The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-10-22
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The Cecil Farmers Club met with Jos.
T. Grove, near Zion, on Wednesday.
A band of gypsies in three large, gaily
painted wagons, passed through town on
Tuesday.
Rev. R. A. Waggoner, of Princeton, N.
l., has been called to the pastorate of
Havre de Grace Presbyterian church.
David Mackey, an Oxford High School
boy, fell and broke his arm while playing
football on the school grounds Friday.
An invitation has been extended Rev.
Warren Burr to return as pastor of North
East M. E. church the coming Conference
year. by the official Board of the church.
The draw on the load bridge at Perry
vile is ready to'swing and a force of men
will commence to lay the floor so by the
first of November the bridge may be open
for travel.
A patent was issued August 81, 1909, to
w. D. LeFevre, of Dover, DEL, and
Enoch S. LeFevre, of Littlestown, Penn,
brothers, for an improved airship, by the
U. S. Patent Department.
An illustrated lecture on Canton. China,
will be given by DR.. Chas. K. Edmunds
on Thursday evening, OCTOBER 2S, in West
Nottingham chapel, under the auspices of
the Academy Admission, IS cents.
Probably the largest pack of any single
cannery in Hartford county was that of F.
o. Mitchell & Bro, at Perryman, which
closed last week after putting up 40, 900
cases of shoe peg corn, the yield of 600
acres.
Robert Wilson. alias Norfolk Bob, con-
victed of shooting Detective Harry Boon
at Perryville and sentenced to ten years
in the Maryland penitenti Try, with other
convicts was taken to that institution on
Monday.
To insure clean bread for the people Of
Wilmington, the health officers have
inspected the 3S bakeries in the city and
found 20 in clean condition, while orders
were served on the others to clean and
remainsclean.
An effort is under way to organize a
County Fair at .Havre de Grace with a
capital stock of $4,000. Suitable grounds
have been selected between the two trunk
line rail roads and plans are being per-
fected to make it a success.
The game of ball on the home grounds
Saturday afternoon between Rising Sun
and Tayloria was farce, the visitors
giving anything but an exhibition of ball
playing. The score was something like
III to ! in favor of the home team.
The ladies of Bay View M. P. Church
will hold supper at Mechanics Hall.
Saturday night. Oct. 20. at which all the
delicacies of the season will be served
Price of supper will be IS cents. Ice
cream and confectionery also for sale.
S. c. Rowland, of Port Deposit, and
Waitman Smithers, of Chesapeake City.
have been appointed by Governor Crothers
as two of Maryland's delegates to the third
annual convention of the Atlantic Inland
Deeper Waterways Association. which
begins in Norfolk, Va. on November II.
The Election Supervisors for Cecil
county met in Elkton on Tuesday. The
report of the registers of voters in the
county shows that there is a net loss of six
in the total registered vote this year. The
total registered vote in Cecil this year is
6,2o6. of which number 5,35I are white
and S55 colored.
pr. A. S: Mowbray, District Superin-
tendent. preaehed at Hopewell NJ. E.
church Sunday morning last, and in the
afternoon at Asbury. Quarterly con-
ference was conducted at Asbury after
preaching, when the pastor, Rev. ].
Howard Gray, was invited to return the
coming conference year.
The reinforced concrete bridge. east of
town. built by the State Road Commits
sion, was completed this week and work
begun on the second one. several hundred
yards further east. on the same road. The
work of flling-in and grading the roadbed
is progressing rapidly, several hundred
yards being ready for the crushed stone.
The dozen or more delegates who will
60 from Cecil county to the Farmers,
National Congress at Raleigh; N. c., have
planned to leave on the morning of the
sd of November, leaving Elkton 4.42 a.
M, Perryville s.o4 a. m. About half of
the party will be composed of ladies.
Maryland win send 6fty delegates. The