died
on Spesutia Island about two weeks ago.,
has been offered for probate in the Or
phans' Court of Hartford county. The
estate Is valued at 5000 900.
The annual reunion of PurnelI Legion
and Shows Battery will be held at Perry
Vile on Saturday. October 2. Dinner will
be served by the Ladies' Art Circle in
American Mechanics Hall.
C. K. Watson, while on his way home,
near Canal station. fell over the embank-
ment at McClenahan's stone quarries
near Port Deposit. breaking an arm and
sustaining badly lacerated head.
Attention is called to the advertisement,
elsewhere in our columns. of Miss Fannie
Kinnard. who will have on display at her
home in Rowlandville, the middle of this
month. fine line of millinery goods.
G. R. Lease and Joseph Robinson,
workmen on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road near North East, we're badly injured
when hand car ON which they were rid
ing to work was thrown from the track.
The registration books were opened on
Tuesday of this week. The next regis
tration day is Tuesday October S, The
ssitting of the Registers on October I2 will
be for revision only. when no new names
win be added.
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]. Granville Heaps has brought suit for
$4,000 against John D. Worthington.
editor Of the Egis. of Bel Air. for libel.
The suit is the outgrowth of recent charges