The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The September term of court
convenes next Monday.
Elkton lawyers will form a
County Bar Association.
VIM. J. Nesbitt is adding half
story and new roof to his dwelling
at Mt. Pleasant.
The Colora base ball team will
hold fair and festival this and to-
morrow evenings.
E. II. Worthington & Son are
improving their store property with
a new coat of paint.
The receipts of the Rising Sun
Elkton ball game, at the latter
place last Saturday, were $134.
Several county constables owing
to the added duty of enforcing the
new dog tax law, have resigned.
VIM. T. Warburton has been
appointed council for the B. & O.
railroad company in Cecil county,
vice John s. Writ, deceased.
The ladies of Rising Sun w. G..
r. u. will hold bake in the M.
Z. church tomorrow afternoon at
4:30 o'clock. Everybody welcome.
By the bursting of his gun while
squirrel hunting, Samuel Sparks,
of Chestertown, few days ago re-
eeived injuries which may prove
fatal.
The Misses Haines have had a
bulk window placed in front of
their residence on Queen Street in
which to display their fall stock OF
millin cry.
W. H. Boughman, operating the
Horseshoe farm, procured a corn
binder this week. This is the first
implement of the kind to be used
in this section.
The W. G. T. U. will hold a
parior meeting at the home of Mrs.
s. Taylor Reynolds on Wednesday,
Sept. 81, at 7.3O o'clock. Refresh
ments will be served. A silver
offering will be taken.
H. Linn Worthington spent
Monday and Tuesday on the Elk
river in the yacht Katharine,
shooting rail birds. He returned
with the following score to his
credit: Z ducks, 40 rail birds and
a peck of reed birds.
Presiding Elder Mowbray will
preach in the Mt. Pleasant M. E.
Church next Sabbath evening.
Rev. Earle Malloy will occupy the
pulpit Sabbath morning next,
while Rev. j. M. Collins will
preach at Rising Sun.
The GAL a. M. train at Rising
Sun was detained over an hour last
Friday on account of freight
wreck at Chester Heights, and then
came through minus the mail car
which followed with a special en-
gine during the afternoon.
During the heavy storm Of
Wednesday night one of the chin
news on the residence Of John w
Buckley was blown down with q
crash, disturbing the slumbers ol
the occupants of the house, who
thought for time that cyclone
had struck them.
Chas. W. Mckinney, Of Prin-
cipiu, who two weeks ago reported
some big tomatoes of the Santa
Rosa variety, comes to the front
again and beats his own record.
He left at the MIDLAND Office this
week a tomato which weighs 26a
ounces and measures 164 x14A
inches around.
Chas. Murphy, eolored man
employed by E. H. Worthington
& Son, had his arm broken while
loading goods at the station last
Thursday. He was putting up the
tailboard when the horse suddenly
backed the wagon against the
freight depot, catching the mans
arm between the wagon and build.
ing and fracturing a bone in the
wrist.
The heavy downpour nearly all
day Wednesday brought welcome
relief from the dust, but the in.
creased violence of the storm al
might wrought considerable damage
in the corn fields and ON some Of
the roads. One of the maple trees
in Mrs. Clara /. Turner's yard on
Cherry street was blown down,
breaking a panel of the front fence
in ifa descent