The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-06-18
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Harvest is at hand.
The cherry crop is bumper one.
Monday, the 21st, is the longest
day of the year.
Summers begins officially on
Tuesday next.
The annual Carnival at Cecilton
will be held September l to IL
inclusive.
Some of our farmers report hav-
ing seen frost Thursday morning of
this week.
The members of the Komrade
Klub, with some invited friends,
enjoyed a days outing at Hance's
Point on Thursday of this week.
A twenty-four hour ferry service
across the Chesapeake & Delaware
canal, between Bethel and Pivot,
will be maintained by the Gov
ernment.
At the State Firemen's convention,
in Westminster last week, w. b.
Alexander, of Elkton, was elected
second vide-president of the State
Association.
Albert D. Mackey, Esq, OF Elk
ton, has been reelected member of
the Board of Visitors and Governors
of Washington College, Chestertown,
for the ensuing year.
The Presbyterian Sunday school of
Zion, will hold Children's Day exer-
cises on June 27th. There will be
no afternoon preaching service in
the Presbyterian Church.
AS advertised elsewhere carnival
will be held on the grounds Of the
Elkton Armory on the evenings OF
June Is to 26 inclusive, by the
Elkton Tri-County League and Co. e
Cecil County Base Ball Clubs.
The Waterwitch Fire Company of
Deposit, is arranging to hold
y annual carnival July 2-1O, in
elusive. The Community Fire Com
pany Band, of Rising Sun, will
furnish music on, the evening of
July 8.
Burchell A. Keithley, of the Elk
ton postoffice force, and H. B. Logan,
of North East, have been elected
from the Cecil County Mailmen's
Association as representatives to the
State Letter Carriers Association to
be held at Chestertown on July
and 6,
Miss Emily Moore, of North East.
for the past two years assistant
principal at Chesapeake City High
school, who recently rendered her
resignation to the Cecil County
School Board, has been appointed
head of the History Department at
the Penn Hall Preparatory school,
at Chambersburg, Pa. She will
enter upon her new duties in
September.
Keen Winterbottom, aged thirteen
w. Winterbottom, of Oxford, acci-
dentally shot himself in the leg with
a rifle one day last week. The lad
did not tell his parents of his in
jury until the next day, when he
was taken to the hospital. The
wound became so serious that it was
later necessary to amputate the leg
between the knee and hip to save
the little fellows life.
Edward C. Wilson, of North East,
has been selected by Governor
Ritchie as the Cecil county repre-
4 sentative on a sea food committee to
cooperate with Conservation Com
missioner Swepson Earle in protect
Chesapeake Bay. Twenty men were
appointed on the committee from the
tidewater counties. A similar COM
mittee will be appointed by the
Governor of Virginia. These com
mittees will survey the sea food in
dustry and recommend legislation
for its conservation.
Fred Lieske, of Roothby Hill, Har-
ford county, sustained a fractured
leg last week, by the premature
explosion of one of the big guns al
Aberdeen Proving Ground. Three
other men were more or less
Injured
Havre de Grace is to have new
y 100000 hotel. The contract has
been awarded by w. j. Hubbard
The new structure will be at the
corner of Union & Revolution
streets.
The Dover Del, Index. reports
the plants at Dover and Kenton as
busy with the cold pack of straw
4 berries, large supplies of local
4 berries as we'll as shipments from a
distance being received, about one
U thousand crates a day being used