The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-30
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY No7Er
Memorial Day.

Memorial Day.
August to September /, inclusive,
are the dates selected for the annual
carnival Of North East Fire Co.
The Cecil County School Board has
ordered the schools in the county
closed for the summer on Friday.
June 18th.
Friday, May 80, is Memorial Day, i
legal holiday. Banks and pubic
Offices will be closed, and the count"
schools will hold one session.
Reginald Constable, of Elkton, has
been elected director of the Cecil
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., to sue
ceed the late Samuel J. Keys.
All members OF the Community
Fire Company and Band are request
ed to report at the engine house
promptly at 7:45 o'clock Monday
evening, June 2, for drill.
J. T. C. Hopkins. President of the
Cecil National Bank of Port Deposit,
was chosen a Vice President Of the
MARYLAND Bankers Association, at its
recent annual meeting in Atlantic
City.
The wrecking crew made short
work Of the old National Bank build
ing, which has been completely torn
down to make room for the hand
some new banking structure that Is
to occupy the site.
Rev. Dr. George w. Cooke, the
noted Evangelist, who conducted a
successful revival in Rising Sun last
fall, began series of meeting in
Perryville M. e. Church on May 28,
continuing until June 15.
At the annaul meeting of the board
of managers of Union Hospital, Elk
ton, Joseph Coudon, Perryville, was
elected president; Frank B. Evans,
Elkton, vice-president; John H. Ter
rell, secretary and treasurer.
After nearly year of liberty, John
Stevens, who escaped last summer
from a road gang in Hartford county
when he had only two more months
to serve, was returned to the Mary
land Penitentiary last week, where
IL will have to serve seven months.
Permission has been granted b,
the Public Service Commission oi tbs
State, to the Pennsylvania railroad
company to dispense with the service
Of its agent at Principle Station
Notice was given Of the hearing upon
the request but no patrons Of the
station appeared.
A meeting of the Chautauqua guar
antors will be held on Friday eve
ming, May 80, at s o'clock, in James
M. e. church, Rising Sun. The pur-
pose Of the meeting is to check UP
I the sale Of tickets, and make final
arrangements for this very importan,
selling campaign.
q. Austin Baughman, Commits
sioner Of Motor Vehicles for Mary
land, has given notice that he viii
revoke the license of all operators
OF automobiles for one year who arr
convicted of driving cars while unde
the influence of liquor, and II
fiagrant cases, will revoke them per
manently.
Three negroes were caught passinf
through Aberdeen for several viola
tions Of the automobile laws, and lat
CIR Investigations disclosed that tn
Dodge car they were using was stoler
In Washington. The. men wer'
taken to Bel Air by Officer DormaI
to await the arrival of Washingto,
authorities:
The town commissioners are hav
ing the streets patched up with thu
broken brick and plaster from th
old National Bank building.
steam roller crushes and smoothe
up the debris after it is dumped AM
nWECa0s VIC uHQCLb thO oSAOOe
are to be oiled and top-dressed will
stone or Stag.
Wet weather has greatly delaye
farm work, especially corn planting
A yarrettsville, Hartford county, far
mer. is quoted as saying that fiv
years ago owing to illness, he coul'
not plant his corn until May 81
It sprouted promptly. grew rapid
and yielded as largely as any Of hi
previous crops.
The brief quarantine at the Elkto
Jail, due to a supposed case Of smal
pox at the sheriff's residence, wa
lifted by DIR. c. w. G. Rohrer, diae
nostician of the State Bureau Q
Heath. who pronounced the patient
Miss Evelyn Pierson, the Sheriff
sister. as not affected with tn
dreaded disease.