The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-03-31
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Buds bursting.
Grass growing green.
Gardeners getting busy.

Grass growing green.
Gardeners getting busy.
Some real Spring weather this
week.
Tome School closed last week for
the Spring vacation.
Tomorrow, April 1st, is All FOOLS
Day. Better watch your step.
The Gorsuch slate quarry, in Ian
caster county, is to be reopened.
North East High Schools Second
Year Glass cleared $40 from its ST.
Patrick's Day Social.
The annual congregational meet
ing Of Zion Presbyterian church will
be held Sunday, April 9.
The Hartford County Commission
ers have voted to pay 20 cents an
hour for road labor this year.
The Havre de Grace Hospital is
awarded $4,000 and $4,000 on the
State Budget for 1923 and 1924.
At this time last year trees had
been blooming and the buds and
shoots killed by a sudden change OF
cold.
Krauss & Robinson have opened a
large hardware store in what IS
known as the Falls property in Port
Z Deposit.
The M. E. church of Elkton raised
$613.65 for home missions, and
$112962 for foreign missions dur
ing the past Conference year.
F. J. Pritchard has been chosen
Superintendent and w. r. Hall, AS
sistant for the coming year by Row.
landville M. P. Sunday School.
On account of ill health, Rev.
Warren Burr has rendered his resig-
nation as pastor of the Tome Me-
mortal M. E. Church, Port Deposit.
Dorie Foster, a member of the
Elkton Volunteer Fire Company, is
confined to his home with badly
injured leg, sustained while fighting
a fire at the Victory Sparkler Com
pany, along the Elkton-Singerly
road.
Fire in the Barrens, north of town,
attracted a great deal of attention
Sunday night. A large area was
burned over, and while adjacent
property was threatened, none was
damaged. The reflection could be
seen for miles.
The North East Star reports there
was no contest and no excitement al
the town election last Monday. The
old board put out the only ticFet
containing the names of Sylvester
Preston, who succeeds himself, and
H. R. Shallcross. Only about fifty
voters appeared at the polls.
Being dissatisfied with the will OF
her husband, the late DR.. E. NJ
Crawford, of Cecilton, Mrs. Blanche
Nc. Crawford has renounced the
document, and made demands for
her dover right of one-third of the
estate Under the terms of the will
she was to receive only one-third OF
the interest arising from the estate
Sheriff Kirk Clifford last week tool;
the following prisoners, convicted al
the March term Of Circuit Court for
Cecil County, to the Maryland Peni-
tentiary-Oscar Coates, negro, tc
serve life sentence for the murder
Of his brother-in-law, Fred Moore
Jr., at Cecilton; James Jeter and
Clarence Burris, "a and IS months
respectively, for chicken stealing in
the First district.
Vernon Garvin, of this town, losI
O goodly purchase of groceries Sat
urday night, that were stolen from
his car in Oxford. The groceries hac
been purchased at one of the stores
in that town and placed in his car
parked near the Farmers Bank
When he returned to the car to COM
home, the groceries were missing
This happened in Oxford. Pa.,-"the
biggest little town in the common
wealth"
Numbers of our citizens have
availed themselves of the opportun-
ity to visit the Du Pont conserva-
tories, at Longwood, Sunday after
Moons. and listen to the wonderful
concerts rendered on the magnificent
pipe organ by Mrs. Lynch, of Will
mington. The conservatories are O
revelation. with their mass of beau
tiful flowers and tropical plants
The sight is well worth seeing, as
one is ushered into veritable fairy
land on entering the conservatories