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

George l.. Ewing, of Rising Sun,
has rendered his resignation as Con-
stable of the Sixth district.
Miss Mabel Reynolds private
school opened on Tuesday with a
good attendance of pupils.
The Fall racing season at Havre
de Grace track will open September
21 and continue until October l, in
elusive.
Work on the new Parish House Of
St Mary's P. E. Church, North East,
is going on rapidly. Excavation Tor
the basement has been completed
and masonry work started.
The gross receipts OF the carnival
held by Singerly Fire Company OIL
Elkton, were $9.400. The Peerless
sadan was awarded to Miss Cecilia
Potts, of Elkton.
In a raid Saturday night at Port
Deposit, Roy Brown and Emery I'll
den. both colored, were arrested and
are held on a charge of having liquor
in their possession for sale.
Rev. A. P. Pretteyman, OF Galena,
Kent county, former pastor Oh
Rising Sun charge, was the guest OF
MIR. and Mrs H. l.. Shepherd over
the weekend and occupied the pull
nit of the M. e. church here on
Sunday.
Because. of completion OF certain
nortions of the work on the Como
wingo Dam, number of employees
have been laid off. A gradual re-
duction of the number of men en-
ployed will be made from now on,
until the dam is completed.
new Hale type a" 5OO-gallon
triple combination fire engine, mas
been purchased by the Elkton Vol
unteer Fire Company, from the Hale
Fire Pump Company, OF Conshohoc-
ken. Pa, at cost OF $4,000. The
new apparatus was received this
week.
Twenty Volstead Act violators
were sentenced in the U. S. Court IN
\ Baltimore, last week, IA to, JAN
HfeNns and six fined Among the lat;
ter was Emilia Bestrilla, arrested II
this county for possessing liquor
who paid 5000 fine and costs.
Luke Goodyear and Sam Down
ham. two we'll known denizens OF the
EIkton locality, have again run INTO
th4 arm of the law. Sheriff Logan
raided the Goodyear joint one nlgh
last week, and both men are nov
lodged in jail awaiting nearing OF
the charge of possessing liquor.
Cecil Post American Legion, OF
Elkton, will entertain at dinner az
the Hotel Rigbie, Betterton, Sunday
evening. September 18th, in honor OF
their recently elected State Com
mander, Wallace Williams, OF Elk
ton and Mrs. Williams. The Ladies
Auxiliary will join the Legion II
honoring Commander and MIS-
Williams.
Harry Lee, aged Is, and Marcus
Biggers, aged 10, who were TRUSTEES
in the Bel Air jail, and attempted tc
make their escape in the Sherin
auto. but were recaptured, have beer
sentenced to twenty months each If
the House of Correction. When the
bows made their break for freedom
they had but few days to serve
when they would have been released
Rev. Ray Jenney, Of the Univer'
sity of Pennsylvania, will preach a.
the West Nottingham Presbyterian
church on Sunday morning Sept. IL
n, eleven O'Clock. DR.. Jenney is
popular speaker He was a chap
lain in France during the Worlo
War, and was so badly wounded as
to render him unfit for further mln
tary service.
Rev. j. c. Mccoy, pastor OF Rising
Sun M. E. church, met with a very
serious and painful accident last
week, when he was badly scalded
about the face, neck and back by the
upsetting of bucket of boiling
water.
He was stooping over, fixing some
thing about the washing machlne
and raised up, striking the bucket
lust as it was about to be emptiec
into the washer,
The sealding water poured over
him, intiicting painful burns that
confined him TO his bed for several
days,
without any apparent cause Jonn
Blooms, "a years old, stfangled hlm
self to death Friday on the property
of Mr.. G. Clifton Everist, near
Churchville, Hartford county. He at
tached rope around fence post
placing one end around his neck ana
calmly settled himself into a sitting
position until the rope became taut
auMhus strangled himself to DEATH