The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-11-05
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL, HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

A census of the Government Res
ervation at Perry Point shows a
total population of 1,13O.
Georgetown, Del, is without coal
and it is claimed that the price OF
the next shipment will be around
$40 a ton.
The Ford roadster belonging to
Mackey and Yerkes, was stolen from
the garage on their warehouse prop
erty in oxford Friday evening.
The ducking season opened On
Monday, 1st inst. The cunning
season for partridges and rabbits
opens on Wednesday next, Novem-
ber 10.
The Board of Education OF Miltoh'
DEL, is endeavoring to purchase
site for their new $150,O00 school,
to be presented to the town py
pierre S. dupont of Wilmington.
Frank Sullivan, George Ross and
Joseuh Driscoll of Philadelphia,
three of Sheriff Seth's "boarders" IN
Elkton Jail escaped from that instl-
tuition ON Saturday and as yet have
not been captured.
Salmon fishing still continues
good at HOLLYWOOD. r. D. Shaup'
who recently caught one weighing
six pounds, ten ounces, last week
landed another fine specimen that
weighed six pounds, twelve ounces.
The life sized oil painting of Hon
T. A. j. Creswell, recently hung IN
the Cecil County Court room, at Elk
ton, was bequeathed to the Elkton
Rar Association by the widow of MIR.
Creswell, and had been in her home
for years.
Martin Bradley, of Wakefield, Pa
met with a peculiar accident few
days ago, when one of the tires on
his truck blew out He was struck
on the leg and so badly injured as
to be compelled to stay in bed for
several days.
At the Union M. E. Church, Ere
mont, Sunday night the mortgage
on the parsonage was destroyed
Rev. Riddington, the pastor, collect
ed enough money to pay the debt.
Special meetings are now in progress
at the church.
William M. Terrell, formerly of
Elkton, a son of the late John M.
Terrell, of that town, and member
of the real estate firm of Terrell &
Little of Washington, D. c.. has
been elected president of the Hamil-
ton Savings Bank of that city.
w. B. Cooney, who has erected
commodious addition in the rear of
the Maryland House, to be devoted
to store and restaurant purposes,
has further improved his present
store room by putting in handsome
large plate glass windows and doors,
in front and on the side.
Both Saturday and Monday eve
nings were celebrated as Halloween
in our town. Fancy and grotesqueiy
costumed mummers were to be seen
ON the streets and visits to homes in
town were made by them. Every
thing passed off quietly and the
evenings were enjoyed alike by the
celebrators and onlookers.
Private Charles r. Speechley,
Camp Holabird soldier, who won
distinction overseas in the United
States Marine Corps, has been SEN
fenced by Judge Harlan to six years
in the Maryland Penitentiary. He
was recently convicted of assaulting
John L. Bailey, Baltimore taxicab
owner, while motoring through Har-
ford county.
Pierre du Pont is having three
large glass houses built on his Long
wood estate, near Kennett Square.
Two of the houses will be used to
raise peach and orange trees and are
twenty-five feet to the square, and
the roofs slant twenty-five feet
higher, so they will shelter trees
should they grow fifty feet high.
The other house will be used as an
opera house, and will be large
enough to seat 400 or 500 persons.
The 270 acre farm at West Not
tingham, known as the John Ewing
farm, and owned by Mrs. Wallace
Steel, has been sold by real estate
agents D. c. Lucas & Sollars, OF
Rising Sun, to ]. G. Coomes, OF
alax, Va, for $4,000. The new
rchaser will take possession in
rch.
he same firm has also sold the
of Mrs. Ellen Tosh embrac-
OF acres, near Colora, to Harst
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