The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-02-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


day on Saturday last. Washington $
Birthday.
Quite a number of our residents
attended the auto show in Baillmore
last week.
camp Of the Patriotic Order
Con. of America has been instituted
at Rising Sun with 81 charter mem
bers.
Corporal Carroll Reynolds now IN
France. has sent his father, !. =.
REYNOLDS, of near Port Deposit q
German helmet.
Dr Dare and family wish to return
+hanks to their friends for coming
~ the rescue, and extinguishing the
aro In their home on the 18th.
p + Brooks, representing the
Income Tax Department, will be IN
Rising Sun March and to assis'
those desiring information on tnis
subject.
private Bradford Ferry, Company
r. 115th Infantry, son OF MT. anu
Mrs. Harry Ferry, of Elkton, mas
been awarded the Distinguished SGT
vice Cross for extraordinary nero
ism at the front.
John Rex, Jr., Of near Elkton, mas
been appointed to the United ota.es
naval Academy, Annapolis, ana
THOMAS Cloward, of Port Deposit
for cadetship at the West foine
Military Academy.
The property Of the late William
&. Fisher, near Krauss Crossing anu
embracing " acres of land win
imnrovements. was sold at trustees
sale on Feb. 81 to Harry Ramsey o.
Colora, for $1,000.
More crushed stone was placed
mon pigeon Hill, west OF town. TINS
week. as it was almost impossiDie
for autos to get up the hill on ac-
count of the slippery mud Witn
which it is covered.
Rev. John M. Fithian. pastor OF
Rrookline M. e. Church, Phiiadei-
mia will be spiritual director at the
annual campmeeting at Leslie, THIS
county. which will open Saturday
July 26, and close August 10.
George Bender, colored, Of Havre
de- Grace, arrested for violating the
local option law, was convicted pc
fore a Jury in the Circuit Court for
Hartford County last week, and sem
fenced to six months in the House
of Correction.
Emma Startt, the young woman
accused of abandoning her infant IN
a woods near Cecilton, about Jann-
arv is. was arrested in Chester
few DAYS ago. She agreed to come
to Cecil county without requisition'
and is now in Elkton jail.
The choir of James M. E. Church
will give musical in the public hail.
Rising Sun, Md, Thursday evening,
March 18th. The proceeds are
for the Improvement Fund of the
M e. church. Tickets will be on
sale at Buffington's store March 7th.
John H. Terrell, former county
treasurer, has announced his candi-
dacy for the office of Clerk of the
Circuit Court and Jacob H. Reyn-
olds, former deputy sheriff, is in the
field for the nomination for sherir
of Cecil county at the coming
primaries.
Roy Ferguson, Of Steubensville,
Ohio, has been appointed by the
Board of Education as an assistant
at the Chesapeake City High School,
his subjects being French and Eng
lish. He succeeds Miss Grace W..
Price, of Elkton, who resigned on
account Of pressure of other duties.
Robert v. Cooling, aged IS years,
has been held under $4,000 bail,
charged with murderously assaulting
C. D. Baker, an aged farmer living
alone near Newark, Del. Cooling
confessed that he knocked the old
man unconscious with the handle of
a fork on the night of February 10,
robbed him of $50 and left him for
dead.
The Delicatessen Sale held Satur-
day afternoon and evening in the
church parlors by the Ladies Aid
and Women's Bible Glass proved tc
be a very popular and literally
patronized affair. There was a
splendid array of tasty things, in
Guiding pies, cakes. rolls, salads.
preserves, jeliies, ETC., etc., to tempt
buyers, and such thriving business
was done in the afternoon as to
scarcely leave any wares to dispose
of in the evening, when the tables
were soon cleared of the remaining
good things. The receipts were