The midland journal., 1917-06-29
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

on the 4th.
Some of our farmers have begun
the hay harvest.
The Commissioners of Hartford
county have fixed the tax rate for the
county at $1.05 for this year.
It is the "good old summer time
in real earnest with the mercury
playing hide and seek in the nineties.
The summer meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society was held at
Union Hospital, Elkton on Thursday
of last week.
H. Elmer McCardell, of Liberty
Grove has announced his candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
Assistant Treasurer.
The three-day Chautauqua at
North East last week was successful
and the guarantors signed an agree
ment for the entertainment next
year.
A monster carp, 40 inches in
length and weighing At pounds, was
caught on June 8, in Silver Lake,
near Dover, by e. T. Hipwell,
farmer.
Sadie Nevin, colored, of Mechanics
Valley, fell from loau of hay Oh
Thursday of last week, and was
taken to Union Hospital, Elkton.
with broken back.
The farm near Cecilton, tenanted
by Charles Bennett, formerly owned
by the late Mrs. Mary B. Stevens,
has been purchased by w. Fl. Husfelt
Of Earleville, for $4,000.
Theodore B. Holden, of the Upper
Elk Neck section of the Fifth dis
trict has announced his candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
County Commissioner, Long Term.
Zebulon F. Powell, of Elkton, has
announced himself a candidate for
Sheriff, and Theodore B. Holden, of
Elk Neck, candidate for County
Commissioner, subject to the Demo-
cratic primary elections.
A branch of the Red Cross Society
has been organized in Chesapeake
City with Mrs. Bennett Steele, Chair
man; Mrs. Edw. Clark, Vice-Chair-
man; Mrs. Harold Steele, Secretary;
Mrs. j. M. Brady, Treasurer.
AS the result of being scalded
with hot water some time ago, Mary
Hickman, who was taken to the
University Hospital, Baltimore, by
her parents, from Conowingo, died
at the hospital on Thursday of last
week.
The many changes in train service
Of the Pennsylvania railroad, to be
made July 1, include taking forty
Messenger train off the P. B. C w.
Division. The reason given for cur
failing the passenger service is to
place the crews on freight trains.
J. Earle Tyson, who succeeded to
the business of the late Slater B.
Tosh. Colora, has recently purchased
handsome autmobile hearse and is
now fully equipped in every respect
for the funeral directing business.
His card appears elsewhere in this
issue.
Rural Route, No. 3, in Elk Neck
is to be extended July l, about two
miles. taking in the residents from
Georges store to Elk River and
around to the main road,-a long
needed extension. The present car
rier, ]. H. Dean, will be transferred
to No. l, and new carrier named
for No. 8.
Harry Hunter. son of J. P. Hunter
of this town, will leave New York on
Monday with trainload OF other
carpenters for Seattle, Washington,
wheYe they will be employed in ship
building by the U. S. Government.
Mr.. Huater signed a five-year con-
tract for enlistment in the Govern
ment service.
Judges of the Court of General
Sessions, Wilmington, the past week
took away from Frank c. Pierce,
proprietor of the Buck Hotel, at
Summit Bridge, his license to sell
Intoxicating liquors on the ground
that evidence produced before the
Court showed him not to be proper
person to hold a liquor license.
]. Patterson McClurg, formerly OF
oxford, as residuary legatee Of his
uncle, DR.. Walter McClurg, who died
last week at Washington, d. c., will
receive money and bequests estima-
ted in value at nearly $4,000.
The recipient of these bequests
has been practicing law in Baltimore
Tor several years.