The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-08-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

EiktOn ANNUAL OAdutauHua OP~
On Wednesday, August 20.
The annual carnival of Susquehanna
Hose Company, Of Havre de Grace, will
be held September % to 20.
The Oxford Friends Meeting has col
lected 500 as contribution for Cover
nor Pinchot's Enforcement Fund.
Keep after that race-track bunch who
intend "come back" in Cecil county.
You ran them out once, do it again.
The. catalogues for the Cecil county
State Fair to be held near Elkton, on
September II, IL, 1S, IA and 18th, have
been issued.
Wednesday S gentle rain helped wori-
derfully, as dry weather has been a
chronic complaint most of the simmer,
in this section.
A festival will be held Friday even
ing August "a, on the Calvert High
School grounds by the Ladies Aid So
ciety of Calvert M. E. Church.
Uncertainty Of the coal supply has
led ]. Howard Thompson, of Kennett
Square, to install an oil burning system
for heating his large greenhouses.
The annual picnic of Rising Sun M.
E. Sunday School was held Thursday
Of this week, at Charlie stown, and
everyone enjoyed fine days ontlng.
The seventy-fifth annual communica-
ton of the Most Worshipful Grand
Lodge. Colored Masons, Of Maryland,
was held in Havre de Grace on Monday
and Tuesday.
Murray Ewing, Supervisor of Assess
ments for Cecil county, has been ap-
pointed business manager OF the Cecil
Whig Publishing Co., Elkton.
The carnival held by Elk Mills Athlet-
ic Association was financial success.
Clifford Gregson, of near Elk Mills, was
awarded the Chevrolet coupe.
A meeting was held in the G. A. R..
hall. North East, on Wednesday
evening, for the purpose of organizing
a Farmers Club for the Fifth district.
The Cecil Democrat, published at
Elkton, has just installed linotype in
its mechanical department, to enable it
to do away with the setting of type by
hand.
The Democratic State Convention to
complete the nomination of State Can
didates will be held in the Auditorium
Theatre, Baltimore, on Thursday, Sep
tember 20, at IL o'clock a. m.
: Monday, August 20, was the last day
for filing with the Supervisors Of Elec-
tions, certificates of candidates seeking
nominations for the various offices at
the primaries on September 10.
A timely reminder from one OF our
county papers: Learn for sure how
all legislative candidates stand on the
moral questions of the day as they af-
feet this county, and vote accordingly.
AT a recent meeting OF, the Woman's S
Club, of Elkton, strong resolutions
were passed condemning the race
track. whose return to Cecil county
is proposed by a so-called Agricultural
Society,
The Primaries coming on Monday,
September 10, September will be
what is known as Preliminary Regis
tration Day. Other days for registra-
tion will be Tuesdays, October 2 and
October 9.
Prof Willard Collins, formerly prin-
cipal of the High School at Hampstead,
Md, has been appointed by the Cecil
county School Board, principal of the
Cecil County Agricultural High School,
Calvert, for the ensuing year.
Managers Of Union Hospital, Elkton,
have been notified by Miss Agnes Nc
sherry, of BALTIC. recently chosen sue
cessor to Miss Addie v. Farwen, its
Superintendent, after August 12 that
she is unable to accept the appoint
ment.
Charles Davis, % years old, of New
ark, Dell, was drowned Wednesday
afternoon of last week, at Holloway
Beach, Charlestown, as result OF an
attack Of cramps while in bathing. He
had been a soldier inlthe worlds war.
The body was recovered.
Under the auspices of Cecil Klan No.
4, Perryville, gigantic gathering OF
Klansmen from this section of the state
and Delaware took place at North East
ON Friday evening. A number OF our
residents attended the spectacular
fery cross initiation ceremonies and
listened to the public address de-
Hvered.