The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-08-30
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Dog days ended on Monday.

The Providence Branch of the Red
Cross cleared $15S.95 at their re
cent festival.
The play given by Company A OF
calvert Ladies' Aid Society realized
them $4,000.
s train of thirty army trucks from
C,amp Meade passed through town
on Thursday evening Of last week.
going north.
The new Timonium Fair al
! Timonium Baltimore county VIII
omen on September 2 and continue
throughout the week.
The custom in practice througnou'
the country Of ringing the Victory
Bell at the noon hour has Deen
inaugurated in our town.
In compliance with the Election
! Laws OF the State there Will be u pre-
nyI,nary registration in Cecil county
On Tuesday. September 8.
The Tooth anniversary OF tne
huilding. of the present Frlenos
Meeting House at Londongrove' "a
y was celebrated. August Is.
monday, September 2, Labor Day
heing a legal holiday the National
Rank of Rising Sun will not be open
for business on that date.
DR.. s. Ross Crothers, OF Ches'er
has purchased the White Point farm
Of IS acres, lying along the Nor'n
r.s+ river from Clinton Purner.
Under the direction of State Boaro
of Agriculture, County Agent ). II
Kpode is having milk survey maoe
in Cecil County. to ascertain the cost
OF production. etc.
Given hearing before Maglstra.e
Lewis. Of Elkton, on the charge VI
ron-snpport of his wife and 4-year-
old child Robert Goodyear, Jr., was
ordered to pay IS per week to the
support of the plaintiff.
(erfAe Dorsey, colored, wanted III
Cecil County for several months past
Tor w{olating the local option law
WAS arrested at Iron Hill, as sue
stepped from a train one day ias'
week. and lodged in Elkton jail.
The officials of the Delaware ano
chesapeake Canal Company nave
had two of their employees sworn IN
as Deputy Sheriffs of Cecil County
in order that they may have author'
itv to auell disorder or arrest sus-
picious characters on the Company
property
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is reported to have purchaseo
the Red Mill property, in West Elk
ton which will be in line of the eie'
vated tracks through that town. II
a. understood that the company VII
snend $1,000, 900 in making the I'M
provements.
George Burney, of Ashland, KY.
was arrested in Elkton last week
and held for the Delaware authori-
ties charged by Mahlon Chambers
Of delaware, with running into MS
horse and carriage near White Clay
Creek Church. The horses leg was
hroken and it had to be killed.
Losing control of his motor> cycle
and crashing into an automoDlle
driven by l.. H. Broadwater, OF Will
mington, along the road near Sum
mitt Bridge, Monday evening of las'
week. Welter Lennon, aged 81
wears. a young farmer residing near
Glasgow. was killed almost instantly
The steel draw for the new rein
forced concrete bridge over the
= Sassafras river connecting Cecil ano
Kent counties, has arrived after
long delay, and will be installed al
soon. as it can be placed. The ne"
j bridge is nearly a quarter of mile
long. and was built by the state
Road Commission.
In our item of last week, relatiVe
to the contemplated Improvement OF
the M. e. church of this town, 1t was
stated that j. R. Sheppard, or NE"
York. formerly of this town, hao
sent his check for $1.126. The
amount of Mr.. Sheppard's donation
we arc informed by the official board
OF the church, was $1200.OO.
The annual. outing of the M. +
Sunday school of this town was
held on Wednesday of this week. II
the meadow OF Woodrow & James
west of town. A goodly number ol
big and little folks enjoyed the
picnic, not to mention the mid d-daS
, spread, when the baskets revealed
that our ladies know how to pre-
pare an appetising repast, even Il
z Hoover does put a ban on lots OF
things that are good to eat.