The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-17
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

ance Union has donated baptismal
font to the North East M. E. church.
Thieves visited the farm of Grover
Lodge, near Elkton, one night last
we.b and stole forty of his chickens.
The John Metz property in Ches-
apeake City, was purchased at pub
lie sale last week by ]. ]. Sullivan,
for $2130.
Abner r. Burrows, Frank Lewis
and w. e. Alexander were elected
commissioners at the town election
held in Peryville.
Cherry Hill Council, o. U. A. M,
celebrated it's sixty-fittl anniversary
on Monday evening, May s, and 275
members of the Order enjoyed the
exercises.
William Winchester, # Port De-
rosit, has purchased the Thomas W..
Feasey property in Aberdeen, and
will open tea house aId amuse-
ment park in the near future.
At Chesapeake City's annual town
election last week Joseph w. Savin
was reelected President. and
George w. Peterson, William H..
Johnson, commissioners, for term of
two years.
Hon. Thos. J. Keating, Associate
Judge of this, the Second Judicial
District of Maryland, has BEEN ap-
pointed to the Judicial Council OF
Maryland for a term Of TWO years,
by Governor Ritchie.
The Exhibition and Bazaar OF
North East High and Elementary
School proved SO popular last year
that it has been decided to hold a
similar affair this year the first week
in June, at the school.
MRS. Sarah Graham, who has con-
Quoted general store business IN
Charlestown for the past thirty-eight
.;a,sssrs, lasass aazs7s llasssss
mess to William Jones, VINO Will
take possession Immediately.
j. Glasgow Archer, Of Bel Air. for
the past two years engaged in the
buying of timber in this section, has
been appointed Deputy Register OF
Wills of Hartford County, to succeed
Howard Kennedy, resigned.
The Conference of the Women &
Foreign Missionary Society will be
held Friday, May 18th, at Elkton in
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Two sessions will be held, in the
morning at 1890 o'clock and in the
afternoon at 2.
A burglar ON Thursday night en-
tered the Office of the Hartford Ser
vice Station, in Havre de Grace, rob-
bed the cash register of $36 and
held up Joseph Hendricks, 19 years,
son of Mrs. j. F. Dodgin, who was
in charge, taking $50 from the
young man.
Kent county high schools willgrad-
uate ninety-four boys and girls at the
commencements of the four high
schools, next month. Chestertown
high with sixty graduates heads the
list while Rock Hall is next with sew
enteen. Millington will have nine
graduates and Galena will graduate
eight.
Norton B. Irwin has docketed
suit for divorce in the Circuit Court
at Elkton, from his wife, Mrs.
Rosalee Irwin, now resident OF
Washington, D. c., on the grounds
of abandonment. The parties were
married on June 8, 1928, and resid-
ed together until December 81,
1928.
Albert D. Litzenberg, of Elkton,
through his counsel, James f.
Evans, Esq, has docketed suit in
the Circuit Court for Cecil county,
for an absolute divorce from his
wife, Mrs. Charlotte A. Li5zenberg,
on the grounds of deception. The
defendant is now resident OF
Missouri.
William Lehto, aged about rs
years, of Liberty Grove, was killed
almost instantly Maya, while a work
in the stone quarries, near Port
Deposit. A large stone fell from the
top of the embankment and struck
Lehto on the top of the head,
crushing his skull. He is survived
by his wife and child.
Orders have been received from
Washington to sell about 81 houses
at the Perry Point reservation. The
order was issued, it is understood,
following information given by the
Reservation officials that the present
dwellings on the Point were in bad
condition and were not worth re-
pairing. The sale of these houses
will take place in the summer.