The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTEDI

ElSnIy-ulu0 uldTTldSG llCeuocS WCA
issued at the Clerks Office, in Elkton
last week.
The gross receipts Of the recent
carnival held in North East BY the
newly organized cornet band were
$54O.70.
The Guild Society of the M. E.
church will hold a festival on the
church lawn at Zion Wednesday eve
ming, July %.
The Quarryville Sun, which is
published semi-weekly, has increased
it's subscription rate from $2.e0 to
$3.50 per year.
Alfred l. du Pont, owner of the
Wilmington Morning News, has sold
the publication to other parties who
will conduct it in future.
A number OF the Oxford firemen,
with the auto chemical engine, paid
visit to Rising Sun on Tues lay
evening, booming their carnival.
The brick store property ON Main
street, in the town of North East, Oc-
cupied by Harry Perkins, has been
purchased by him from John Ford.
His crop of early potatoes is prov
ing profitable one for w. G. Cursey,
of near Principle Furnace, as he is
receiving $12.50 barrel for them.
A divorce has been granted by
Cecil Circuit Court to William
Kreps, of Perryville, from his wife,
Lydia B. Kreps, on the grounds OF
desertion.
The Metropolitan store in Aber-
deem, was robbed last week by a
burglar with sweet tooth. The
only thing stolen was one hundred
pounds of candy.
The sum of $352.88 was realized
from the baseball game on the morn
ing of July 5th, between the Fats"
and Leans" for the benefit of the
Havre de Grace Hospital.
The dwelling at Elk Landing, near
Elkton, owned by W. H. Mackall and
tenanted by Joseph Simmons, was
badly damaged by Gre one evening
last week. singerly Fire Co. saved
the dwelling from complete destruc-
tiOn.
A number of our progressive
farmers have been using tractors as
motive power in pulling their bind
ers for the wheat harvest. A farmer
east of town one day last week made
a record of cutting seventeen acret
of wheat with tractor and binder.
Reginald Constable, David Scott,
William J. Davis, Henry A. Warbur :
ton, George Eber brown, DR.. John H.
lamar, VIM. T. Warburton, DR..
Howard Bratton, w. D. Price, George
Ricketts,, Manly prennen and w. H.
Mackall have been elected trustees of
Elkton Academy.
The Carnival held at Perry Point
on July s, 8 and 10, for the benefit
of u. S. Public Health Service Band,
drew large crowds each evening and
was a success in every respect. The
gross receipts were $1,000, and it
is expected about $1,000 will he
cleared.
The Kennett Square Trust Cen
pany has been appointed guardian "f
Horace Jacob Grubb, of kannett
Square, who is in Tittsburg hos
pital, being treated for she'll shock,
sustained in France. Grubb has
been awarded pension OF $50 by
the Government and is not able to
care for his property.
A large force of linemen were on
gagged last week in taking down
cross-arms and salvaging the copper
wire, from the American Telegraph
& Telephone Company line, num-
Der of the wires having been aband
oned. The line at present carries
four cross arms, two arms and
twenty wires having been taken
down.
Thursday, July Is, was st. SWlth
in's Day, on which day il it rains
there will be rain every day follow
ing for forty days, according to th'
ancient saying. The same day als'
marks the beginning of "dog lays
when Sirius, the dog star, being al
rectly overhead at noon, adds III
heat to that of the sun, :hereF!
bringing about the hottest time o
the year, another belief of the ola
timers.
Six immense timbers for derrick
and booms were shipped this weei
the station here to Baltimore
OF the timbers were eighty lee
ength, and of immense weigh'
iring two fiat-cars to hold them
were being transported D.
from Chester to Baltimore, Du
stopped at Rising Sun by star
Engineer Harrison, who rs
to permit such heavy loads y
over the State roads. 4