The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-06-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


The engagement of Miss Lillian
West, of Townsend, Del, to Mr..
Charles l.. Medill, of Newark, has
been announced.
Rev. Mr.. Fitch, of the Darlington
Circuit, was married May 16 to Miss
Bell, daughter of Rev. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bell of Cockeysville, Md.
Mrs. Caroline S. Martin announ-
ces the marriage of her daughter
Natalie to Mr.. Harry M. Blackwell on
Saturday May 10th, at Charlestown.
Mr.. Leon Evans, of Providence,
and Miss Laura Hess, daughter of
Mrs. John Shelton, of Georgetown,
Kent county, were married on May
12 at Bethel M. E. Parsonage, Pivot.
Miss Gertrude Marie Ottinger, of
Philadelphia, and Mr.. Ralph A.
Grieco, of Chester. Pa, formerly of
North East, were married at the
Church of the Nativity, Philadelphia,
on Wednesday morning, May 23.
Miss Anna Kathryn Guth, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Guth, of
Philadelphia, was married on Mon
day, May %, in that city to Mr.. John
James Fitzgerald, formerly of Elk
ton.
Aberdeen Fire Department has
placed an order for an American La
France fire truck equipped with a
600-gallon pressure pump.
Officers Fadeley and Keech of the
p. B. & w. r. R. Police. captured one
day last week in Cordova, Md, D. C.
Frehichs, who escaped from Elkton
Jail two years ago. He is charged
with forgery.
Sergeant Archibald w. Archer
stationed at the United States prov
ing grounds at Aberdeen. was arrest
ed Monday for drunken assault upon
Mr.. and Mrs. William P. Strasbaugh,
Hartford Furnace, Sunday night.
Discovery of large bed of moist
and pliable clay near their summer
camp at Edgewood Arsenal has in
spired some 100 Baltimore Girl
Scouts to take up the study of art at
the Maryland Institute, Baltimore.
Twenty islands in the Susque-
hanna River and certain small tracts
on the York County side, below Nc
Calls Ferry, which in years past were
famous for shad fisheries, have been
sold to the Susquehanna Properties
Company.
A meeting Of the Northwestern
Sunday School District of Cecil
County, embracing the Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth Election Districts, will be
held in Mt. Pleasant M. e. church
Wednesday afternoon, June 6, from
two to four o'clock.
Light house" danger signals are
being placed at dangerous curves
along the State roads. These sig
nails flash intermittently day and
night. They are erected by the Gulf
refining Company and advertise Gulf
gasoline. 1t is said they cost around
$3.50 each.
j. T. G. Hopkins Jr., of Cecil Nat
ional Bank, Port Deposit, has been
selected a director of the Potomac
Joint Stock Land Bank. incorporated
under the provisions Of the Federal
Loan Act. The main bank will be
located in Washington, D. c. to
transact business in the states of
Maryland and Virginia.
Robert C. Davidson, formerly
Mayor of Baltimore whose sensation
al eiopement from Baltimore some
years ago created quite stir in this
section, has sued for divorce from
his wife, who was formerly Miss
Laura Noyes, of Port Deposit. Mrs.
Davidson is 46 years of age and her
husband 70. He is the complainant,
accusing his wife Of misconduct.
The Young Peoples Division of
Cecil County Sunday School Asso-
citation will hold meeting Sunday
afternoon, June 3, at 2:30 o'clock,
in North East M. e. church, to per-
feet plans for Young Peoples Con-
ference, which will be held June 81.
Each school in the county is request
ed to send delegation of at least
one boy and one girl between the age
of 16 and "a, and one adult 1t is
very important that each school be
represented.
Elkton Athletic Association an
nounce a carnival for the benefit OF
the home team of the Susquehanna
Base Ball League during the week of
June 1928.
The Maryland Commission, on Re-
vision of State Taxation legislation
will recommend the levying of a