The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-06-14

at Rising Sun M. E. church on Sun
day, June 16, at 1900 o'clock.
The Community Fire Company
Band furnished music at the Junior
High School class festival on Tues
day evening.
Friday, June IA, is Flag Day,
commemorating tke adoption Of the
Stars and Stripes by the Continental
Congress in 1777.
A large reservoir is being con-
structed at Cherry Hill for the i'm
pounding of water for fire protec-
ton for the town.
A clinic for diseases of the chest
will be conducted in the New Health
Center, Elkton, on Wednesday, June
10, at 10:30 a. m.
To fill out the unexpired term of
A. F. Hubbad, who moved recently
from Elkton, the Town Council Las
elected John X. Burkley.
The Port Deposit postottice has
been given second class rating and
will have two free deliveries of mall
a day, beginning July /.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Ches-
apeake City Fire Company real
lAed about $100 on Memorial Day
from their annual Tag Day.
The annual reunion and banquet
of Rising Sun High School Alumni
Association will be held at Hotel
Bayou, Havre de Grace, on Friday,
June IA.
The cellar has been excavated and
foundation laid for new dwelling
10 be erected by Joseph Touchton,
on Main street, on lot purchased
from Nathan Britton.
The members Of the graduating
claea Qf the Town SCHOOL Of Tome
1nskE Pnrt Deposit. numbering
), fJoyed a thr9e-day sigh t-seeing
trip in washington. last week.
Elkton Rotary Club last week was
represented at the Rotary Inter
narlinal Convention, in Dallas, Tex,
Dy Albert D. Mackey, president OF
tile local organization. He was ac-
companied by Mrs. Mackey.
1t is reported that the highest
bid for the sixty-two houses on the
Government reservation at Perry
Point, which were advertised for
sale on June 1st, was five dollars.
apiece.
This week witesses tke closing of
the public schools Throughout Cecil
county, and the laying aside OF
books for the summer vacation. A
number of the teachers will attend
summer school at different institu-
tions in the East.
Cecil county had four members OF
the graduating class of Woman's
College. Newark, Del, who received
rEeir diplomas this week: Rachel
Boyd, Rising Sun; Carolyn G. Lewis.
Elkton; Alice F. Rawson, North
East; Elizabeth H. Waters. Perry
Point.
professor Charles H. Benson, Phi.
D., of New York University, deliv
cred the commencement address on
the afternoon of June 13, when Al
students, the lrgest class in the his
tory of the school, graduated from
Tome Institute, Port Deposit.
Ralph A. Jeffers, OF Elkton, a
student at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, was awarded two
prizes. One of SIS was for the most
points in preliminary designing; the
other for the largest number OF
points for complete designing.
Specimens of tie new money that
is to be put in circulation July 10th
are on exhibition at the Rising Sun
Bank. The notes are smaller than
those at present in circulation. The
denominations ON exhibition at the
Bank are 81, So, IS and $40 notes.
The Louis Shirt Co.. which has
been operating a branch factory at
North East for some months, has
closed down and moved the machin-
cry to Wilmington. Difficulty in
securing local help is said to have
been the reason for closing the plant.
Mrs. M. X. Perine, who recently
disposed of her. millinery business
in this town and moved to Baltimore
met with a very serious accident in
that city last week, when she was
struck by an auto while crossing a
street. She suffered a fracture of
the skull, and is reported in a Sc
rious condition.
The City Council of Havre de
Grace has fixed the tax rate in that
city for 1929, at one dollar on each
one hundred dollars. The income
at this rate will be $44,50Q.