The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-08
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Green grow the grasses.

Lawn mowers getting on the job.
Spring plowing in progress-wh
it doesn't rain.
Alice and Sheppard have erected
- hing rail on their grass plot in
pr of Rising Sun Bank.
tn East has been admitted to
ership in the Susquehanna
ball league, taking the place
pBel Air.
Prof. Howard T. Ruhl, the new
Superintendent of Schools for Cecil
County, paid his first official visit to
Rising Sun school last week.
The bake held Saturday after
noon by the private school of Miss
A. Mabel Reynolds was very sue
cessful, over $40 fbenig realized.
Arbor Day and Bird Day will be
observed generally by schools
throughout the. State, on Friday,
April 8, with appropriate exercises.
Beginning April 8, motion pictur-
es will be held in Rising Sun public
hall Friday evening of each week, in
addition to Saturday, Monday and
Wednesday nights.
Saturday nights snow covered the
ground to the depth of an inch or
more, bnt it disappeared like mag
lc Sunday morning, and there was
not trace of it by noon
Milton Mitchell, found guilty in
the Circuit Court of statutory rape
on Mary Riale, aged thirteen, OF
Port Deposit, was sentenced to five
years in Maryland Penitentiary.
The March term of Cecil Circuit
Court, that adjourned on Monday
of last week, was in session three
weeks and one day, and was the
longest term for several years.
A traffic direction pillar, set on a
concrete base and surmounted by
blinker electric light, has been erect
ed at North and Main streets, Elk
ton. by direction of Town Council
1T a meeting of the guarantors,
held Thursday evening of last week,
the dates selected for Chautauqua to
he held at Rising Sun the coming
summer were June "a to 20, incln,
sive.
Pete Moneymaker, colored has
been lodged in Elkton jail, charged
', ith stealing chickens. The negro
was captured by William Thornton.
a farmer of near Warwick, who went
to investigate noise in his chicken
house.
Francis du Pont, of Wilmington,
has purchased the James Burris
farm along the Sassafras river, near
Frenchtown, in the First District,
and will convert it into summer
camp for the Boy Scouts. The farm
embraces several hundred acres.
The will of the late J. M. G. Car
hart, late. of this county, and for
many years merchant at Zion, has
been admitted to probate. By its
provisions all of his estate, both
real and personal is bequeathed to
his two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Will
son, of Rising Sun, and Miss Lucy
Carhart, of Wilmington, Del.
The Community Fire Company
received a call from Porters Bridge,
about nine O'Clock Tuesday night
Fire of unknown origin started in a
small garage on the John Atkinson
property. The structure was of
frame and was soon destroyed. 1t
was empty except for some tools
\ most of which were gotten out.
Miss Anna Truitt a young white
woman of Wilmington Del, former
ly of this county, was arrested In
that city on Thursday last, and tax
eln, to the county jail at Elkton, by
DEPUTY Sheriff Reese Clark. She is
charged with forging the name of
john Lawrence, Of Elk Mills, to
three checks, for SIS, $45 and s32.
The degree staff Of Delaware
Lodge |. o. Q. F., Of Wilmington
Dell will visit Elkton, Saturday
night, April 9th, and confer the un-
written work of the First and Third
degrees on a class of candidates at
a County Rally to be held in the Ar
moryI in that tawn. Proceeding the
eerefhenies, Delaware Ledge Band
ef so pieces, will give a concert In
front of the Elkton Court House
The Maryland Methodist Pro
testaIt Conference opened in Starr
Church, Baltimore, on Wednesday,
Aprills.
Fred Baldwin, of Aberdeen, given
triah by Manager Dunn, of the
Baltimore team of the International
Base Ball League, had tryout at
Auburridale, Florida. and was given
his und dbnditi6nal release.