The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-07-08
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
:. During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

our COWH
More sweltering weather with the
mercury reaching SO on the Fourth.
Port Deposit Volunteer Firemen
will hold a carnival in that town
July 16 to FL.
The w. C. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Jos. s. Pogue Thursday, July
14th, at $3.50 p. m,
The tax rate for the town OF Elk
ton has been fixed at $1.O0 on the
500. the same as last year.
The Rising Sun-Calvert State
road was oiled and top-dressed on
Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week.
william H. johnson, Of Chesa-
peake City, has been appointed JUS
tice of the Peace by Governor Hlt-
chic to succeed the late Lucien M
Bean.
g. Ralph Andrews, of Elkton, an
nounces himself in our advertising
columns this week, as candidate
for the Republican nomination Oh
State Senator.
The Sylmar Junior League base
hall team will hold a festlval III
Harvey Townsend's field, one-haiI
mile south of "Sylmar, Friday eve
ming, July Is.
A movement is on foot to have
the channel of the North East river
at North East dredged, and an Ell
fort will be made to raise SUFFICIENT
funds by subscriptions to do the
work.
scott Wilson & Son have broken
ground for the placing of four large
additional gasoline tanks under the
payement in front of their garage
recently destroyed by fire, and will
rebuild ON their old site.
Rev. John Nelson has been ap-
pointed manager of the annual DIS
.trict Campmeeting of the Nazarehe
Church, which will open at Copson
Park, near Leslie Station, along the
b. & O. Railroad, on August l5
and continue ten days.
The annual excursion to Better
ton of Port Deposit Presbyterian
Sunday school will be held Thurs
day July 81. Boat will leave
wharf at Port Deposit 700 a. m
Round trip tickets-Adults, 6t
cents: children, 40 cents.
The foundation for Wilson & NC
Namee's new garage on West Mair
street, opposite their present loca
ton, is beng laid. The garage viii
be of concrete block structure, ane
will be commodious and equipped
in a most up-to-date manner.
The Injunction laid by Reuben A
Deibert against the State Roads
Commission, which caused the leav
ing of gap in the laying of con
crete roadway in the town OF Elk
ton, on the Main street, has bee1
dismissed, Mr.. Deibert paying the
costs.
Cadet David McCauley, of Chesa
peake City, won the $40 cash prize
offered to a member of the Fresh
man Glass at st. Johns Naval Acad
emy, for the best essay on the
early History of Maryland,
Cadet McCauley also won SECOND
honors in the oratorical contest.
The contract for a concrete roat
between Port Deposit and Perry
Vile has been awarded by the Stat'
Roads Commission to Claiborne
Johnson & Co., at a bid of $14S,0OO
The contract for an improved roat
from Cowentown to Elk Mills, 1 u
miles, has also be awarded to Fisl
Brothers, of Laurel, at bid o
$4O,562.50.
Rising Sun team has lost the ser
vices of it's crack short stop, RUB
Dunbar, of Elkton, who has beei
playing a wonderful game all sea
son, both In the field and at bat
Rube was spotted by some scou
and is now playing on the Newpor
News, Va, team, in the Virgini'
League, at q salary of 1925 pc
month.
The Mems Bible Glass of Risinl
Sun M. e. church will visit Ebeneze
Sunday school on the afternoon o
Sunday, July 10. Arrangement
will be made for transporting al
members. thirty cars having beel
placed at the disposal of the clas
and their friends. Meet at Publ
Hall in this town at 1880 o'clocl
and ample provision<will be mad
4 for everyone who desires to go
whether members of the class o
not.