The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-16
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

supper held for the beneht OF
the North East Fire Co., Melted
the promoters $3.50.
Rising Sun Lions Club is be-
ing represented at the District
Convention, at Hagerstown,
this week, by delegates Cecil e.
Ewing and M. U. Zimmerman.
A force of State Road survey
ors worked through town on
Tuesday, taking measurements,
etc., preliminary to the widen
ing of the road by building
shoulders.
Owing to the fact that the
District Convention of Lions
Clubs is being held at Hagers-
town, Md, on Wednesday and
Thursday Of this week, the reg
ular meeting of Rising Sun
Lions Club will not be held.
C. E. Buell., of Red Lion, Pa,
who reopened the motion pic
sture business here, has con-
cluded the attendance will not
justify continuance, and after
a trial of two weeks, has moved
his equipment elsewhere.
The Delaware Ledger, pub
lished at Newark, appeared last
week under new management.
The new publishers are Arthur
Jones and Ernest R. Webb, for
years associated with the Eve
ny Evening, in Wilmington.
The annual session of Mary
land Conference of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church conven-
ed at Denton on Wednesday,
the 18th, and will adjourn on
the 10Th. Six States and the
District of Columbia are rep
resented.
BY ordinance unanimously
passed, the tax rate Of the city
of Havre de Grace for 1888 was
fixed at Is cents per 500 at a
meeting of the Mayor and City
Council. The estimated reve-
nue. for the year will be ap-
proximately $4,000.
Enrolment in the Univer-
sity of Delaware, Newark, Sum-
mer School, in spite of the
withdrawal of State remunera-
ton for teachers who attend,
is expected to be about the
average, or approximately 400.
Registration will be on June
Goth.
Children's Day will be OBJ
served on Sunday morning
next at eleven O'Clock, at the
M. e. Church, in this town, and
also at West Nottingham Pres
byterian Church. Special pro-
grams are being prepared and
will be in charge of the Sunday
schools.
During drunken brawl in a
home near Rock Run, Hartford
county, Nelson knight was
stabbed and seriously injured.
He was taken to Havre de
Grace Hospital, where his con-
dition is reported serious. His
assailant, Curley Hall, made
his escape and has not been ap-
pretended.
Everett Donache, Albert Ew-
ing, III. S. White, A. H. Brown,
Carlton Nichols and Marion
Rawlings left Wednesday
morning on the Community
Fire Co. chemical truck, for
Westminster, Md, where they
attended the State Firemen's
convention and participated in
the parade.
The heat wave that had
caused humanity TO SWelter
since Thursday last, with the
temperature way up, close to
the hundred mark daily, was
broken Monday evening, when
a violent electrical storm swept
over this section, bringing a
deluge of rain, some hail, and
lower temperatures.
J. p. Beckman, of Havre de
Grace, freight brakeman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, run
ming from Baltimore to Jersey
City, was seriously injured
about noon Friday when one
foot was badly crushed when
he fell under the wheels of the
train as he was coupling his
run in Bayview Yards, Balti-
more. He was removed to st.
Joseph's Hospital Baltimore.