The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-07-23

What about the good old sum-
mer time, this week, with the
mercury as high as 9S degrees.
Singerly, Cecil county, is one OF
seven stations the B. & o. railroad
has requested permission from the
public Service Commission to close.
Thursday, July Is, was st.
Swithens Day, and as it rained on
that day, according to the old bellef
we are to expect rain every day ior
the next forty days.
The ladies of st. Agnes Relief
Society report $125 cleared by the
recent measuring contest. Thls
money will be used for interior
decoration Of the chapel, in TINS
town.
Sunday evenings storm was one
of unusual severity. The high Wlnd
xprooted trees, leveled growing
crops. etc. The deluge of rain was
accompanied by some hail In TINS
locality. ~
The Ambulance Committee, OF
Newark, Del, has placed contract
with t. C. McMullen & Son, OF
Perryville, for a Studebaker custom
built ambulance, fully equipped the
price being $3,668.65.
tine new pumper purchased by the
perryville Fire Company has peen
received. The engine has capacity
of 500 gallons per minute and was
built by the: Hale Pump COMPANY
of Conshohocken, Pa.
Charged with the theft OF loo
meal tickets from Stone & Webster
Company, engineers at Conowlngo'
william Hunter has been held under
5000 bail for appearance before
Haford County Grand Jury.
The .prizes to be awarded by the
Community Fire Company OF tnls
town, to the visiting fire companies
-. the carnival on August 3, the
81 of the parade, are on exhibition
n The show window OF Ashpys CUT
Rate Store.
new concrete block structure Is
being erected opposite the railroad
station, in Elkton, for use OF the
Nnerican Railway Express Com
many. It replaces the old frame
Ap,.iiding used for many years aS
the express office.
Those of our farmers who nave
II -eshed their wheat report good
Yields. Kirk E. Clifford thresheo
seven acres yielding him 2lO Dus.'
and Cecil Kirk reports ~ pus. 10
The acre. Farmers in the FITS,
District report 27 bus. to the acre.
The w. c. t. U. OF. North East
has purchased from Joseph Coudon'
the building on Main street IN tnat
town, known as the McNamee pullo-
ing. and presented it to the trustees
of the M. E. Church. The building
will be remodeled and USED as
Church House.
Frank Blake, of Childs, recent
graduate of Washington College,
chestertown, has been appointed
assistant principal of the high
school at Elkton, for the en-
suing year, vice Raymond Cameron,
who has been appointed principal OF
hesapeake City High School.
A Joint meeting of the Maryland
state horticultural Society,". and the
Peninsula Horticultural Society OF
Delaware, Eastern Shore OF Mary
land. and the Eastern Shore OF
virginia. will be held at Harrison's
nurseries, near Berlin, Friday,
July 30th.
The Community Fire Company
Band, of this town, furnished music
for the Perryville Fire Company
carnival on Monday evening.
The Community Fire Co., with
band and apparatus, participated IN
the parade held in connection with
the carnival on Wednesday evening
Another sacred concert will be
given by the Associated Bands OF
Cecil County, embracing Rising SUM-
North East and Chesapeake City, on
Sunday afternoon, July rs, from
three to five o'clock, at North East
These concerts are proving very
popular and are listened to by large
crowds of people.
The Elkton News reports strange
freak when section OF concrete
roadway in that town took on llte'
July 10, due to the intense neat,
The New says: Saturday afternoon,
due to expansion caused by the IN
tense heat, the concrete roadway on
East Main street buckled just east
of Church street and finally blew out
a narrow strip across the street with
an explosion that sounded like
Young cannon. Luckily no cars