The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24

Inc OXFORD small boy is happy
a circus in that town this week and
another one billed to appear soon.
A movement is on foot to estab-
fish a cooperative creamery among
the dairymen in the vicinity OF
Oxford.
John J. Hartnett, of Elkton, has
been appointed for a second term
as court stenographer of the Second
Judicial circuit.
Queenstown will probably be
selected as the place for holding
the annual encampment of the
Maryland National Guard.
The heavy rain storms of last
week played havoc with the nets
of a number of the fishermen along
the Susquehanna, Elk and North
East rivers.
Rooms have been rented in the
private residence of 7. j. Abrams,
at North East, which will be fitted
up and opened as private bank
about the first of May.
The MIDLAND JOURNAL acknow-
lodges the receipt of an invitation
form the Jacob Tome Institute to it's
inaugural celebration, May Is
and Is, 1908, Port Deposit,
Maryland.
While returning from the fish
ing shore one afternoon last week,
Forest Harvey of North East, was
thrown from his buggy and sus-
tanned a fractured leg, by the up
setting of the vehicle.
Prof. Carroll Edgar, instructor
of manual training at the Elkton
High School, has been reappointed
to the position for another year,
with an increase of 800 in his
salary, making it 5000.
DR.. Abram W. Harris, director
of the Jacob Tome Institute, has
accepted an invitation to deliver
the commencement address before
the students of the McDonough
School on Saturday, May 30.
Andy Kelley recently employed
at Providence Paper Mill, has been
sent to Hamburg, Germany, by a
Philadelphia firm, to operate an
improved machine installed in a
paper mill in that foreign city.
J. G. Dennis, Perryville's veter-
mary, recently took the contract of
dressing the teeth of the horses used
in the McClenahan granite quarries,
at Port Deposit. He dressed the
teeth of the Al horses in one day.
Miss Annie L. Steele, of Oxford,
has been appointed teacher in the
colored department of the Oxford
public school, vice Eugene A. Rey-
nolds, who resigned to accept a
position with the Williams Cara
mel Company.
The Gainesville, Pa, base
ball team will have some Cecil
county talent on its pay roll this
season in the persons of Howard
johnson, of Elkton; Scott Steele,
Amos Mackie and Frank Brown, Of
the Fourth district.
On Friday evening, April oath,
the students of the Polytechnic
Institute, of. Oxford, assisted by
friends, will give scenes from
"Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage
Patch" in the school room in the
Electric Block in that town.
The Rodney Hotel, in Lewes,
Del, has been rented by Geo. H.
Bermender, of the Hotel Elkton,
who will take possession of the
hosiery after May 1, when all
licenses to dispense liquid refresh
ment in the shape of intoxication
beverages, will expire in Cecil Co.
Rev. Alpheus S. Mowbray,
of Tome M. E. church, Port De-
posit has been granted an increase
of salary from 81, 400 to 81, 500 per
year, by the official board of that
church. This the third increase of
salary granted the Rev. Mr.. Now
bray since becoming pastor of the
church.
Such large catches of herring are
reported at some of the fishing
shores as to make it impossible to
land the seine, except by the use of
smaller nets. No large catches of
shad were reported until this week
when the high tides brought many
of these fish to the head of the
Chesapeake and into the rivers.
The citizens of Oxford were so
well pleased with Prof. p. NJ.
Parsons lecture on James Whit
comb Riley that he has been engag-
ed to lecture on the subject of
Mark Twain in that town on
the evening of May list. Prof.
Pearson's lecture on the "Hoosier
Poet" will be remembered by those
of our citizens who had the pleas
ure of hearing him on March 4th
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