The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-03-31
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the. Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Fishermen are preparing for the shad
and herring season. soon to begin.
Miss Ella Bo,hell has resigned as prin-
cipal OF Leslie public school to take effect
April IS.
The graduating class of the Cecil
County High School. Elkton, will take a
trip to Washington on April IA.
Movers were favored by good weather
on Friday and Saturday but dirt roads
were almost hub-deep with mud.
Mrs. John A. Krumrine. of North East,
has been appointed principal of the
Grenelg public school, of Howard County.
A meeting was held in council hall
Elkton. on Wednesday night. when plans
were perfected for holding a county agri-
cultural fair next fall.
It is>rumored the McClenahan Granite
Co. quarries at Port Deposit, will resume
operations under the management Of
Z Cameron and Morrison.
An overloaded gun burst when fred off
by Theodore Grouse. Of Port Deposit. and
he was badly burned about the face,
losing the sight of one eye.
Judge Butler has granted one booze
joint license in Oxford, the Oxford
House. and refused the Octoraro House
the privilege of dispensing liquor.
Clarence Foote, of Elkton. almost sever
ed the thumb of his left hand Last week
while operating circular saw. but it is
thought the member can be saved.
The Rowland Manufacturing Co. will
close It's planning mill at Port Deposit, the
first of April. This industry has em-
ployed number of men who will be
thrown out of work.
Charged with annoying wedding
couples at the Elkton passenger station
one of the towns liverymen and four
chauffeurs were given hearing before
Justice Ash on Tuesday.
Since the rain Of Tuesday, which lasted
the entire day and most of the night. the
bottom has dropped entirely out of the
dirt roads. some of them being rendered
dangerous by quicksands.
Herbert O. Lynch has sold his farm,
known as the Thomas Riale property. at
Farmineton. to w. r. Pennoyer. OF
Brady. culpepper county, Va. The
reported price received was $I5.soo.
A number of Rising Sun young people
are rehearsing the three act drama "a.
the End OF The Rainbow " under
direction Of Miss -Genevieve Turner.
The play will be given at an early date.
Traffic over the B. & o. railroad was
delayed for several hours Sunday nigh,
owing to a, freight wreck at Leslie. Sew
eral passenger trains were run.over tbs
Pennsylvania railroad between Baltimore
and Wilmington. during the blockade.
A foreign missionary society has been
organized at Port Deposit, with Miss R.
Estelle Butchenhart, president; Miss
Lille E. Pugh. vice president; Miss
Blanche Stebbings and Miss Elizabeth
Lamm. secretaries, and Miss Florence
Jones, treasurer.
The 48th session of the Wilmington
Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church met in Union Church.
Wilmington, on Wednesday, March 80.
and will continue in session until Monday.
April 3. inclusive, with Bishop Joseph F..
Berry. D. Dill. D., of Philadelphia, pre-
siding.
Alfred Smith. who conducts the Ford
garage in this town. met with a serious
accident in Port Deposit on Monday
morning. He was cranking an auto ano
failed to set the brake. When the enein.
started the machine ran into him. knock
ing him az gainst fence and breaking one
Of his legs.
Lawrence Harry, of Toughkenamon.
was badly burned about the face, hands
and arms at the Sharpless milk plant in
this town, on Thursday morning of last
week, by an explosion OF ether, gasoline
and other highly volatile fluids used 10
testing milk. The explosion was caused
by the turning of jet of steam into the
sink, Ia which the mixture had been
thrown.
Thirty-one applicants for the vacancies
ia the rural mail routes at Rising Sun
and Colora took the Civil Service exam
ination on Saturday, at Elkton and Havre
de Grace.-twenty-six at the former place
and 1--WE az the latter. The examination
at Elkton was in charge Of the assistant
postmaster. and was held 10 the High
School building between the hours of @ IS
q. "a. and x:I5 p. m. Time was when
the position of rural carrier went begging,