The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-21
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

totaling $$4241.57.
Frazer Lake, in the First district,
has been stocked with ten cans OF
young game fish, received from the
U. s. Fish Commission.
Quite a number from this town
and vicinity attended the Navy
Notre Dame football game at the
Stadium, in Baltimore, on Saturday
afternoon.
The American Legion of Elkton,
has organized bugle and drum
corps with twenty-five members and
elected E. M. Currier, commander.
Four mules were burned to death
in fire that destroyed the barn and
all contents on the VIM. Hughes
farm, on Deer Creek, in Hartford
county.
Magistrate Williams, Of Bel Air,
sentenced Mary Smith, colored, OF
Conowingo, to ninety days in the
House Of Correction, on the charge
of welding butcher knife reck-
lessly.
Two carloads of condemned cat
tie, that failed to pass the tuberculln
test, were shipped from this station
on Wednesday morning, to Baltl-
more, where they will be slaughtered
under State supervision.
There being on local applicants the
Board of Education for CECIL county,
has awarded Miss Myrl d. H. Fletch-
er. of Halethorpe, scholarship from
Cecil county, to St. Mary,'s Semin-
ary for a period of one year.
Lewis Oliver, who conducts bar
Der shop in Elkton, has asked the
authorities to help locate his wife,
who left home some days ago with
out letting him know her intentions:
She has a son two years old, and an
infant daughter seven months old.
Buoys will be placed to mark the
boundaries of the Susquehanna hats
if approval is obtained from the U. 5.
Department of Commerce by, state
fame Warden, e. Lee LeCompte.
,Buoys will aid duck gunners in stop
ping within the flats area in the gun
ming season.
North East w. c. T. U. has elected
the following officers: President,
Mrs. Sylvester Preston; second vice
president, Mrs. George o.. Carey;
treasurer, Mrs. Walter Hall; record
ing secretary, Mrs. w. X. Blake, and
corresponding secretary, Miss Mary
X. Mearns.
The County Commissioners in
special session on Thursday last, ap-
pointed Miss Mary Black, OF Prlnclp-
10 Furnace, and Miss Jannette REED,
of Rising Sun, clerks to the Assess
ment Board. Hearings on assess
ments will begin on Wednesday,
November 2.
Zion and Rock Presbyterian chur-
ches have extended a call to Rev.
Oswald Schwalbe, of Chester, to be-
come their pastor The churches
have been without regular pastor
since Rev Arthur Q. Stockbridge re-
signed several months ago to accept
a pastorate at Lonsdale, R. l.
Pietro Cardone, trackman OF the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company,
who sued the Company for $4,000
damages for injuries received by be-
ing struck by freight train, on Bush
river bridge on the night OF Nov. "a,
1926, was awarded $4,000 by e
jury in the U. s. District Court, Bal
timOre.
A Girls Auxiliary of Company E,
Maryland National Guards, OF Elk
ton. has been organized with the fol-
lowing officers: President, Elsie r.
Cameron: Vice President, Ethel q.
Vincent; Secretary, Henrietta Ferry;
Treasurer, Irene Boulden; Advertis-
ing Committee, Alice M. Vincent and
Zolpha o. Cameron.
The body of an unknown colored
man was IOuHu dlOHS lhC ~ *
railroad tracks at Aiken on Thurs
day morning last The body had
been cut in two, and the supposition
is that the man fell from freight
train on which he had been riding
Coroner Green turned the body over
to Undertaken Paterson, OF Aiken
No inuuest was deemed necessary.
Mrs. l.. r. Atkinson, OF near town
has had the dwelling painted and the
other buildings ON her premises
whitewashed, the property present
ing a very pretty appearance in its
new fall dress.
Not to be outdone in the way OF
improvement her neighbor, MRS
David Harding, has also had her
dwelling attractively painted. 8
Clyde Drennen and VIM. A. ReedeI
were the artists with the brush.