The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-09-17

A clinic for diseases of the chest
will be conducted in Health Center,
Elkton, Wednesday, September 22,
$50 A. M.
The Mercantile Division OF Elkton
Chamber of Commerce is planning
to hold the next Dollar Day. sale
in Elkton, on October 9Th.
The pre-primary registration on
Sept. Z was the heaviest ever known
in the county, about 1900 new
names being added to the list.
Mrs. Mildred M. Boyle, through
her attorney, Henry A. Warburton,
has filed suit for absolute divorce
on the ground of abandonment from
John B. Boyle, of Hartford county.
Baltimore's well-known evange-
list, John Moses Baker, who con-
Quoted Revival service in Rowland
Vile, is now conducting Revival
service in the Deer Creek M. T.
church.
The Community Fire Company
Band, of this town, will assist with
the music on Saturday night, Sept.
1S. at North East, where the Band
of that town is holding a three-night
festival.
subscription fund has been
started in North East for the In
stallation of signal light at the
intersection OF Main street and Cecil
avenue, dangerous street crossing
in that town.
Receiving a fractured skull and
internal injuries by a fall from the
deck of a barge, R. G. Wilson, en-
ployed by the Eastern Transporta-
tion Line, at Chesapeake City, died
in Union Hospital Elkton.
The thirty-sixth annual reunion OF
.ltbaANFirst Regiment, Eastern Shore
ma Yyland Volunteers of the Civil
War, will be held in the Masonic
Temple at fredericksburg, Md. on
Thursday morning, September 23rd
Ishel Jenkins, daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. David Jenkins, OF near
Kinks Mills, Lancaster county, was
bitten on the ankle by copper head
snake one day last week. For e
while fears were entertained for her
life, but she is now improving.
Fifth place in the Interstate
l.aadicap Shoot at Trenton, N. j.,
was won by H. w. Ewing, of Rising
Sun, breaking SS targets out OF 100,
aud being awarded prize of $75.
J. NJ Robertson, of Jersey City, was
high man, breaking 80 targets.
The body Of Amor Ash was found
along the Big Elk creek, on the out
skirts of Elkton, Wednesday OF last
week, by two boys, Perry Heverin,
Jr., and Casper Dunbar. Coroner
Green deemed an inquest unneces-
sary and gave a certificate of death
from asphyxiation. The deceased
was Sc years of age and unmarried
". S. Clenigan, of near Colora,
found in his barn thirteen small
white objects about one and three
quarter inches long by one inch In
diameter, and not Knowing what
they were determined to hold an
autopsy, with result that each OF the
objects were found to be snake eggs,
each egg containing a snake about
five inches long.
The Community Fete held on the
lawn of Ebenezer M, e. church Sept.
/, Q and 8, was very successful,
despite unfavorable weather condi-
tions. About $3.50 was the sum
realized. The proceeds will go to
the building fund for the hall, the
foundation of which has been
completed, and the work of laying
co., rete blocks is progressing.
The uncollected assets of the
closed Second National Bank of Elk
ton, notes, mortgages, judgments and
pverdrafts, approximating $6S,454,
Elkton, September 4, by Kenneth
Royay, Receiver, to ]. Wesley Nc
Allister, the sole bidder, for one
dollar. Checks for the final divi.
dend to be paid creditors and de
positors will shortly be mailed tc
them.
A large number of Klansmen and
Klanwomen from this section at
tended the monster X. X. X. gather
ing and parade in Washington on
Monday.
One party of twenty-six went from
Where in one of the big Newark
buses. The start. was to have been
made at six o'clock in the morning
but the bus was two hours late ir
reaching here. The party reached
unnmae on the return trip at about
clock Tuesday morning.