The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-08-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED|

The annual campmeeting at Cop
son Park, between Leslie and North
East, will begin on Friday, Aug. Ii.
Mrs. Helen Mackey, of Elkton,
has purchased the dwelling property
of G. A. Heatzig in that town, for
$500.
A clinic for diseases of the chest
will be conducted in The Health
Center, Elkton, Wednesday, August
Is, $50 A. M.
Jos. Heisler, OF Charlestown, sus-
tanned a badly crushed hand last
week, while at work in an industrial
plant in Chester, Pa.
Oscar Wagley, an employee at the
Elkton pulp works, was very
seriously burned last week, while
using an acetylene torch.
From 80 acres a yield of 1l72
bushels of wheat was threshed at
the County Farm, near Cherry Hill,
an average of 80 bus. to the acre.
The card of DR.. C. c. Laws, OF
Chesapeake City, announcing ms
candidacy for the Office of Clerk OF
Court, appears in our columns this
week.
Fifteen tickets were sold at this
station on Sunday morning for the
special excursion to Atlantic City,
run by the Pennsylvania railroad
company.
Falling from a chair at the home
of his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. B. Frazers, in Elkton, little John
Brook Jackson sustained fractured
collar bone.
John Lanison, of Conowingo, was
fined $50 and costs on Monday by
Judge Soper, in the U. S. District
Court at Baltimore, for violation OF
the Volstead act.
Elkton is to have better lighted
streets, the Town Council having
lAge arc lights installed at all the
a ghcipal cross streets and in the
business section.
The card of Joshua Clayton,
present States Attorney, appears in
our columns this week. Mr.. Clay
ton seeks the nomination for the
office at the coming primary.
A civil service examination will be
held at Elkton on date to be
named on admission cards, mailed to
competitors, for the position OF
Postmaster at North East, salary
$21O0.
Miss Cora Riggs, Elk Mills, while
at work in one of the mills there,
was very painfully injured by getting
caught in some of the machinery.
She was taken to Union Hospital fo1
treatment.
Charged with selling liquor in
violation of the Volstead law, Rus
sci Groom and William Daniels, both
colored, of Conowingo, have been
held under $500 bail each for ap-
pearance at Court.
Sweltering heat several days this
week, with the mercury way up In
the nineties The weather man is
not promising much relief for a day
or two yet Dog days end August
Is, and this is some encouragement
Evangelist John Moses Baker, who
is conducting meetings at Rowland
Vile. contributes two short poems
to our columns this week. One will
be of especial interest to our readers,
as it is dedicated to the busy little
village on the banks of the Octoraro,
where Rev. Mr.. Baker is at present
laboring.
An alarm of fire, on Friday eve
ming last, started the chemical
truck to the home of Mrs. Lillian
Robertson, east OF town, where an
exploding oil store threatened SER
ious damage. The firemen were
turned back before they reached tho
scene, as the fire was smothered out
with pieces of carpet before it gain
ed any heaqWay,
The Circuit Court for Cecil
County has annulled the marriage
OF Jenero Raucci to Agnes Volpe
an infant. Joshua Clayton, Esq,
was counsel for the complainant
Miss Volpe,
An absolute divorce has been
granted by Cecil Circuit Court to
Elizabeth Scott Newton from Edgar
d. Newton, with the right to resume
her maiden name. A partial di'
] vorce had previously been granted
to her
The Woodlawn Gun Club will hold
shoot over their traps near Port
Deposit on Saturday, August IA,
starting at 1880 p. m. The shoot
win be for fifty targets, Lewis class
and the club will offer six prizes