The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-08-31
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Hoo cholera is reported on the prem
ises Of Reed H. Kirk, near Betnei.
Eleven tickets were sold at this sta
t;on Thursday morning for the Atlantic
City excursion.
Flkton and Oxford Chautauquas
onened on Wednesday for seven days
Of entertainment.
Sugar has taken another nan cent
drop. and is selling at 81 cents a
pound in our town.
The oath annual tournament OF
Rising Sun Gun Club will be held mere
ON Wednesday, September 70.
Black Barren Fair will be bigger and
hotter than ever this year, the dates OF
which are Thursday and Friday, Sept
and7.
The public schools OF the county open
Tuesday next, September 4, and there
IS many small boy who is not tlckied
over it.
II is said Kennett Square will have
direct truck line to New York this VIM
for for the convenience OF the mush-
room growers.
Monday, September 3rd, Labor Day,
being legal holiday, the banks IN
Rising Sun will not be open for ousl-
ness on that date. i.
The festival held on Friday and Sat
urday nights by the Fire Company OF q
ouarrvville, Pa, brought in gross re-
ceipts Of over SO, ,OOO.00
The Thirty. ninth Re-Union OF the So
c;etv of the 124th Regiment Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers will be held in West
Chester, Saturday, Sept. 18th.
The "White Marsh" farm, located
near Earleville, in Cecil County,
Ma and containing 322 acres, has
heen purchased for $16,O 900 by James E.
Woodall, Jr., of Georgetown, Del.
The board of Education for this
county, has ordered the school building l!
At Andora. be used for the Fourth dis
trict High School, until the new school
building at Providence Corner, is COM
plete.
The Ku Klux meeting scheduled for
Monday evening, in this town, had to
he postponed until future date. The
Klon was refused rental OF the hall and
p,anned to hold the meeting on the ball
Grounds, but rain interferred.
w n Karas, of PerryvilIe has been
awarded damages against the firm OF
Goedke and Horton, of Baltimore, be-
cause Of damage done to his automobile
when the truck of the firm ran into his
car breaking the fender and hub cap.
P;s;no Sun ball team has arranged a
series Of three games with Embrevilie,
the first contest to be played here on
saturday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Emhreyille has good team OF ball
players and will make the local team
hustle to beat them.
MIRO Thomas B. Miller, of Cherry
unl wife of the president OF the Ma
+;ora, Rank of Elkton, was painfully in
;,red when she was thrown from a
buccy in which she was riding in
cherry Hill, when her horse became
frightened and bolted.
Rev. p. L. Donaghy, rector OF 81.
rn,s Church, Middletown, has been
;nv;ted to become rector Of St. Thomas
En;scopal Church, Newark, to succeed
pr Edoar Jones, resigned. DR.. Jones
Iii, 40 to Cincinnati the first OF October
~ III, hecome dean of the Episcopal Cathe-
dral there,
Cecil county river and bay shore re-
ao'.ts have been popular this summer,
rhor,astown, Carpenters Point, Red
ps;rt Locust Point, and other places
s,ong the water drawing hosts OF camp
ars ard week end visitors. Cottages
and @ bungalows are springing up all
along the shores
Tho Kennett News reports that the
wsst 81 Chester Street Railroad Company
,";,l VII, shortly take over the trolley line
hstwean " Kennett Square ana west
Grova and run it in connection with
ths;r line. If this is true 1t VIII pc a a
Isat .ne~ acsommodation to the travelling
gnblic between these towns.
Ata meeting Of painters and paper
hangers Of Et0n and vicinity msde ns,e ast far
week, tentative plans were n,aoe pe. io'
organizing local Painters aasiapa and Paper, r.
aharge alsr rs cents per hour for' work on
cnaige s.sr September 1st, and eight
S s1a ao - constitute a days work.