The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-03-21
First day of Spring.

E1rHL udy VI OPAinS.
The Cummings dwelling is re-
ceiving Spring dress Of paint.
Walter L. Main shows will open
the season in Havre de Grace on
April 18th. y
Tuesday is Maryland Day, also
designated Moving Day in this Sec
tion of the State.
The sum OF $25 was cleared by
the Ladies Aid Society BY the bake
held Saturday afternoon.N
The First Maryland Regiment will
hold its Summer Training Camp at
Virginia Beach, Va. probably from
August Srd to 18th.
Tuesday, March 25th, Maryland
Day. being legal holiday. the banks
in Rising Sun will not be open Tor
for business on that day.
The Conservation Commission Of
Maryland, has appointed H. H. Nit
cheil, of Elkton, Deputy Game War
den for the State at large.
Gyles G Gibson have begun the
work of enlarging and remodeiing
their store property, recently pur-
chased from Homard Terry.
Three dwelling houses were burn
ed and other property damaged In
a fire that threatened the destruc-
tion of stanton, Del, Sunday after
noon.
Prof. Willard H. Collins, principal
Of the Cecil County Agricultural
High School at Calvert, has rendered
his resignation to the County School
Board.
Rev. Carl Warehelm has tender
ed his resignation as pastor Of Bay
View M. r. church, to take effect 1t
the end Of present Conference year,
in April.
Five large greenhouses, of steel
frame construction, are to be erected
by P. ]. Yeatman, at Kennett Square.
The new houses will cover $4,000
square feet
o. w. Anderson, of the Universi!'
OF Maryland, has ben appointed As
sistant Agricultural Agent for this
county. and entered upon his new
duties on Saturday.
Hugh McCoskey, a fisherma
caught 5-pound shad in the Chesa
peake Bay, near Colchester. March
10. the first shad OF the season to bi
caught In the upper Chesapeake.
The contract for hauling 5000
tons OF crushed stone for top
dressing and patching, has beer
awarded McCool & sentman, Of Elk
ton. by the State Roads Com
mission.
Samuel Fitzgerald, who operates a
potrabie saw mill near town, met
with a very serious accident fev
days ago, when his hand came in con-
tact with a circular saw. The
thumb and two fingers were terribly
lacerated.
Mrs. Myrtle Whitman, formerly O.
Little Britain, but now of Lancaster
Pa. has been granted divorce, b
the Lancaster Common Pleas Court
from her husband, William B. Wit
man, on the grounds Of mis-
treatment.
The vestry Of St. Johns Episco-
nal Church, Havre de Grace. ha'
called the Reverend /. L. Lasher
Rector Of Trinity Church, Newton
Conn. Mr.. Lasher has accepted tho
call and will be in his new pulpit u
about two weeks.
During the storm Monday night
Of last week. the transformer o.
Home Manufacturing, Light AM
Bower Company. at the sub-statioI
n Eikton. was broken, and set mr.
ts the poles and crossarms. Tn
tewn was without service until noon
the following day. ~
A case Of smallpox is reported py
DR. waiter B, Kirk at churchviiie
Hartford county. The victim =
Frederick Hayes, aged Al years
The members Of the entire house
hold including three children were
vaccinated and the house isolated.
The children were fonndnot to have
been vaccinated before and DR.. kirK
IA hoping they will not contract tne
disease, although he feels doubtfui.
George Cook and camiilus Thomp-
son aged 1e and is years, OF Leeds
who took Register of Wills Robert :.
McCauiey's Ford car from his garage
there, got supply Of gasoline from
scarborough's store and went on a
ioy ride, were arrested and after .
hearing in Elkton, before Justice
scotch. committed to the Mary
land Manual Training School as IN
coFrigible.