The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-03-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


Friday. the 18th, better watch
your step
Signs OF Spring-robins and her.
ring frogs.
The first thunder gust OF the sea-
SON on wednesday evening.
An automobile show will be held
in Bel Air on March rs, rs, z?
and %.
Rev. w. A. Lindhorst, director Oh
Religious Education of Wilmington
M. e. Conference, will speak In
Rising Sun M. e. church sunday
evening, March Is.
John f. Sparkin, OF Elktcn, ior
over twenty-eight years with tn
Cecil Whig, has severed his connec'
ton with that paper and t1ken a
position with the Newark Post.
The public sale of househc ID
goods, held by N. c. Brown on Wea
nesday afternoon, was one OF the
most largely attended ever helq In
this town. Good prices we g
realized.
statistics compiled by State For
ester Besley show there wer- TEL
forest fires in Cecil county durint
1e24 rhe numper OF acres burne
over was 3,Ob9, and the estimates
damage done $1S,7S0.
John W. McCool, Jr., has been
elected president OF the Board Oh
Trustees of the Poor and Insane
charles Warrington, Overseer; MIS-
Warrington, Matron, and DR.. V. Ii
Mcknight, Physician.
AT the regular session OF County
Commissioners last week delegations
appeared before the Board asking
improvement of three sections OF
road: Childs to Unien. FarmingtoD
to Leslie, and the Town Point roae
z. Warren L ray.or, Of this town.
has relentered the life su-anfe
business, representing the Mutual
Life of New Yok.. ihis is the
oldest active company in the United
States, and has low net cost, hav
ing always been purely mutual.
The girls and boys OF hartford ar
Cecil counties, have raised towards
the purchase of permanent ciuf
camp site, possibly along Bush rlv'r
the SUM of $500, according to the
County Agent Derrick, VINO has shs
matter in charge. kor several years
past boys and girls club camps nave
been held along Bush river, and they
have been very popular.
A Holsteln heifer caif lia'
!. weighed 125 pounds on the day
/, its birth. was born February ., al
Delaware Experiment Station, New
ark. This weight is unusral, espec-
ially for a heiIer cali, as the usud-
weight is 80 to 100 poun IS. 1t l.
. not uncommon for bull calves 81
the Holstein-F Friesian oreed to West
lz5 pounds at birth.
"A compromise decision has beel
rendered in the United States Cur
cult Court at baltimore in the nsi''
of the Chesapeake and Potomac
) Telephone Company to increase
Maryland telephone rates, giving IN
company slightly more than ohc
third of the additional revenue fol
which it asked and which the Pub
lie Service Commission refused.
A, State cannot refuse to permit
motor vehicles for nire as common
carriers in interstate commerce I
use it's highways, it is held by the
u. S. Supreme Court.
The decision is a defeat for Mary
land in case brought by the George
w, Bush and Sons Company, OF VII
mington, who as common carriers
had been refused permit to operate
motor vehicles for hire over the
Maryland roads in interstate com
yneree.
The colchester Beach ilnproye
ssment. Company has issued $l7o,Oo'
of.bonds, the proceeds to be devoted
to part payment on the steamer Ex
press which it recently Dougnt f"l
$1S2,5O0. and to building needed
ferry slips in Baltimore and Toi'
chester.
The bonds are secured by all the
holdings of the company comprising
: piers in Baltimore, 90 acres OF Ian
in Kent county known as rolchesscl
Beach, and the steamers Emms
Giles, Annapolis, and Express.
All members Of the Community
Fire Company and the Band are
urged to be present at the regular
meeting on Friday evening. March
43, at 7i30 e'clack.