The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

festival on the church lawn, Aug. 4.
The B. C. Bibb stove foundry, in
Port Deposit, has shut down Tor an
indefinite period.
scarcity of soft shell crabs is re-
ported this season in the tributaries
Of the Chesapeake bay.
Rose Bank Sunday school will
picnic with Zion and Ebenezer
schools. at Leslie Camp, on Aug. IL.
The Epworth League of Mt. Pleas
ant M. E. church will hold festival
at the church on Wednesday eve'
July %.
The C. Albert Beiswanger prop
erty in Chesapeake City was sold Dy
Omar D. Crothers, Esq, Assignee 10
Frank P. Conrey, for $4,000.
A. B. Keen, of this town, has the
record for roasting ears this season,
having pulled the first from his gar
den on Thursday of last week.
plant has been awarded by the Elk
ton Town Council to the Maryland
water and Softener Co., of Phlladei-
phia.
The gross receipts from the recent
carnival held in Chesapeake CITY for
the benefit of the Fire Company were
$4,000. The net receipts were over
$4,000.
New wheat has been coming to our
warehouses fast, and two cars were
loaded here for shipment this week.
The wheat is bringing $3.50 per
bushel.
The 6OO-acre farm of the late u
Oldham Massey, located in Second
district. has been bought by D.
Groome Steele, of Chesapeake Cl'y'
at private sale.
a festival will be held by the
ladies of Porters Grove M. +. chui Gu
wednesday evening, July 20. IL
stormy above date, festival Will De
held following eVeniH6.
Mrs. Adelia M. Mclaughlin, OF
wilmington, DEL, has accepted the
superintendency of Union Hospltai
Elkton. until the directors appoint
nermanent successor to Mrs. Austln'
resigned
Work on the new garage OF g. H.
Krauss, on West Main street, is pelns
uushed with vigor. The frame Was
erected this week and is being weatn-
erhoarded. The building is 56x6o
feet, one story.
Struck by lightning on the AFTER
noon of July IA, the large barn Oh
the Terrill farm, near Hensel' Ian
caster county, owned by Dr. A. n
stubbs. was burned to the ground
together with contents.
The Elkton Banking and Trust
Company, having offered oA per
cent interest on the county checking
account. the Cecil County Commls-
sioners have ordered all county
funds placed with that bank.
Mt. Pleasant M. e. Sunday school
will hold their annual excursion "
Tolchester on Friday, Aug. l3. TINS
is an opportunity for nice san gown
the bay The boat will wait at FoF'
Deposit for the morning tram Oh 'ne
date OF the excursion,
handsome monument Is Delht
prepared at the Elkton Marpie
Works. to be erected in Elkton Gem
etery to the memory OF Ellis
Mahan, the only Elkton hoy Mh'
lost his life in action in France. Ihs
deceased was a member OF Company
E, 115th Infantry.
The tax rate of the town OF Elk
ton has been increased 40 cents over
that of last year, and is 81 on the
500 for the year 1902 me IN
creased rate is due to Improvement
being made in the construction o
sanitary sewers and the purchase D!
the town of the Maryland Wate'
Company.
Profting by the experience OF las
wear. when rain almost every day tol
weeks prevented many of our tarm
ers getting their wheat hauled IRON
the fields before it was practloaii!
ruined, quite number IN TINS ~
cality threshed at the earliest pos
sibie time after cutting. The repor
from those who have threshed IS ina
the crop is a good one.
" Homer Reynolds, son OF Ell 1
Reynolds of this town, has a wireless
receiving station fitted up on TN
third floor of his fathers residence
and picks up the news that is nasne'
about. On Wednesday evening
among the messages he received wa
the result of the yacht race wnel
the American defender, the Resoiute
defeated Shamrock Nv by sever
minutes and one second.