The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-05-20
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

OtAaW OSAAJ ASosA'esAo ~AeS'S ~-
ripening rapidly this week.
Quite a number of our town
folks attended the athletic meet at
Tome on Saturday.
The W. G. T. u. W. :. with
Mrs. M. L. Brown o.r Z fsday,
May 26th, at 2:30 o'clock.
Children's Day will be observed
by Rising Sun M. E. Sunday school
the second Sunday in June.
The gross receipts of the festival
held at Love Run public school, on
Friday evening last, were $45.
The concert given on Friday eve
ming last at Elkton, in aid of
the fund for the new organ of the
Presbyterian church of that town
town netted $40.
Flower thieves are reported as
operating at Chesapeake City, a
number of the yards and porches
in that town having been stripped
of their choicest blooms.
Fl. Winfield Lewis, of Elkton,
has been appointed by Clerk of
the Circuit Court Manly Drennen
as deputy clerk, to succeed John
G. Williams. Mr.. Lewis will as
sumo his new duties on June LIST.
The ladies of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society will
hold sale of bread, cake, pies,
biscuit, rolls, etc., in the basement
of the church on Friday, May 81,
at 1880 o'clock.
The commencement exercises of
the Chesapeake City high school
will be held in Masonic hall, Chesa-
peake City, on Wednesday evening
next, when a class of five graduates
will receive diplomas.
W. P. Cummings, liveryman at
Port Deposit, had one of his horses
stray along the railroad track one
day last week and get its foot
caught. The animals leg was
broken and it had to be killed.
Bernard Barker, one of the Tome
Institute boys, while playing ball
last Thursday was accidentally
struck on the head with a bat. 1t
was at. first reported he was fatally
injured but he has since nearly re-
covered.
Sunday evening brought decid.
ed drop id the mercury and by
Monday morning it registered 400
1t has been poor week for grow
ing vegetation and garden truck
generally on account of the con-
tinued cool weather.
Theo. Garvin has improved his
property on West Main street by
removing the fence and terracing
the yard to conform to the grade OF
the new flagstone pavement, rec
emily laid. on that street by the
borough commissioners.
The MIDLAND acknowledges the
receipt of an invitation to the com.
mencement exercises of the 18th
class of Goldey Wilmington Com
mercial and Shorthand College on
Thursday evening, June 2, in the
Grand Opera House in that city.
While Mrs. Adam Peoples and
her son of Port Deposit, were re.
turning from the Tome meet last
Saturday their vehicle was upset
by turning too suddenly, and the
occupants were thrown out, Mrs.
Peoples sustaining painful bruises
about the face and body.
George McQuilkin, Jr., a former
Elkton boy, now of the U. 8. Naval
Construction Corps, has been de.
tailed to examine and report upon
the damage to the after turret
of the battleship Missouri by the
recent explosion during target
practice at Pensacola, Fla.
Harry Buckworth, a farmer Of
near Chesapeake City, lost two
horses last week. The team fright
ened at dog and ran into barb
wire fence. One of the animals
fell and broke its neck and the
other one was so badly cut by the
barbs that it died of its injuries.
Win. M. Pogue lost a fine driv-
ing horse on Sunday night. The
animal was one of handsome pail
. of bays. 1t had been driven the
day previous, being taken sick or
the road and was with difficulty got
ten back to the stable. The veter
mary diagnosed thecase as azoturia