The midland journal., 1916-08-11

cull tbOOu Ouuuoys
Colored camp at Mt. Hope opens
August I3.
Lum,s delicious peaches have reached
the local market.
Home grown garden truck" coming
into its own these days.
copson Park Camp, North East. opens
August IL for two weeks.
Soda water fountains doing thriving
business these sweltering times.
The Susquehanna moonlight excursions
pre- the popular Menday evening fad.
More sweltering hot weather this week,
With the mercury well up in the nineties.
The. annual Firemen's Carnival at Elk
ton will be held August alto 26 inclusive
The annual fair will be held at Black
Barren Springs this year on September
9TH and sth. ~
The two-night festival held by the
Third District Ladies' Auxiliary of Union
Hospital. netted $o6.5o.
The gate receipts at Leslie Camp on
Sunday. July 80. were $Ioo. indicating
an attendance of 1000 persons.
Representatives of the State Health
Department have been making survey
Of conditions in Rising Sun for the past
two weeks.
The Executive of Cecil County w. c.
T. U. will meet in the M. E. Church.
Rising Sun. on Friday. August II. al
1890 o'clock.
Several OF our sportsmen have made
trips to the mouth of the Octoraro and
Bald Friar recently and landed good
strings of bass.
Quite a number of our farmers were
compelled to cut their oats with the now
lag machine and gather them with the
hay loader. lowing to the tangled condi.
ton of the crop.
Perryyille defeated the Rising Sun ball
team, Saturday afternoon. at the former
place, by score of 6 to q. The Satur-
day previous Havre de Grace shut the
Sun boys out to o.
Charged with operating their auto
mobile for commercial purposes without
the proper licenses Eve residents Of North
East were arrested by state road officer
and each assessed $s and cost.
After being in progress for nearly two
weeks. the national local preachers camp
meeting at Leslie came to close Monday
night with Marching Seven Times
Around Jehrico." in which the tenters,
preachers and many visitors joined.
sThe blacksmiths of this section of the
ounty have. formed an organization tc
BE known as The Horseshoers Associa.
tion Of Cecil County. and will advance
prices in their line of business. The
advance is made necessary by the in
crease in cost of material. A schedule ol
prices will be published next week.
An open air peace meeting. under the
auspices of joint committee of the two
Philadelphia Yearly Meetings of Friends
was held in Rising Sun on Friday evening
last. Two men and woman addressed
the crowd from an automobile by the
public hall building atthe corner OF Queen
and Cherry streets. All three were good
speakers and made strong plea for theil
cause. showing how preparedness. the
popular cry of the day, bred suspicion and
led away from peace.
The speakers also talked to assemblages
at Calvert on Friday afternoon and al
Colora on Saturday morning. They were
refused permission to speak at the
Farmers Meeting, Port Deposit. on Sat
urday.
The Oxford News tells us that work /:
to begin this week on the Rising Sun
Porters Bridge road.
This would be good news. If it were
only true, but the fact of the matter is
there Is little hope that work on this sec
tion OF road will begin at all this year.
The powers that be. from Governor Har-
rington to the last man on the State Road
Commission. are opposed to the road
Interviewed at the Farme.s' Meeting a
Rert Deposit. on Saturday. the Governor
Ave not the smallest bit of encourage.
meat that the road would be constructed
4 The belief is general in this section
that the seven so-called "owneTs" of ths
Perryville-Havre de Grace bridge have
more political influence and ''puli'' in The
matter than the taxpayers along the roaC
and throughout this section. and til,
faeling engendered over the raw dea
being handed the upper end of the county
q State road matters is indicated by ths
.ay knives are being whetted for uss
around election times.