The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-08-31
BRIEFLY NOTED
HAPPENINGS
Short Paragraphs Of Recent
Events In Town And
County

Monday next, September 8, Is
Labor Day.
Public schools of the county re-
open on Wednesday next, Sept 5.
The Havre de Grace firemen rea-
lized $1,000 by their recently held
Tag Day collections.
The work of grading on the re-
location for the Sylmar road began
on Monday, and a big steam shovel
is making dirt fly.
Bertram C. Ward, Jr., 20, and
Delbert B. Ward, IS, brothers, both
Of Elkton, have enlisted in the
United States Army.
Monday, September Bird, Labor
Day, being legal holiday the banks
in Rising Sun will not be open for
business on that day.
Joshua Clayton, Esq, of Elkton,
has been elected president of the
Soldiers Memorial Association; Dam
iel H. Garrett, secretary; Reynolds
Ash, treasurer
Melvin Riley, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
owen Riley, of near Oak Hill, Pa,
held the lucky ticket that won the
Dodge automobile given away at the
oxford carnival on Wednesday night
last.
Associate Judge j. owen Knots
has appointed Joshua Clayton and E..
Kirk Brown, trustees to settle the
estate of the late Charles M. Bould-
en-. The settle consists of real es-
tate and mortgages.
The card of William Fears, Of
Chesapeake City, candidate for Re-
publican nomination of County Com
missioner from the First Commits
sioner District is published else
where in our columns.
The advertisement Of Sandy
Tamargo, candidate for Sheriff of
Cecil county, subject to the Demo-
cratic primary, appears in this issue.
Mr.. Tamargo is the owner and man
ager of Circus Park, near Elkton.
The knights of the Ku Klux Khan
held an open air demonstration on
the North East road near Elkton, on
Wednesday evening, August 20.
There was speaking by prominent
Khan speakers, fiery cross and other
features.
The work of erecting the towers
for the transmission line, from the
Safe Harbor electric power plant to
Perryville was completed last week.
This is the line that will carry cur
rent for the identification of the P.
R. R. system to Baltimore and
Washington.
Three-story frame Oak Hill Hotel
and II acres, % perches of land in
Little Britain Township, seized as
the property of Esther j.. Brown,
with notice to Eleanor and Winfield
Grace Brown, terre tenants, was sold
last week to S. r, Zimmerman, at
torney, for $3.50,
When a team of mules attached
to a hay tedder ran away, Peter Din
Iiga, farmer of near Elm, Pa, was
thrown from the machine and drag
ged some distance. He suffered
several fractured ribs and other in
juries, and was taken to Lancaster
General Hospital.
The last day for candidates in
Cecil county, who expected to par
ticipate in the joint Democratic Re-
publican primaries on Wednesday,
September ~, was Wednesday, Aug
%, Each candidate, If the Office he
seeks pays over $500 annually, had
to pay $25 with his filing.
Emerson X. Patten, of Baltimore,
son of Mrs. Beatrice Patten OF this
town, and a lieutenant in the U. S.
Reserve Corps, circled over town in
an airplane about nine O'Clock Sun
day evening. He was enroute from
Cambridge, Mass, where he had
been visiting, to his home in Balti-
more.
At a meeting of Representative
Republicans from all parts OF the
county. held at North East. sheri1
Albert G. Buckworth accepted the
appointment to the State Central
Committee, taking the place OF Dr..
Joseph I. France. With DR.. France.
candidate for U. S. Senate, the law
does not permit him to hold other
Offices.
Several from this locality enjoyed
the operetta 1.-THE Gondoliers," at