The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-10-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

closed last week with a pack Of 1900 cases
of tomatoes.
On the grounds of abandonment, Mar
Gus /. Oliver has docketed suit in the Elk
ton Court for divorce.
A matinee will be held at Highland
Park Saturday. A colt race, free-for-all'
and other events are on the card
A horse belonging to Townsend Bar
nett, ON the Robertson farm, near town.
was badly eored by bull few days
since
The cannery at Elkten closed last week
after q larger pack Of tomatoes than for
several years past, 22,ooo cases having
been put up this season
While returning from Middletown on
Saturday night last, horse driven by
Jerry Price and John Brown. of Earle
!. vile, was shot by some unknown person.
The wound was slight one.
Services will be held on Sunday, Goth
inst. at Hopewell and Asbury churches.
These two charges were among those
closed last Sunday on account Of scarlet
fever at New Valley and Mt. Pleasant.
Al small scow loaded with six pieces Of
carved granite for the new Office building
in Havre de Grace, capsized one day last
week while being towsd from Port De-
posit, and the stones were lost in IS feet
of water.
William Johnson, son of J. E. T. john
son, of North East. has been presented
with a bronze medal by the Boy Scouts
for risking his life in saving from drown
ing lad who fell in the mill race at
North East.
The house. near Earleville, owned by
Montgomery Husfelt and tenanted by
Samuel Loller and family, was burned
together with all Its contents. on Monday
night Of last week, during the absence Of
the family.
Eleven infants were baptized at the
Sunday morning service in the Elkton NJ.
E. Church. The annual Harvest Home
services were held that day. ExC Con-
( gresham L. Irving Handy delivered an
Grafton on "God is Love.
EIkton Improvement Association has
elected tbs following officers for the en-
suing year: Frederick T. Haines, Esq,
President; DR.. w. Arther Mitchell, Vice
President; Dr.. w. T. Morrison. Secretary; !;
\ c. c. Strickland. Treasurer.
The festival held in the public hall on
Friday evening last by the Modern Wood
!. men. for the benefit of William Fulton,
whose home at Oakwood was recently de-
stroyed by a cyclone, was literally pat
ronized. The gross receipts amounted to
over $50.
The Havre de Grace races. scheduled
by the Farmers Association of Hartford
!. county to begin on November "a. have
been postponed to early next spring.
Lateness Of the season. it was an
nounced. made it impossible to provide
the necessary premiums.
6. N. B. English. supervisor. and c.
M. Hursh. assistant supervisor, In charge
of the Pennsylvania tracks between Will
mington and Perryville, were awarded
premiums of 5000 and $500 respectively,
for the best line and surface between
Philadelphia and Washington.
The fall meeting of the Cecil County
Medical Society was held at Union Hos
pital. Elkton. Oct. I6 at II a. m. DIR. c.
/. Benson read paper on 'Dystocia" :"
and DR.. w. T. Morrison one on 'Anaes-
shetics.' The subject Of the general dis
cussion was BLOOD Pressure"
Samuel H. Friedman, of Port Deposit.
who has been spending the past few years
in Hendersonville. N. c.. on account of
his health. has returned home and
inaugurated a reduction sale of his store
goods, preparatory to removing with his
family permanently to North Carolina.
Alexander Wilson. of near Cecilton,
has been designated by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture as its crop correspon-
dent for this county, reporting to the
Bureau OF Statistics monthly. Mr.. Will
r1son win call TO his aid in collecting data
X number Of assistants throughout the
connty.
The csast Artillery, three hundred and
fifty stroHe. which passed through Cecil
county reckntly, from Fort Dupont. Della
ware. for Phoenix, Baltimore county, for
.'maneuvering" tactics, passed through
the county again last week. on their re-
turn to Fort DUPONT, where they will be
Ia wintef quarters.