The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-11-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Tuesday is Election Day.

Tuesday is Election Day.
The cunning season for partridges
and rabbits opened on Tuesday.
The town commissioners are ma
cadamizing portion of E. Main
street.
The Young Friends Association
will meet next Sabbath at 2:3O.
Ali are welcome.
Jonathan Reynolds has, g. B.. castor
bean III his yard which measures
fleet in height. -,
The young men Of Port Deposit
gave a5HalloWe' en- danceon Mon.
day night, in that town.
The W. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. N. G. Brown, on Thursday
afternoon, Nov. 10, at 2:30 O'Clock.
Election Day, Nov. s, being a
legal holiday, the National Bank OF
Rising Sun will not be open for
business on that date.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of the
Port Deposit Presbyterian church,
cleared $95 by their recent bazar
and supper, held in that town.
The first caisson for the new
Pennsylvania railroad bridge piers
was placed in position on the Perry.
vile side of the river last week.
Baker & Davis, who operated a
cannery at Elkton this season, paid
out about $6, 900 to the farmers in
that section for corn and tomatoes.
The county has expended $642.13
fhus far in an effort to find the
murderer of Albert Constable, but
has obtained no clue of the guilty
party.
The Singerly stock farm, near
Elkton, which was recently pur-
chased by John r. johnson, Of
Philada., will be known in future
as the Melrose Poultry and Dairy
Farm.
The ladies of Zion M. E. church
will give an oyster supper at Cam,
eron's store, Friday evening, Nov.
IL. Supper 35c. Proceeds fol
church purposes. If rainy, next
fair evening.
The reopening exercises of Little
Britain Presbyterian church, on
Wednesday, were attended by Mr..
and Mrs. Wayne Reynolds. The
church has undergone extensive
repairs and improvements this fall
DR.. S. T. Young, of Oxford,
while speeding Cloud England's
trotter at Highland Park track or
Monday, was thrown from his
sulky by the stumbling Of the horse
and sustained a dislocated shoulder.
1t will be unlawful to shoot birds
or game in Cecil county on Election
day, this year. The law was pass.
ed at the recent session OF the
Legislature, and the Game Wardens
have been instructed to enforce the
law. A heavy fine is attached te
all violations.
Don't forget the Chrysanthemum
Tea to be given in the lecture room
of the Rising Sun M. E. church,
under the auspices of the Epworth
League, on Wednesday evening,
Nov. 9, from 5:3O to $50 o'clock
Supper % cents; ten cents addition.
al with oysters.
The belled buzzard has again
been reported. 1t was seen and
heard on Wednesday in the neigh
borhood of Principle. Persons on
the farms of f. M: Harris and Robt
T. Cameron were attracted by the
'tinkling of the bell and had good
view of this much chronicled scav-
enger.
A republican mass meeting was
held in the town hall, Rising Sun,
last night, which was addressed by
Sami. Ford, Esq, of Balto.; ex
State Senator David Dick, Henry
M. Mccullough, Esq, and VIM.
T. Warburton, Esq, of Elkton.
Music was furnished by Riverside
Cornet Band of Port Deposit.
At the democratic meeting in the
Town Hall last Saturday Omar ID.
Crothers, Esq, of Elkton, and
Howard Bryant, Esq, of Balto.,
were the speakers and delivered
pleasing addresses to an attentive
audience. The race issue, trusts
and Panama canal were the topics
which afforded material for the
speakers and Mr.. Bryant gave q
very dramatic portrayal of the
threatened negro domination.