The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-14
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

1AAoo 4A0AlOh IL h1ASPRtsAA As
having her home on Cherry street
improved by a coat of paint.
Miss Maude Kirk has been ap.
pointed teacher of New Bridge
public school, near Cecil Paper
Mill.
The special missionary collection
taken at Rising Sun M. E. church,
on Sunday morning last, amounted
to $66.
Norman T. Kirk, of this town,
has been appointed assistant Ii
brarian at Jacob Tome Institute,
Port Deposit.
The Ladies' Aid society of Octo.
raro M. e. church will hold a sand
wich social at the home of Altman
Ferguson Saturday eve, 18th inst.
1t is reported that Duyckinck,
Sterrett & Co., of this town, con-
template the erection and opera
tion of branch warehouse at Fair
Hill.
A horse being driven to the
bakery wagon of Engler & Muir
daugh, Oxford, dropped dead in
the road near Zion on Tuesday
afternoon.
The installation exercises of Rev.
Samuel Polk as pastor of West
Nottingham Presbyterian church
will be held on November II.
. The children and friends of Oc-
toraro M. E. Sunday school will
hold Rally Day service in the
church Sunday evening, October
16, at 1880 o'clock.
The chrysanthemum tea an.
nounced last week to be held at
West Nottingham chapel on the
10th inst, has been changed to the
following evening, Thursday, Oct.
20. Tea from 5 to 8. All welcome.
The p, B. & W. railroad CON-
pany is securing right of way for
the approach to the new bridge at
Perryville and has purchased the
properties of DIR. John G. Dennis,
Mrs. Mary Mcdonald and Alex
ander Craig.
The Coroner's jury in its verdict
on the death of Charles E. Saunders
and Ella Hammond, killed by a
p, B. & w. train last week. at
tribute the fatality to the negli.
gence OF the company in not main.
tanning a proper crossing.
A shipment of black bass was
made along the BALTIC. Central road
this week by the Us Govt. Fish
Commission at Washington, the fry
to be used for stocking the nearby
streams. W. Fl. Boughman, of the
Horseshoe farm, received a portion
of the shipment.
DIR. Joseph G. Bloodgood, asso.
ciate Professor of Surgery at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, will ad-
dress the Cecil County Medical So
.ciety on Thursday, October 20, on
the subject of "The Treatment Of
Acute Joint Diseases" The meet.
ing will be held in Elkton at eleven
O'Clock.
H. III. Kirk wishes to extend
his sincere thanks to his neighbors
and other friends who assisted SC
manfally in saving his barn and
other buildings and contents from
being burned last Friday morning,
and that he appreciates their kind
/, ly acts and words of sympathy fol-
the ldss he had sustained.
Albert Brown, employed by Scott
Wilson, the tinsmith at Rising Sun,
received a bad fall from a ladder
while at work at Harry Logan's
yesterday. He tell a distance Of
fifteen feet on a pile of stones and
sustained several severe bruises
about the hips and back but luckily
no ibones were broken, and the
chances are favorable for the youth
to be about again in a few days.
s. E. Clayton of this town, had a
narrow escape from serious injury
on Tuesday by a fall from an apple
tree. Mr.. Clayton was in the TOP
of the tree, about fifteen feet from
the ground, when a branch broke
and he fell about half that distance
lodging in fork of the tree, re-
ceiving a painful laceration of the
leg from the sharp end of a stump
of limb, but fortunately escaping
any broken bones as might have
been the case had his fall not beer
checked.