The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-06
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Running an auto without license
Ernest Cook, of North East, was
fined $40 and costs.
The exterior Of the M. e. Church
is being painted by artists Morrison
and Marshall, of Sylmar.
Rev. w. G. Koons occupied the
pulpit of Zion Presbyterian churcn
on Sunday morning last
At the festival held by the Provi-
danca Branch of the Red Cross the
sum of $158.95 was cleared.
Defenders Day, September l2th'
ba;ng a legal holiday, the National
Bank of Rising Sun will not be open
for business on that date.
Rosh-ha-shonah, the Jewish New
Year will be celebrated beginning
OF sundown Friday of this week
continuing until sundown Sunday.
Miss Margaret Holt, who was ap-
nointed to the Perryville High
school. will not accept the position,
and has secured position in Ches-
ter.
ladder slipping caused Charles
.5terns to fail while painting house
at Town Point. He sustained serl-
ous injuries to his back, hip ana
ankle
Frank G.. Pratt, of Elkton, who
enlisted for Red Cross work, has
been assigned to the Transportation
department overseas. Mr.. Pratt has
four sons in the service.
The ladies of the Red Cross are
requested to return all garments
6nished or unfinished, to the Lecture
Room of the M. E. church by Friday
afternoon, September 6.
Given a hearing before H. w.
Lewis in Elkton on the charge OF
violating the Compulsory Work Law
Herbert Shivery has been sentenced
to go days in the county jail.
The Cecil County School Board
has appointed Miss Gladys Roe, OF
Centxeyille, vice-principal of the
chesapeake City High School, vice
Miss Elizabeth Eggert, resigned.
! County Agent Knode has notified
farmers that hog cholera exists IN
this county. and urges all owners OF
swine to take every precautlon To
keep the disease from spreading.
The Town Schools of The Jacoh
Tome Institute will open Wednes-
day, September 18th, at $50 a. m
The Hill School will open Wednes-
day, September 25th, at $3.50 a. m
The shells fired from Aberdeen
Proving Ground struck the Kent
shore Monday night, and residents
Of the bay shore could see the
splash of many in the water.-ken'
News.
It is reported that some OF the
Sussex County campmeetings thai
were called off by the State Boaro
of Health because of smallpox, VII
be held in September, the patients
being about recovered and no new
cases appearing.
Dean Harry Hayward sent severa
baskets of fine peaches from the
Delaware Experiment Farm TO the
High School kitchen in Wilmington
where the Home Economies Com
m;ttee of the State Council Of De
tense canned them for the Red Gross
A r. Keen, of this town, has been
appointed Deputy Game Wardel
for Cecil county and is prepared te
issue licenses to gunners. lie Il
also clothed with authority to arres
anyone who guns without license
or. otherwise violates the gupnlns
law.
Nathan volk is greatly improving
his recently purchased store prop
erty. Partitions are being torn ou
and the storeroom greatly enlarged
and rearranged, electric lights In
stalled. refrigerator built in and thu
entire store being rejuvinated in al
up-to-date manner.
The recent carnival held by Little
Elk Tribe of Red Men, OF Cherr.
Hif. and the three local branches
of the Red Cross, proved very sue
cessful, the gross receipts oelns
s1761. and the net about $1,000
One fourth of this sum has beeI
turned over to the Red Cross.
Chalmer C. Reynolds, formerly o
this town, and for some years pas
with the Maryland State Roads
Commission, has accepted position
kas assistant engineer on construc
tion work with the State Roads DE
partment of Delaware, to be LOCATED
Ss,n the Lincoln Highway between
WILMINGTON and Chester.