The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

One more week of school vacation.
The squirrel shooting season opens in
Cecil county today.
The Bay view-North East pike has re-
ceived coat Of oil.
The oyster tonging season in the Ches-
apeake Bay and its tributaries will open
to-day.
September and are the dates of the
Village Fair" to be held on the lawn of
Zion M. E. church.
Nottingham Quarterly Meeting will be
held at Brick Meeting house on Saturday,
Sept. 2, at 10 a. m.
A labor Day demonstration is being
arranged for by the Red Men, to be held
at Perryville on Monday.
Labor Day, Sept. 4th, being legal
holiday. the National Bank of Rising Sun
will not be open for business on that date.
The twenty-6fth annual convention of
Cecil County w. c. T. U. will be held in
the M. E. church at Calvert on Thursday,
September 7.
Beginning Sunday, September 8, the
members of Union NJ E. church will
hold weeks meeting in the grove adj
joining the church at Fremont.
The annual state convention of the
Christian Endeavor Society will be held
in the West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church, on October 20. "a and IS.
Prof Harry Hayward, director of Della
ware State Farm, has arranged for a
Farmer Boys Day, to be held at Della
ware College, Newark, September 49,
Rev. H. A. G. Westerfeld. of Denton,
former pastor of Rising Sun M. E.
church, and Rev. z. H. Webster, present
pastor, exchanged pulpits on Sunday.
Mrs. John w. Barnes, of this town. has
an asparagus fern which is in bloom.
The blossom is beautiful little white
star-shaped one.sand is very fragrant
The trustees of North East M. E..
church have purchased additional lots ad-
joining their property in order to give
them more space about the contemplated
new edifce.
Because of the recent heavy rains. the
water in the Big Elk Creek was so high
Sunday that number of yachts and
other boats were carried away from their
moorings at Elkton.
The County Commissioners and Aux
iliary Commission have awarded the con-
tract for mile and a-half of improved
road from Fair Hill east toward the Della
ware line. to E. Ward Brown, at SIC, 900.
The ladies of Union M. E. Church will
hold their annual poultry supper on the
lawn adjoining the church on Friday eve
Sning, September s. If stormy. next fair
evening. Public are cordially invited.
Tickets rs cents.
Havre de Grace is to have a new in
dustry. A shirt and overall factory is to
be established there by Harry Ruben
stone. One hundred sewing machines
will be installed ami the plant equipped
with the most up-to-date machinery.
The stone crusher. bins, steam roller,
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on the State road construction work east
of town, are being loaded on the cars pre-
paratory to shipment to Howard county.
where the State is building section of
road.
Struck by train one morning last week
near Eder station Mike Emanew. Greek
laborer. was instantly killed. He had
been sent from the Chicago Employment
Agency to obtain work on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, but had not yet been
employed.
Stewart Pierce. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stewart Pierce, of near town, has been
showing signs of mental arrangement
for some weeks past. He imagined that
members of the family were constantly
being followed and spied upon. Be
coming violent one day last week. he
threatened his family and later is alleged
to have made an attempt to take his own
life, but was prevented by the timely APP
pearance of his father.
H. Linn Worthington, of this town.
fishing in the Susqnehanna river off the
mouth Of the Octoraro on Saturday.
landed with hook and line monster
lock FISH. The big fish weighed 2o4 lbs.
and measured three feet one inch in
length. Il put up game fight and re-
quired about half hours hard work to
get 1t in the boat. The angler was greatly
handicapped by the breaking of his reel