The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-03-24
TOWN AND COUNTY
Short Paragraphs Of Recent Events of
Interest to Our Readers
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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Maryland Day.
West Nottingham Academy
closed last week for the spring
vacation and will reopen Fri
day, March 31st.
The bill introduced in the
Maryland Legislature placing
the Sheriff of Cecil county on a
salary, instead of fee basis,
has passed the House.
Cecil Clyde Squier, of Port
Deposit, was awarded $305.25
damages in his suit against
Sherwood Brothers, which was
the outgrowth of an automo-
bile accident some months ago.
A Horse Show will be held
by the Stockford Farms, Inc,
at their farm at Fair Hill, Md,
on Saturday, April LIST. A
number of prizes are offered in
different classes. Entrance is
free to owners.
Mrs. Virginia Skirven, of
Charlestown, who fell and
fractured a hip, has been taken
to Easton Hospital for treat
ment. She is the grandmother
of Miss Louise Start, of the
Elkton High School Faculty.
Mrs. Marian Creswell has
been appointed postmistress at
Principle Furnace, I'd succeed
the late Edward White, who
was burned to death several
months ago when the Principle
postoffice was destroyed by fire.
In connection with the one
hundredth anniversary of the
Elkton Presbyterian Church,
the fifteenth annual meeting of
the Presbyterian Society for
Missions of the New Castle
Presbytery, will be held in the
Elkton Presbyterian Church,
on April 26 and q.
Hector HOLSTER, of North
East, has been notified of his
appointment to clerical posi-
ton with the United States
Coast Guard. Mr.. Hollister is
a graduate of the North East
High School and La Wilmington
business college. He will re-
port for duty on Wednesday.
Miss Pancoast, home demon
stration agent for Cecil Coun-
ty, has organized Homemak-
ers Club in the Lewisville Sec
ton. Officers elected are as
follows: President, Mrs. Jas.
G. Boulder; vice-president,
Mrs. Helen H. Teeter; secre-
tary-treasurer, Mrs. Frank R.
McCleary,
In the Circuit Court at Elk
ton, last week, John W. Maston
Hall, of Pilot, was arraigned on
a charge of assault with intent
to kill Giles L. Wiley, of Ris-
ing Sun, and pleaded not guilty.
The indictment was later
amended and Hall pleaded gull
ty to common assault. Sen
tence was suspended.
Summer homes of VIM. Real
ey, of Elkton, DR.. Gross, Ches-
ter; D. e. Mathews, Whining
ton, and Gus Schlavos, at
Charlestown Manor, were bro
ken into and robbed during the
past week. Sheriff Buckworth
has been working on the case
on the theory that the robbery
is the work Of local people.
The Rising Sun firemen were
called to the Cassius Kirk
home, near Greenhurst, to ex-
tinguish a chimney fire on
Thursday morning.
The firemen were called to
Calvert Thursday evening,
where an automobile belong
ing to Louis Zucchino caught
fire from back-firing, but the
blaze was extinguished before
the arrival of the firemen.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Har-
old, former residents of Rising
Sun, met with very serious
kloss last week. They have
been residing for some months
past in a bungalow ON the farm
f Mrs. Harold's father, near
Darkesburg, Pa. A fire that
originated from a defective flue
ptally destroyed the bungalow,
pgether with most of their
ousehold effects.