The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-08-31
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs Of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The QunLl0B ScdoOA AOA - 49,
and doves opens September lst.
sweltering weather this week,
with the mercury up to 30 Degrees
Fishermen in the upper Chesa-
peake Bay report PLENTIFUL supply
of crabs being caught.
Rock fishing in the Susquehanna
river above Port Deposit, is report
al the best for several years.
malicious cantaloupes have been
reaching the. local market, coming
from down the Eastern Sho.
The gross receipts of the Chesa-
s peake City fire company carnival
which closed August 20, were $o'-
500.
Camp Caesar Rodney, the Della
ware Boy Scouts camp, located along
the North East river, closed last
week.
Monday, September 3rd, Labor
Day. being legal holiday, the banks
IN Rising Sun will not be open for
business on that date.
Fhe speed boat given away at
Chesapeake City tireman's carnival,
went to Elmer Ellison, chief OF New
ark, Del, fire company.
The public schools of this county
reopen on Thursday next, September
s. preceded by Teachers Institute
at Elkton, September and 5. ;.
Evelyn Preston, of North East,
graduate of Maryland State Normal
School, Towson, has been appointed
principal of Leslie public school.
The residence of DR.. willard H..
Wright, in Elkton, has been pur-
chased at private sale by j. Writ
Lynch at reported price of $1,000.
william Reynolds, of near town.,
reports yield of 3S bushels OF
wheat to the acre, machine measure.
This is a good yield, and up among
the leaders.
Corn and tomato canneries are
now running on full time. The
prospects are for a large pack OF
corn. but the tomato crop is report
ed Abort, due to unfavorable weather
VI itions.
The Cecil County School Board
has appointed Miss Elizabeth Davis,
of North East, a graduate OF West
ern Maryland College, instructor in
English and French at Calvert Agrl-
cultural High School.
e. v. Stockham, Inc, of Havre de
Grace, packers of American Brand"
pork and beans, have installed ma
chinery to can catsup this season.
1t is anticipated that million bot
Ties will be packed this year.
The marriage OF Mr. Holden Ire
land, OF Bohemia Manor, and Mrs.
Martha Rush Harrison, of Queen
Anne's county, on August 4, has
been announced. The ceremony
was performed in Elliott City
A card party held at the Hotel
Bayou, Havre de Grace, by the Cecil
and Hartford Chapters of the Red
cross, netted $500. for fund to be
used in beautifying the Perry Point
Hospital grounds with flowers.
Work of laying concrete should
er along the south side OF the State
road between Eikton and North
East, has been completed, and
concrete shoulder is now being laid
ON the north side of the road.
After being open for five weeks
the Boy Scout camp, located on the
Horseshoe farm, partially in Cecil
and Chester Counties, has closed for
the summer. The camp is owned by
the Boy Scout Council of Pennsyl-
vania.
The Sutton Construction Com
pany, having completed the laying
OF concrete shoulders on the Rising
Sun-Conowingo road, is storing the
steel forms and other equipment on
the property of Ernest Biles, In
Rising Sun.
0fficer Klapproth,. of the State
road police force, stationed at Rising
sun, who has been in a Baltimore
hospital since he sustained severe IN
juries near McCann's Corner, in Har-
ford county, is reported as greatly
improved He received serious lac
erations about the head and body,
his knee and ankle also being injur-
ed.A when. his motorcycle crashed
ITO.
chesapeake City was visited last
week by three Baltimore boys. who
I made the trip by inland waters in
twenty-six foot motor boat, from
< their home to Canada, where they
had anchored their boat and camped
ia the woods for two weeks. They
travelled in all 1900 miles.