The midland journal., 1917-09-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
!, OCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Full moon on Sunday.

The September term of Court ad
iourned Monday.
Thomas G. Riale has purchased
handsome Chevrolet roadster.
October 2 and are registration
days. October 16 is revision day.
Lancaster Fair is proving draw
ing card for numerous of our autoists
this week.
The dwelling of Misses Hannah
and Mabel Reynolds is being i'm
proved by painting.
Tickets for Winter Course OF En-
tertainments on sale at Buftington's
Wednesday, October 3rd, at 8 A. nj.
A wild deer is running at large in
Elk Neck. 1t has been seen by sew
eral persons at different places from
Turkey Point to North East.
J. M. Holden has sold his farm OF
: SO acres, near Hickory Hill, Pa, to
John o. Larsen, of Virginia, ano
will move back to Rising Sun.
John E. Charshee, of Havre de
Grace has been appointed Superin-
tendent of the Tome School Dulld-
ings and grounds, at Port Deposit.
Owing to the abundance of peaches
aft Charles E. Bryan's farm, near
Havre de Grace, he has had some
banned at the factory of Harry +.
Stfasbaugh.
Wilton Greenway has recently
purchased "Hokeland," the Green
way estate, near Havre de Grace
from the other heirs of the late Mrs
Henry Greenway.
The trustees of the poor of New
Castle county, Del, have purchased
five full-blooded Holstein COWS at
$500 each from a stock dealer at
Leeds, Cecil county.
Cecil county was represented at
the Democratic convention, in Baltl-
more, last week, by William IL.
Holm, R. Harry Logan, William
Shaffer and Edward Carter.
A number of men were sent to
Rising Sun on Friday from Balu-
more by the Farm Labor Bureau
and have been assigned TO different
farms in this neighborhood.
The Board of Education for Cecil
county has appointed Miss Hilda M
Ostrom, of Cecilton, graduate OF
Western Maryland College, vice
principal at the Chesapeake City
High school.
Violet Bell of Oxford, Pa, has
instituted proceedings for absolute
divorce from her husband, S. Bell,
now living near Rising Sun, to whom
a<she was married in Elkton, in 1912
,kclaiming desertion.
In the local ad. of McCoy's Millin-
cry last week in connection with the
display of hats the word "Tatting"
appeared. This was mistake on
our part, and should have read
.sPattern'' and Trimmed Hats.
Under the school law there is no
authority to pay an assistant unless
the dLLCUuduCO dNOloSSo AOAS1
more. The Board of Education has
therefore temporarily discontinued
the assistants at Colora, Warwick
and Blythedale.
La Tena's Circus will return to
Hayre de Grace ab6ut November 1
to go into winter quarters. since
leaving Havre de Grace in April the
show has covered 5000 miles,
trayersed through fourteen States
and still going.
While playing in the yard Of Mr..
and Mrs. Clyde Owens, Perryville, on
some logs little Marjory Owens,
wears old, had her leg broken and
little Gladys Miller about the same
age her arm fractured by one OF the
logs rolling down.
During the furious hail and wind
storm of Friday evening last Harry,
aged 28 years, the family horse be-
longing to E. Hughes Keilholtz of
this town, fell dead in the pasture
field. being unable to withstand the
terrible lashing of the hail.
The County Commissioners were
in special session last week to open
bids for building the Elk Mills road,
The only bid received was by E. r.
Dagutton for $2.25 per square yard the
totaf for whole job amounting TO
nearly $4,000. The Commissioners
took no action on the bid.
Twenty-Five conversions resulted
from the three weeks revival held
in James M. E. church, Rising Sun
which closed on Friday evening on
last week. The Berge sisters, who
directed the singing. left Saturday
amorning for Hampton, Va, where
hhey are at present assisting in
revival services.