The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


The public schools open on Mon
day.
The cunning season for squirrels
opened on Thursday, Sept. 1.
Have you received catalog
of West Nottingham Academy?
The recent festival of the River
side Cornet Band of Port Deposit,
netted $780,
The W. C. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Edwin Haines, on Thursday,
Sept. Sth, at 2:30 o'clock.
II. Jobes, of Havre de Grace,
will umpire the Rising Sun -Elkton
game on the home grounds, Mon
day afternoon.
The registers of voters will sit for
registration on October 4th and
also on October 11th, and for re-
vision on October 18th.
Miss Mearns Carhart, of Zion. a
recent graduate of the Baltimore
Normal School, has been appointed
teacher of School No. 8, Elk Neck.
Young Friends Association will
meet next Sabbath. In connection
with program the talk on "The
Universe as we see ito will be con-
tinued.
The National Bank of Rising
Sun will observe Monday, Septem-
ber 5, Labor Day, as a legal holi-
day and not be open for bust
ness on that date.
The annual report OF Superin-
tendent of public schools, George
Biddle shows that during the year
$50, 1873 80 was disbursed, of which
amount $4O,637.6 81 was for salaries.
The date for the holding of the
1sFeast of the Seven Tables" by
the Calendar Club of North East
M. E. church is Wednesday, Sept.
d, and not Sept. 2, as published by
some of the county papers.
Miss Georgia Clifford has been
appointed teacher of school No. 2,
near Hart's Church, Miss Helen
Clark has been appointed assistant
in place of Miss Clifford at Wash
fngton school, near Bay View.
An accident on the new railroad
bridge work at Perryville occurred
last week when a colored man
named johnson, while at work on
one of the cofferdams was struck in
the head by a dredge bucket and
badly cut.
The remains of Azariah Ritten-
house and his son, Thomas w.
Rittenhouse, were last week remoy-
ed from Zion Presbyterian Gene
terry to Brookview Cemetery, Ris-
ing Sun. The former died in 1871
and the latter in 1892.
A tramp arrested for annoying
the residents of Perryville was TAX
en- TO Elkton in freight car on
Monday and did so much damage
to the car while enroute to his
boarding place at Elkton Jail that
the railroad company will prosecute
him.
The Christian EndeavOr society
of Bay View has elected the follow
ing officers: President, Miss Susie
G. Smith; ce-president, Jethro
Johnson; secretary, Miss Bessie
Lum; treasurer, Frank r. Davis;
corresponding secretary, Miss S. G.
Smith.
The Junior League will hold a
festival on the church lawn this
(Friday) evening, when ice cream,
lemonade, cake, confectionery, etc i,
will be on sale, and the Juniors
glad to give all who patronize their
feast of good things careful at
tention.
The cunning season for rail and
reed birds in Cecil county will open
on Monday, September 8, and from
present indications the season will
be a good one. This year the crop
of wild oats on the marshes is
heavy, which is a sure sign that
there will be plenty of birds.
Chas. Mckinney, who resides on
the f. r. Cherry farm, near Prin-
cipio, reports the prize tomatoes
for this season. He picked two
from his garden this week which
weighed 254 ozs. and 22i ozs,
respectively. They are of the
Santa Rosa variety and from seed
which was propagated in California.