The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-03
MINORLOCALS
Arbor Day.

ArDOr lay.
Arbutus is in bloom.
Cherry trees have burst into
bloom this week.
The W. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Bella Pogue on Thursday,
April 9th.
Lawn mowers were noticed in
operation in town last week for the
first time this spring.
Miss Esther Reynolds has accept
ed a position at the telephone ex-
change in Eli T. Reynolds drug
store.
John L. Minter, Of North East,
has been appointed a fireman in
the State, War and Navy building,
at Washington.
The advance scouts of the mar
tins put in their appearance this
week looking for quarters, a sure
harbinger of spring.
The small property, near Colora,
at present tenanted by Robert
Woodrow, has been purchased by
Frank Foster, of ColOra.
The young ladies of North East
M. E. church choir realized the sum
of $27 from their "bake social"
ha1 ho& %0u
Henry Emory, of Elkton, has
lost two horses this week from
spinal meningitis and has two
others sick with the disease.
The pie social given by the ladies
of Charlestown M. E. church last
week was a decided success, fifty
dollars being realized as result.
Sheriff William T. McAllister
has appointed DR.. Fl. Arthur Nit
chell physician to the county Jail,
vice DR.. John H. lamar, resigned.
Jas. w. Nudge, professor of pub
lie speaking at Jacob Tome Insti-
tute, Port Deposit, has resigned
from the faculty and will enter
journalism.
The hour of evening services at
the M. E. church changes on Sun
day next, Epworth League meeting
at 700 o'clock, with preaching
service at 500.
Robert Tenant has sold his hotel
property at Conowingo, the Rail
road House, to E. B. Mcdowell,
who will conduct a general store
business therein.
The three new rural delivery
routes which were installed on
Wednesday are looked upon by the
residents of Bay View, Zion and
Octoraro as bad April fool.
A scholarship in the Washing
ton and Lee University, Lexington,
Va, has been granted Jacob Tome
Institute, and will be filled at the
end of the present school year.
Thieves with a fOndneSS for pen
MES and gum, carried off the slot
machines from the stores of T. f.
Williams and r. L. Stebbing, of
Port Deposit, one night last week.
About seventy.fve neighbors
and friends assisted s. G. England
at his barn raising, on the Light
loot farm, near Zion, on Saturday
last, when a 29x40 addition was
erected.
Young Friends Association will
meet in the town hall next Sabbath
afternoon. E. r. Burlington will
give short talk on "The Church
and its Possibilities" All are
invited.
At the suit of Passmore & Giles
spie VS.. John X. Temple, Sheriff
McAllister sold on Monday at the
Elkton Jail four horses, wagon, har-
ness, etc. The horses brought from
800 to $103.
La A1dIIlSS WAOSC AdLlC LIDS ICC
emily been mentioned for the pres.
idency of the Boston University,
has announced his decision to re.
main at Port Deposit, as director of
Jacob Tome Institute.
A bronze mural tablet, presented
by the students and friends OF
Jacob Tome Institute, will be un-
yelled during the dedicatory exer-
cises to be held May Is and 16.
The tablet will be placed in the
lobby of Memorial Hall.
Fire in an unoccupied double
frame dwelling in Elkton, on Tues
day evening, did considerable dam
age but prompt work by the fire
department of the town saved the
building from destruction. The
origin of the fire is mystery.
The ladies of Bay View M. P.
church will hold a "Sans,s ouci"
social in the Mechanics Hall on
Saturday evening, April 4th, at
s o'clock. A good entertainment
and lunch, all for Is cents.
Come one and all, you cannot af-
ford to miss if. Proceeds for