The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-30
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

last week.
George Worrilow, of Zion, sustain
ed a fractured wrist some days ago
while cranking an auto.
The gross proceeds of the recent
carnival held by the Fire Company
at Chestertown, Md, were $4,000.
The Jewish New Year began at
sunset on Monday Sept. rs, and end
ed at Sunset Wednesday evening,
Sept. 2S.
October 9 to Is, inclusive, has
been designated Fire Prevention
Week" in Maryland, by proclama-
tion of Governor Ritchie.
The annual agricultural fair at
Bel Air, under the auspices OF the
Hartford County Agricultural Society,
will be held October Ills.
York Fair will be held five days
Tuesday, Oct 4, to Saturday, Oct. 8.
This is one of the big fairs that con-
tinues to be we'll patronized.
On the grounds of desertion, Mrs.
Edna NJ Sample, of Elkton, has
docketed suit in the Cecil County
Court for a divorce from Joseph An
drew Sample.
While baling hay at the farm of
Brad Williams, near Zion, Paul Ar
mour fell out of the barn door to
the yard below, and sustained a
fracture at the ankle.
Oliver Rhonemus,N who operates a
road house on the Conowingo road
near McCann's Corner was fined
$3.50 and costs, in Hartford county
court for violation of the Local OPP
tion law.
E. B. Milburn & Son, OF near
Elkton, won II prizes on apples at
the Maryland State Fair at Timon-
ium, out of Is entries. They also
won IL prizes at the Delaware State
4 Fair.
The laying of concrete on the road
being constructed from the State
line, near Rock Springs, to the Con-
owingo dam, is progressing, with
every promise of the completion of
the road before winter sets in.
The fourth annual standard train
inc school for church school workers
will be held in Elkton, four Monday
evenings, beginning October 10 until
October 81, and one Tuesday, No,
yember l five evenings in all.
William Pepper Constable, Esq.
of Baltimore and Elkton, has been
awarded first prize for the best su-
urban garden in Baltimore. He
also won first prize last year and
second prize three successive years
preceding.
The Cecil County School Board
has appointed Miss Marie Walker, OF
Bridgeville, Del, a graduate. OF the
Women's College of Delaware, as as
sistant principal of Calvert High
School, in the place of Miss Florence
Bake. who has resigned,
Application has been made to- Gov
ernor Ritchie. for the pardon OF VIM
H. Pedlar, who was convicted in the
Circuit Court at Elkton, during the
March term of last year, on the
charge of bigamy, and sentenced to
serve three years in Maryland Peni-
tentiary.
D,.;n n E1kfnn
has been elected President OF Cecil
County Teachers Association; Prin-
cipal Lawrence M. Gorsuch, of Per-
ryville, Vice President; Mrs. Elsie M
Benton, of Elkton, Secretary; Miss
Rachel Barnes, of Charlestown
Treasurer.
Arthur Brooks, colored, Of Pleas
ant Hill, was given a hearing before
Police Justice Cove S. Scotten on 6
charge of carrying deadly weapon
and disturbing a meeting at the col
pred church near Calvert on Sunday
evening, Sept IL. The evidence
was not very convincing and the case
was dismissed.
SudIISS MCloOH, oV, 70 ~ J0A
awaiting result Of coroner's inquest
following the fatal shooting OF Ne
gro at Conowingo, Monday night
The negro became abusive in store
at Conowingo when Nelson is alleg
cd to have drawn his gun and shot
him. The latter died while on the
way to the Port Deposit Hospital.
A School Improvement Associa
tion has been formed at Calvert witt
the following officers: President
Mr. Geo. E. Clifford; Vice President
Miss Ida A. Ewing; Secretary, Miss
Edith Reynolds; Treasurer, William
Little. A membership committee
with A. H. Mendenhall, chairman
\ Mrs. Edward Smith, Mrs. Georg'
A. Peterson, Mrs. Iva Mckinney anC
Rev. j. w. Prettyman was elected