The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-05-21
Frost again this week.


The annual meeting of the Union
Detectiye Association will be held in
Oakryn Hall in Saturday, Juno 5,
at 1890 a. m.
Mrs. Annie Wells, of North East,
has leased the Howard House, in
El,xton. and will conduct this popular
hotel in future.
The Chautauqua at Elkton will be
held June 2 to g.. inclusive. The
dates for the Chautauqua at Rising
Sun are June to y.
Special evangelistic services are
heing held at the M. e. church IN
this town every evening this week.
beginning at 8 o'clock.
Those who have kept tab on the
weather state that Friday, May Ia,
made the eleventh successive Friday
upon which it has rained.
The annual interscholastic track
meet will be held at Tome School,
port Deposit, on Saturday, May 22.
Thirty-five schools will participate.
The proceeds of the Society Cir
cns,' given at the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds, amounted to $500. The
money will be used for library
fund.
Howard Brock, charged with pas
sing a bogus check on Lipman's De-
partment Store, in Elkton, has been
held under $1,000 for appearance at
Court.
Miss Lidie Sagers, clerk in the
School Commissioners Office in Elk
ton. has been appointed by Governor
Ritchie a notary public for Cecil
county.
AS Monday, May 31st, will be OBJ
served as Memorial Day all the busl-
ness houses in town will be closed on
that day. Moral: Do your shopping
Saturday.
Strawberry growers are finding IT
very difficult to get berry crates for
this seasons picking and are having
to nav as high as Is cents each TOT
crates that sold two years ago for 81
cents.
United States Senator Joseph T.
France, of Maryland, has issued
formal statement announcing him
self a candidate for the Republican
nomination for President OF the
United States.
Mrs. Elizabeth Banks has pur-
chased the old Methodist Episcopal
Church in Chesapeake City, and rs
having the building removed TO an
other section of the town. where II
will be converted into bungalow.
Clarence Adams, aged 80 years,
arrested in Camden, N. j., and John
Kelley. arrested in Philadelphia
have been identified as members OF
the gang that robbed the Sandy
Spring Bank and killed one OF the
Directors two weeks ago.
At a meeting of the Vestry Oh
Trinity Episcopal Church, Eikton'
held ON Friday evening, a call was
extended to Rev. Sidney E. Dixon. OF
New Jersey, to become rector, TO sue
ceed Rev. Alfred Lee Jones, resign
ed. to accept the assistant rectorship
Of Trinity P. e. Church, Wilmington.
The mixing building Of the Victory
gparkler Co., in Elkton, was wrecked
by an explosion last week. WlliiaM
II. Realey, an employee, who was
lust entering the doorway, was paia-
snlly burned about the head and face.
The singeriy Fire Company extin-
guished the fire' without damage to
any other buildings.
There will be meeting May 2lst
at 8 D. m. In the Calvert school
house under auspices OF the Womans
Club. Ninth District Farmers CluD
and the Cecil Grange. Prof. Bonn
berger of State College, ]. H. knode
County Agent and others will be the
speakers. Meeting of interest to all
and everybody welcomed.
The caveat to the will of Mrs.
annie y. uOAd0, A6tO Va ANO-S-
fled by her brother, Enoch P. Fer
guson, of Buffalo, N. Y, was set ior
= trial last week at Centreville. The
testatrix devised nearly all OF her
estate, valued at about $4,000 to the
children of her deceased brotner'
Hughey Ferguson. Joshua Clayton
ESQ, represents the heirs and james
/. =: Evans, ESQ., the cayeator.
The Sixth District public schools
were largely represented in EiktoR
on Tuesday at the Rally Day parade
and exercises. Rising Sun senoei
purchased. to wear on the arm OF
each pupil, small pennants OF black
\,apd orange, with the word Rising
- them, and orange and black
to be worn, the school
tion presenting an attrac-
rance in the parade.