The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-07-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


Firemen's Carnival opens Friday
evening of this week.
The recent carniysi of the Chesa-
peake City Firemen n, $1,000.
Chas., w. Grason has frightened and
improved his garage by painting.
A new ferry line has been establish
ed between Havre de Grace and
Betterton.
A good rain, Tuesday night, that was
welcome and freshened things up
wonderfully.
A gas buoy marking the place of
sunken barge has been established at
Welsh Point on Elk River.
A metal ceiling has been placed in
the Community Fire Co. engine house
and ceiling and side walls painted.
j. Wallace Scott, of Elkton, has re-
signed as Director and Treasurer of the
Cecil County State Fair and Agricultural
Association.
Mrs. Howard Ash, of lkton, impli-
Gated in illegal liquor traffic in that
town, was invited" to leave the town,
and accepted the invitation.
The directors of the Hartford County
Fair have made contracts for auto polo
and automobile races at the fair in Bel
Air on October 9, of this year.
The 12-acre Stout property, on the
northern outskirts of North East, has
been purchased by John Burns, who
will dispose of it as building lots.
All dogs running at large in Newark,
DEL, must be muzzled. A rabid dog
was killed near that town last week,
after it had bitten several other dogs.
The third annual camp of the Cecil
aad Hartford Club for Boys and Girls
win be held on Bush River, near Perry
man, during the week Of August 1918.
AT meeting Of the Board of Direc-
tors Of the Union Hospital of Cecil
County held July is, Mrs. Reginald
Constable was elected Treasurer of the
X-Ray Fund.
Mr.. IL. Holt, of North East, has sold
thru Starkey & Austin, of Rising Snn,
his farm near Bay View to Mrs. Mar
garet Glazier, of Zion, and has taken in
exchange Mrs. Glazier's Zion property.
The past six months traffic through
the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
shows an increase over the correspond
ing period of 1922, of 22,776 net tons OF
merchandise shipped, and 1,571 lin
value.
The University of Maryland Exten-
son Service issues warning to fruit
growers that many apple aud peach
trees are so laden with fruit that thin
ming is necessary to secure good
results.
John w. Rehill, of North East, has
been awarded the contract to grade the
race track on the Cecil County State
Fair and Agricultural Society grounds,
near Elkton, The contract price is
Sl2,O
The Green Hill Inn, on the: outskirts
Of North East, was formally opened to
the pnblic on July IA, Miss Ruth MUIR
ray, formerly Of Zion, and recently OF
the staff Of the Tea Room at Wana-
makers, Philadelphia, is manager of
the Inn.
The eJudges of the Orphans Court
have awarded Cecil county scholar
ship in Washington College. Chester
town, to Austin Davenport Camblin,
o student at Tome School, Port Deposit,
son of Mr., and Mrs. Frederick Camblin,
Of ElktDn.
The directors of Union Hospital, Elk
ton, have appointed Miss Helen B. Nc
Sherry, a graduate nurse of the Uni
yersity Hospital, Baltimore, superin-
tendent to succeed Miss Addie Farwell,
resigned. She will assume her new
duties August 18th.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will run
two excursions from Port Deposit to
Atlantic City passing through this town
on Thursdays, August 9 aud 80. The
round trip fare from Rising Sun is
$500, but you will have to get up early
as the special train leaves here at 5:25
In the morning.
The advertising car containing thou
sands of banners, muslin signs litho-
graphs. cards and posters, describing
the features that will make the 1923
Delaware State Fair, the biggest and
best in its rs years of experience, left
Wilmington last week and viii placard
the country within radius of 100 miles.