The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-03-25
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Spring failed to bring weather of
that Sort, on it's arrival Monday.
<,.-~A second case of small pox is re-
ported among the colored people at
North East.
Fishermen report the Spring run
of fish on, with herring, rock, pike,
catfish and carp being caught.
Andrew Rambo, carpenter OF
Elkton, fell from a scaffold sustain
ing fractured rib and other injur-
les.
The supper recently held by the
ladies of North East w. G. T. u.
was a great success, over 500 being
cleared.
The recent supper and food sale
held by the Ladies' Auxiliary OF the
Peryville Fire Company, netted the
sum of $500.
The Howard Scott property of 36
acres in the Fourth District was sold
last week by Henry l.. Constable,
Esq, Trustee, to John R. Couden,
for $3.50.
The Wilmington M. E. Confer
ence convened at Asbury Church,
Salisbury, Md, on Tuesday, March
~. Bishop F. j. Mcconnell, of
pittsburgh, is in charge.
The U. S. Civil Service Commis-
sion has announced competitive ex-
aminations on Wednesday, April 20,
at Havre de Grace, for rural mail
carriers at Conowingo and Rising
Sun. ,f
DR.. John S. Fulton, Maryland Di-
rector OF the State Department OF
Health, has designated April to
10th, inclusive, as the thirteenth
annual Negro Health Week in the
State.
Stoy H. Fritch, aged 25 years, was
fatally injured Friday night Of last
week when he was run over by one
of the trains on the Susquehanna
VALLEY railroad. He leaves widow
AND one son.
A Havre de Grace publication re-
purrs the citizens of Perryville are
ali agog over rumOred 100000
development project which is at
present shrouded in mystery. The
nature'of the project is not revealed.
i. X Atherton, Inspector, reports
hog cholera to exists on premises
OF Herbert Reed and Thomas X.
Larkin, near Pennington, and on
premises of John B. Astle, near
Principle.
Joseph Dill, a colored man, in at
tempting to jump from moving
freight train at Whitaker station,
near Peach Bottom, was killed on
Saturday evening, when he struck
bank and rolled beneath the wheels
of the train.
The little three year old son OF
MIR. and Mrs. John Adams, of Havre
de Grace, fell twenty feet from the
second story window, one afternoon
last week, fracturing his skull and
breaking one arm. 1t is thought he
will recover.
The Cecil Star, published at North
East and for years owned by the late
George o. Carey, has been sold to
newspaper syndicate reported to
have obtained several other papers
OF the Eastern Shore in chain OF
weekly publications.
John M. Keating, a Conowingo
mechanic, arrested on the charge o.
assaulting an officer, was fined $5C
and cost and ordered return to his
home in Pennsylvania, or serve sly
months in the Maryland House O.
Correction. He chose to. leave the
State.
The Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has had built
gas-electric car to try to meet the
passenger requirements OF the road
Should the car prove satisfactory
1t is understood the Company will
purchase one or more OF the same
pattern,
Rutter H. Tennis, of Port Deposit,
was severity burned when the radi
ater on his truck exploded as he was
driving in Baltimore on Wednesday
night. of last week. He was pain
fully scalded about the face, arms
and body by boiling water from the
radiator.
Clifton Jacobs, colored, aged S2
years, was killed by being struck by
moving dump car, while at work
! near Cenewinge en- Wednesday OF
last week. His skull was crushed
ana back broken. Jacobs was one
Of the principal witnesses in the re
cent murder trial at ElktonNof State
We. Joseph Peters, of Octorare juno
tion,. who shot and killed Ben Dash,
another employee at Conowingo.