The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-06-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
local HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Thursday next the Glorious Fourth.

The residence VI WAA
fer. in Elkton, has been purchased
by Charles Hudson.
The colored people of Cecil Coun-
ty cleared Sill over all expenses at
School Rally Day on June Z.
The Diocese of Easton has selected
Elkton, as the place for holding its
fifty-first annual convention next
year
The Elkton-C -Chestertown Bus Line
has gone out of business, and dis
nosed of their cars on Friday at
public sale.
The barbering business of d. War
rem Wilson, in Elkton, has been pur-
chased by William E. Conaway, Of
Newark, Del.
The salary of Rev. J. H. Bickford,
nastor of North East M. E. church,
has been increased $500, making it
$1,000 per year.
Three members of the faculty of
the ElktonS High School, Misses Nora
Stoll,N Ruth Watson and Mary e.
Hall, have resigned.
John Krumrine has resigned as
carrier on rural route No. 3, from
I North East postoffice. William Ar
rants is substituting.
Lieutenant Thomas M. Garrett
has notified his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Garrett, of Elkton, OF
his safe arrival in France.
Curtis Janney, of Providence, had
several ribs fractured one night last
week when he drove his car over the
bank into the creek at Providence.
Scholarships in this county have
been awarded as follows: Theodore
Deret to Charlotte Hall; John A.
Haffer, to Western Maryland College.
School Superintendent Caldwell!
has designated 25 county school
teachers to attend the summer
school at the expense of the county
The receipts from the moving
picture, flor the benefit of the Red
(CHess, on Tuesday evening of last
4 week, at the Elkton Opera House,
were $123.13.
Harvest is on, with promise of
good hay crop. The wheat crop will
probably be an average one only, on
account of unfavorable conditions
earlier in the season.
Thomas Hutchinson, a chauffeur
OF Elkton, was fined $40 and costs
by Justice Lewis for reckless driving
on the wrong side of the road, it be-
ing his second offence.
Mrs. Marie Dick, of Theodore, was
the only female German alien TO
register at Rising Sun this week as
required by law. Mrs. Dick is a
native of Alsace Lorraine.
McCauley Brothers, of Leeds, will
discontinue their butchering busi-
ness. Robert J. McCauley, the Junior
member of the firm, is taking a
business course at Wilmington.
Ernest Bros, have sold their mer-
camille business at Sassafras. which
has been conducted for more than
fifty years by members of the Ernest
family. to Mr.. L. Nickerson, OF
Masseys.
For racing their cars on Main
street, Elkton, Police Justice II. w
Lewis imposed a fine of $25 and
costs on George H. Reichers, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y. and N. S. Hall, OF
Baltimore.
At a meeting in Newark, Mayor
Eben B. Frazer, Postmaster Levi K
Bowen and Daniel Thompson were
appointed committee to make a
canvass for volunteers to assist
farmers to save their wheat crops.
Two cases of diphtheria are re-
ported in the family of Roy Jones
who lives in the Griest dwelling on
Wilson avenue extended. His wife
and an adopted daughter are the
sufferers. A strict quarantine is
being maintained to prevent spread
OF the disease.
According to the almanac summer
began on Saturday, but the sort ol
weather we had would have hit into
the March calendar pretty we'll. A
perfect gale blew in the evening, the
air being keen and causing a bic
drop in the temperature, the rlier
curry recording SO degrees.
The Variety Sale held Saturday
afternoon and evening in this towl
by members of the Westminster
Guild was literally patronized, the
homemade wares being disposed O
as rapidly as they were brought in
Ne gross receipts were over 500
Music was furnished in the evening
by Rising Sun Cornet Band.
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