The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-05-26
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Tuesday next is Memorial LAY.
Feels like the good old summer
time.
Friday, May 26, School Rally Day
at Elkton.
The stores in town will be closed
On decoration Day, Tuesday, May 3O.
The auto-bus line between Elkton
and Newark has been suspended
owing to insufficient patronage.
Tuesday, May 80, Memorial Day,
he;ng a legal holiday, the banks Will
not be open for business on tnat
date.
The Board of County Commission
ers for Cecil County has appointed
Frank s. Barrett, of Port Deposit
constable for the Seventh Election
District.
Rising Sun is to have anotner
garage. Chas. w. Grason expecls
70 erect a building on his East Main
street lot, in the near future 1or
garage purposes.
Thrown out of his automoolie
when he ran the machine into pole,
paul Cameron, of Elkton, sustained
fractured collar bone. His ma
chine was badly damaged.
An explosion of material used IN
the manufacture of "spit devils
slightly injured three workmen at
the Victory sparkler Company's
plant. near Elkton. last week
The new fire engine house, con-
structed of concrete blocks in the
rear of the public hall building is
nearly completed. 1t is a one story
structure facing Cherry street.
Miss s. Corinne lamar, of Elkton
has been awarded first prize for a
miniature at the Brooks Memorial
Art Gallery, Memphis, Tenn. She
was also awarded first prize last
year.
In the report of sales of Treasury
Savings certificates for the State OF
MARYLAND, during month OF April.
Elkton stands first, Cumberland sec
ond, Chesapeake City third; Balti-
more city not included.
Gordon Jackson, of Perryvilie'
charged with shamefully beating his
step-father, Joseph w. Bignault. was
given hearing before Police Justice
Cove s. Scotten of Elkton. and SEN
fenced to 80 days in Jail.
The State Roads Commission on
Tuesday opened bids onsseveraf Sec
tions of road, including one in Cecil
County from Rowlandville to Five
Points, about 0.91 of mile. the
low bidder was George A. Atkinson,
at $4O,42s.
John Harris, a farmer of the
Second district of Cecil county
waived a hearing before Justice
Scotch, of Elkton, on charge OF
waylaying and shooting a neighbor
David P. Fillingame, and was held
under $1,000 bond.
The Directors of the Elkton Bank
ing and Trust Company have elected
r. Goldey Warren, Of Chestertown
Cashier Of the Rising Sun Bank to
succeed Lynn B. Gillespie. who goes
to the Elkton bank. Mr.. Warren
will assume his new duties June l
The stockholders Of the Chesa
peake City National Bank have ap
proved the action of the directors In
selling the business of the instltu
tion to the Elkton Banking and
Trust Company. The Elkton insti
tuition was elected as Liquidatinf
Agent.
The Cecil Star says of the fire en-
gine, Just received by North East
"The new fire engine is beauty
right up to the times in every re
spect, and something of which the
community has reason to be justly
proud. The protection furnished
the town is well worth the invest
ment made.
Raymond Newlin. Receiving Teller
of the National Bank of Coatesville
is in West Chester jail, charged witf
the theft OF more than 100000
The arrested teller was not generally
his peculation so successfully tina
his speculation so successfully tina
the bank officials were shocked u
discover the shortage.
The editor of the Midland Journa
notices a dire challenge, threat, o.
whatever one chooses to call II
published in this weeks Oxfor'
News by certain member of the OLE
Board of Rising Sun Town Commis
4 sioners, smarting under the lash o
public criticism, to meet them FAC
TO face" Just what is to happen t
us we do not know, but our place o
business is not hard to find wheneve
we are wanted.