The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-09-21
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

September term of Circuit Court
convened at Elkton on Monday
morning.
Races at the Havre de Grace track
began ON Wednesday and will con-
tinue for ten days.
The Cecil Farmers Club met on
Wednesday of last week with Jos. T.
Groves, near Zion.
Four deer are reported to have
been seen in the neighborhood OF
Principle Furnace last week.
Arthur G.. Graybeal, of Spruce
Grove, recently purchased the Alvin
Brown farm of 140 acres, near Kinks
Bridge.
The Cecil Canneries finished up the
pack of corn at its plant here this
week. About 10000 cases were
packed.
West Nottingham Academy opened
its 1S3rd scholastic year on Sept. 10.
w. X. Cummings, A. M, of Kentucky
University, is the new principal.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is
prevailing in North East, and the
citizens of the town are taking steps
to insure pure water supply for the
town.
Lee l. Hecht, of Havre de Grace,
has been appointed member OF the
Appeal Tax Court by Mayor Jackson.
of Baltimore. The salary is $4,000
per annum.
The annual Firemen's Carnival of
Susuuehanna Hose Company, Havre
de Grace, will open on Friday night
of this week and will continue up to
and including Saturday, Sept. 20.
The Rising Sun Base Ball Club
has arranged to hold carnival next
week and the merry-go-round, ferris
wheel, and other equipment are now
being set UP on the carnival grounds.
Mrs. Edith Rowe, of Havre de
Grace, falling down stairs while
walking in her sleep, fractured her
left wrist and sustained a number OF
bad bruises about the body and face.
The North East Star reports gross
receipt from the recent firemen's
carnival in that town were over
$4,000. The Ford car was awarded
to Norris Jackson, of Havre de Grace.
In recognition of his forty years
service with the institution the di-
rectors of the First National Bank OF
Havre de Grace presented cashier
VIM. N. Coale with fine gold watch
last week.
Attorney General Armstrong, Re-
publican candidate for Governor,
made tour of the County Friday.
He was in Rising Sun for about an
hour in the afternoon, shaking hands
with voters.
The oath annual tournament OF
Rising Sun Gun Club will be held on
the grounds near town Wednesday,
Sept. 26. These shoots are the best
attended of any, always bringing out
a big string of contestants.
Fire of undetermined origin des-
troyed the large three-story frame
building of the Quarryville Body Co.,
Aldus G. Eshleman, owner, and the
residence of Mr.. Eshleman close by
it, Thursday evening, of last week.
Struck by the boom of falling
derrick, on Wednesday of last week
Edwin e. Johnson, of Oxford, Pa,
met instant death while at work on
bridge at Beaver Dam, on the Pam
roy and Newark railroad.
The annual State Convention
of Disabled Veterans of the
World War will be held in Havre de
Grace in October. The Disabled
American Veterans is National or
ganization of Men disabled in the
in the military service and numbers
some 10000.
A lighted cigarette caused a fire
in the restaurant of A. l. Roney, IN
the basement of Oxford, Pa, Hotel
Friday evening last. Early dis
covery of the blaze prevented what
promised to be disastrous conflag-
ration. About 5000 worth of stock
in the restaurant was damaged.
Monday, September II, was the
one hundred and thirty-sixth anniver-
sary of the birth of the United States
as a nation. Governor Ritchie Is
sued proclamation designating the
date as Constitution Day, and urged
patriotic citizens and the schools to
observe it by appropriate exercises.
william Evans. employed at the
Cook quarry of the Standard Lime
and Stone Company. near Havre de
Grace, ON Wednesday of last week,
was crushed under small car loaded
with stone, and his left leg had to be
amputated below the knee.