The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

tlUlDCT lduu.
The 1919 Pennsylvania auto tag
is to be black in color, with red
numerals. The State has ordered
100000 of them.
The official board of the Chester
town Methodist Church has invited
the Wilmington Conference to meet
in that town next March.
John Walls, aged 48, an employee
: at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds,
committed suicide at his home at
Galena by cutting his throat.
At the adjourned meeting of the
New Castle Presbytery the resigna-
tion of Rev. j. e. Eggert, pastor OF
Chesapeake City Church, Was ac~
cepted.
Monday was the first day of the
cunning season and our local sports
men were out in force. A number
of good bags of partridges and rab-
bits were. reported.
Wilildm GSSlCh, AOl A1Olly VI AASh'
county, who is wanted in Cecil coun-
ty ON the charge of stealing horse
from Edward w. Taylor, has been
arrested in Camden, N. j.
A handsome new theatre has been
erected at Perry Point, the Govern
ment reservation at Perryville,
where high class vaudeville and
motion pictures are shown.
On the grounds of desertion and
other complaints, Charles F. Cohee
{ has docketed a suit in the Circuit
Court here. for an absolute divorce
from his wife, Mrs. Catherine Cohee.
The vote in Cecil county for the
constitutional amendment permitting
absent soldiers to cast ballot and
have it recorded in the general re-
suit was 1882 for, and 280 against.
Tp help out in the shortage OF
teachers, Rev. Alfred Lee Jones, rec
tor of Trinity P. E. Church, Elkton,
has accepted the vice principalship
A of xhe Cecil County High School,
! Elkton.
Clerk of the Court Purnell, of
Elkton, has issued under the new
Jaw 1895 licenses to resident gun
ners and 10 non-residents. The
money is to be used for propagation
of game.
Photographs of the Elkton school
ciuldren were taken on Thursday o.
last week for use in the "Miles OF
Smiles" motion pictures to be shown
to Maryland soldiers in France on
Christmas Day.
Mrs. Jennie Gillespie, of this town
was among the mothers to be photo
graphed at Elkton last week for the
miles of Smiles" movie to be shown
to Maryland soldiers in France on
Christmas Day
Louis A. Curl, formerly in charge
of the commissary of the Casparis
Stone Company, Havre de Grace,
died at the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds hospital, Saturday, the re-
suit of injuries sustained in a motor
cycle accident.
Alvin Downham and Ellis Down,
ham, of Elk Mills, were arrested
last week on warrants sworn out by
State officer William T. Collins, o.
the Compulsory Work Bureau. They
4 nd q
sig.led to work by the State officer
Cecil County Board of Education
principal of Leeds public school
Miss Ella Reynolds, principal of Bis
Elk school Miss Elizabeth Brown
Liberty Grove; Miss Abbie Shaub
New Bridge, and Miss Edith Spea
Blythedale.
Former State Senator Frank E
Williams has been appointed chair
man of the United War Work Cam
paign Committee that is to make the
drive in this county for SIG, $4,000
which is Cecil's share in the Ma
tioaal drive for $170,500,000 during
the week of November Ills.
After lapse of several weeks
there has been another robbery IL
our town. On Sunday night last
the dwelling of B. P. Nichols was
entered and purse belonging to his
daughter Helen, containing about
seven dollars, stolen. The man was
seen on the side porch of the Nichols
home by William Ryan, who gave
| chase, but the intruder made good
his escape in the darkness. En-
trance had been gained through
side window In. the darkness il
WAS impossible to tell whether the
robber was white man or colored
man,