The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-27

for Cecil county.
The cellar of the dwelling to be
erected on Pearl Street by Willis l..
Ely. has been excavated.
= Childrens' Day will be observed
by James M. E. Church, Rising Sun,
the second Sunday in June.
Nottingham Quarterly meeting
will be held at Darlington, Md, on
Saturday, May %, at 1880 a. m.
The Community Fire Company
Band made it's appearance on the
streets of our town Tuesday evening
and rendered several selections In
Center Square.
The official board of the Elkton
Methodist Episcopal Church have IN
yited Rev. F. Milbury, of Dover, to
be assistant to Rev. w. G.. Harris for
the summer months.
Robert C. Thackery, Attorney.
sold at the Court House door In
Elkton, last week, the Shock farm OF
389 acres, near Chesapeake City, TO
Mrs. l.. e. Woolley, for $1,000.
The Senior Glasses of Calvert
Agricultural High School and North
East High School have enjoyed re-
cent sightseeing and educational
trips to Washington and Mt. Vernon.
A religious meeting will be held
at West Nottingham meeting mousse
near Rising Sun, on Sunday, May
29. at 1880 p. m. DR.. Janney ana
other speakers of note expected.
All invited.
Goldie Orr, who was arrested
after Ivan Hickman was found deao
along the road near Oakwood, on
sunday, May Sth, has been released
from jail under bond for a hearing
on June End.
The annual dinner of Cecil Post
American Legion, was held at the
Howard House, Elkton, on Wednes-
day evening OF last week. rive
hosts were represented and eighty
.x-seryice men attended.
Louis Romeneck, a Russian en-
Moved. in the section gang on the
baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was In
stantly killed when struck by a pas
senger train while crossing tine
Susquehanna river bridge.
The Civil Service Commission mas
announced that applications Will Dc
received up to June Sth, for a com
petltive examination to be held later
FOR the position of Clerk-carrier
from the Elkton postottice.
The contract for extending the
sewer system of Newark. Del.' TO the
new sections Of the town taken III
under the recent extension, has peen
awarded to the Fernow CONSTRUCTION
Company, of Ardmore, Pa, at Dlo
OF $30,395.
The newly elected directors ol
E.kton Public Library Association
have organized by electing Albert
Mackey, president; Joseph II. Sloan'
vice-president; Mrs. John +. Gonce'
secretary and Mrs. l. I. Kepler,
treasurer, for the ensuing year.
The Z year old SON of Earl Clifton
who is employed by the ]. G. Budd-
ing Co., near Charlestown, was run
over at the plant on May IA. His
leg was SO badly mangled that am
imitation was necessary. He is at
richards Hospital, Port Deposit.
William Steves, foreman nfor
Stone & Webster, Inc, is patient
at John Hopkins Hospital, Baitl-
more, suffering from a fractured
skull received when a piece or tlm-
her fell one hundred feet from the
top of the dam striking him on the
head.
Sheriff Logan and Chief OF
Police Potts, of Elkton, made raid
on a house ON Water street, In that
town. last week, and seized seven
pints of "moonshine." The house'
owned by Daniel Crouch, was un-
occupied, and no owner OF the
liquor has been found.
Carpenters Point Farm along the
North East river, which was SOLD
last fall by ]. B. Decker, OF Elkton,
and Senator Millard Tydings, OF
Hayye de Grace, to Baltimore
lsynnicate at a reported price OF
$4,000 is being developed into a
country club, Work has commenc-
ed on an Is hole golf course,
Mrs. A. V. Davis, OF Elkton, chair
man of the local Red Cross, reports
that the sumo of $1277.76 had been
raised in this county, up to the hrst
of last week, for the flood sufferers
of the Mississippi Valley. The
county's allotment is $24OO, which
it is believed will be reached within
the next few days.