The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-09-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


katydids.
Monday next, September Z, is
Labor Day.
H. A. Walter, of Upper Elk Neck,
has qualified as a Forest Warden.
Hog cholera is reported to exist
on the premises of H. E. Rhoades,
near Cecilton.
The gross receipts of the recent
carnival held by the Oxford, Pa,
Fire Company, are given as S2S,S22.
with the coal strike inaugurated
September /, it looks like we might
keep cool with Coolidge this
winter.
The gross receipts of the Fire
mems carnival, at Elkton, that closed
ON Saturday night, amounted to
$3.50.
The Voluteer Firemen of Perry
Vile, have selected September 11th
to 10th, as the dates for holding
their annual carnival.
Monday, September 7th, Labor
Day, being legal holiday, the banks
in Rising Sun will not be open for
business on that date
A clinic for diseases of the chest
will be conducted in The Health
Center, Elkton, at 1O:30 A. M, on
Tuesday, September 18th.
The public schools lof the county
opened on Tuesday morning OF this
week. There will be but half
day session for the first two weeks.
Old Sol has been SO shocked at
the scantiness of attire of the dock
haired damsels at the shore resorts
this year that he has furnished
each one a coat Of tan.
The one hundred and thirty-ffth
anniversary of Bethel Methodist
Episcopal Church, at Pivot Bridge,
this county is being celebrated this
week with services each evening.
James Healy, of Havre de Grace,
has purchased from ]. Writ Willis,
of Newark, his half-mile race track
at Glasgow. 1t camprises S3 acres,
including the half-mile track, and
a barn to accommodate 80 head OF
horeses.
The cunning season for squirrels,
doves, rail birds and reed birds
opened on Tuesday, September l.
The daily bag limits are as follows:
Squirrels 25, doves 25. rail birds 5o
and reed birds SO.
Captain Leopold Stocker. Chief
Manager Of the Perry Point Vet
erans' Buereau supply depot for the
past year, has been appointed Chief
of the Supplies Division IN the
Bureaus central Office in Wash
ington, D. G.
sideswiped by a flivver driven by
negro, the machine of W. Y.
Mowlds, of this town, sustained s
broken windshield and damaged
fender. The accident happened on
Friday near Avondale, Pa. The
flivver, as is generally the case, die
not get scratch.
Rising Sun High School reopenec
on Tuesday morning with its full
corps of teachers: M. U. thinner
man. principal; Miss Eva P. Nutter'
Mrs. Edna M. Sadler, Miss M. Ethel
Hail. Miss Mabel Barber MISS
M. Lidie Stewart, w. L. Mowlds, IN
structor in agriculture.
The new addition to the school
has been completed, and is in use by
the High School classes.
Rising Sun private school, Miss
A. Mabel Reynolds, principal, VIII
open on Monday, Septemberl7.
West Nottingham Academy opens
it's scholastic year, September l6
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Sep
tember IA.
The grading of Stubbs Hill anc
Wilson Avenue was completed ias'
Saturday and the laying Of the
concrete surface is now being done
1t will take one more week to finisn
this work and three weeks afte'
completion before the road will DC
open for travel.
The grading required two-foo'
fill at the entrance to Brookview
cemetery driveway and arrange
ments have been made by the
Cemetery association to have this
I fill extended for 400 feet in the
driveway and nine foot concrete
surface placed thereon. This vii
greatly improve the entrance to the
cemetery. eliminating the soft, low
portion and lowering the grade o.
the approach. The gates at the
roadside will be dispensed with
leaving an open driveway to the
upper entrance.