The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-04-06
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
s. During the Past Week.
FOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The w. G.. T. U. will meet Will
Mrs. Joseph Smith on THURSDAY,
April IL, at 1880 p. M. =
Rock Presbyterian Sunday school
sand Westamwell Sunday school re-
opened on Easter for the summer
The guarantors of the recent
Chautauqua in North East have eacn
been assessed 1910 to make up a
!. deficit.
The daffodils and other early
blooms were badly nipped by the
winter bareback that came in Win
the Eastertide.
The new census shows Elkton mas
population of 1922. compared with
$3.50 ais shown by the Federal census
taken in 1920.
j. L. Mccormick, president OF the
Hartford County tuberculosis Asso-
citation, has been elected trustee
sol the State organization.
The oyster dredging season in the
Chesapeake bay and its tributaries
has closed, but the, longing season
will be open until April 25th.
Ground was broken on Monday
morning for the row of six dwellings
to be erected on West Main street,
in this town, by Brown & Fisher
Easter skies were bright with
sunshine but it was winter day,
the mercury in this neighborhood
being as low as eight degrees early
in the morning.
An indoor carnival for the benefit
Of the Elk Mills team of the Sus-
auehanna Base Ball League will be
held April ola in the old Baldwin
Mill in the village.
James NJ. Mendenhall, son OF
Howard Mendenhall Of Blue Ball,
Cecil county, has applied for pat
ent on tool he as invented to re-
move dust caps from tires.
Work was started last week on
Il the new concrete bridge over Buck
wheat Run, on the Calvert-Blue Ball
road. Work will be resumed on the
road as soon as the weather permits.
The Cecil Democrat reports the
first herring caught in Elk river
this spring were brought to Elkton
market on Monday, March 26'
Fishermen are all in readiness and
anticipate good run of fish this
spring
Workmen are preparing to place
an immense plate glass show window
in the west side of the Berkowitz
Department Store. This is the
first of the extensive improvements
TO the store building contemplated
by the new owner.
Sunday was the coldest Easter ol
which the Government Weather Bu'
peau has any record in the more
than sixty years since the Bureau
has been established. The mercur,
in this neighborhood recorded eigh
degrees on that morning.
The Chevrolet touring car of LIE
roy Carr, Of Elk Mills, was stoler
on Wednesday evening OF last week
while It was parked in front of thu
National Bank, in Elkton. Mr. Car
was attending the moving pictures
in Ellxton Opera House at the time
The Newark, Del, Chamber o
Commerce has decided to make
canvass Of the town to test loca
sentiment as to the feasibility OF oh
tanning a gas supply service for tn
town either from local plant to D
established or by. arrangement wit
the Wilmington Gas Light Company
An entertainment under auspice
of West Nottingham Communit
Club will be given in the old Acad
envy building at West nottingham
on Friday evening, April 13, at
o'clock. by Miss Edith Windle,
Parkesburg, Pa. assisted by tn
Community Club Orchestra. Admi'
sion so cents.
A meeting of Civil War soldier
and their friends was held Wedne'
Nav afternoon in North East. Piar
Re discussed for having suitaD
Norial erected to the memory
Acil county soldiers. A SUI
sum has been subscribe
into the treasury TOWARD
Ill.
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