The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-03-14
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
a During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Monday next, 18th inst, is St.
Patrick's Day.
George Garvin has sold his farm
at Rock Springs to a Virginia pur
chaser for $1,000.
Scott Wilson is erecting a two
story 2Sx40 it. garage in the rear OF
his plumbing establishment.
The North East Star reports the
first herring caught by fisherman
of that town on Tuesday of last
week.
The double residence ON West
High street, Elkton, owned by Robt.
B. Frazer, has been bought by S.
Arden Carr, for $4,000.
Miss Anna Garvin, of Rock
Springs, will move to Vinegar Hill
and take possession of the store
property at that place.
w. Lewis Terry, for twenty-eight
years in charge of the Oxford pas.
senger station has been notified that
after March 18th, his position will
be abolishe4.
Rising Sun String Orchestra re-
ceived its trap drum equipment thi
week. The orchestra will play at
the moving picture show on Satur-
day evening, March Is.
The Elkton Nest, Order of Owls,
has withdrawn from the Home Nest
and the members have organized a
new order, The Maryland Beneficial
Association, Incorporated.
James Goodyear and wife, of Red
Hill, near Elkton, were arrested last
week charged with stealing chickens
from James Mitchell. The chickens
were found in their possession.
The board of governors of Wash
ington College, Chestertown, has
elected Lieutenant Clarence Gould,
United States Army, as president,
succeeding DIR. I. w. Cain, resigned.
Announcement is made OF the
marriage on February % of Miss
Arrietta Cruikshank, of the lower
section of Cecil county, to Jesse E.
ireland, cashier of the Galena Ma
tional Bank.
The Rivers and Harbors bill as
finally passed by Congress and ap-
proved by the President, appropri-
ates $3,00O,O00 for the acquisition
and improvement of the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal.
The Robert Love property, near
Colora, has been purchased for
$3.50 by John Liddell. of Hartford
county, who operates the tomato
cannery at Colora. Mr.. Liddell and
family will move to Colora.
A committee of young men have
issued invitations for St. Patrick's
Dance to be held in the public hall,
Rising Sun on Monday evening, 18th
inst. Music will be furnished by
Gault's Orchestra, of Baltimore.
Striking his hand against a cir
cular saw, Grover Lodge, an en-
ployee on the farm of William II.
Sprinkle, near Elkton, had the four
fingers on his left hand badly cut,
the little finger being almost
severed.
The Chesapeake City Volunteer
Fire Company. No. 1, Incorporated,
is in receipt of a generous check
from The. Scott Fertilizer Company
in appreciation of the service rem
dered at the fire which DESTROYED
the plant.
The Home Economics Club Will
meet in Calvert Agricultural liign
School Wednesday, March 18th, at
2p. m. An expert on poultry will
address the Club. All women IN
Sterested in poultry raising are in
yited to attend this meeting.
IT. X. Mcdowell has sold his 81 "
acre farm. south OF Rising Sun. on
the Rising Sun-Farmington pike to
william E. Umberger, of Harford
county; for $4,000, possession given
April 1. The property is conyen-
iently located and is one OF the
desirable farms in our neighborhood.
The Jubilee Minstrels, home
talent organization from Kennett
Square, played TO crowded house
here ON Thursday evening OF last
week. The boys seemed to lack
pep and the audience was very
sparing with its applause. TINS
orchestra carried furnished splendid
music and some OF the jokes cracked
at the expense of local people were
appreciated, but on the whole the
show did not take well. Sale OF
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