The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-04-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


Fruit trees blooming.
Everybody catching the clean up
spirit.
Grass getting ready for the lawn
mower.
Kicked by horse Benjamin Savin,
of Warwick, suffered broken leg.
Levi G. Eckert has embarked in
the storekeeping business at Oak
Hill, Pa.
Elkton Banking and Trust Co.
has declared semi-annual dividend
of per cent, payable May /.
The fish horn was heard again
this week. But think of the lowly
herring at so cents per dozen.
Friday, April 18th, being legal
holiday, Good Friday, the National
+, Bank of Rising Sun will not be open
for business on that date.
Elkton ice plant has been sold by
Davis & Vinsinger to M. P. Newton
of Woodstown, N. j., who will
operate it in connection with an ice
cream business.
The Rising Sun Packing Company
advertises for corn in this issue,
giving dates for planting and price
to be paid. The ad. will be found
ON the last page.
DR.. Daniel Bratton, Of Eikton.
who for the past s months has been
in France with the u S. Dental
Corps, has been promoted FROM first
lieutenant to captain.
Pennsylvania State Highway Com
mission will bear the expense of ex-
tending Route 131 through the
town of Oxford. South Third street
will be concreted to width OF
eighteen feet.
James T. Anthony, State Organi-
ger, will give talk at the regular
meeting of Cecil Grange, No. 3,
Calvert, on Thursday evening, April
IT, when all members are requested
to be present.
The Calvert Agricultural High
School Alumni Association will hold
a business meeting in the school
building Monday evening, April IA
All members please attend
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While ON the way to Lancaster in
their auto on Saturday, March go,
during the hurricane that prevailed,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Bomberger, OF
White Rock, had the top torn COM
pletely off of their machine by the
wind.
The Liberty Grove Community
Club will give play entitled THE
Old Maids Convention" in the
school house Thursday evening
April IT, at 8 o'clock If stormy
the next night. Admission 25 and
15 cents.
S. r. Andrews, of Elkton. has
been appointed by Governor Har-
rington a delegate to represent
Maryland at the annual convention
Of the U. S. Good Roads Association
which meets on April IA, at Mineral
Wells, Texas.
Elkton base ball club has organ
lied for the season with Fred II
LETTER, president; VIM. C. Feehley
yiee-president; Murray Bruce, treas.
urer; Howard Green, secretary;
Arnold Cooke. manager; D. J.
Ayerst, assistant manager.
The team of Melvin Tosh, hitched
here in town Saturday night, was
driven off about half-past eight
O'Clock by candidate for the peni-
tentiary who left it tied to tele-
phone pole near Calvert. where il
was later found and brought home
after a general search had been in
stituted. No action has been taken
as yet against the guilty party.
Two members of the crew of the
West Chester local freight were sent
to Jail and several others are under
surveillance charged with stealing
goods from the freight cars. Adam
Rissinger. fiagman. and Wilhanl
Brown, brakeman, were those ar
rested and it is stated that several
hundreds of dollars worth OF wear
ing apparel was found in the Ris,
singer home.
Some unknow person set FIRE to
the Barrens, near what is locally
known as the Gray Horse" Church
near Cecil Paper Mill, on Thursday
morning last and the fire burned all
that day and night. spreading over
an area several miles in extent. It Is
the practice of some one to fire the
'Barrens" every spring in order
that underground may be cleared
from this unused land and free