The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-09-14

this week.
The September term OF Cecil Cir
cult Court convenes at Elkton on
Monday next.
The public schools of the county
reopened on Monday, after the sum-
mer vacation.
The Boy Scouts of North East
have reorganized with Walter Black
we'll as Scout Master.
The Clerk of Court at Elkton
issued 405 marriage licenses during
the month of August.
Mrs. Helen S. Ireland has purchas-
ed the Davis farm partly situated in
Delaware and in Cecil county for
$4,000.
The School Board for Kent county
has postponed the opening of the
schools in that county until Monday,
September II.
Cecil Kirk is closing out his busi-
ness at the Ford Garage in this
town. A new manager will shortly
take possession and conduct the
place.
The Tome School for Boys at Port
Deposit, will open for this years
work September 27; while the down
town school will open Monday,
September 10.
Wheat has been pouring into the
warehouses at Rising Sun this week
by hundreds of bushels. The price
received by our farmers for it is
$500 per bushel.
The concrete mixer for the Sylmar-
Rising Sun section of State road
arrived this week and the work of
laying concrete will begin next week,
on the southern end of the road.
The following officers have been
elected by the Ladies' Aid OF Zion
M. E. church: Pres, Mrs. jerks
Smith; Sec., Mrs Carroll Van Pelt;
Treas, Mrs. Alfred Churchman.
The Board of Education for Cecil
County has appointed Miss Hilda
Ostrom, a graduate of Western
Maryland College, vice principal of
the Chesapeake City High School.
During the absence of States At
torney Charles B. Finley, who is
Major of the First Maryland Regi-
ment, Joshua Clayton, Esq, of Elk
ton, will be the acting States At
torney.
Clarence Cullen, who operates the
Duyckinck & Sterrett farm, adJoln-
ing town, has the banner wheat crop
of this section, with yield of forty
bushels to the acre of the finest sort
b grain.
Nelson Sweet, an employee at the
Pennsylvania Railroad freight depot
at Elkton, fell from freight car
Wednesday morning, breaking
small bone in his wrist and badly
Is cutting his face.
District Superintendent Watt has
anpointed Rev. John H. Dean, OF
North East, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal charge in Elk Neck, Tor
the balance of the conference year.
Rev. Mr.. Dean was formerly pastor
Of the Church of the Nazarene, North
East g
Miss Ella Touchton, Of Port De-
posit, met with a serious accident on
sunday of last week. The automo-
bile in which she was riding was run
into by another car near Darlington
Hartford county. Miss Touchton was
thrown from the machine and had
her shoulder broken.
Miss Edith Watson, of East Liver
pool, Ohio, has been appointed DO
mestic Science teacher for Elkton
and Chesapeake City High Schools;
Gilbert Barradaile, of the Kalama-
zoo. (Mich.) Normal School, has
been appointed Manual Training
teacher for the same schools.
One day last week Andrew Wood
all found a Ford automobile aband-
oned in the wood on the Woodall
farm. near Elkton The license tags
4 had been removed and there was no
clue to it's ownership. The find was
reuorted to the officials but they
have been unable to locate the
Wner-
Company e, of Elkton, with its
I40 Cecil county soldier boys and
equipment, entrained on Monday and
left for Admission, Georgia, where
they will go into training camp, pre-
paratory to being sent to France.
Three Rising Sun boys are members
of the Company, Clinton Ryan,
Marion White and William Newlin.
The Jewish New Year-Rosh-ha-
shonah, begins Sunday evening at
sundown.