The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-03-29
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events lin the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

40 cent each.
Rain, hail. snow, thunder and lightning
on Sunday evening.
The Legislature will close after Al
session Of ninety days. on Monday,
April i.
Herbert G. Cooper has been appointed
postmaster at charlestown, Cecil county,
vice S. R. Logan, resigned.
Fishermen along the rivers and bay are
making big preparations for the shad
and herring season which is at hand.
Colora Cannery is contracting with
farmers for corn at 200 per ton. Liberty
Grove cannery is offering So 50 per ton
Under the law the County Treasurer is
compelled to place all delinquent tax ac-
counts in the hands of the Sheriff, for col
lection on April i.
Rev, Samuel Irwin, Of Street. Hartford
county. will occupy the pulpit 10 West
Nottingham Presbyterian Church next
Sunday morning
The Elkton Improvement Association.
which owns the Fair Ground property,
has elected o. c. Giles president. ana
mis-. Geo r. Ash treasurer.
w. b. Hines, former road engineer OF
Cecil county. has been appointed assist
ami engineer of bridges in the Baltimore
CITY Engineers Department.
A meeting Of the Tri-County Base Ball
League of 1oTI will be held in Elkton on
N Saturday. March 80, at 1890 P. m.' to con-
slider reorganization for the season OF 1912.
Easter Sunday. April I, win be obsery-
ed at the Rising Sun M. E church. a
feature being the special music which isl
being rehearsed BY the choir and Sunday
school.
The following have been appointed
Justices of the Peace for Cecil County, by
Governor Goldsborough:-First district,
George G. Morgan; Seventh district,
Charles w. Ward; Ninth district. E. p.
Carhart.
During the storm on Sunday evening
last lightning struck and damaged 70 a
considerable extent the roof of the front
porch Of the home of Chas. f. Moore,
near Colora.
Al recent ruling of the Interstate Com
mission has caused a rearrangement OF
the Baltimore Central Railroad schedule,
whereby all trains formerly passing at
Sylmar are required TO pass at Rising
Sun as Sylmar is without telegraphic
service.
The; annual meetings of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Presbyterial Societies
Of New Castle Rvesbytery, will be held in
Pitts Greek Church. Pocomoke City.
April 10, II and IL. Mrs. A. I. Duyck-
inck has been elected a delegate to repre-
sent West Nottingham, and Mrs Wallace
( Steel alternate.
lanes McKelvey, onof William Nc
Keivey Of this town, was struck in the
head by base ball batthat slipped from
tne ndndS Oh MOTIFS MY uoauos Na''S
recess at the Grammer School on Tues
day. A bad scalp wound was inflicted.
that bIed profusely AMI required several
stitches to close.
A movement is on foot for the holding
Of chautauqua Assembly 10 Elkton the
third week in June. under the auspices of
the Chautauqua Association of Pennsyl-
vania. A committee of ladies and gentle
men are soliciting subscribers to GOO tick
cts al $2.oo each to insure the success of
the proposed assembly.
The woodbox in the kitchen Of A. B.
Keen's home catching fire in some un-
accountable man ner. one evening last
week. threatened serious consequences.
Mrs. Keen was in another part ef- the
house. and smelling smoke began an inv
vestigation. discovering the woodbox and
its contents in flames. The blaze was
rapidly assuming serious proportions, and
was discovered just in the nick of time.
bucket OF water quenching the flames
before serious damage had been done.
VIM. J, McDougal. of this town. has
been granted patent on lock for heavy
wagons. The ingenious contrivance is
particularly adapted to hay wagon. and
Is placed on the real axle. is easily
operated and does not require the driver
to take his eyes off his team and stoop
under the rear of the wagon, as is the
case In operating the old style lock so
generally in use Mr.. McDougal will get
in touch with some Of the extensive
wagon building firms Of the country.
relative to the purchase OF his patent. or
the payment Of royalties for It's use on
their vehicles.