The midland journal., 1917-07-13

Dog days" began yesterday, the
18th and will continue until August
26.
oxford has been granted State aid
in improving Route 131, State High
way, through the town.
The Clerk of Court at Elkton is
sued 452 marriage licenses in June
which is a record number.
The Red Cross and Navy League,
of North East, netted about $500
from their Fourth Of July carnival.
The annual fair at Black Barren
Springs, Lancaster county, will be
held Thursday and Friday, Septem-
ber and Z.
The collection for the American
Red Cross fund for Chesapeake City
and Second district of Cecil county
amounted to $S12.50.
Hank Johnson, of McKeesport,
-, has purchased of H. w. Nelson,
emont, his farm of 147 acres in
West Nottingham township.
Irwin G. Griffith, of the Second dis
trict, announces his candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for
County Commissioner, Long Term.
Twenty-Five young girls of Elkton
cleared more than $50 at festival
held recently on the lawn of f. II.
Leffier for the benefit of the Red
Cross Society.
CAPTAIN Carroll Edgar, formerly
instructor in manual training at Elk
ton High School, has been promoted
to Major in the Maryland Coast
Artillery Battalion.
Rochester and Betterton, Ken
county's two popular summer re
sorts, had extra large crowds on the
fourth. There were over five hun
dred automobiles at Colchester.
Tosh & Richards, agricultural i'm
plemet dealers of Colora, have soic
a 2O-horse Titan tractor TO John II.
Pierce. This is the second farm
tractor sold this season by the firm
Two barrels of empty jars have
been returned to the Sixth District
Auxiliary by Union Hospital, and al
{ those in this vicinity who contrl-
buted fruit, ETC., to the Hospital can
procure their jars by calling upon
Miss Mary Brumfield.
Jacob H. Reynolds, of Elkton'
formerly Deputy Sheriff, appears IN
our advertising columns this week
with the announcement OF his candl-
dacy for the Democratic nomination
of Sheriff of Cecil county, at the
Forthcoming primary.
"The Fall of Nation the film
1nShow given Wednesday evening III
10 public hall of this town, drew
\Drobably the largest crowd that ever
attended an entertainment in the
hall. The film was shown twice
over 500 tickets being sold.
he municipal tax rate OF Elktol
for the ensuing fiscal year has oeeh
fixed at SO cents on the $lO0, when
is the same as this. year. The tax
able basis this year is $l,9Sz'4oo
which is an increase of over
quarter of million dollars during the
present year.
While two men were standing
near the scene of the recent ex
plosion at McCall's Ferry talking
about Thomas Batty, who was killeo
and whose body had not been re
covered from the river, the corpse
suddenly came to the surface OF tht
water and startled the men.
Three young men from Elkton
William D. Cawley, Jr., Howard
Bratton and Frank Williams, wh'
have been at the Officers Training
Camp at Fort Myer. Va, have passet
their examinations and will be as
signed to the q. S. Army by the Wa
Denartment in the near future.
A large crowd attended the festiva
held in the grove of West Noting
ham Presbyterian church on Frida.
evening last, and such a brisk busl
ness was done that practically every
thing provided was sold out by tel
o'clock. Music by Rising Sun Cor
net Band added much TO the oc
4asion The gross receipts wer
hearly 800.
The unsettled weather, with fre
uuent showers, this week and las
has greatly retarded harvest. Som
wheat and grass have been cut II
this section, but most of our farmer
had hardly gotten under way whe
weather conditions held them W
Tuesdays rain was a regular flood
causing all streams to overflow thei