The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-10-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During theN Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


Of crushed granite.
The Harvester Mission Band. OF Zion,
realized $50 by the supper recently held.
The Cecil Farmers Club met on
Wednesday with Jos T. Groves. near
Blue Ball.
The Sunday school Of Tome Memorial
M. E. Church. Port Deposit, has purchas-
ed new .Knabe piano.
Twenty-Five tickets were sold at this
station Sunday morning for the excursion
TO the National Capital.
By falling at her home at Lombard,
j while cleaning her carriage. Mrs. Mary
Yerkes sustained fractured wrist.
The State Convention at Salisbury. or
dered that a field worker be sent to Cecil
County to organize Loyal Legious'
Theodore Boyer. of Fulton. Lancaster
county, has applied for divorce from his
\ wife, Hannah H. Boyer, alleging deser-
tion.
Marion B. Sloneker. third-baseman on
the Elkton ball team, has been appointed
rural mail carrier on the new Elkton-
Lewisville route.
A forest FIRE that caused several thou
sand dollars damage burned for I5,hours
Sunday night in the section OF bacon
Hill. three miles south of Elkton.
Mrs. Helen Wells Kirk has been elect
ed president of the Ninth District Auxili-
ary OF Union Hospital, Elkton. succeeding
Mrs. /. &C. Carhart, resigned.
Miss Ruth Robinson. returned mis-
sionary from India. will speak in the M.
E. church on Friday evening. Oct. 23, at
eight o'clock. A silver offering at the
door.
The residence and contents OF the late
Rev. I. Earle Maloy. at Colora, have
been bought by Mrs. Margaret Reynolds.
widow Of the late lDr. Joseph Reynolds,
of near Rock Springs. for $1,000.
The Nicholson farm of the Bohemia
Manor, containing a33 acres and owned
by Walter Morris. of Dover. has been
bought by William Price. of Middle Neck.
for $4,000.
The twenty ninth annual convention OF
this the Wilmington District Epworth
league. was held in McCabe M. E.
Church, Wilmington. Thursday and FRI
day of last week.
Miss E. May Bookwalter, of the Cen
tral Entertainment Bureau. of Harrisburg.
Pa, will present "The House that Jack
Built,' in EIkton at an early date. for
benefit OF Union Hospital.
The Superintendent of Medal Contest
Department Of the Rising Sun Y. Miss
Ellen Clifford. has been awarded hand
some medal for having held the most
eontegts in the State las'year.
while driving to her home at Cecilton.
Mis- Mol.ie Mccoy. vice principal of
CeciAori High School, in jumping out of
Y hef carriage when her horse stumbled and
fell had her left arm broken at the elbow
Chesapeake City has placed Main
street in the hands Of the State Road
f.ommission. so that concrete street
may be built through the town. connect,
ing the Elkton and cecilton State roads.
While going through the effects of Miss
Anna Webb. aged 10 years. who was re-
Gently fatally burned. in her home at
Port Penn, DEL. relatives found $I2oo
hidden away in isolated places about the
house.
Miss Margaret Jones. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. C. M. Jones. of Havre de Grace.
whose disappearance from her home some
days ago. wired her parents the following
day, that she was married and living in
New York city
Two of Ellsworth Smiths cattle fell in
= silo on his farm near Hess mill, Lam
caster county last week. One had its
neck broken and the other was gotten out
alive. The slo. il appears. had been con-
verted into an ice house.
A valuable draft horse, used by Biles
& Cameron in their heavy hauling, was
Isuna dead In its stall Wednesday morn
y7nc. The supposition is the animal was
Nseized with severe attack Of collie. which
Caused lis death during the night
Recently while crossing the railroad
tracks at what is known as the Red Mill,
oear Elkton. the gates were lowered on a
pasty OF automobilists from Port Deposit.
Tbe windshield of the machine was
broken and one of the ladies' 10 the mach
iee severely injured. yae action of the
Il wskchman in lowering the gates is mex
plainabie. as tylan was not due AZ the
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