The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-03-21
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Mr.. and Mrs. Eli T. Reynolds were
Baltimore visitors during the week.
Cecil Farmers Club met on Wednesday
with A. H. Mendenhall. al Blue Ball.
Miss Ella Pogue is home from Beech
wood School, Jenkintown, for the Easter
vacation.
Miss Mary c. Brightly. OF Philadelphia.
has accepted position as stenographer
at the Rising Sun Garage.
Miss Marian Pyle OF Darlington Semi
nary. West Chester. is spending the
Eastertide at her home 10 town.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Fisher were enter
tanned on Tuesday by Rev. and Mrs. B.
| + Mcfarland: Of Mt Pleasant
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. b. Riale left this
week for Kennett Square where they
will make their home in future
| NJ. E. Founders attended the banquet
al the Bellevue -Stratford. Philadelphia.
Saturday evening. givea BY the Frasklin
National Bank.
Raymond H. Mccoy son of David G.
Mccoy. Oxfori. has re.enlisted in the U.
IS. Navy. and has been assigned TO the
tbattieship Delaware.
Miss Marian Cook. Of West Chester
State Normal School, is spending the
Easter vacation at the home Of her father
Clifford Cook, near town.
| The young ladies Of the Sewing Club
were very pleasantly entertained on Satur-
lday afternoon last BY Miss Evelyn Cam
eron, az her home on South Queen street.
Miss Ada B. Reynolds attended the
Reunion Dance of the girls 1870 class. Of
Tome, at Port Deposit. on Saturday night
and. spent Sunday with Miss Margaret
Kidd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Hooper. Of
26o6 Guilford Avenue. Baltimore have
announced the engagement Of their
daughter. Marie Pedrick. Of Mr.. David
Scott. Of Elkton. The wedding will be a
quiet one and will take place in the early
fall.
Prof. Bickenstraton of Maryland Agri-
cultural College. gave demonstration on
pruning and spraying al ]. B. Fassitt $.
March Io. The demonstration was wit.
messed BY BY fifty, pupils from Calvert
agricultural High School. their teachers
and several neighbors.
John LeveIess. the youth who cashed a
$500 check belonging to Mrs. F. Ambrose
Price. of Earleville. and was arrested al
Newark before he got away with the
money. in the Court of General Sessions
at Wilmington pleaded guilty. and was
sentenced to two years in the New Castle
County Workhouse.
Comptroller Harrington has announced
the quarterly distribution of State School
tax, as well as an apportionment of the
free school book fund and the amounts
accredited to the approved high schools OF
the State. Cecil county's apportionment
Is: School tax, $s.437.os; school book,
$72o.4o; high schools. $r,6as.
The r3 year-oid daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Antonio Defolio left her home in
Havre de Grace Sunday afternoon. pre-
sumably to attend Sunday school. In
stead the girl crossed the river to Perry
vile and purchased ticket for Lancaster.
The supposition is she ran away TO marry
young man of that place. who had re-
Gently been paying her attention.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
handled more trains on the Maryland
Division during the Inauguration than
ever before. From Monday a. m. until
the same hour Tuesday. rso trains passed
over the Pennsylvania railroad bridge at
PerryvilIe. The trains were run withou,
accident. and the service was without in
terruption, and is record for the com.
| pany.
Carroll Shanahan. aged IS years. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Shanahan of
Havre de Grace. disappeared from home
last week. He was accompanied by
Louis Amato. boy of the same age.
Several months ago Shanahan ran away
from home and vas apprehended In Bal
fillmore and committed to St. Mary's In
dustriaI School. Upon his promise to
his<mother that he would attend school
daily. be was allowed to return home.
shaaahan was one Of number of boys
arrested sometime ago for disorderly con-
duct at the Presbyterian Church during
recent entertainment.
A National Bank is being organized at
Lincoln and Trust Company al Oxford.