The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-24
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


ferent sections of our town.
]. Otis Kennard and VIM. A.
Reeder, of Rising Sun, were
drawn on the Federal Grand
Jury, that convened at Denton,
Md, on Monday.
The Society of Farm Women
of Lancaster County will meet
at Chestnut Level, Pa, on Sat
urday, July 25. Mrs. Clifford
Pinchot, wife of the Governor,
will be one of the speakers.
Scholarships at the Western
Maryland College, and the
Maryland Institute of Arts are
awaiting two bright Cecil
county girls. Examinations for
them will be held at Elkton on
August 3rd.
Three colored men have beer
arrested in connection with the
robbery of Safe Harbor, Pa,
post office, on the night OF July
z. The office had been robbed
twice previously, within the
past few months.
BENZ. F. Crouch, overseer OF
the Cecil County Farm, at
Cherry Hill, had a small bone
in his right hand fractured by
getting it caught between | a
singletree and the wheel OF the
wagon, while hauling in hay.
Chas. A. Bogel, of Whining
ton, has sold his 336 acre farm
on the Chesapeake Bay, in the
Second District, to Mrs. Harold
K. Bailey, for $4,000. The pur-
chaser already owns 800 acres
adjoining the farm.
We were favored with a
good, heavy rain between four
and five o'clock, Monday after
noon, but the weather man still
sends us sweltering weather,
with the mercury we'll up in the
nineties day after day.
Romie B. Coleman, Jr., OF
Warwick, suffered the fracture
of both wrists, as the result OF
an accident a few days ago. He
was picking cherries, when the
limb upon which he was sitting
broke, throwing him to the
ground, with the result stated.
The Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal was closed to navigation
several days last week by the
grounding in the canal, near
st. Georges, of two large
barges loaded with iron cinders
consigned from the plant of the
Pyrites Co., to Sparrows Point.
The members of Company E,
M. N. G., of Elkton, will leave
Saturday morning for Camp
Richie, near Cascade, Md,
where two weeks will be spent
in military practice. Capt.
Russell M. George, Lieuts. Har-
old T. Perkins and G. Reynolds
Ash will be in Command.
The Board of Education is
advertising for bids for trans
porting children from Oak
Grove School to Rising Sun and
return, and from Butler School
and return. These two rural
schools will be abandoned and
the children of these localities
brought to Rising Sun School.
Mrs. Cliffie M. Simmons, of
Rehoboth Beach, Del, is a pa
tient in Union Hospital, Elk
ton, suffering from a broken
arm and fractured jaw bone,
sustained when the auto in
which she was riding was side
swiped by another car, driven
by Fred Kopp, of Lancaster,
Pa, and then crashed into a
tree.
E. r. Sebold has sold his
small farm, located northeast
of Rising Sun, in the little
New York" section, to William
Edmondson, formerly of this
neighborhood, but who for q
number of years past has been
employed at tn Baldwin, loco
motive plant, at Baldwin. Pa
Mr.. Edmondson contem-
plates moving to his newly
purchased property in the fall
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Marker
have moved from Oxford tt
apartments in the Bechte
building.