The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-03-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.
Moving Day.

uAONibS 10y
March mud makes many movers
mighty mad to-day.
A spring shoot will be held on
the Rising Sun Gun club grounds
on Wednesday, April 9th.
The river road from Conowingo
to Rowlandville has been blocked
with ice since the flood.
1t is estimated that the new
railroad bridge between Perryville
and Havre de Grace will cost
$4,000, 900.
Good prices were realized at
Cook & Jackson's horse sale in
Rising Sun last Monday, twenty
head averaging $160.40.
The w. G. T. U. will celebrate
Neal Dow's birthday at the home
of Mrs. Mary Mahan on Thursday,
March 31st, at 2.30 o'clock.
The annual town election for a
president and two commissioners
will be held in Elkton, on Monday,
April 11th.
Ross Martindale shipped on
Tuesday morning from this station
carload of COWS and calves to
Mendenhall.
Rights of way are being acquired
for the extension of the MiddletOwn
& Odessa trolley line to Clayton
and Smyrna, Del.
The ladies of Trinity P. E..
church, Elkton, will hold a
rummage sale in that town, after
Easter, for the benefit of the Parish
House.
The Art Square Company, which
recently leased the weave mill at
Baldwin's, is installing machinery,
and will start operations about
April 1.
OF the 104 students of Elkton
public school 81 were absent Mon
day on account of illness. Three
of the five teachers and a sub
stitute are also i'll.
Samuel G. Rowland has been
elected member of the Board of
Trustees of Jacob Tome Institute,
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Henry G. Nesbitt.
Rev. F. Burgette Short. who at
one time was pastor of Mt. Pleasant
M. Il. church, near COlora, has
accepted the pastorate of Method
ist Episcopal Church in Portland,
Oregon.
Last year the steamer Susque-
hanna began her regular trips be-
tween Port Deposit and Baltimore
on March Z, but this year the con-
ditions are not yet favorable for
navigation to and from Port.
Jesse W. Hambleton, of Green
hurst, while on a recent extended
tour through Florida and Cuba,
invested in an orange grove neal
Kissimmee, Fla, and will give con-
siderable of his time to orange cul-
ture in future.
The annual election of five Com
missioners of the town of North
East was held on Monday. There
were two tickets in the field, the
old board being 1e elected as fol-
lows: R. G. Underwood, Benjamin
f. Thomas, Isaiah Biddle, James
L. Baker, II. l.. Harvey.
A large force of men are at work
repairing the approach to Como
wingo bridge, recently damaged by
the flood and ice. A temporary
structure will be built to replace
the two spans of the bridge swept
away. They will later be replaced
by substantial iron structure.
Rev. w. G. Koons, Presiding
Elder of Easton District, will
preach in Rising Sun M. E. chur h
next Sunday morning. The Ep-
worth League will have charge of
the evening service. Rev. j. p.
Otis, the newly appointed pastor,
will arrive in Rising Sun about
the middle of next week.
At the Fourth Quarterly Confer
ence. held in Rowlandville M. p.
church on Saturday, March 16,
Stephen F. Woodrow was elected
delegate and Millard F. Mcdowell
alternate, to the Maryland Annual
Conference, which meets in Alnut
Memorial church, Baltimore, April
6, Rev. f. I. Little, ID. D.,
presiding.