The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-09-06
NEWS.
Friday, Sept. 6 1901.
MIS-, Or LOCALS

Cecil county schools, public and
private, open Monday, Sept. 8.
Newton Mcdowell, Calvert, lost
horse Saturday from lockjaw.
Caterpillars are overrunning fruit
and shade trees and destroying
their foliage.
Milton Hasson, of Zion, fell from
his straw shed last week and broke
his right arm.
There was not an application fer
marriage license at the Clerks
Office, in Elkton, last week.
Miss Charlotte E. Lowe, of Bal
timore, has been appointed teacher
of North East colored school.
The Home Mission Social will be
entertained by the Misses Brown,
at their home near Sylmar, this
evening.
Squirrel season opened last Mon
day and the woodlands are echoing
with the "bang- bang" of the early
morning hunters.
A number of Kent and lower
Cecil county farmers have sold their
corn crop as it stands in the field
for so cents bushel.
The w. G. T. u. will meet with
the Secretary on Thursday, Sept.
IL, at 2:30 O'Clock. All members
are urgently invited to be present.
Mrs. Isabella Wilson, of Balti-
more, has purchased at private sale
the residence of Register of Wills
Reuben E. lamar, in Elkton, for
$500.
FL. Linn Worthington is nursing
sprained ankle this week, caused
by making a mis- step from the
platform at the rear of the store
last Friday.
A colored folks camp meeting
will be held in G. G. PyIe's woods,
north of Rising Sun, commencing
Sunday, Sept. s, and continuing
over the 10Th.
The Young Ladies Circle OF Not
ting, Pa, Presbyterian church held
festival on Friday evening last,
the Nottingham Cornet Band fur
nishing music for the occasion.
A wagon loaded with 900 pounds
of old paper, belonging to Saml.
Lynch, a junk dealer, was destroy
ed by fire one night last week at
Russell's gravel pit near Bay View.
DIR. John s. Fulton, Secretary of
the State Board of Health, has sent
letters to the various health officers
throughout the State urging pre-
cautionary measures against the
appearance of smallpox
BY their recent fair and festival
the members of Harmony Chapel,
near Liberty Grove, raised sum
Sufficient to enable them to defray
their church debt, and leave bal
ance in the treasury of 800.
The hours of evening services at
the M. q. church were changed on
Sunday. Epworth League meets
at $3.50 in place of 700 o'clock,
and preaching is at 1870 instead of
500 o'clock as during the summer
months.
Clinton Jackson and Rufus G..
Jackson purchased at trustees sale
on Tuesday the farm lately owned
by w. Scott Benjamin, for $4,000.
The property is situated near Prin-
cipio and comprises rs acres of land
and Improvements.
A proclamation has been issued
by Gov. Smith designating Thurs
day. Sept. -, Defenders Day, a
legal holiday throughout the State.
The holiday is in commemoration
of Baltimore's successful resistance
of British invasion in 1914.
The tomato crop is so backward
and short in this section that it will
hardly pay for the picking and
hauling. Chas. E. Moore, near
Colora, will pillow up his patch and
seed the ground in wheat as the
crop will not justify the harvesting,
Moody said TO be the best
bird dog ever gunned on the Sus-
quehanna flats, was poisoned last
week by some miscreant. The dog
was IL years old and was the prop.
erty of Capt. Jesse Poplar, of Havre
de Grace, who valued him highly
Azahel Griest, an aged man liv
ing by himself near Chrome, was
found in a helpless condition last
Sunday morning by his neighbors.
He had suffered a stroke severa
days previous, leaving him some
what naralvzad and militant foof