The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Hot weather SC1ll prevails, Win
old General Humidity doing his best
10 make us miserable.
Colora Canning Company began
the pack of corn on Wednesday
afternoon of this week.
Calvert M. e. Sunday school Will
hold their annual picnic in James
Yerkes' woods Thursday, August ~.
The Local Board has received a
call for 26 colored men to be sent 10
Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. j., on
August %.
The ice famine" is causing our
ice cream dealers much inconven-
fence. not to mention the woes OF the
housewife.
Ehe rains on Monday and Wednes
dav afternoons of this week were
welcome ones and freshencd Things
up wonderfully.
Saturday, August IT. is Farmers
Day at Port Deposit. Speakers Vi
national prominence will be present
to talk ON farm topics, etc.
w. K. Bird lost one Of his dairy
cows Saturday night from some un
known cause. The animal was
found dead in the stable Sunday
morning.
David H. Kaufman. agricultural
agent for Kent county, DEL, resigned
his position and was inducted by
the Local Board in Elkton for mill
tary service leaving last week for
Camp Wadsworth.
Rawlinsville Camp Meeting open
ed Tuesday evening, August 10, ana
will continue until Thursday, Au-
gust %, inclusive. The Camp Is
larger than it has been for several
wears. there being 154 tents.
VIM. A. Harlan, of Fallston, Hal
ford county, who embarked IN the
cabbage growing business this sea-
son, last week took 1000 heads TO
baltimore for which he received 10
cents each, and still has 4O'ooo
heads 70 market.
RHenry Turner, colored, OF Chat
MAN. Pa, who had been working on
the Fred Armstrong farm near Far
Hin was drowned wednesday eve
Ming OF last week. He went IN
bathing in the creek. was seizeo
with cramps and drowned.
Mrs. Mary Herman, of Cardifr'
has been granted an absolute
divorce. on the ground OF desertion
from Harry ]. Herman, in the Har-
ford County Circuit Court, with the
custody of their four children. The
connie were married in 1891.
Struck by a train while crossing
the railroad tracks at the Charles
town Sand and Gravel works. John
Edwin Ford, of North East' was
instantly killed last week. He was
SO years of age and leaves widow
three sons and two daughters.
truck load Of Ice from Oxford
was disposed of in a few minutes
Tuesday evening in Center Square
to customers who carried the entlre
load away in baskets, express
wagons, wheel barrows. etc., as fas'
as It could be cut up and weighed.
James Dixon, a colored boy en-
ployed on the farm of County Com
missioner Benjamin Crew, near Bet
terton. was killed by horse he was
riding in from the field. The boy
fell from the animal, and MS fee'
becoming entangled in the harness
he was dragged to death.
DIR. and Mrs. Howard Bratton, Of
Elkton, received word last weef
that their son, Lieut.. Howard Brat
ton Jr., Of the Aviation Dept. U. 5
ARMY. had met with serious injury
nv the fall of his machine. He IS In
the hospital near Houston, Texas
suffaring a broken leg and broker
jaw.
During a heavy electrical storm
on Wednesday evening OF last weef
fire caused by lightning destroyed
the dwelling, barn and other build
ings on the farm of James pearce
near Sassafras.
Two large wheat stacks ON th'
Booth farm, near Elkton. wer'
struck by lightning and burned.
Five officers, in two airplanes
friends and fellow aviators of Lieut.
!, Howard Bratton, few on from theil
training grounds in Texas to Mary
land last week and on Wednesda!
evening paid call on DR.. and Mrs
Howard Bratton. in Elkton. BefoF.
their departure they gave spec
t4cular exhibition of flying at th'
Fair Grounds.