The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

dClC IO0l A<SONAC, ~ fOooS ~
w. Bowlsby, for $1,000.
Don't forget the bake to be held
on Friday evening, 10Th inst, in
the basement of the church.
1t cost Cecil county $4,000 to
maintain her roads and bridges
during the fiscal year just closed.
Chicken thieves are reported as
making frequent raids on hen
roosts in the neighborhood of
Akin.
The festival held by the Modern
Woodmen at Liberty Grove on Fri
day and Saturday evenings last
netted $50.
The sum of $37, 900 has been ap-
propriated for school purposes in
Cecil county this year by the
County Commissioners.
The Board of Election Supervis-
ors met at their Office in ElktOn on
Monday and examined the newly
appointed election officials.
The New Bridge base ball club
will hold festival on the fiat be-
tween Stone Run and Octoraro
creek on the evening of July 81.
The Presbyterian Sunday school
of Port Deposit will hold its annual
excursion to Betterton, via the
steamer Susquehanna, on Thursday,
July 81.
The gross receipts of the festival
held by the Ushers' Union Of
North East on the Fourth Of July,
were $261. The affair netted
about $175.
Noble Lownes, a half witted col
ored boy, aged eight years, fell into
the Elk Creek at the Elkton
wharves Wednesday afternoon, and
was drowned.
Ernest Biddle, North East lad,
while wrestling with a companion
one day last week, fell on his LEG
and suffered a fracture of both bones
lust above the ankle.
The water right tracts along the
Octoraro, purchased by Philada.
parties, are being marked by gran
ite corner stones, which have been
shipped to this station.
The purity of the water supply
of the town of Perryville has beer
pronounced fair by the chemist Of
of the State Board of Health, but q
archaeological test is advised.
The first span on the west end
of the p, B. &. W. railroad bridge
over the Susquehanna River will
be temporarily strengthened by q
trestle work until the new bridge
is built.
DIR. J. II. Curran, professor ol
history and economics at the Jacot
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, il
preparing for the United States q
photography on the subject O.
wages.
The hay harvest has been pro
ceeding, between showers, all week
Some fields of grass are heavy
others light, making an average
yield. Most wheat is reported
damaged by fly.
Carroll Coale, of ColOra, was ac
cidentally stuck in the ankle by 6
pltchfork in the hands of Lawson
Nesbitt, a fellow harvester, OF
Saturday. The injury was severe
one and very painful.
The ladies of Principio Furnace
M. E. church will hold festiva
and supper on the church lawr
Saturday, July 16. Ticket, adults
20 cents; children 15 cents. i
stormy, Wednesday evening.
The Ladies' Aid of Mt. Pleasant
will hold a festival on Friday and
Saturday evenings of this week, in
the grove adjacent to the church
On Saturday evening the occasion
will be enlivened with music by
Oakryn Band.
Mrs. Elizabeth Willetts, on Sun
day morning last, fell from the
back porch of her residence al
ROwlandville and fractured he,
ankle. Mrs. Willets is large
woman and it required eight mer
to carry her from the yard to the
house after she met with the pain
full accident.
w. E. Douglass and j. E. Fuller,
Associate Principals of Goldey
College, are very popular with
their students.