The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-30
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Moonlight nights.
Election day next Tuesday.

Election day next Tuesday.
Tomorrow night is Hallowe en-.
Ducking season on the Susquehanna
flats opens Monday. Nov. 2.
c. T. Snyder is installing a steam
heating plant for his store and dwellings.
The Y will meet on Wednesday even
ing, Nov 4, H. the basement of the M. E..
church.
The residents of Calvert are agitating
the question Of building public hall in
the village
The Simcoe farm OF 24o acres, at Bay
View, has been purchased by E. Ward
Brown. Of Port Deposit.
A semi-annual dividend of eight per
cent has been declared by the Farmers
National Bank of Oxford.
The annual Chrysanthemum Tea will
be held in the M. E. church Of this town
on Wednesday eve, Nov. II.
Albert Burkins has broken ground for
new dwelling to be erected at the corner
of w. Main and Mount streets.
The mercury took a decided drop this
week, and it was cold enough to form ice
on Monday and Tuesday nights
As Tuesday. November 8. is legal
holiday. Election Day, the banks will not
be open for business on that date.
Miss Kathryn Loveless of Chesapeake
City has been appointed an assistant at
the Calvert Agricultural High School.
A lot in North East. belonging to the
estate of ]. W. Shippers, has been pur-
chased at private sale by Samuel Sellers
for $6o5.
The week beginning November g will
be observed as donation week for Union
Hospital of Cecil county by the Sixth Dis
trict Auxiliary.
Sheriff Jones has levied upon the per-
sonal property of Ephraim Blackburn in
Glen Roy. and will sell the same at public
sale, for the benefit of creditors,
Assistant Postmaster General Roper
has notified the town council of Havre de
Grace. that beginning January Ist free
mail delivery service will be established
in that town.
Julius w. Clayton has been elected As
sistant Cashier of the National Bank of
Chesapeake City, succeeding !. Groome
Steel. who resigned to engage in the grain
and fertilizer business in that town.
A committee has been appointed by the
Elkton Improvement Association to con-
fer with the State Roads Commission re-
garding the extension of the improved
state highway into the town of Elktou.
The large frame barn. wagon house,
hog,house and corn crib on the Chas. H.
Swdyne farm west of WilIowdale. Chester
cN4nty. owned by S. Jones Philips, were
bufned TO the ground Thursday afternoon
Theloss is $4,000.
he regular Epworth League Service of
lanes M. E. Church this town, will be
given up to Temperance Rally on Sun.
day evening Nov. Ist, at 7:3o o'clock.
There will be short talks on the subject
by some Of our representative business
men. Special music will also be one of
the features. Everybody invited.
The home of John M. Johnson at North
East. was broken into at an early hour
Thursday morning of last week. by rob-
bers who after ransacking the home and
gathering all the silverware and other
valuabIes together were tying them up in
a table cloth when frightened off The
thieves secured purse containing $27 in
money.
Saturday night is Halloween. The en-
cycIopedia says: "All Halloween is the
vigil Of the feast of All Saints, otherwise
tries it is the occasion for visiting the
cemeteries and laying flowers on the
graves of relatives and friends. In Great
Britain and the United States the night is
devoted to merrymaking and divination
Of the future"
1Ksaac L. Kehoe, who was recently
en- to Elkton from Pennsylvania on re-
hisition. charged with bigamy. was
given hearing before Magistrate Levi o.
Cameron. The first Mrs. Kehoe testified
that she was married to Kehoe seven
years ago. and that he left her three years
ago with two small children. but Rev.
Ssmuel L. Perry, who married Kehoe and
d LAURA Nj. Carson in EIkton on Septem-
ber last could not swear 10 the identity
OF the accused. and the Magistrate dis
missed the case.