The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-01


Institute, Port Deposit.
The annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association will be held
at Ocean City July 1915.
The Ushers' Union of the North
East M. E. church will hold fair
and festival July 2 and July 4.
The government pension of Jacob
P. Markee, of Elkton, has been in
creased from S24 to $50 per month.
| Capt. Joseph Gilmore, of Port
Deposit landed an 1S-pound rock
fish with hook and line last week.
The Elkton base ball club realiz-
ed $50 as its share of the receipts of
the Carnival held in that town last
week.
The Nottingham Cornet Band
realized about $100 by the festival
held in that town on Friday eve
ming last.
The sum of $40 was realized by
the festival held Friday and Satur-
day evenings last by the North
East base ball club.
Lawrence McCommons, of the
Fourth district, was thrown from
his buggy on Saturday night, by
lcOlliding,With telegraph pole, and
severly injured.
The new State Loan for public
buildings will be offered for sale at
the Comptroller's office in An
napolis on Friday, July /. The
bonds to be sold will reach about
$S25, 900.
| Dale Naugerbauer, a lad OF 16
years, fell from a cherry tree at
Blue Ball on Friday and suffered a
broken wrist and other injuries.
He was taken to Delaware Hospital,
Wilmington, for treatment.
| A party of SO members of the
Universalist Church, Lanvale
lstreet, Baltimore, made their an
nual pilgrimage to Chesapeake City
last week, where they visited the
site of the old Uniyersalist Church.
The York Bridge Company is
erecting for the Conowingo Bridge
Company two spans of iron bridge
to replace those carried away by
the ice flood last March. Work on
the approach to the bridge is near
ing completion.
The Maryland Democratic Edi-
tors Association has elected Joseph
NJ. Street, Of Belair, president;
William B. Usilton, of Chester
town, vice. president, and Frederick
Sasser, of Upper Marlboro, secre-
tary and treasurer.
| Harry Quinn, of Pittsburg, in
the employ of the Layton Carnival
Co., was lodged in Elkton Jail last
week on the charge of stealing a
silk curtain valued at $25 from one
of the members of that company,
which had been exhibiting in the
town.
The body of Hazel Matthews,
the colored man who was knocked
overheard from a schooner in Elk
river and drowned, was recovered
Friday. The schooner was enroute
down the river after having unload
ed a cargo of poplar wood at
| Elkton.
Former Governor John Walter
Smith, it is stated, will not go, to
the Democratic convention at st.
Louis next week, and has given
his proxy to former State Senator
Austin l.. Crothers, of Cecil county,
who will represent him as one of
the delegates.at-large from Mary
land in the convention.
On Friday last as Mrs. Kirk
Springer, of New London, was
holding rope, the other end of
which was tied about the horns of
a fractions COW which was being
MIXED, the animal gave sudden
lurch, throwing Mrs. Springer to
the ground and causing injuries
from which she died Sunday.
Harry Eder, an Elkton lad aged
nine years, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
!, Fred Eder, was painfully injured
ON Friday last by the explosion of
a fire e-cracker. A companion of
Eder lighted cracker and threw
it at, him. The piece exploded
directly in front of the lads face
injuringboth his eyes so badly that
he may lose the sight of them.