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TOWN AND COUNTY. Short Paragraphs of Events in the County During the Past Week LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED Miss Lidie Stewart spent the weekTuesday next is Memorial Day. end in Baltimore, the guest of Miss Feels like the good old summer Laura A. Price. time. Mrs. Sophia Dickey, of WilmingFriday, May 26, School Rally Day ton, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. at Elkton. M. E. Flounders. The stores in town will be closed Mrs. Isabel Pogue is visiting her on. Decoration Day, Tuesday, May 30. daughter, Mrs. J. A. Hartenstine, Principio Furnace. The auto-bus line between Elkton and Newark has been suspended Miss Matilda Duyckinck has reowing to insufficient patronage. turned from Devon Manor School for the summer vacation. Tuesday, May 30, Memorial Day, being a legal holiday, the banks will Mrs. Ida Harkness and Mr. Charnot be open for business on that les Purnell, both of Elkton, were date. married Monday evening, May 15. The Board of County CommissionMiss Jane Maxwell, of Philadelers for Cecil County has appointed phia, spent Saturday and Sunday Frank S. Barrett, of Port Deposit, with her cousin, Miss Gertrude S. constable for the Seventh Election Dare. District. Rev. C. C. Harris is attending Rising Sun is to have another commencement and class reunion at garage. Chas. W. Grason expects his alma mater, Asbury College, to erect a building on his East Main Kentucky. street lot, in the near future, for Misses Mildred and Dorothy Smith. garage purposes. of Richwood, W. Virginia, were Thrown out of his automobile visitors of Miss Wilamina Ward when he ran the machine into a pole, over Sunday. Paul Cameron, of Elkton, sustained Miss Ida Lowell, of New York, a fractured collar bone. His maand Miss Frances Burdsall, of chine was badly damaged. Wenonah, N. J., were week-end An explosion of material used in guests of Miss Matilda Duyckinck. the manufacture of "spit devils' Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sadler, of slightly injured three workmen at Roanoke, Va., former residents of the Victory Sparkler Company's our neighborhood, are visiting their plant, near Elkton, last week. son. Lawrence Sadler, and, wife, of The new fire engine house, conFarmington. structed of concrete blocks in the Miss Mary Alexander, daughter rear of the public hall building, is of Isaac Alexander, Russellville, Pa., nearly completed. It is a one story and Andrew Mullin of Rising Sun. structure facing Cherry street. were married in Rising Sun, WeaMiss S. Corinne Jamar, of Elkton. nesday week. has been awarded first prize for a minature at the Brooks Memorial Mrs. E. Hughes Keilholtz. who has Art Gallery, Memphis, Tenn. She been receiving treatment for some was also awarded a first prize last weeks in the West Grove hospital is much improved, and expects to reyear. turn to her home here this week. In the report of sales of Treasury Savings certificates for the State of Mrs. Samuel H. King, of Elkton, Maryland, during month of April. has announced the engagement of Elkton stands first, Cumberland secher daughter, Charlotte Cecelia, to ond, Chesapeake City third; BaltiMr. Samuel Lyell Leithiser. The more city not included. marriage will take place in June. Gordon Jackson, of Perryville, Mr. William Heverin, of the Holly charged with shamefully beating his Hall farm, near Elkton, gave his step-father, Joseph W. Bignault, was friends a surprise last week when he given a hearing before Police Justice and Miss Anna Butler, of Christiana, Gove S. Scotten of Elkton, and senDel., were quietly married on Friday tenced to 30 days in jail. evening. The State Roads Commission on Miss Pauline Fredericks, daughter Tuesday opened bids oneseveral secof Mr. and Mrs. John T. Fredericks tions of road, including one in Cecti of Bacon Hill, and a former student County from Rowlandville to Five at the Women's College, Newark, Points, about 0.91 of a mile. The Del., eloped Saturday afternoon to low bidder was George A. Atkinson, Bel Air with Russel Waters of near at $40,429. Elkton, and was married. John Harris, a farmer of the A card from William West, who Second district of Cecil county, has been located in Bradentown, waived a hearing before Justice Florida, for the past two years, Scotten, of Elkton, on a charge of states that he and Mrs. West left on waylaying and shooting a neighbor. May the 21st for Baltimore, where David P. Fillingame, and was held they would arrive the morning of under $1000 bond. the 28th, continuing their journey The Directors of the Elkton Bankto Oxford by auto. ing and Trust Company have elected Invitations are out for the wedR. Goldey Warren, of Chestertown, Cashier of the Rising Sun Bank to ding of Miss Virginia Thomas Allen, daughter of General and Mrs. Edsucceed Lynn B. Gillespie, who goes to the Elkton bank. Mr. Warren ward M. Allen, of Darlington, and will assume his new duties June 1. Mr. Robert Hammond Webb-Peploe, of Baltimore, which will take place The stockholders of the Chesaon June 1st, at 6 o'clock (standard peake City National Bank have aptime at Kelvin Grove the home of proved the action of the directors in the bride's parents. selling the business of the institution to the Elkton Banking and Mrs. George M. Christie has sole Trust Company. The Elkton instiher residence and adjoining proptution was elected as Liquidating erty in Rowlandville to Horace W. Agent. Taylor, and will take apartments in The Cecil Star says of the fire enPort Deposit. gine, just received by North East: B. J. Aulde, whose saw mill at "The new fire engine is a beauty, Port Deposit was burned some right up to the times in every remonths ago, has purchased a tract spect, and something of which the of land near Oxford and will erect community has reason to be justly a mill thereon. proud. The protection furnished Elkton's town election, held on the town is well worth the investMonday, resulted in the choice of ment made. Wm. H. Mackall, as president; MilRaymond Newlin, Receiving Teller ler F. Magraw and Richard Ott. two of the National Bank of Coatesville year term commissioners; Edward is in West Chester jail, charged with T. Lynch and Ellsworth N. Sweet. the theft of more than $100,000. one year term commissioners. The arrested teller was not generally The first class in Home Hygiene his peculation so successfully that and Care of the Sick to be held in his speculation so successfully that Elkton has been completed. Much the bank officials were shocked to of the success of this class was due discover the shortage. to the comfortable room in which The editor of the Midland Journal the class met. This room was pronotices a dire challenge, threat, or vided by the Masons of the town. whatever one chooses to call it. All those who took the examinations published in this week's Oxford received certificates from the AmeriNews by a certain member of the old can Red Cross. The graduates were: Board of Rising Sun Town CommisMrs. Laura Biddle, Miss Elizabeth sioners, smarting under the lash of Biddle, Mrs. Carrie Davis, Mrs. public criticism, to meet them "face Evelyn A. Dunbar, Miss Catheryn M. to face." Just what is to happen to Minster, Mrs. Sue Ott, Mrs. Bertha us we do not know, but our place of D. Phillips, Miss Elizabeth Taylor, business is not hard to find whenever and Mrs. Clara E. Witworth. we are wanted.
