The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-10-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The ducking season will open on
wednesday next, November !.
Ravival services will begin IN
Ebenezer M. e. Church next Sunday
evening.
thanksgiving day this year falls
on the last day of November, Thurs
day, the 30th.
The net receipts of the carnival
held in Havre de Grace Sept. 23-So'
by the firemen of that town, am
ounted to $4,O30.O4.
Mrs. Carrie Cameron has succeed
ed Mrs. j. Leo Moore, resigned, as
Secretary Of the Fifth District
Union Hospital Auxiliary.
Rev. Robert Watt, D. D., Will
preach the morning sermon at Ris-
ing Sun M. E. Church, Sunday.
Temperance Sunday will be observ-
ed in the Sabbath school.
The Young Peoples Society OIL
sylmar Methodist church will hcad
Halloween social at the home OF
Mr.. Walter Fox, on Friday evening
october 27.
The johnson -four mill. in North
East. has been sold to Mr.. Housed OIL
Wilmington, who will add an cleo
trio metal plating plant to the pres
ent business.
e. L. Krentz, who has been con-
ducting a general store at Lombard,
has purchased the store OF M. y.
Thompson, at Fair Hill, which he
will manage.
Skaters began work on the ROOT OF
the new M. E. church Wednesday
morning. 1t is expected it will re-
quire about ten days for the two
men to lay the slate.
The Havre de Grace Ledger says
bowling tournament is to be ar
ranged between teams from Havre
de Grace, Bel Air, Aberdeen, Elk
ton, Rising Sun and Newark.
Five hundred thousand bluegills
have been planted in the Conestoga,
the Mill and the Pequea creek by
members of the Lancaster County
Game and Fish Association.
THE MIDLAND JOURNAL has
been favored with bouquet Of
beautiful chrysanthemums, grown
by F. e. Baker, of this town. and
we wish to express our thanks for
the flowers.
Work on the new $4,000 home
of the Aetna Hose, Hook and Lad
der Co., in Newark, Del, is being
rushed to completion. Most of the
stone work is done and the building
is now being finished inside.
The Hartford Motor Corporation,
of Havre de- Grace, has been incor-
porated in Bel Air. The capital
stock is fixed at $4,000, to be di-
yided into common and preferred
classes. The resident manager wilt
be Clarence Deibert.
The Halloween Social arranged
TO be held by the Epworth League
in the public hall, Rising Sun, on
Thursday evening Of this week, has
been postponed until Friday eve
ming. October 81. Grand march at
s o'clock. Everybody welcome.
The Patriotic Order, Sons OF
America have placed an electric
light over the entrance to the public
hall. The light is enclosed in a
large porcelain globe lettered with
the initials of the Order and the
words "Third Floor" where the
lodge room is located.
Big preparations are being made
in Elkton for the Halloween parade
and celebration. Over $500 worth
Of prizes, including decorative and
useful articles, have been secured
from the merchants of Elkton ana
also from business men Of Whining
ton. that will be awarded for best
costumes, floats. etc.
Bear in mind tickets for the
course of six entertainments, ar
ranged to be given this fall and win
ter in the public hall, Rising Sun,
will be placed on sale NJ DuhihsIoh
Thursday morning, Nov. Q. at 8
o'clock. The talent engaged for the
entertainment is all high grade
Course tickets will sell for the same
as last year, $1.75.
"A real estate transaction of inter-
est in our town, that was effected
this week. was the sale OF the Mary
7 land House hotel property by w. b
s Cooney to Mrs. OFT. of Elkton. The
restaurant and dining room at the
stand have been conducted for some
months past by Dunbar Bros, Mrs
Gerald Dunbar being daughter ol
the new owner of the property
The transaction includes the ex'
change of two residence properties
owned by Mrs. OFT, in Elkton.