The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-18
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Blue Ball.
The Elkton cannery closed last
week after pack of 1900 cases
of tomatoes.
John M Clark, of Elkton r. ID.
No. 4, has been appointed deputy
game warden for the Third district.
Joseph Armstrong has sold his
farm Of SS acres, in Lower Oxford,
to Peter Wood, of Virginia, for
$S5oO.l.
B. F.. Slater, who recently sold his
farm near West Grove, has purchas-
ed house at Norwood and will
move there.
The demand on our columni
for Liberty Loan and other adVer-
tising has crowded a large amount
local reading matter out.
The Board of County Commission
ers has ordered that no more work
be done on the roads except by order
Of the Commissioner in charge.
Miss Grace Paxton, of Port De-
posit, while waiting for train IN
the station at Chester, Pa, had her
pocketbook, containing over $40
stolen.
The season for shooting squir1 els
under the Maryland law has closed
temporarily and will reopen on No
yember 10, with the rabbit and bird
season.
The bond issue for $4,000, author
ized by the last General Assembly,
was approved by the voters of Ches-
apeake City at the recent town
election.
All the streams in this section re-
main lower than they have been at
this season for number of years
and there is little water in some OF
the smaller brooks.
The Hogg property at the corner
of Bow and High streets, Elkton,
was sald at the Court House door
by Henry L. Constable, Trustee, to
Edward Deibert, for $500.
THE Walter L. Main Shows re-
turned to Havre de Grace on Satur-
day to go into winter quarters. An
drew Downie, proprietor of the
]. shows. says he has had the most
successful season in his circus life.
The laying of concrete on the
Porter's Bridge road was completed
ON Friday last The road will mo-
be opened to traffic for some days
yet owing to considerable necessary
work on the curve near Porter S
Bridge.
The repairing of the Elkton-North
East State road, which was nearly
ruined by the heavy Government
trucks in the early spring, has about
been completed. Eighteen convicts
from the Maryland Penitentiary
have been at work on the road for
some time past.
Getting into an alteration over
game of pool in the pool room OF
Brown & Fisher, Aaron Brown and
Otis Beebe continued their scrap i'll
the street outside, one night last
week, with the result that both
young men were hailed before Magis-
strate Nichols and fined $40 apiece
and costs for disorderly conduct.
Beginning October /, the price OF
the butter product of P. E. Sharploss
Co, ~Concordville, is 81 per pound
The cost of raw materials and labor
have advanced, and so has the but
ter. The Government takes Is pei
cent of evaporated milk and good
share of the butter also. The White
House at Washington has been sup
piled steadily from this place for
some time.
One of the distressing features OF
the Influenza epidemic is that sc
many deaths have occurred through
out the country it has been impos-
sible for undertakers to secure cas-
kets from the supply houses on time
and funerals are delayed in some
instances for two or three days
In other cases undertakers have
called the home carpenters to theil
assistance and had them make
caskets.
Our contemporary, the Cecil Star
of North East, has been up against
it recently. The "flu" put ye editor
Geo. o. Carey, out of business com
pletely for eight days, and as he hao
no help in the Office the publication
missed the first week in October
the first time in SO years,--but made
Its appearance again the following
week. We all think we have oul
troubles until we hear what some
other fellow has gone through ano
then realize we are pretty lucky
after all.