The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-09-12
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Old Defenders Day.


Grace on Thursday, Sept. II, and
will continue until Sept 80.
Omer WINNER, of Ligton, Indiana,
has bought the T. s. Baker farm OF
40 acres near Andrews Bridge, for
$4,000.
The ladies of the w. c.. +. U.
realized over $50 by the bake held
on the church lawn Saturday after
noon and evening.
The gross receipts of the recent
carnival held at Leeds for the benefit
of the M. P. church were $500. The
net proceeds will amount to about
5000.
While cunning on the marsh near
Frenchtown last week Albert P.
y Alexander was accidentally shot by
another gunner and painfully in
jured.
State Game Warden LeCompte has
instructed all his deputies through
out the State to arrest all persons
found cunning for squirrels without
license.
BY the figures given out the Gov
ernment spent over a half million
dollars for houses at Aberdeen Tor
Government employees The houses
averaged about $1,000 each.
The September term of Circuit
Court for Cecil County is called to
meet in Elkton ON Monday, Septem-
ber 18th. The criminal calendar is
the lengthiest for several years.
Leslie Camp is thing Of the past,
the grounds, buildings, tents, etc.,
being offered at private sale until
october rs, and if not sold by that
time will be put up at public auction.
The Mt. Pleasant peach farm of.
Charles E. Bryan, located near
Havre de Grace, yielded fifteen car
loads of fine fruit this season, all
picked by Goucher College girls. of
Baltimore.
w. Moore, young men who were re-
Gently convicted of stealing automo-
biles, have been sentenced to twenty
one and nineteen years, respectively,
in the State penitentiary.
The hot wave of the latter part of
last week and fore part of this was
tempered by cool breezes Tuesday
evening, followed by overcast skies
and threatening weather on Wednes-
day, with a thunder gust in the
evening.
The old First National Bank prop
erty, situated on Washington street,
| Havre de Grace, has been purchased
by r. Norris Burns for $4,000.
y The building will be converted into
an office building and is one of the
best locations in the city.
Thirty owners of dogs in Kent
county were fined $40 and costs re-
Gently for failure to pay the new dog
tax. The county officers have been
instructed to rigidly enforce the law.
No such action was ever taken in
Cecil The dog is supreme here.
The public schools of the county
reopened after the summer vacation
on Monday morning. There were
ninety pupils in attendance at Rising
Sun school. The teaching force en-
braces Miss M. Ethel Hall principal,
Miss Lidie Stewart, Miss Mabel Bar
ber and Miss Laura Price, assistants.
Coroo .3ao of tha ovnnunk oP aufo
traffic through our town may be had
from the fact that between the hours
of 8 a. m. and p. m. Sunday last a
record was kept by resident of
South Queen street, and seven hum
dred autos and twenty-seven motor
cycles counted within that period.
Returning autos that were recog-
nized were not counted.
Work on the Rising Sun -Porters
Bridge State road is proceeding
ed excavating on Monday, and con-
crete laying is dragging along at
anything but good pace, delays
being occasioned by frequent break
downs of the mixer and the running
out of material. About 1900 feet
have been laid to date on East Main
street.
The recently organized post of the
American Legion, at Elkton, to be
known as the Ellis p. Mahan Post, in
honor of one of the Elkton boys who
made the supreme sacrifice in
France, has elected the following
officers: Post Commander, Alan D.
Price; Post Vice-Commander, Frank
z. Williams, Jr.: Post Adjutant,
Frank Hurn: Post Finance Oficcr,
Rudolph Taggart; Post Historian,
VIM. J. Bratton.