The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-04-07
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Trailing arbutus in bloom.

,ITallInk dIUutU0 AA UAOOAs
MARYLAND M. p. Conference met
in Chestertown Wednesday, April D.
June 8 to 9, inclusive, have been
selected as the dates for Elkton
ChautauQua.
The w. c.. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Ella Hunt on Thursday after
noon, April 13, at $3.50 o'clock.
Leroy Foard has purchased the
dwelling of the late Anna B. Dun
ham, in Chesapeake City, for $267S.
The store property at Wrightsdale,
pa. has been purchased by Fitz and
Greabill, who have taken possession.
Reese George has been elect
ed Superintendent OF the Sunday
school at Jones Chapel, Upper Elk
Neck,
The general store business of VIM.
Thornton, in Warwick, has been
purchased by Jesse Vfnyard, of Mid
dletown, Del.
state Game Warden Lee DeCompte
has sent IS young rabbits into Cecii
county for distribution for propaga-
tion purposes.
The postoffice at Chesapeake City
was entered through a window Mon
day night, and about SIS worth OF
stamps stolen.
Friday, April IA, being legal
holiday, Good Friday, the banks OF
Rising Sun will not be open for
business on that day.
The Martins have arrived and are
looking up their summer homes
having the pesky and ever-present
sparrow to dispossess.
The ladies of the Town Improve
ment Association of Chestertown are
{ planning to plant shade trees an the
streets Of that town this spring.
A Woman's Club has been organ
lied in Warwick with Mrs. B. s.
Hall, president: Mrs. G. w. Pierce
secretary, and Miss Nellie Bishop
treasurer.
Large numbers Of shad are being
caught down the bay. One steamer
brought up to Baltimore thirty tons
of fish in one day from the Kappa
hammock River.
A supper will be served in the
chapel at West Nottingham, in
charge OF the Christian Endeavor
on Friday evening, April 13, from B
to s o'clock. Price, S5 cents.
Textile mill owners from New
England have been looking over the
vacant mill property at Elk Mills
owned by w. R. Baldwin, with
view of establishing textile mil
there.
Superintendent of Schools Hugh
w. Caldwell announces that Rally
Day for colored schools of this coun'
ty will be observed in Elkton or
May 9 and of the white schools on
May 26.
One of our exchanges remarks
that 1t is garden making time; keeI
your chickens home lest they ammo,
your neighbors, and cause hard feel
ings. One active old hen can cause
a feud that may last lifetime.
Raymond w. Gillespie Of Perry
vile was sentenced to one year ir
Jail by Magistrate Schroeder, in Bal
timore, on the charge of assaultinf
Louise Holland in a moving picture
theatre, in that city, last Saturday
The Farmers Educational and Co
operative Union, Local No. 1, will
meet in the school house in Risins
Sun, Wednesday evening. April IL
at 1880 P. M. Mr.. F. M. Brunt, O
the Virginia Division Farmers
Union, will be present.
Rising Sun High School defeated
West Nottingham Academy OF
Thursday afternoon in game play
ed on the High School grounds. Th'
game was stopped in the Sixth in
ming by rain. The score was r. 5
High School 10. w. N. Academy 8.
John A. McSparran, Master o
Pennsylvania State Grange, assisted
in the initiation of class of twenty
three Changers in the first and sec
ond degrees at the meeting of tn
Grange at Fremont, Chester county
on Tuesday evening of last week.
The three-act comedy drama
safety First" presented in tn
public hall here by local talent OF
Thursday evening of this week. TO
benefit of church building fund
will be reproduced on Monday eve
ming, April 10. under auspices o
Rising Sun Base Ball team.