The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The public schools Of the county close
this week.
Nineteen marriages took place in Elk
ton on Saturday.
The dates for the Chautauqua at North
East, have been set for June IS. 10 and
II, and fine program has been arranged.
The dwelling in Zion owned by Mrs.
Mary Palmer, of Overhrook, Pa, has
been purchased by Oelley Rogers for 5000.
Struck by afalling limb while telling a
tree in a woods on his farm Howard.
Mackey. of Fair Hin. sustained broken
nose.
The gross receipts of the festival held
at Calvert on Memorial Day. by the
ladies Of the M. E. church, amounted to
gAs.oo.
The Post Office Department has had
plans and specifications drawn for alarger
post Office in Elkton, to be completed by
October I.
Several Elkton residents have recently
been annoyed by thefts of potted plants
and blooms of flowers from their porches
and yards. a
Chesapeake City voters elected DR..
Clifton c. Laws president and z. I. Cool-
ing and William w. Shafer Town Com
y missioners.
There will be stereopticon Lecture on
Alaska in West Nottingham Presby-
terian Chapel on Sunday eve. June 4th'
You are invited.
Mrs. Elsie NJ Cameron has been ap-
pointed by Governor Harrington notary
public for Elkton, thus making seven
notaries in the town.
William Blake. Mechanics Valley. has
been appointed a director in the Fist
National Bank of North East. to succeed
Stephen ]. Mearns, deceased.
The GiIpin Hotel property, on the
corner Of High and North streets. Elkton'
Is being torn down. The ground will be
used for a new postofice building.
Isaac Solomon, James Braywood and
lanes Hammond, all colored. were ar
rested last week charged with shooting
crap and conducting gambling house In
Elkton.
Chesapeake City High School Com
mencement will be held on Wednesday.
Iune !. Congressman David J. Lewis,
Of Cumberland, Md, will deliver the ad-
dress to the graduates.
On condition that he leaye the county
for six months, Augustus Johnson, arrest
ed in Elkton on the charge of disoderly
conduct and tried before Police Justice
Barley, sentence was suspended.
q Laurence B. Levy. of Philadelphia.
A,ner of the Elkton Farm near Elkton,
s offered reward of $500 for the arrest
assd conviction of the person who visited
his farm last week and carried off ninety
young chickens.
The electric storm of Thursday after
noon last was severe one. A little hail
fell in this vicinity, and a perfect deluge
Of rain. A high wind prevailed. Con-
siderable damage was done in various
sections by the storm.
Elktou Chautauqua will be held June
to IL. The Gilpin lot, in the center Of
town, where the tent has been erected 10
former years, could not be secured. and
arrangements were made with the Elkton
Improvement Co. for the use of a lot near
The new Armory building.
During the heavy thunder storm on
Thursday afternoon of last week, light
ming struck the ice house at H. L. Har-
vey's fishery. North East, in which five
men had taken shelter and who were
living on some straw. All were severely
stunned and the building set a6re.
A number of residents of Cecil county
S saw the double tractor biplane on Thurs
day morning last. in its fight between
New York and Washington. The machine
passed over North East. II was driven
by Aviator Carlstrom, who the week
previous in the same machine broke the
American long distance record in flying
from Newport News to New York.
Rhe teams hauling old papers aud
sef, stock from the railroad station tc
mill. near town, leave trail of paper
tom one end OF town to the other, litter
4 iuR up the streets regardless. the driver:
apparently. paying little attention to th'
loose papers dropped. being too indiffer
snt 10 clean up their trash and getting