The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-08-01

ity is a pountiful one.
Bay View Sunday school will hold
it's picnic at Blacks Shore Saturday,
August 2.
DR.. G. H. Richards has purchased
the bungalow of the late G. G. Hop
kins, near Port Deposit.
Falling asleep while sitting along
the tracks of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, near Perryville, Jacob Lentz,
of New York, had foot severed by
passing train.
The Ford car of Ellis Rock, OF
Sylmar, stolen on the night of July
liz, was found last week deserted in
an alley in Baltimore. The thief has
not been apprehended.
The Junior Order American Me-
chanics of Havre de Grace has ap-
propriated $1,000 to be used in pur-
chasing instruments and uniforms
for the Junior Rifle Band of that
town.
The cards of Frederick H. Letter,
candidate for House of Delegates at
the Democratic primary, and James
F. Evans, candidate for State's At
torney, appear in our advertising
columns this week.
The new issue of $4,000 Of stock
of the Elkton Banking and Trust Co.
has been almost doubly subscribed,
the new shares selling for $65 per
share. This new issue increases the
capital stock to 100000, the sur
plus being 100000.
AS a result of the fire which re-
Gently destroyed the Scott Fertilizer
plant at Elkton, arrangements have
been made by the newly organized
company with the Miller Fertilizer
Company, of Baltimore, to manufac-
ture goods for the Elkton concern.
The Ladies of the Zion M. E..
Church will hold Lawn Fete on
the lawn Of Mr.. Stanley Bowlsby,
Wednesday evening, August 6. II
stormy, next evening. Ice cream,
cakes, candy and fruits for sale.
Everybody cordially invited to colI..
A carnival Of the nations will be
held on Calvert High School grounds
on Friday evening, August 8, for the
benefit of Union Hispital. Among
the features will be gypsy camp
and fish pond, fancy work and flower
exhibit as we'll as the usual good
things for sale.
While handling hammerless gun
on Monday evening in the kitchen OF
the. home of Edwin Haines in this
town, the piece was accidentally dis
charged by Hudders Greenfield. The
charge struck the foot OF the cook
stove, breaking it,, and blowing a
hole through the floor. Fortunately
no one was injured.
Sheriff McAllister, of Elkton, last
week, arrested two colored men WHO
had stolen an auto in Washington
and wrecked the car by running
into a bridge at Charlestown. The
colored men claim to be from Phiia-
delphia, and Harry Kaplan, of Elk
ton, says they are the same pair who
tried to sell him a Buick car few
weeks ago.
Elwood Murray had a miraculous
escape from drowning last week.
While playing at the waste gates OF
the C. and D. Canal at Chesapeake
City he fell in and was carried over
the succession of falls into the pit
below. The force of water was being
wasted as all the gates were OPEN
and after passing over the fails the
lad managed to swim ashore.
The largest barge ever built on
the upper Chesapeake Bay was
launched at the shipyard of Oiebert
Barge and Shipbuilding Company
Havre de Grace, on Wednesday. The
barge measures 23O feet on the keel,
35-foot beam and is 16 feet deep.
she has a capacity of 1900 tons and
is being built for the Northern
Transportation Company, of Will
mington, Del.
Six Cecil county women have cd
papers in the Circuit Court at Elkton
for divorce from their husbands.
They are Bessie A. Arnold, from
Floyd j. Arnold; Mollie w. Biddle,
from Geo. M. Biddle; Mary o. NC
Allister, from Theodore r. McAllis-
ter; Edna s. Donovan. from Pierce
B. Donovan; Margaret Gibson, from
Augustus Gibson. and Mary H.
White, from Edward e. White.
On account of the illness of John
Bowen, editor of the Delaware
Ledger, Newark, there was no issue
y of that publication last week. Mr'
Bowen's many friends hope for his
speedy recovery.