The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-06-05
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Sunday, June IA, is Flag Day.


Mercury in the nineties this
week
Fine home grown strawberries
reaching the local market.
The Rally Day for the colored
schools of Cecil county will be Tues
day, June 9, at Elktony
Halloway Beach, at Charlestown;
Retterton and other "shore" resorts
opened officially on Memorial Day.
A Guernsey COW, belonging to
Mrs. Amanda E. OFT, of Providence,
gave birth to twin calves last week
Children's Day will be observed
by the Sunday School OF Rising
Sun M. E. church on Sunday morn
ing June IA, at 1890 o'clock.
Circuit Court for Cecil county,
in EQUITY, has granted Mrs. Reginald
walworth, of Chesapeake City, an
absolute divorce from her husband.
There will be tuberculosis clinic
for known tuberculosis cases, con-
facts, and suspects in the Health
Center, Elkton, Tuesday, June 10.
at 10:30.
The Senior Glass OF Calvert .Agrl.
cultural High School, accompanied
by members Of the faculty, are en-
loving a three-day sightseeing TRIP
to Washington.
Three men escaped from Bel All
iail one night last week, ana nave
not vet been apprehended. The mer
broke an iron cot and with a piece
of iron broke the locks of their cells,
Police Justice Scotten, OF Elkton'
fined Oscar johnson, OF that toWn'
s1OO. and costs on the charge Oh
driving a car while drunk. oscar
is under bail on bootlegging charges
also.
w. L. Ely, of Rising sun has pur-
ohasad the property in, Oxford, Pa
occupied at present by James
Garyin as a. general department
store. The property was owned ny
the Nausbaum estate.
The little three-year old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph d. Morgan
Of Elkton, met with a, very serious
accident some days ago, by falilns
from an outside stairway, the iittle
girl sustained fractured collar pone
and three ribs
J Miles McManus, who has peei
pastor of the st. Theresa Roman
Catholic Church, Port Deposit, fol
nearly twenty-five years, has resign
ed and gone to his home IN Scran
-, pa He has been in bad health
for number of years.
The address to the graduates OF
Calvert Agricultural High Schoo'
will be delivered on Tuesday, June
16. by Congressman George A
welsh. OF the Sixth Pennsylvania
Congressional district, former
Cecil county boy.
Friday, June 19, Alumni bahque'
The Junior Glass of Rising Sur
High School will present the three
act comedy, Bashful Mr.. Bobbs,'
in the public hall of this town or
Thursday evening, June IL, al
s o'clock. Admission 30 cents
Exercises were held at. Calvert OF
Memorial Day, in the afternoon
After the graves of fallen soldiers
had been strewn with flowers, tn
large crowd present assembled in the
grove. where several addresses were
made appropriate to the occasion.
At the annual election in Elktol
on May rs, for two Town Commis
sioneds, Taylor w. McKenney wal
reelected and DH William ID
cawley elected The holdover mem
hers of Council are President w. n
Mackall and Commissioners william
G. Feehly and Arthur F. Hubbard.
The annual commencement exer
cises of the Training School TO
Nurses of the Union Hospital o
Cecil county were held at the New
Theatre, Elkton. Thursday morning
June 4, at eleven O'Clock. The grad
yates were Marian Lee Bakeoven, o
Maryland, and Agnes Ellen Hlebak
of Pennsylvania.
Charged with striking Frederic
O. Wolfe, aged IA years, a membe
of the Junior class at the Georg
Biddle High School, Cecilton, Md
in the face with his fist, j. b. i
Cooke, of Nottingham. asslstan
principal at the school has been al
rested and held under $500 bon
by Magistrate Johnson, Chesapeak
city, for trial at the Septempe
term of Circuit Court in Elkton.
is alleged Wolfe had given the teach
ers considerable trouble.