The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-10-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Corn cutting is well under way.

Corn cutting Is Weil uuuoA ""J'
R. T. Meekins recently appointed
chief of Police of the town of North
East has resigned that position.
Cecil Canneries finished the pack
Of corn at their plant in this town
on Saturday. $4,000 cases were
canned.
Rev. A. E. Smith, missionary
from Kentucky, will speak in Zion
Presbyterian Church on Sunday
October 26.
The corn crop in Maryland will be
from poor to fair this year, accord
ing to a bulletin issued by the
United States Department OF
Agriculture.
James Williams, Of near Colora,
suffered a fractured collarbone, one
day last week, by falling from the
door of a corn crib, distance OF
about five feet.
The Ladies Aid Society Of Mt.
Rleasant M. e. church will hold
supper in the Parsonage at MT.
Pleasant, on Wednesday evening,
Oct. %. Supper served from $3.50
Ex-Postmaster Levi X. Bowen, of
Newark, Del, who for number OF
years was owner and editor of the
Newark Ledger, has made plans to
open a job printing Office in that
town.
Two 10000 gallon capacity tanks
have been erected by the Standard
Oil Co., at their station, which is ins
course of construction on their prop
erty, near the railroad station, in
this town.
The Senior Glass of Calvert Agri-
cultural High School will give an
Oratorical contest, with musical
program, in the school building
Thursday, October %. Admission
csc. Refreshments for sale.
The ballots cast at the election
last Fall and the Primaries last
Spring dn this county. were taken to
NSthe Elkton pulp works Tuesday
Afternoon of last week, under direc-
ti6n OF the Board of Supervisors,
and burned, according to law.
Governor Albert C. Ritchie has
named Judge Thomas j. Heating, of
this. the Second Judicial Circuit of
Maryland, as the Eastern Shore
mulnber of the Maryland Judicial
Council. provided by an act passed
hvs the Maryland Legislature last
winter.
Rev. Monroe Poison, of Lancaster
county Pa, minister of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, and mem
Der of the Klan, addressed gather
ing III the Sunday school room of
Rising Sun M. E. church, Tuesday
evening, on The Relation of the
X. X. X. to the Church"
Revenue officers ON Wednesday
OF last week. made raid in Elk
Neck and captured on the Dilks
farm large still said to belong to
M w. Purner. of North East. who
was arrested along with James
Wharton and Charles Rains also of
North East. The trio were taken
to Baltimore.
In a fight at Emory Tasker's
dance hall, near ,Charlestown, one
night last week, John H. Sherron,
aged 19 years, was stabbed several
times. one thrust penetrating q
lung. He was taken to Union
Hospital. Elkton, in serious con
dition. Drannon Houston, charged
with the stabbing, made his escape.
The Town Commissioners OF
Chesapeake City, plan to inaugurate
. garbage collection system in that
town. The plan is to collect gar
bage twice a week-on Mondays and
Fridays, and during the summer
months an extra day will be added
Ashes and rubbish must be kept
separate. and this will be collected
each Wednesday.
Quite a number of our citizens
visited Elkton Sunday afternoon ts
hear John A. McSparran's address
at the meeting held in the new
Playhouse in that town, in the in
terest of Sunday observance, Tho
meeting was largely attended, every
District in the county being repre-
sented. Mr.. McSparran's address
was a strong one, holding the
closest attention of his auditors
throughout.
A canvas top wagon. drawn by q
white horse, stopped in Rising Sun
Tuesday about the dinner hour. and
a colored man and two small colored
boys proceeded to make music with
imonica. snare and bass drums
then passing around the hat. The
Nagon was lettered C. L. Hamil'
ton, bound for Africa; not for fur
nor riches. but that man might see
the hand work OF God"