The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-10
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, April 10. 1908.
MINOR
Good Friday.

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Don't miss Ross Crane, cartoon
list, humorist, monologist, in Rising
Sun hall this evening.
Thomas P. Dale has disposed OF
his store property at Coventown, to
r. J. Duhamell, of Chestertown.
E. X. Owens, a farmer, near
Bay View, was seriously injured
Saturday by being thrown from a
wagon.
Andrew Wiley will succeed
Wells Wiley, resigned, as carrier on
the r. F. d. route from Colora, on
May 1.
Mrs. Harvey W. Caldwell is pre-
pairing to erect a frame dwelling on
the site of the one recently burned,
at New Valley.
Tome Institute will open the base
ball season at Port Deposit, on
Saturday, April Is, by a game with
Germantown Academy.
The sum of S22 was realized by
the Calender Club of Hopewell M.
E. church at the travelling social
held at the home of DR.. and Mrs.
j. T. Brown.
The annual meeting of the Home
and Foreign Missionary Societies
of New Castle Presbytery was held
at Newark on Wednesday and
Thursday, April s and 8.
Colonel Thomas Hughlett, Dep
uty Fish Commissioner, distributed
100000 yellow perch fry in Elk
river, and like amount in North
East river, on Friday last.
Miss George Clifford has resign
ed as teacher of Washington school,
near Bay View, on account of i'll
health, and Miss Rutter has been
appointed to fill the vacancy.
Miss Carrie Vansant, public
school teacher of Cecil county, has
secured position in the Pennsyl-
vania Training School for feeble
minded children at Media, Pa.
The fishing season on the Elk, Bo
hemia, North East and Susque
hanna rivers is under way and
large numbers of herring are being
caught but shad are reported scarce.
The Sunday school of Rising Sun
M. E. church has been rehearsing
this week for Sunday evening next,
when special Easter services will
be held in the church at 1880
o'clock.
At live bird shoot in Oxford on
Tuesday, Harry England of Zion
killed 40 out of 45 birds shot at.
Jas. r. Malone, a crack shot from
Baltimore killed Al out of AZ, one
bird falling out of bounds.
The Epworth League will hold
social in the M. E. church on
Wednesday evening, April %, at
s O'Clock. A special program will
be given and silver Offering taken
at the door. Refreshments served.
George W. Bowman, who has
conducted a general store at Theo-
dore, Cecil county, for some months,
has made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors. George A.
Blake, Esq, is attorney for assignee.
Milford Richards has sold 70
acres of land, with buildings there
on, being a portion of his farm
situated on the road from Rising
Sun to Richardsmere and lying near
the latter place, to Homard Terry
for $1,000.
The strong northeast wind on
Sunday morning had the effect of
carrying the water out of the
Elk river, leaving it lower than it
has been for ten years. Shipping
at the wharf in Elkton rested in
the mud, so low was the water.
Harvey X. Garvin and Marion
Garvin, who have been engaged at
millwright at Orange, Va, for some
weeks past, have returned to their
homes in Rising Sun. They report
vegetation much further advanced
at present in "Ole Virginny" than
in our own neighborhood.
A fire in the millinery establish
ment of Miss Pollock, in Oxford on
Saturday evening, caused loss of
about 500. The timely discovery
of the blaze, which was caused by
lamp, prevented a serious confa-
grafton, as the flames were spread
ing rapidly in the infammable
materials.
At Young Friends Association
on Sunday afternoon last, Z. R.
Burlington gave a talk on the
"Church and it's Possibilities, y
Mrs. Maggie Scott read "Little
Ways of Bettering the World''
and Miss L. Jannett Reynolds pre-
scented a paper on "Nature and its
INSPIRATIONS
The cold snap Saturday night and
Sunday morning caused fear thai
much damage has been done to the