The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-29

ground.
Train service over this branch
was delayed several hours on Tues
day by freight wreck above
Oxford.
The January meeting OF the Cecil
Farmers Club was held on Wednes-
day of last week at the home OF
Maurice g. Reeder, near town.
Sunday, January 81. will be Boy
Scout Night at Rising Sun M. E.
church. The services will be In
charge of the pastor, Rev. J. q.
Mccoy.
Edward ]. Campbell has been
elected superintendent of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Sunday School, at
North East, vice ]. Edward Davis,
who declined reelection.
l.. Berkowitz, of Baltimore, for
merly of this town, will take pos
session on April l of the store build
ing in Oxford, occupied for years
past by James r. Garvin.
Rev. j. w. Prettyman has been
invited to return as pastor OF the
Zion M. e. Circuit for the coming
Conference Year. The Circuit EN-
braces Zion, Calvert and Ebenezer
M. e. churches.
3 The rear wheeltof the Ford car OF
Warren l.. Taylor came on Sunday
afternoon, while he was driving
near town. Fortunately he was
going slowly at the time and
escaped injury.
DR.. Lewellys F. Barker, of Johns
Hopkins, Baltimore, one OF the
highest authorities in the medicai
profession, addressed the winter
meeting of the Cecil County Med
ical Society at Union Hospital, Elk
ton, on Thursday last.
Deputy State Health Officer
Franklin, assisted by County Health
Nurse, Miss Elizabeth N. Stewart,
have administered the Schick treat
ment to prevent diphtheria to school
children in Perryville, North East.
Chesapeake City and Elkton.
The Calvert High School was
broken into one night last week and
a, quantity of sugar, flour and soar
taken out of the cupboard. in
the domestic science room. Entrance
was made by prying one OF the
gratings of and breaking pane o.
glass.
David Chalmers, aged As, of vii
ington, Del. freight conductor on
the Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Railroad, was killed al
most instantly when struck by a
southbound New York and Wash
ington express about one mile north
of Elkton shortly before l o'clocf
Tuesday afternoon.
The list OF candidates grows from
w
mentioned in our last issue James r.
Mccoy, of Cecilton, has entered the
field as candidate for nomination
for County Commissioner of Cecil
county, at the Democratic primaries
to be held next September, and
James Blaine McVey. of Sylmar, has
announced himself candidate for
nomination for sheriff at the same
primaries.
The city of Havre de Grace
has confessed judgment to A. F.
Brown and Shirley Carter in the
amount of $1,000, for legal services
rendered in the several cases grow
ing out of the recent Mayoralty
election,
The two attorneys had filed bills
with the Mayor and City Councl
amounting to over $4,000 and pay
ment was refused.
The discovery by Sheriff Thomp
son and Deputy Sheriff Dewey Bow
man of several hack-saws in the
cells OF prisoners in the Bel AL
Jail on Monday of last week. prop
ably prevented jail delivery sooner
or later. A closer inspection furtne'
revealed that one of the steel par
leading from the cells to the cor
ridor had been sawed and that two
other bars had been partly sawed.
The Esther Jean Runyan Trio VIII
appear in the public hall OF this
town on Thursday evening, FEB
ruary 4. as the fourth number OF
the entertainment course. This trio
of artists presents a program OF
musical selections and readings that
pleases the most critical audience
kiche troupe is compose OF Esther
Runyan, violin; Evelyn Green
r and character delinAEor:
d Tomlinson, baSitopl pd