The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-09-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
September!
Monday Ia Labor Day.

Monday is Labor Day.
public schools open Tuesday next.
Tho r;remen's Carnival at North
East will be held September 70 ~
inclusive.
Tho chautauqua at Oxford opens
ON Friday afternoon, Sept 4 "nN
closes on Sept. z.
The Delaware State Fair Will De
held at Elsmere on September y o.
s, Z and g, day only.
Edwin D. Carhart, of Zion. mas
heen elected a Director OF the va
tional Bank of Rising Sun.
work on the new theatre to De
erected in Elkton for the william
H. Pierce Amusement Co., mas
begun.
Government Inspector in charge
reports hog cholera to exist on the
premises Of Thomas B.. Dorsey, near
Warwick.
Monday, September 4th, being
Labor Day regular holiday tne
Banks in Rising Sun will not pc
open on that date.
Caesar Rodney Camp for Boy
Scouts located at Red Point, along
North East river. closed on TUESDAY
The camp this year was most sue
cessful one.
The State Tax Commission has
appointed Murray J. Ewing, OF near
calvert, Supervisor of Assessments
for this county. vice I. Heister Hess
of Elkton, deceased.
On the grounds OF desertion, MIS-
Ethel NJ. Manning, OF North East
has docketed suit for divorce from
her husband, ]. Reeder Manning, IN
the Circuit Court for Cecil County
while the family of w. w. Man
love. of near Cecilton, was temper
arilv absent the farm was visited Dy
thieves, who broke open the mea'
house and carried off all the mea
therein.
The cunning season opens Iol
sonirrels. doves, rail birds and reec
birds, on Friday, September !. Ine
bag limit is 25 day on squirrels
and doves. and SO day on rail ane
reed birds.
The Cecil Hotel property IN Norti
East was sold last week at the Cour'
House door in Elkton by Joshua
Clayton, Esq, Attorney. to Mrs
Mary e. Gilbert, widow of the late
proprietor, for $500.
The Deibert Barge Building Go
Is to resume operations at theil
plant on Furnace Wharf, in Havr'
de Grace. to complete the unfinish
ed barge upon which work wal
STONED in March of this year.
A large auto-truck loaded will
several hundred baskets of peaches
broke through Cooper's bridge
along the Perryville-Elkton Stat'
road early on one morning las
week. causing all traffic to detoul
for several hours.
Three men were taken on a Doa
at Chesapeake City Friday morning
ais suspects in connection with TN
Norris-murder in Baltimore. Inc!
were held at the county jail at Elk
ton until they had been viewe'
<hv a baltimore detective, and wer'
later released.
The body of Lemon Pitt, aged ~
Years. a negro deck hand on tn
freight steamer Ericsson" of tn
Philadelphia & Baltimore SteamDoa
Company, was found floating nea
Reybold's wharf, Elk river. las
week. He fell overheard from tn
steamer and was drowned.
The work of building the ecu
off" in the Elkton-Perryville Stat
road. so as to eliminate the sharl
curye at Charlestown, also the ne
cessity of crossing the two danger
GUS overhead railroad bridges o.
either side of that town. is beinl
pushed by the contractors.
Robert C. Thackery has institutes
In the Circuit Court for Cecil Count
a suit for divorce by Mrs. Eleanor
snowden from her husband. Sol
omon G. Snowden. The coupi
were married in Caroline county
October 1S, 1904. The plaintil
asks for the custody of the nv
children.
Leslie owens. of Perryivlle. wh
has been placed on the retired lis
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany with a pension, was for owe
fifty years car inspector on tn
Maryland Division. He Is one Q
four retired employees OF the com
pany who for over a half centur'
were in the employ Of the company