The midland journal., 1917-04-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Fruit trees a mass Of blooms.

School, FRIDAY evening, ApIIl Hi'
Military census takers are going
the rounds.
The Cecil Farmers Club met OH
Wednesday with C. c. Balderston
near Colora.
Twenty head of prize fat steers
we're shipped to Baltimore on Tues
day by Elwood Balderston.
George A. Carey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George o. Carey, of North
East, has enlisted in the Navy
A real summer thunder gust visit
ed this section Saturday evening
following day Of high temperature
william Johnson, son Of John F.
Johnson of North East, has made
application for enlistment in the U.
S. Navy.
7 The annual meeting Of the Cecil
County Medical Society was held at
Wnion Hospital, Elkton, Thursday
Of last week.
The Sc acre farm Of Isaac Payne
near Bay View, has been bought by
Luther B. Ackers Of West Virginia,
for $3050.
DR.. Howard A Kelly, of Baiti-
more, who owns farm near Bel Air,
has offered 20 acres to the Boys
Corn Club of Bel Air, for cultivation.
Teachers are notified that exhibits
for Rally Day are to be mailed 10
Miss Hannah c. Hartnett, Elkton'
Md. Friday, May 4, will be Rally
Day.
The Superintendent or Education
reports that $3.50 has been contri1
buted by the school children in the
penny collection for the Cecilius
Calvert uortrait.
The man arrested recently at
Chesapeake City on suspicion Of be-
ing q German spy, and who gave his
name as George o. Krimmel, Of 1926
Winter street, Philadelphia, has been
released.
Thomas Ruley, colored, of the
First district, who refused to answer
the questions Of one of the military
census enumerators, was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff McAllister and taken
TO Elkton, where a fine of $40 and
costs was imposed by Magistrate c.
P. BARLEY.
Governor Harrington has appoint
ed Mrs. Albert Constable and Mrs. L.
D. Davis, Elkton; Mrs. James S.
Hopper, Chesapeake City; Mrs. J. T.
G. Hopkins, Port Deposit, and Mrs.
William M. Pogue, Rising Sun, the
! Women's Auxiliary to the Prepared
ness Commission.
The P. E. Sharpless Co. has re-
ceived a large order from the U. 5.
Government and shipped this week
to the Brooklyn Navy Yard from
their plant in this town carload OF
eyaporated milk. A similar ship
ment will follow later. The milk
is in small cans and is for use in the
u 8. Navy.
The ladies of West Nottingham
Presbyterian church will serve
luncheon in the chapel on Com
mencement day, Thursday, May 3, at
70 o'clock. The usual price will be
charged and a general invitation is
extended to all who attend the Com
mencement exercises to patronize
this feature.
The Maryland Annual Conference
in session at Baltimore last week.
assigned the following ministers to
Methodist Protestant Churches In
this section: Rev. P. NJ. r. Schaver
to Kennedyville; Rev. A. l.. Peterson
n Rowlandville; Rev. F. S. Cain to
Susuuehanna Circuit; Rev. j. L.
Lank to Warwick; Rev. A. B. Dupuy
to Leeds.
A Ford auto on Monday of last
week ran into and demolished the
buggy of Miss Edith Barnes on the
street in Charlestown. The driver
who gave the name of Raymond
Crandall, of Baltimore, "as arrested
and held at Eikton on charge Of
driving a car while intoxicated. He
was given a hearing before Magis
trate c. P. BARLEY, and fined $4C
and costs.
The automobilist who threw
couple OF stones through the window
of John Davidson's home. near Elk
ton, one day last fall, was located by
States Attorney Finley as Phila
delphian and threatened with prose
cution. Recently. however, he made
personally apologies to Mr.. and Mrs
Davidson and proper compensation
for the damage he did; whereupor
the case was dropped,
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