The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-17
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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afternoon next, at 2 O'Clock.
The Bay View M. P. Sunday
school will hold its annual festival
on Saturday evening, June Is.
Watermelons have made their
appearance in the Elkton market,
but haven't reached Rising Sun
yet.
Over forty young ladies, most of
them high school graduates, took
the examination for teachers at Elk
ton last week.
A festival will be held at Har-
mony M. P. church, Rowlandville,
on Friday and Saturday evenings,
June II and Is.
John B. Grason has purchased
the Haines farm, near town, con-
tanning 50 acres, with improve
ments, for $685..
The Woodlawn Y will hold a
social at the home OF Miss Lulu
Tyson, near Woodlawn, Friday
evening, 18th inst.
James G. Morrow has been ap-
pointed administrator de bonis non
of Benjamin G. Pearce, vice John
S. Writ, deceased.
The Weldon farm, near Colora,
containing 20 acres, has been pur-
chased by Morris 7. Wood, of
Philada., for $4,000.
Miss M. Bessie Rawlings, Of
Woodlawn, has been reappointed
principal of Rising Sun public
school for another year.
Miss Mary Thompson, of school
No. 2, Elk Neck, and Miss Rhoda
Burns, of the Bay View school,
have rendered their designations to
the School Board.
The lawn fete and festival held
by the ladies of Elkton in that
town last week, for the benefit of
the Union Hospital, was a very
successful affair and netted $133.
Senator Henry M. Mccullough,
of Elkton, delegate to the Republi-
can National Convention from the
First Maryland Congressional Dis
trict, will leave for Chicago on
Saturday.
Prof. r. W. Tinsley, former
teacher of the Friends Normal In
stitute, of this town, has been elect
ed to the chair of biology in the
Southwestern University, of George
town, Texas.
A strawberry festival will be held
at Appleton on Thursday evening,
June 23, for the benefit of the
Union Hospital fund. The Occa-
sion will be enlivened by music by
Elkton Cornet Band.
Everybody is invited to be pres
ent at the M. e. church on
Monday evening, June Goth, at
s o'clock, to be addressed by
Mrs. Mary r. Haslup, State Presi-
dent of the w. @. T. U.
DIR. G. S. Dare was unfortunate
enough to lose his valuable driving
horse "Governor Pattison," last
Tuesday. The animal was taken
sick the day previous, with symp-
toms of the collie, and veterinary
skill proved unavaillng.
James Headley, a former Rising
Sun boy, has been elected a direct
or in the Dingee & Conard Co., of
West Grove. Mr.. Headley has
been bookkeeper for a number of
years past for the firm, who are the
largest rose growers in the country.
The annual banquet of the
Alumni Association of Jacob Tome
Institute was held at Tome Inn,
Port Deposit, on Wednesday eve
ming. At the business meeting of
the association Mr.. Hutchinson was
elected president, e. l.. Haines
vice. president, Miss Wilson secre-
tary and Miss Ada Crawford treas
urer, for the ensuing year.
Elmer Reynolds, station agent at
Chadd's Ford, on the Baltimore
Central railroad, was struck in the
face by a ball on Saturday, while
engaged in game OF base ball at
Toughkenamon and suffered frac-
ture of the cheek bone. He was
taken to a Philada. hospital for
treatment. The injured man is a
brother of Eli t. Reynolds of this
town, and is a native of near Rock
Springs,