The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-08
Briefly Noted News


Clubs in this county enjoyed a sight
seeing trip to the National capital
last week.
The property of John c. Fulton, Of
Elm, Pa, was sold at public sale to
Sue A. Whitman, Of near Wrights-
dale, fer $1,225.
An ovrheated brooder stove in the
brooder house OF Pete Penti, Hockes-
sin, Del, caused 1000 baby chicks to
be smothered to death.
The annual congregational supper
and meeting of West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church was held in the
Chapel on Thursday night
Payment to farmers in Cecil coun-
ty by the Agricultural Admlnistra-
ton, under the 1886 agricultural
conservation program amounted to
$49,696.37.
Odd Fellows of Elkton, have Sc
lected June 1925 as the dates Tor
holding their annual carnival in Elk
ten, The Rebekahs. will participate
in the affair this year.
The farm of George L. Ewing,
about one mile southeast of Rising
Sun, and containing sixty-six acres,
was sold at public sale to George
Pierce, of Rowlandville, for $1,000.
While Robert Marshall, SON CT
Roland Marshall, of Sylmar, was
playing around the house with a
compalon, he and his playmate ran
together, Robert suftering a broken
nose.
The Carpenters Point Golf
Course, along the North East River,
was sold at mortgages sale by Viii
liam Pepper Constable, assignee OF
Baltimore, to the Baltimore Trust
Company for $4,000.
At the April meeting of the Cecil
County Anglers CLUB, to ne held In
Ektcn on Monuay evening, the 1lth,
the speaker will be MAX CHANGERS,
secretary of the Chesapeake Bay
Fishing Fair Association.
The patrons OF Perryville schools
have formed Parent-Teachers AS
ISOLATION with Willis M. Gillespie,
president; Mrs. Ida Fay, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. John Barrow, treasurer,
and Mrs. Betty johnson, cary.
The Reynolds School cleared about
$21.0O at their Bake he'd Saturday
afternoon in the basement OF the M.
E. Church. This money will be spent
for books, etc. Many thanks to
all friends who helped in any way.
Wheeler & Grier, realtors of Ok
ford, Pa, have sold for Field s.
Shelor his dwelling property in CAL
vert. The purchaser was Charles
Ward, who recently has operated the
farm of Rev. Prettyman, at Zion.
Possession at once.
Fer questioning in the attempted
ROBBERY of four businesses on West
Main Street, Elkton, one night last
week, William Purnell, a young
white man Of that town, was
taken into custody. The authorities
are looking for another suspect.
Mrs. Elwood Brown met with pain
full injuries about the body and head,
on Monday morning, about nine
o'clock, when she fell from the back
porch of her home on South Queen
street, height of about fifteen feet.
Fortunately no bones were broke /.
but her injuries are severe.
Given a hearing before Magistrate
Lawrence of Perryville, charged with
larceny of copper wire from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
Walter Rice and Charles Gordon,
young white men of that town, were
each sentenced to six months in
Maryland House CT Correction.
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The feature of the P. T. A. meet
ing Thursday evening, in the High
School auditorium was a concert by
the North East Band and the North
East High School orchestra. Both
organizations were under direction
Of Prof. Rinehart and rendered sew
eral selections in splendid style.
Traffic over the State owned bridge
over the Sassafras river, connecting
Cecil and Kent counties, link in the
Eastern Shore boulevard, has been
closed the past week, while repail
to the bridge are in progress, neces-
stating a detour Of approximately
sixteen miles.