The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-10-23

e by the recent Ialr Helu VI 'iAo
of MT. Pleasant M. e. church.
Thieves entered the home OF
David Wherry, at Providence, Ie"
nights ago and stole $165 in money.
Ra1lv Night service will be held at
Ebenezer M. E. church on sunday
evening. October rs, at 1880 O'CLOCK
All welcome.
!. very successful supper was heid
bv the ladies of Port Deposit Pres
byterian church, on October y, Wnen
they cleared $4,000.
The Town Commissioners are hav-
ing a stone sidewalk laid on west
Main street from Wilson avenue 10
the Briscoe property.
i; The choir of Trinity Protestant
Episcopal church, of Elkton, Is pe-
ing trained by Professor JACOB
Clymer, of Wilmington.
As part Of it's Armistice Day pro-
gram Cecil Post, American Legion
y will present Elkton Elementary
y school with a large American nag.
william Ward, aged 62 years, an
employee on the tugboat "Branoy-
wine" fell dead on the street in
Chesapeake City, one evening last
week.
The work of eliminating the sharp
turn in the Elkton-C Chesapeake road
n at Knights Corner has been COM
pleted by the State Roads Commls-
sion. The curve is now less danger
GUS to traffic.
Iobn G.. Hindman is the new
manager of the A. & F. store IN
fhis town. Mr.. Hindman is hls-
ing Sun boy. He has been located
in Aberdeen for the past two OF
three years.
,.s.sSs Police Justice Cove S. eScotten has
sentenced Abe. Anderson, colored, OF
Elkton, to six months in the House
of Correction, on the charge OF
keeping a gaming table and dis
orderly house.
Elkton is planning for its annual
Halloween parade, to be held Satur-
day evening, October 81. The com
mittee in charge has elected w. C.
Feehly chairman, and Herman W.
Mezick secretary and treasurer.
The Elkton News reports the
y I" Texas Ranger" an old house boat
I on the opposite side of the Big ELI
from that town, scene in the past OF
many booze parties, was destroyed
by fire Sunday morning about nine
O'Clock.
John H. Buck, for some years past
teller in the Cecil National Bank,
Port Deposit, has resigned his posi-
tion in that institution to accept the
appointment of Assistant Bank
Examiner in the Philadelphia
District.
E. Kirk Brown, of Elkton, has
recovered his Maxwell Sedan, that
was stolen on the night of August
4, The machine was found in 6
Baltimore garage, having been left
there, with changed numbers, or
August 5.
Mrs. J. Harry Marshbank, of Elk
ton, had the misfortune to fall while
ascending a fight of stairs at her
home in that town, last week, ane
fracture her right wrist. Mrs
Marshbank some years ago fell ane
fractured her hip.
Lewis Jones, colored, of Elkton
is in Union Hospital as the result OF
a little carving party held in that
town recently. Lewis Jackson, the
Il colored man who handled the knife
beat it before the authorities coulc
land him in jail.
Fiagman william Mckay, o.
celera, who has seen twenty-three
years of service with the Pennsyl
vania railroad, has been transferred
to Rising Sun, succeeding William
\ McKeivey, at the station crossing
here, who was placed on the Pen
sian Roll.
Sheriff Pierson, of Elkton, anf
the State Police, arrested three aut'
thieves last week. The prisoners
gave their names as Elton Scott
aged IT; Harry F. Carson, aged Is
and Richard Gather, aged 80. De
tectives from Baltimore took then
back to that city.
One of the large electric trans
formers ON a pole on Walnut street
In this town, burned out saturda!
evening. about seven o'clock and
number of residences and places o
business were without current unit
Sunday morning, when a new trans
former was brought from Oxfor'
and placed in position.