The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-27
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs Of Events ia the County
During the Past Week
3 LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

thursday HcAI 10 0Aoununoe D"J'
Days beginning to noticeably
lengthen. -
Chesapeake City has a new NOV
ing picture theatre, with seating ca
pacity Of 200.
An outbreak Of hog cholera is re-
ported on Graham Lockerman's farm
in First district.
The Mems Glass OF Rising Sun M.
e. church will have charge of the
services on Sunday evening next.
The Loyal Temperance Legion
will meet Saturday afternoon, at
1880 O'Clock in Rising Sun M. e.
church.
Miss Louisa M. Wallace has been
appointed superintendent of Union
Hospital, Elkton, and Miss Evelyn
i'ierson, Assistant, until June 80.
The annual meeting OF the Del
Mar-ya Press Association will be
held on Saturday, January zSth,
at the DUPONT Biltmore Hotel, in
wilmington. Del.
u. s. Senator, j. Thomas Helm
viii deliver a lecture in Tome M. E..
church, Port Deposit. on Thursday
evening. Feb. O. Proceeds for bene-
fit of the church.
Mrs. r. j. Duhamell, of near Ches-
apeake City, realized $1S2 from her
flock of 26 turkeys. Twenty-Five OF
them brought $146, as she sold them
for SO cents a pound.
DR.. r. c. Dodson is having one
story 12X17 IT. addition built to his
residence ION Cherry street, for use
as an ONCE The work is in charge
Of contractor w. Louis Ryan.
The report of John H. Terrell.
Treasurer of Union Hospital Of Cecil
county, for the year ending Decem-
Der s1st, 1927, shows the total re-
ceipts to have been $22,279.9O; ex-
penses, s21.225. 60; balance on hand
$1,054.30.
While working on the Government
lpump boat, in the canal at Chesa-
45eake City, one night last week, VIII
h.er Bristow fell into the hold OF the
boat, breaking several ribs. He was
r.sfoved to Union Hospital for treat
ment.
James f. Baker, son of +. J. Bak-
er. Of Bel Air, was one OF the divers
ii Dyed in recovering the bodies OF
tie crew of the Submarine S-4, ram,
mod and sunk by the destroyer
I.s,ulding, off Providencetown, Mass,
ON December II.
Unknown parties entered the
store of Henry Henderson, at Pleas
ant Hill, one night last week, and
stole several hundred dollars worth
Of goods. A reward of 500 has
been offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the thieves.
Il is rumored that the office of the
foreman of car inspectors at Perry
< vile win be abolished. effective Feb
ruary list. The machinery, ETC., it
s said, will be removed to the round
,Duse where the duties of the office
v. be under Charl Crawford.
A new system of keeping record OF
marriages, applications for hcense'
and the ministers feturhs after the
ceremony, has been installed Dy
clerk of the Court S. Ralph An
drews. at Elkton. These records
are all Kept in one book, making II
easier to trace information OF TINS
nature.
Archibald Akers, OF near Rising
c.,u. was cited to appear in Balti-
more for a hearing last week, still
having been found on his premises
The still was destroyed and forty
gallons of evidence" confiscateo'
Harry Ragan, of near oakwooa'
was also cited to appear IN baitl-
more on similar eharge.
The mild weatheK OF week OF
l,ore was suddenly replaced by a
nrana that caused general stirring
mn of the fires on friday, wnen olo
Eoreas swept in o. US senuinf tne
mercury down at rapid rate Dy
saturday morninna the mercury re-
corded fifteen degLees, ana every
tEing was frozen. p tignt again.
The comsdy-dranaa, presented in
= the public hall Of Rising sun, on
rbursdav evening last, by the Com
ciry Plasers d West Grove, Pa,
proved a very enjoyable entertain
ment. The play was good one,
and the characters were all well por-
trayed.
weather conditions were very
much against thu attendance, and
the hall was only partially hiled-
~sic was furnished by the Com
munity Fire Company Band, the play
being under the auspices OF the FIRE
romnanv. The receipts from the
sa,a of tickets amounted to s52.