The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-11-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


last week, while butching hogs.
DR.. Vernon H. Mcknight, of North
East, has purchased from William j.
Davis the former Kerfoot residence
property ON Bridge, Elkton.
The public schools of the county
will close Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 4
p. M, Tor the Thanksgiving hDliday,
reopening on Monday, December 3.
A large bell has been purchased
for the Nazarene church, at North
East. The last payment on the new
organ for the church has also been
made.
No services will be held at the
Sylmar Methodist church Sunday
Nov. rs. All are invited to attend
the dedicatory services of the church
in Rising Sun.
lessee E. Pearson, Republican
Sheriff-ected, will assume charge of
his ONCE on November %. He has
appointed HIS brother, Matthew
S8ESOu do lib NOPNCJ'
The Ladies Aid Society of Har-
mony M. p. church, Rowlandville,
will hold their annual Thanksgiving
Supper In the basement of the church
Z on Thursday evening, Nov. 20.
q. Leland OFT has been appointed
Constable for the First, Second,
Third and Fourth districts, to succeed
Oscar P. Humes, for term of three
years beginning December 6, 1928.
The County Commissioners have
appointed RIB. Marshall, of Wood
lawn, Trustee of the Poor and In
sane, to succeed Tullard Buckworth,
for term of six years beginning De-
cember 81, 1928.
walter A. Aaronson, postmaster at
! the Aberdeen Proving Ground for
the past three years, has received the
appointment as acting postmaster at
Aberdeen, vice Walter s. Wilson,
whose term has expired.
The Mite Society of the, Principle
Furnace M. E. Church, will hold a
Aicken supper on Saturday evening,
MEMBER "a, in the freight house OF
>B. & o. Station at Jackson.
Upper served from to o'clock.
Hog cholera, which has been pre-
valenf in lower Cecil county for
week is gradually spreading to tho
uppei Ind, inspector in charge Ather-
ton REPORTING its presence on the
Public Health Reservation at Perry
Pont.
Plans have been outlined by the
Chamber of Commerce of Elkton, to
assist in recruiting new members for
Company E, First Maryland Reg
iment, Of that town, the Company
at the present being far below its
quota.
Fifteen thousand pints of whisky,
gathered up in raids, and stored in
the warehouse on the Reservation a.
Federal Park, found unfit for medical
use, were emptied into the Susque-
hanna by authorities of the Veterans
Bureau Hosipal.
The negro James Caves, who shot
and killed Henry Smith in a shanty
at the Casparis Stone quarry, near
Havre de Grace, several weeks ago,
has been arrested in Philadelphia,
and is being held for the Hartford
couny authorities.
New transformers installed in the
Christiana sub-station by the Oxford
Electric Company have greatly i'm
proved the service to patrons of the
Northern Maryland Electric Com
pany, along it's lines, slackness in
which had of late caused much COM
plant.
AT recent meeting Of the board OF
directors of Newark Trust and Safe
Deposit Company it was decided to
increase the capital stock OF the
bank to 800. 900. capitalization
heretofore has been $4,000. The
increase is effective on December
slsf. 1898.
Next years election will be fon
President and Congressman: the
following year-1925-there will b"
no election: In 1926 there will be an
election for all State and County
ofEieers. There Is a movement on
foot for the Legislature to simplify
and reduce the size of the now cum
bersome ballot by making appointiva
some OF the present elective officers.
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