The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-06-28
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Thursday next is the Glorious
Fourth.
Our farmers are busy in the har-
vest field.
Elk Mills Athletic Association Will
hold a carnival July to 6.
Summer began officially on Friday
last, June 21, the longest DAY OF
lne year.
EIkton's town tax rate will be 80
cents on the $1O0, this year, the
same as last.
The First Infantry, Maryland
National Guard, will go to Camp
kitchie on July for a ten day
camp.
The Cecil Star, published at North
East, was sold at mortgage sale on
June II, to Mrs. Addie A. Carey
mortgage, for $1150.
Thieves one night last week enter
ed the garage of VIM. II. Gardner
IN the rear OF his home in Elkton
stealing a wire wheel and tire from
his Pontiac car.
Chicken thieves one night last
stole sixty chickens from Mr.. ano
Mrs. Eivin Mellinger,o of near Quarry
vile, Pa, during thunder storm
Thieves poisoned watch dog on the
premises.
Mrs. Edytk Morris Swoyer has
sold her handsome summer resi-
uence and farm, Sandy Hill, along
the Elk river in Cecil county, tC
Victor Thomas, of Wilmington, fol
$4,000.
Tome M. E. Sunday School Of
Port Deposit will hold the only
excursion of the season to Rochester
on Monday, July l. Steamer Emma
Giles will leave Port Deposit q
$50 A.
heavy thunder gust OF
s. cav .llternoon. the tall flag polt
on the base ball grounds in thi'
town was struck by lightning ant
split fairly in two from the top fol
about twenty feet.
Smith Wilson, of Delta, Pa, wa!
instantly killed on Thursday morn
ing last, while working on the trans
mission line from McCall's Ferry tt
Baltimore, on the old Taylor place
in Lower Chanceford.
The American Legion Post, o1
Elkton will attend the annual STATE
convention which will be held II
Ocean City, Md, September 5, ano
Z. The bugle and drum corps OF the
local organization will participate
in the parade.
Phineas Craig, Chief of the North
East Fire Company, has received his
commission as a State Fire Warder
anu was SWOIn Ill Wy OAOA Va Sh>
Court Andrews last week. The ap
pointment was made by the Cover
nor and is for term of two years.
Mrs. Robert Crouch. of Chase
Md, nee Miss Ethel Hopkins, oi
Elkton,- is one of the eleven helrs to
an eseate reputed to be valued al
O,0OO.OO0, left by March Hop.
kins, of Waynesville, Ohio. Mrs
Crouch is a daughter of the late
Robert Hopkins, of Elkton.
Tentative plans tave been made
for joint summer meeting and
outing of the Del-Mar-Va Press
Association and Maryland Press
Association at Ocean City, Md, fol
three days commencing Friday
evening, July IL, and ending the
following Monday afternoon.
The gas plant at Elkton, one OF
the oldest ON the Eastern Shore. is
to be abandoned. The plant was
recently purchased by the Atlantic
Gas Company, which is laying mains
from Wilmington to Elkton. The
old plant was established in 1867
A reduction of rates will go into
effect on July l.
Coroner Green of Elkton, was
called to Port Deposit last week to
take charge of the body OF Leroy
Cornish, aged 80 years, colored
employee of the Port Deposit Gran
ite Company, who died from injuries
sustained by being struck in the
head by stone thrown during a
blast in the quarry.
The State Roads Commission has
announced that the building of an
overhead bridge in Aberdeen has
been definitely abandoned. 1t is
proposed to extend the Philadelphia