The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-08-08
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

race horses passed through town on
Monday afternoon.
The recent supper given by the
ladies of Nottingham, Pa, Prespy-
terian church netted $120.
oxford Chautauqua will be held
from Thursday, August 2S to We'd
nesday, September 8 inclusive.
Singerly Fire Company of Elkton,
is planning to hold carnival in that
town. the first week in September.
Rawlingsville, Pa, camp opened
ON Tuesday, August 5, for a ten days
religious meeting. There are l54
tents on the grounds.
The Ninth District Auxiliary of
! Union Hospital will hold "Carnivai
of the Nations" on Calvert High
School grounds on Friday evening
August 8.
The I. o. o. F.. had its birth IN
Maryland 100 years ago The Order
will celebrate by having a centenary
jollification in Baltimore near the
middle of September.
The directors of the Lancaster
oxford & Southern railroad, Locally
known as the "Peachy,," have decld-
ed to sell the road as it cannet De
made to pay expenses.
The first corporation scholarship
in the Freshman class at HaverIord
College, which is worth $500 year,
has been won by Edward 3. Havl-
land, of Tome Institute.
The festival held on Saturday eve
ming by members of Rising sun base
ball team drew large crowd ana
was literally patronized. The gross
receipts were about $206.
The Bibb Stove foundry at Port
Deposit, which has been closed since
the first of June on account OF some
trouble between two members OF the
firm, has opened again for work.
Trolley fares on the wilmington
West Chester and Kennett trolley
have been advanced to Z cents. Man
ager B. F.. Wickersham says the IN
crease was necessary to meet ex-
penses.
The annual carnival under the
auspices of the trustees OF Leeds M
p. Church, will be held wednesday
and Thursday evenings, August ~
and 2S, in the grove adjoining the
church. Everyone is invited.
A truck load of furniture and
fixtures for the new banking and
trust company to be opened in THIS
town, was unloaded on the property
Monday evening. No date has been
\ set for the opening of the institution
as the concrete vault has not ye'
been constructed.
Y Col. Harry D. Hanway has sold his
Kenmore Farm, in Hartford county
to Robert H. Heigh, of Bel Air. II
is understood the farm, which ad,
Joins Bel Air and the Inn property, is
to be converted into a stock farm
where blooded horses will be breo
and raised for the turf.
There are any number OF dogs II
this borough that are a nuisance az
nights. They bark all night, making
sleep an impossibility. AS dog tai
is due, we wonder how many OF these
useless ours have had their license
tags purchased, and why those mo-
slegalized" to roam the town are no
killed.
A. S. Turner & Son, of Betterton
is the first local concern on the East
ern Shore to accept the agency of al
airplane, which sells at $4,000. l
is a Canadian plane with an Ameri
can engine. Expert aviators nav
been engaged to instruct the pur
chasers who desire to travel through
the air.
Henry Nuese, German, who wa
recently employed by Walter Ken
dali of Kent county. has sent seveIa
letters to his former employs
threatening his life if he ever come
to Baltimore. Some of the letter
are in possession of Sherif Car er
who will take up the matter with tn
proper authorities. Nuese claim
(. that Mr.. Kendall did not pay HIN
what he promised.
No progress is being made by tn
State road contractor toward com
pletion of our main street, which ha
been torn up from end to end TO
more than a month, and is sea o
mud and frog ponds with every rain
being all but impossible. There !
no prospect at all of the early layini
of concrete as it will take days Q
N hot sun before East Main street dry
lNsufficiently for sub-grading, an
Athere is no concrete equipment her
yet. even if the sub-grading wer
done.