The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-23
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs Of Recent Events Of
Interest to Our Readers
~ LOCAL HAPPENINGS BR EFLY NOTED


again on Saturday night.
A corps of State Roads surveyors
have been running lines for the Cal
yert-Bay View road this week.
The National Bank of Elkton has
purchased at attorneys sale. the
Blackledge property, on Clinton st..
in Elkton.
C. Hal Johnson, fromer cashier OF
the Second National Bank OF Elkton,
has been appointed postmaster at
Edgewood.
w. B. Cooney, of this town. has
sold his farm, located at Lees
Bridge, Pa, to T. Temple Pyle, OF
Nottingham, Pa.
A meeting for the purpose OF re-
organizing the Susquehanna Base
Ball League was held in Elkton'
Saturday afternoon.
The Capt. Jefferson farm OF lS6
acres, at. Bohemia Ferry, has been
sold by Mrs. Dorcus A. JEFFERSON 10
walter A. 'LayfieId, of Newark, Dei.'
for $4,000.
Charles Todd, of this county
pleading guilty to illegal possession
Of liquor, was fined $3.50 and costs,
by Judge Soper, in the U. 5. Court
in Baltimore.
william La Rue, colored, convict
ed in Cecil, Circuit Court OF carrying
concealed deadly weapon, was
sentenced to six months in the
fiouse of Correction.
The Sunday school OF Elkton
Methodist episcopal church collect.
ed $1,000 for missions the past Con-
ference year. This is the largest
amount ever raised for missions by
the school,
The Federal Government has es-
tablished a 40-candle power light al
Court House Point, along Elk river.
It will flash white every three Sec
onds. The light is located IL feet
above water.
Wilmer Logan, of Bay View, has
been elected by the Bay View M. r.
church, as delegate to the special
of the Methodist. Protest
Dand Church, to, be held in Washing
ION. d, c., on April 18th.
The Field Work Trophy, hand
some loving cup, has been awarded
rikton Camp, Modren Woodmen OIL
america, for having made the great
est increase in membership last veal
ol any Camp in Maryland.
stone chip has been placed alone
the state road east of town, prepara
tory to the road being oiled and top
dressed. The State will resurfact
4yO miles OF road this spring, re
curing 100000 gallons OF oil.
The State Roads Commission has
purchased land on both sides OF the
bridge which passes over the Penn
sy,yania railroad at Swan Creek.
hartford County, in order to correct
the curves approaching the bridge.
woodrow &~James have purchased
tbe green grocery and provision bus
mess, conducted some months py
Sprinkle 4 Buchanan, in the Alice
X Shepherd block, and will be open
Tor business on Tuesday, March ~
The sixtieth session of Wilmington
Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, will begin IL
Union Church, Fifth and Washing
ton streets, Wilmington, Tuesday
night, March 81, adjourning the foi
lowing Monday at noon.
A Coroner's jury found that VIM.
H. Strickland came to his death from
a gunshot wound, inflicted Sunday
March 4, by Joseph Gray, at hang
out run by the latter, near Rising
Sun, and recommended that Gray DC
held without bail for the action OF
the Grand Jury.
Charles z. Mccarthy, senior
cost accountant at Perry Point Hos
pital has been transferred to tne
Central Office of the U. S. Veterans
Bureau, Washington, d. c., as bud
get investigator. Mr.. Mccarthy was
the oldest employee in point OF ser
vice at Perry Point.
DR.. w. F. Corkran, pastor OF the
Chsstertown, Nd, M. E. Church, VIII
at the next session of the Whining
Aon Annual Conference, extend an
INVITATION on behalf of the ofnciai
nd Of his church, for the CONFER
snce to meet in Chestertown IN
March, 1929.
Local freight over the Pennsyi-
vania railroad to our town was
abandoned on Monday. Freight
from Baltimore or Philadelphia Will
20 to oxford. Pa, and be delivered
from there by auto trucks to local
stations sopth OF that point.