The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-09-10
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Black Barren FAIR Will uo Aoiu
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of this week.
The fall racing. dates at the Havre
de Grace track are September 23 tc
October 2, inclusive.
The private school of Miss Mabel
Reynolds opened on Tuesday Win
an enrolment of % pppils.
After undergoing extensive i'm
proyement st. James P. E. Church,
Port Deposit, = has been re-opened
and re-dedicated.
Old Defenders Day. a legal
holiday in Maryland, commem-
Grating the battle of North Point,
falls ON Monday next, Sept. ID.
The North East Fire Company
Band will hold street Festival IN
that town, on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday evenings, September l6,
i IT, and 49,
The season for longing oysters
officially opened September IN
Talbot, Anne Arundel, Queen Anne's,
Kent and Somerset counties, Mary
land, and New. Jersey.
Hartford Public Schools opened on
Monday, September 9Th, for whlte
.,th. the schools for colored chill
dren in the county open.
terrific wind and rainstorm
struck Havre de Grace shortly after
noon Thursday of last week, up
roofing trees blowing down fences
and doing other damage.
While plowing in field on the
Leander Wright farm, near Wrights-
dale, Pa, last week, James Kirk
foRnd turtle, on the she'll OF which
h been carved 20. R., May IA,
-"
VYStruck by lightning the barn on
the farm of E. Noble Rea, near
oxford, was burned on Thursday
afternoon OF last week, together
with hay, straw, farm implements
etc. Three horses perished in the
flames.
Some of our gunners report sqlr-
rels not very plentiful. The cunning
season for squirrels opened Septem-
ber 1. Statewide license for gun
ming costs $50; county licenses
S1.1O; nonresident statewide II
censes, $1O.50.
Two cows belonging to Guy
Miller, of Kirkwood, Pa, fell in
well thirty feet deep, in the entry
of his barn, last week. 1t required
several hours work to remove them
from the WE'LL Both. animals were
dead before gotten out
The 5S-acre tract of woodland,
between Oakwood and Rock Springs,
belonging to the estate OF the late
Chas. Al. Grubb, was sold at Execu-
tors sale on Friday last. The tract
was purchased by Ivan Sprout
for $3.50,
Rutter H. Tennis, of Port Deposit,
ran into the motorcycle of Brook A.
Reynolds and James E. O'Brien, OF
Portland, N. H., near Bacon Hill,
one night last week. Mr.. Reynolds
had a leg fractured and was taken
( to Union Hospital. Police Justice
Scotten fined Tennis $40 and costs
for falling to give right of way
Frank Phillips, proprietor OF the
Bearks County House hotel, in Read
ing, Pa, formerly of Elkton, is held
under $4,000 bail, on the charge
of causing the death of Paul Heisler,
aged 21, in fight in his hotel on
August 81. Heisler died later, from
blow on his head, the police say,
given with floor brush by Phillips
Mrs. Eleanor j., Moore, President
of the Cecil County Board of Edu
cation, has been appointed Principa
OF the school conducted by residents
of Perry Point for the year 1926
1927. AS the Court of Appeals has
ruled that the Perry Point Reserva
tion is not part Of the county. chill
dren of its residents cannot attene
the County Schools unless they pay
pay for tuition.
The Sinclair Oil Company has
purchased property in Elkton upon
which to erect storage tanks. Elk
ton will be made distributing
point. During the past two years
the company has completed large
refinery at Marcus Hook, Pa, the
largest Of the many refineries located
there.
Monday, September 18th, being g
legal holiday, Old Defenders Day
the banks in Rising Sun will not be
open for business on that date.