The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-29
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

WOODLAND camp Will open
Thursday of next week.
The public schools of the county
will reopen the first Monday in
September.
The receipts of the festival held
at Moore's Chapel, near Lombard,
last week, were about $25.O0.
The public school building at
Lombard, which was burned last
spring, will be rebuilt this fall.
Don't forget the festival to be
held by Colora Lodge, X. of P, on
Friday and Saturday evenings.
Rev. J. L. Robinson, of Norfolk,
Va, occupied the pulpit of West
Nottingham Presbyterian church
on Sunday last.
Miss Edith DeBerry will succeed
Miss Marion Clark as teacher at
Cecilton high school, the latter
having resigned.
J. Ruley Kirk purchased at
trustees sale on Wednesday the
White property of II acres, in the
First district, for $500.
L. M. Haines, trustee, sold last
week to the Vestry of Trinity P. b.
church, Elkton, small house and
lot at Principle, for 500.
The plum trees in this section
are so heavily loaded with fruit
that many of them are breaking
down with the abundant crop.
Miss BERTHE Graham has been ap.
pointed teacher of the Principle
Furnace public school, vice Miss
Helen A. McCauley, resigned.
A COW belonging to VIM. Peoples,
of New Valley, was struck by a Bal
timore Central train last week and
so badly injured that it had to be
killed.
The tombstone of Rev. Arnold
Naudain, a pioneer of Methodism,
bearing the dates 17S3-1S49 was
uncovered in Warwick by work
men last week.
The harvesters on the James H.
Evans farm, west of town, have
killed ten copperhead snakes dur
ing this busy season, while at work
in different fields on the farm.
The order for the new pipe organ
for Elkton Presbyterian church has
been placed with Philadelphia
firm, and it is expected will be the
finest in Cecil county when in
stalled.
AL. Steele's Uncle Toms Cabin
Show exhibited in Rising Sun last
evening to a fair sized audience.
The tents were pitched on the ball
grounds, there being quite an ex-
panse of canvas spread.
Mrs. Thos. Kirk, of this town,
received box of cherries this week
from George Kirk, OF Snohomish,
Washington. They are beauties,
large and firm, and show that the
fruit season on the Pacific slope is
much later than with us.
Joseph Pogue and William
Pogue of Rising Sun, Md, charged
with selling goods contrary to the
laws of Pennsylvania, were before
Squire Hudson Wednesday. They
waived a hearing and gave bail for
appearance in Court.-Press.
Horace Garrison, Robert Bond,
Robert Watson aud Mary Dorsey,
colored speakeasy keepers of Elk
ton, caught in the raid last week,
have been committed to Jail in
default of $500, to await the action
of the September term of Court, on
the charge of violating the county
prohibitOry law.
Mrs. Josephine B. Cantwell, of
Charlestown, on Wednesday, while
in Wilmington, lost her pocket
book containing $25 in cash and a
5000 certificate of the Elkton Ma
tional Bank. She reported her
loss to the police and the property
was later located; it having been
left in Snellenburg's store on Mar
ket street.-Democrat.
A reunion of the Stubs family,
descendants of Vincent Stubs, Sr.,
will be held at the old homestead
in Fulton township, Lancaster
county, in August, to celebrate the
one hundreth anniversary of the
erection of the old stone mansion
house. The house was built in
1904 by Vincent Stubs and his
wife Priscilla.