The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-09-26

hold festival at Love Run school
house Friday evening, Sept. 26. II
stormy, Saturday evening.
Clerk of the Court at Elkton UP to
Sept. 16 had issued 1925 resident
cunning licenses, nonresident Ii
censes and 25 statewide licenses.
The Government is surveying for
a road from Aberdeen to the Proving
Ground. It will be five miles long
sixteen feet wide, and be of concrete.
William T. Anderson has been ap-
pointed cashier of the Savings Bank
of Hartford county, to succeed Mrs.
Sarah o. Wright Stephenson, re-
signtd.
TIE new concrete road between
Dyer and Smyrna, the gift of T.
Cbleman Du Pont, is finished and
- opened for traffic, linking Dover with
wilmington.
Large catches of fish are reported
in the upper part of the bay by fish
ermen. Not only are rock and trout
being caught by the ton but tailors
and mackerel also in large numbers.
The. sedan Hupmobile abandoned
near Elkton some days ago, was re-
covered by its owner last week. The
car had been stolen at Atlantic City
by three colored men, who have not
been apprehended.
Mrs. Robert C. Stephenson, who
was, before her marriage, Miss Sarah
O. Wright, has resigned her position
as cashier of the Savings Bank OF
Bel Air. The resignation will take
effect as soon as a successOr@is is ap-
pointed.
Oakwood Sanitarium,- the property
of the late DR.. w. G. Lent, was sold
last week to Miss Blanche Taylor, OF
Oxford, for $6,650. The, hospital
furnishings were sold at the same
time. The hospital will be turned
into residence.
Charged with being implicated in
the theft of car owned by Melvin
Thompson at Havre de Grace, Ber-
nard Spear, recently discharged
from service at Aberdeen Proving
Grounds, was arrested in Elkton
Sunday. Another soldier, Robert
Zeller, is also wanted on the same
charge.
e. j. Chandler, of Kennett Square,
received 40 first, 80 second and 20
third prizes on his exhibit of poultry
at the Wilmington fair. Among the
varieties of fowls were Rhode Island
Reds, Columbian, buff. silver, white
and blue Wyandottes, Leghorns, An
coma Orpingtons, Polish, Dominiques
AND Rocks.
A truck driven by William Davis,
colored, of Baltimore, ran down
horAe and wagon near Charlestown
I Al seriously injured the driver
VCgorge Wilmington, colored. aged
seventy years, who was hauling Tor
the Charlestown Sand and Stone
Corporation. Davis was held under
500 bail for hearing.
Rev. Edmund Burk, Phi. d.. has
resigned as Rector of st. Stephens
p. E. Church, Earleville, North Sass
afras Parish, and has accepted a call
to Ocean City, Md. In addition to
his duties as Rector he will also be
the Principal of the High School al
that place. DIR. Burk was one OF the
instructors at Calvert Agricultural
High School last year.
A round piece of metal, resembl'
ing copper or gold, with the inscrip-
tion j. Randel, Jr., Chesapeake q
Delaware Canal, 1925, has been
found in the garden of the home OF
Mrs. John H. Frazer. Glasgow, Del
The house was built for a bank when
work was commenced on the G. & ID
Canal almost a hundred years age
and after converted into dwellings.
While working on the front of the
Rising Sun. bank of Elkton Banking
and Trust Company, Wednesday
morning, a scaffold broke throwing
William C. Nields to the ground
His head struck the stone pavement
rendering him unconscious and cut
ting deep cash, requiring the SER
vices OF a physician to close the
wound. which bled profusely. The
injury while very severe, fortunately
was not of serious nature.
With many wheeze, delay and
break the decrepit concrete mixer il
creeping slowly and painfully VI
East Main street with the work oi
laying concrete roadway in our town
The corner of Main and Walnut
streets has been reached, but the
task has been a big one apparenti,
fdr this machine. Just when wori
be completed through town
everFon has given up speculatine
onyyf is'hoped before winter sets in