The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-03-29
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Grass growing green.
Gardeners cleaning up.
Sunday next is Easter.
Don't forget to move the clock up
one hour Saturday night.
Movers were favored with good
weather Saturday and Monday
At a recent public sale in Kent
county corn brought as high as $5.So
per bushel.
The public, schools of the county
closed on Thursday OF this week lor
X Good Friday and Easter Monday.
prof. A. l.. Greenwood, prin' ipal
of Millington Academy, has resigned
to engage in business at Betterton.
county Agricultural Agent Knods
has organized hog raising assocla-
tions in ~every district in Cecll
County.
The Red Cross Community Sale
held in Port Deposit recently was
great success, about $14O Delng
realized.
Thieves entered the hennery oil
Mrs. S. w. Lusby. at Cecllton, re-
Gently and carried away 40 young
chickens.
Rey. William P. Finney VIII
occupy the pulpit at West Noting
ham Presbyterian Church on Easter
Sunday morning.
Tho Red Men of Cherry Hill clear
cd about SIS at their recent supper
, The proceeds will be devoted TO I'M
proving their hall.
Good Friday, March 2Sth, being a
legal holiday, the National Bank OF
Rising Sun will not be open for
business on that date.
The pupils of Bay View public
school realized $2O.25 net proceeds
for the Junior Red Cross by a social
held Friday evening.
The residence property on South
Queen street, until recently occupied
nv Evans E. Ewing, has been pur-
chased by ]. M. Holden.
While trimming trees at his home
lat Colora, Norman Foster, Tome
Institute student, was struck on the
head by falling limb and painfully
injured.
Brown & Fisher, who disposed OF
their grocery business to Curtis II.
Irwin. will retain and conduct the
pool room and will also sell cigars
and tobacco.
Fisherman are busy preparing Tor
the spring season. The prices will
he high this year and good run OF
shad and herring will mean profit
able season.
Ellis Spechler of Aberdeen, has
been awarded a $50 Liberty Bond
and a course in agriculture at the
MARYLAND Agricultural College as the
prize potato grower of Maryland.
At the annual town election in
North East. William Pugh and
Everett Janney were elected Town
Commissioners, Mr.. Pugh succeeding
himself and Mr.. Janney succeeding
Andrew Reynolds.
Saturday evening at the Elkton
station, a young man, stranger IN
the town, was rescued from almost
certain death by Taylor w. Mcken7
ney who seized him and dragged
him to saftey just as he was falling
under a train.
Ebenezer M. p. Church will hold
Name Social at the home OF u.
Clinton Logan on the evening OIL
April 8. If stormy, next evening.
Come and enjoy the free entertain
ment at 1880. Ice cream and cake
for sale.
The advertisements of Stewart q
Co., and Hutzler Brothers Co.. Two
of Paltimore's biggest and best de-
partment stores, anpear in our col
umns this week They invite you to
visit their stores when you go to
baltimore to the Liberty Loan Can
tonment, and inspect their splendid
displays of new goods.
Thrown from the wagon when the
team belonging to sterrett d ware
became. unmanagable and ran away
Lewis Miller had one of his legs
badly cut and was otherwise hurt on
Thursday evening last. The run
away occurred near the Briscoe
farm. just south of town. The
doubletree broke and the horses con-
tinued their fight into town, ce'lld-
ing with the buggy of Miss Mary
Rawlings in front of McCoy's MILL
merry. One OF, the buggy wheels was
broken and one of the horses thrown
down and<cut about the knees, The
team was captured at this point be-
forel doing further damage.