The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-09-10
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Days growing shorter and nights
longer.
The evenings have decidedly fall
GOODNESS.
Weather prophets predict dry
and hot September.
Sugar is coming down, and is now
selling at II cents pound in our
stores.
The wettest season in 100 years, is
what the Weather Bureau tells us OF
this summer.
DR.. Robert Watt will preach in
Sylmar M. E. church Sunday after
noon at 2:3O o'clock.
At the dinner served by the ladies
of Earleville M. E. Church at the sale
of ]. B. Cook, the sum of $50 was
cleared.
The season for shooting reed and
rail birds opened September l, dhd
is the only open season for game
until November lO.
The Bender Hotel property in Port
Deposit was sold last week by James
F. Evans, Esq, Trustee, to Samuel
Winchester, for $1425.
Kennard Blake of North East was
the lucky winner of the Buick auto
donated by the Elkton Firemen, at
their recent successful carnival.
William C. Logan, of Wilmington,
has purchased the late DR.. L. II.
Worrell property in North East and
will make the latter place his tuture
home.
The Board of Education of Cecil
county has appointed Miss Rebecca
B. Chiswell to the vacant scholarship
at St. Mary's Female Seminary, st.
Mary's county.
The carnival given by the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad Athletic Association
at Perryville, came to close on
Wednesday night of last week with a
net profit of 1880.
The Fall races of the Harford
Agricultural and Breeders Associa-
ZION, which begin September 18th
and end September 3Oth, will be held
on the Havre de Grace track.
An eagle, measuring seven feet
three inches from tip to tip, was shot
To lr
aged 15 years, of near Fairmount,
Little Britain Township. The bird
will be mounted.
While bathing in the Chesapeake
& Delaware Canal, Harry j. Woods,
38 years old, of Chester, Pa, was
drowned He is survived by widow
and four children, the eldest being
the IL year old boy.
Given hearing on the charge OF
illegal train riding on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, Clarence Johnson
and Frank Booth, both of Norfolk
Va, were each sentenced to 80 days
in the county Jail at Elkton.
The Singerly Fire Company has
purchased and expect delivery in a
short time of their new Ahrens-Fox
SOO-gallon pumping engine and hose
carrier, for which they paid $l2,30O.
The apparatus is equipped with twin
double, multiplex piston pumping
unit.
Defenders Day, September 18th
falling on Sunday, Monday the 18th
will be observed as a legal holiday
by the banks in Rising Sun and by
other banks in the County. They
will not be open for business on thai
date.
Mrs. Mary Keilholtz, of this town
has a large night-blooming cactus
that put forth two beautiful blooms
on Friday night last. The plant wa
in a shaded place and the blooms re-
tanned their beauty and freshness
most of morning on Saturday, ano
were sight to see.
Everett Donache left at the Mid
lanQ OlilCC wv AANNJ ~ W. -
broken from a cherry tree i'll lht
yard of his father, j. d. Donaohe, IL
this town, with several blooms ON 1t
The tree bore a good crop of cherries
this year and has put forth severa
blossoms second time.
During August there was neaV!
rain on 16 days and light ram OF
several others. The rainfall 10
June was S.25 inches; July, 4.s4 IN
ches; for August, 9.47 inches; a tota
of 22.66 inches for the three months
The nearest approach to this wa
22.5 inches in 1917, over hundred
years ago. In 1905 it reached zl.S'
inches, and in 1911 the fall wa
21.SB inches These were the onl,
-. - -. ewnaa1 On inahoS