The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-07-31
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

town of North East.
The dates for 1925 Havre de
Grace ChautauQua will be October
Z, s and 8.
The young ladies of Conowingo
M. E. Sunday school realized $27.OO
by their recent festival.
Chesapeake City is reorganizing
it's band, under the leadership OF
G.. F. Schlosser, of Baltimore.
The annual State Convention OF
the American Legion will be held in
Hagerstown on August rs, II
and %.
The receipts for the carnival, held
by the American Mechanics at New
London, Pa, last week totalled
about $500.
The quarters until recently occu-
pied for post Office purposes, in Elk
ton, are being remodeled for offices
for the Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
"A large number OF Cecil county
Odd Fellows attended the dedication
of Maryland Odd Fellows Home for
Aged and Orphans, at Frederick, on
SUNDAY.
Earl N. Ragan, of Oakwood, has
purchased from Karl J. Austin
garage site on .Baltimore-Philadel-
phia pike, near Richards Oak, !"
and will erect modern garage.
Howard Woolman, an Elkton
youth who has played several
games with the Elkton team, has
been signed to play with the Easton
team of the Eastern Shore League.
Hayre de Grace has a barber In
the person of Joseph l. DeCoursey,
who has been conducting business
since 1856, and is still performing
tonsorial work after So years, OF
service,
Benz. Vansant has sold 70 large
white oaks, by the foot, from his ~
acres of woodland at Sylmar. These
rgoaks are to be shipped to New
q Jersev, where they will be sawed
into lumber for ships.
The State Department of Forestry
has appointed the following FIRE
Wardens for Cecil county: J. Frank
blake, Childs; ]. S. Lansdale, Ches-
aueake City, and Wallace Williams
brentwood Farms, Elkton.
The annual summer meeting OF
the Maryland State Horticultural
society will be held on Thursday and
FRIDAY. July 30th and 31st, at
Frtderick, Md, with headquarters at
the new Francis Scott Key Hotel.
Company E, of Elkton, will leave
for Baltimore on Saturday, August
/ and take the boat at that point
for virginia Beach, virginia "hefe
thew will join other companies OF
the MARYLAND National Guard for &
two weeks encampment.
simone Munzio, aged St years
was instantly killed and two otner
workmen seriously injured at
stone quarry operated by the stan
dard Lime and Stone Company az
Hayre de Grace, by the premature
explosion of a charge OF dynamite
that had been prepared for a blast
The annual potato tour held IN
northern New Castle County, Del
under the auspices of the Extension
Service OF the University OF Dela-
ware, the Farm Bureau and tne
oranges, will take the form OF a gen
eral farm tour this year. Tne toui
viii be held Wednesday, August .
The twelve months old son OF Mr
and Mrs. Grayson Purnell, OF Elk
ton, met with a very serious accl
dent one evening last week. Inc
little fellow grasped teakettle mice
with beiling water, some OF wnlcr
splashed over the child, scaldlne
him very badly about the body ane
limbs.
Richard Tihb, eight years old, sho'
and killed himself at his nome pi
Medical Hall farm on Sunday eve
ming. He is son OF Mr.. George
Tibb, tenant on the farm OF Mr.
q. R. Ferrell, near Churchviiie
The lad is supposed to have beer
playing with loaded shot gun lei
in the room, when the fatal acciden
occurred.
Charged with highway robbery OF
William Eberle, of Elkton, Bruno
Dominelli and Michael Valente wer'
each held under $4,000 bond TO
Court. Peter Lara and Miss Ros
= Allen, the latter accused of havinI
lured Eberle to the scene OF tn
robbery for that purpose, were botl
dismissed, when no evidence wa
produced 70 show they wer
implicated.