The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-06-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Tuesday was flag day.

The annual excursion to Tolches-
ter, by Port Deposit M. E. Sunday
School, will be held June IT.
Childern's Day exercises will be
held at Sylmar M. E. church on Sun
day afternoon, June 10, at 2 o'clock.
The summer meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society was held at
Union Hospital in Elkton Thursday,
June 16.
Rev. VIM. P. Finney, D. D., will
preach in West Nottingham Church
next Sunday, June 10Th, at the usual
morning service.
The State Roads Commission will
concrete the road between Aiken
and Port Deposit, and has advertised
for proposals for the work.
r. M. Black, of Cecilton, <announ-
ces his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination of short term Commis-
sioner, in our adv columns this
week.
Singerly Fire Company, of Elk
ton, accompanied by the Elkton
Band, attended the Maryland State
Firemen's Convention at Cambridge
last week.
The Circuit Court for Cecil County
has granted an absolute divorce to
MIRA Bessie S. Evans on the ground
of abandonment, from her husband,
James F. Evans, of Elkton.
Plans have been made to hold a
reunion of the Twenty-Ninth Di-
vision, OF which Company E, of Elk
ton. was member, in Baltimore,
from August 81 to September 5.
A $50 pound roe sturgeon was
caught in a pound net off Sandy
Beach, i'm the Chesapeake bay, last
week. The fish measured 10 feet
in length and contained 81 pounds
of roe.
Singerly Fire Co., of Elkton, won
third prize in the parade during the
State Convention at Cambridge, for
appearance, second prize for ap-
paratus. and third prize for distance
travelled to attend convention.
Thomas Singleton, of near Colora,
who was arrested for shooting his
son, Raymond, in the legs with
( shot gun on Sunday, June s. was
given hearing and held for action
OF the Grand Jury under $500 bond.
Three new men from Hartford
have been added to the State Police
force by Commissioner of Motor We
hicles Baughman: Charles r. Graf
tom. of Darlington, Julian Reed
Coale and John w. Jeffrey, of Bel
Air.
To conform with the daylight saw
ing in Pennsylvania, there has been
a change of time for all trains leav-
Ing Philadelphia. This affects Ris-
ing Sun in the schedule of three
southbound trains, which now ar
rive here one hour earlier.
The Annual District Camp Meet
ing of the Copson Park Camp Meet
ing Association of the Washington
Philadelphia District of the Church
of the Nazarene, will be held at
Copson Park, near Leslie Station,
Z tn iunIu ctVn
The State Bar Association of
Maryland will hold its annual con-
vention.at Cape May, N. j., on June
80, July 1 and 2. Col. Millard E.
Tydings, of Havre de Grace, has
been nominated by the committee on
nominations as Vice-President of
the Association.
Mrs. Isaac Singleton, who resides
on the farm of Howard Mitchell,
about mile from Aberdeen, was
criminally assaulted Thursday after
noon, by a young negro. George
Neal, a negro from Macon, Ca, was
arrested and lodged in Bel Air jail,
charged. with the assault.
A delegation from the Eighth dis
trict appeared before the County
Commissioners at the last session of
the Beard and asked the improve
me4t Of the road from Points to
Rewi4pdyiile, distance of one
mile. The Commissioner could not
promise any more Improved roads
this year,
Howard Melvin, who for S6
years was the editor and publisher
Nof the Denton. Md, Journal, and one
Of the best known newspaper men in
the. State, dropped dead in a drug
store in that town, while awaiting
the filling Of prescription for acute
indigestion. He was Sc years OF
aOa and Ia survived by his widow