The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-04
BRIEFLY NOTED
HAPPENINGS
Short Paragraphs OF Recent
Events In Town And
County

Inc NlnLn D1SCrlcL FARMERS CluU
enjoyed an outing at Crystal Beach
on Wednesday of this week.
Ralph E. Garrett, of Elkton has
been appointed Supervisor of
Roads by County Engineer Joseph
T. Richards.
The State Roads Commission is
asking for bids on a modern bridge
across Deer Creek at the Rocks, in
Hartford county.
While assisting with the thresh-
ing at the Mcdowell farm, near Cal
vert. Mr. Oldham fell through the
funnel in the NOV, fracturing rib.
A fifteen per cent increase in
wages has been granted workmen at
the stone quarry of the Standard
Lime and Stone Company, near
Havre de Grace.
The postoffice at Edgewood, Har-
ford county. was broken into one
night last week by yeggmen, who
blew the safe open and stole $425
in stamps and $40 in cash.
Arthur A. Armour, of Rising Sun,
was high gun at the weekly shoot of
the Wilmington Trapshooting Asso-
citation, on Saturday, at New Castle,
breaking 40 out of a possible so
targets.
Sizzling heat, with the mercury
playing hide and seek around the
one hundred mark, has held sway
steadily for some days, with no re-
lief yet in sight at this writing,
Wednesday.
The Rising Sun Girl Scouts held a
picnic at Red Point ON Tuesday at
ternoon. Bathing and other out
door diversions were enjoyed, not
to mention fine picnic supper, to
which all did justice.
Anna Cooper, of Wilmington,
was arrested in that city, charged
with performing an alleged illegal
operation on Virginia Wells, aged
"a. of Port Deposit, which was fol-
lowed by the woman's death July
%, at her home.
Mrs Sarah E. Baird, through her
attorney, Floyd ]. Kintner, Of Perry
vile, has entered suit for absolute
divorce from Joseph E. Baird, of
Havre de Grace. alleging desertion.
The mother asks the custody of a
12-year old child.
Ralph Wiley, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. l.. Wiley, of Rising Sun, is a
member of Co. e, of Elkton, and has
Deen with his unit of the Maryland
National Guard, in the annual en-
campment at Camp Albert C. Ritch-
lie, Cascade, Md, for the past two
weeks.
Henry L. Constable, of Elkton,
former states attorney for Cecil
county, is a patient in a Baltimore
hospital, having undergone two OPP
erations for an infected hand. The
trouble arose from blister on his
hand, caused by using a lawnmower
at his home.
Prohibition Enforcement officers
and Deputy Sheriffs w. Ccudon Rey-
nolds and Joseph Short, one night
last week, located and destroyed a
large "moonshine" plant in Grove
Neck, near Earleville. No mash or
liquor was found. The operators
had also disappeared.
Little Edna Gallagher, year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Gallagher, of near Elkton, is again a
patient in the Homeopathic Hospital,
Wilmington. undergoing treatment
for a broken leg. This is the eighth
time that Edna has been in the hos
pital because of broken leg, the
bones of which are too brittle.
The carnival held at Lafayette
Inn, near Porters Bridge, on Sunday,
appears to have been quite lively
affair, according to reports. Among
the entertainers were the radio art
lists, the jug Band, but there was
other entertainment that could be
traced to jug, or some other con-
tainer, that was not scheduled and
resulted in considerable injury to
those engaged in the festivities.
The Gold Cup motor boat races of
the United States may be held in the
Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the
Susquehanna river in 1885, accord
ing to officials of the National Out
board Motor Association. The 1894
Gold Cup races will be held at De-
troit. Officials consider the Havre
de Grace course excellent for Ma
tional races, in view of the fact that
three world records were broken
Ifharo at tho raoant raoatto