The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Leaves puttAA6 Ous.
Lawn mowers humming.
Busy house cleaning days.
Cecil County Teachers Association
met at the High School in Elkton'
Saturday, April 2S.
Keep your chickens penned up, u
YOU want garden or expect your
neighbor to have one.
The students of Perryville High
school netted $50 from the play re-
Gently presented by them.
Rising Sun base ball club is ar
ranging for a carnival to be held IN
this town June Z, and 3.
West Nottingham Academy Senior
Glass play will be given Friday even
ing, May 1S, at West Nottingham.
To take a course at Columbia Uni
versity. Miss Viola Holm. health
nurse for Cecil county, has resigned
effective August ].
The recent concert given by the
choir Of ST. Paul's M. e. Church
Wilmington, in Cecilton, nettee
500 for the Community House
Fund.
Governor Albert c. Ritchie VIII
make the Commencement address
10 the fifteen graduates OF the class
of 1928 of the North East High
School.
4 three act play entitled Daddy 4
will be given by pupils OF Coiora
school in the school building a.
that place on Thursday evening, May
8, at s o'clock.
Cheapeake City High School gave
Rising Sun High School bad drup-
bing Friday afternoon, in the game
PLAYED on the local grounds. Ine
score was 26 to z.
Edw. j. Campbell, assistant cash !,
Ter of the First National Bank OF
North East, has been elected ai,
i rector to fill the vacancy caused Ds
4 the death Of e. T.. B. Day.
,rhe executive committee OF tn3
Patriotic Order Sons Of America mas
selected Havre de Grace as tne
meeting place of the State Camp O.
Maryland, August g, Z and sth,
West Nottingham Grange vii
aa. an tho sacend and fourth nights
~ May, A full attendance o.
members and officers is requested q
the next meeting, May H. az $
o'clock.
AT the 18th annual meeting OF tne
state Council o. U. A. M, heio ~
Salisbury, Cecil Craig, OF PrinclplC
Furnace. was elected examiner, anc
]. III. Richardson, of Cherry Hlil
protector.
Two idle negroes, who refused 70
take mart in fighting the woods hre
at Bacon Hill last week wereS place
nnder arrest and locked in the Elk
ton Jail. They were arraigned pc
fore Police Justice Scotten and sen
fenced to 80 days in jail.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Cooney. o.
this town, have pair of canary blrds
that are raising family of four little
ones. The motherbird laid foui
ones The mother bird laid -four
eggs. all of which hatched this week
and the young birds are thriving.
r.
A meeting of the guarantors O.
Rising Sun Chautauqua will be heid
In the public hall OF this town on
Friday evening, May 4, at 5 o'clock
when the ball will be set in motion
for the coming Chautauqua which
will be held here May 81 to June o.
Miss Emily G. Pearce, Of New
York. sailed from Seattle on April
Il q. for the Orient. Miss Pearce. who
formerly was teacher in the Havre
de Grace High school. has accepted
se nositiap with the Rockefeller
Foundation and goes to take up her
duties on the staff of the Peking
Union Medical College.
The body of a white male infant
was found wrapped in two newspap-
ers on lot in Chesapeake City last
Saturday. DR.. C. C. Laws, who made
an examination of the body, stated It
had been still born at about a seven
months period. No clue has been OBJ
Instained as to the responsible person,
L
n the Annual meeting OF the
kille Burial Association, Elmer
Vas reelected president with
cbourn secretary and treas
association was 9rganized
year age ard during It's hFF'
had 9ae death. Raeh memnef
30 cents q year as dues aHa 1ae
easurer reports balance OF $o7o.