The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-07-30
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the, County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The 41st annual session of Raw.
linsville, Pa, Camp Meeting will DC
,eld from August Z to II, inclusive
With a membership of twenty
FIVE a lodge of the Senior Order Of
American Men has been Instituted al
North East.
The annual convention OF Cecil
County Sunday School Association
was held on Thursday of this
week at st. Johns M. E. church
Lewisville.
The carnival of the Perryville
Fire Company was continued two
nights this week, closing Tuesday
night. The gross receipts are re-
ported to have been $4,000.
Company E, Maryland National
Guard, of Elkton, will leave july
31st. for Virginia Beach, where the
ANIMAL encampment of the Mary
land National Guard, will be held
this summer.
But two passengers boarded the
snecial train at Rising Sun for
the Sesqui-C Centennial on Thursday
morning, when an excursion was run
by the Pennsylvania railroad to
Philadelphia big show.
Ernest P. Howery, of Charles
town. has been held under sow
bond for appearance on the charge
Of transporting liquor. 1t is stated
Howery was caught with two kegs
Of "moonshine" in his car.
It is stated that the Kennett
Square. Pa, Fire Company cleared
only 5000 by it's recent carnival.
West Grove, Pa, also had unfavor-
able weather and the report is that
the carnival in that town was also
failure as far as receipts are
concerned.
Fifty. robed Klansmen and Klan
Lies attended divine services at
par M. E. church on Sunday
aftsenoon, having received an IN
yitiation from the pastor, Rev. J. G.
Mccoy. who gave them soul
stirring sermon from II Kings, Nv
chapter, 18th verse.
rive men were injured, two OF
them seriously, Thursday afternoon
last, when a huge concrete bucket
dropped it's contents from a great
height on them. The accident oc-
Cured at the new Pennsylvania
n. r. bridge being erected across
The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
at Canal, Del.
Permission has been granted by
the Public Service Commission Ice
The Public Service Commission for
the extension of the electric
lines of the. Betterton Ice &
Power Company to Stillpond, the
commissioners of the latter town
having made contract to have the
streets of Stillpond lighted by
electricity.
The six year ~old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. M. Charshee, of Prin-
cinio Furnace, had a narrow escape
from serious injury one evening last
week, when she ran in front OF a
car driven by Austin L. Crothers, OF
Elkton. The child was struck and
Knocked down, receiving painful
cuts and bruises. Her escape was
fortunate.
Geo. E. Johnson, an attendant at
Perry Point Hospital, who was fatally
injured when struck by a Ford auto
mobile on the Perryville-Port De-
5 post road near Akin, died July 19
Mr.. Johnson was removing from
the highway a large limb of tree
which had fallen during the severe
storm, when run down by a
Ford car driven by Harry Snyder
of Perry Point.
Falph Reed, son of David T. Reed
Of this town, met with very pain
full accident Sunday morning, while
at WOfK at JH0 nilh pldHl uciO
He was taking empty bottles from
case and placed his hand upon the
top of a broken one that he did
not see, the jagged edges cutting q
I deep cash clear across the palm OF
his hand, requiring the services OF 2
physician to close the wound.
"A sacred concert was given on
Sunday afternoon, at North East
by the Associated Bands OF Cecil
county, numbering sixty pieces and
embracing bands from Rising Sun
North East and Chesapeake City
under direction of Prof. G. F
Schlosser, of Baltimore.
These Sunday afternoon band
concerts have proven very popular
md in response to the requests that
&aye been received by the organi-
cation staging them for their con-
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