The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-10-13
SUN CECIL COUNTY, MD. FRIDAY. OCTOBER l3. 1888
BRIEFLY NOTED
HAPPENINGS
Short Paragraphs OF Recent
Events In Town And
County

Events In Town And
County
Calvert High School realized $44
by the recent supper
Thursday of this week, Column
bus Day, and a legal holiday in
Maryland.
The Aid Society of the M. E.
church of Zion cleared $SS by their
recent supper.
The Havre de Grace Baseball Club
Carnival, after running for two
weeks, netted the club about $500.
The North East Fire Company re-
ceived contributions amounting to
SS51.57 as the result of the annual
donation day on September 80.
The West Nottingham Chapter of
Westminster Guild held a covered
dish supper on Friday evening.
Twenty-Five dollars and sixteen cents
was cleared.
aren't We ALL" .hree-act
comedy which will have large
number of local players, will be pre-
scented in the Armory at Elkton, by
the Odd Fellows, on October 10 and
20.
The large barn on the farm OF
Wayne Durborow, at Hopewell, Pa,
was destroyed by fire last week, to-
gether with this years crops, result
ing in loss estimated at fully $10,-
900.
During the past month Clerk of
the Court S. Ralph Andrews reports
that there were issued at his office,
in Elkton, 447 marriage licenses, the
largest number in any one month
for over two years.
| Stone is being laid on the road in
Chester county, Pa, from Lees
Bridge to Andersons cross roads.
Stone has also been laid as far as
Kinks Mills store on the road from
Eastland to Kinks Bridge.
President H. C. McClintock, of
Elkton, and other officers of the
Maryland Federation of Mems Bible
Glasses will attend the second an
nual convention of the Pennsylvania
federation at Lancaster, October IA.
The two hundred twenty sixth an
niversary of the founding CT Head
of Christiana, Del, Presbyterian
Church was observed on Sunday,
Oct. s, when the minister, the Rev.
Henry G. WELDON, preached on ''The
Ancient Landmark"
The farm of the late John X. Arm
strong, consisting of 81 acres and So
perches in Providence Township,
Lancaster county, Pa, was sold Sat
urday to Elmer Findley, of near
Landisville. The sum paid was be-
tween $500 and $500.
A tract of 900 acres of land, on
the Bush river, at BelcaLip, near
Aberdeen, has been purchased and
will be used for the erection of a
shoe factory, to be operated by the
Bat'a interests of Czecho-Slovakia,
Largest shoe manufacturers in
Europe.
While walking through the lobby
of the Hotel DUPONT, Wilmington,
with party of friends Tuesday
Afternoon of last week, Mrs. Rachel
Hanks, of North East, tripped and
fell, fracturing her right leg. She
was removed to the Homeopathic
Hospital.
| County Agent j. z. Miller an
nounces that 249 farmers have turn
ed in applications for wheat allot-
ment contracts in Cecil county.
This figure. Mr.. Miller has said,
represents 12,026 acres, or So per-
cent of the five year average from
1929 to 1882.
The suit of Thomas B. Miller ct.
al. VS.. The James F. Powers Foundry
Co. of Elkton, has been taken to the
Court of Appeals. The Circuit Court
for Cecil County decided the Com
} pany to be insolvent and appointed
Receivers for same. The Company
gave bond in the sum of $4,000.