The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-08-05

Forty tickets were SOlQ at Kissing
Sun station for the Colchester ex-
cursion on Wednesday.
Cecil county's share of the State
fund for free school books, payable
August 1, is $3,570.59.
Joseph Hughes, colored, was ar:
rested in Elkton this week on the
charge of selling liquor.
The festival held by the New
Bridge base ball club, near Cecil
paper mill, last week, netted $SS.
The attendance at Leslie Camp
last Sunday was over 5000. The
sum of. $149 was taken in at the
gate for admissions.
The pulpit of West Nottingham
Presbyterian church was filled on
Sunday last by Rev. James Camp
bell, of Sweet Air, Md.
Our thanks are extended to VIM.
j. McDougal for a box of fine
plums, sample of bountiful crop
which his tree bore this year.
The New Bridge ball team went
down to defeat on Saturday after
noon, by score of 10 to 6 at
the hands of the Washington
Amateurs.
The p, B. & w. passenger sta
tion at North East was struck by
lightning and slightly damaged
during the storm of Monday
afternoon.
Young Friends Association will
meet in their room next Sabbath al
2:30 p. m. In connection with the
regular program the talk on "The
Universe as we see it" will be con.
tinued.
There will be no service at the
M. E. church Sunday morning
Rev. J. P. Otis preaching at Wood
lawn camp. The evening service
will be in charge of the Epworth
League.
The benefit given at Tome Inr
last week for John Shade, who re-
ceived serious injuries by a fall
from the ladder on the inside o.
: the stack at the Institute power
house, netted $115.
The Sparvetta Co. has been blast
ing out flint on the Keilholtz farm
this week. The flint is crushed AND
mixed with the feldspar quarried
and ground by the company tt
give it the proper consistency fol
manufacturing purposes.
Pogue & Sons lost one of theil
livery horses on Sunday night
The animal had been driven in the
afternoon and returned to the
stable in the evening in an exhaust
ed condition, finally succumbing
from the effects of the extreme
neat.
W. H. Boughman, on the Horse
shoe farm, had a COW meet &
peculiar death recently. The
animal was grazing on the hillside
and got its head in the fork of &
tree, and when found its body was
- suspended from the lower side O
the tree and swinging clear from
the ground.
The festival held at West Not
tingham by the Christian En-
deavor Society was interferred witt
by the rain on Thursday evening O
last week, and was consequently
continued the following evening
The event was a financial success
the gross receipts for the two eve
nings being over $40.
Benz. Briscoe plucked from {
bunch of bananas at his restaurant
last week a curiosity in the form O
double banana. Both banana!
were perfectly formed specimens O
fruit and of extra large size. They
were Joined together their entir,
length, with the exception OF abou
an inch at either end, and were
perfectly ripened.
Cyrus Moore, residing near Por
ter's Bridge, presented the MID
LAND Office with basket of fin,
apples of the Early Transparent
variety. They are good to look a
and as good as they look. Mr.
Moore says he will match the roat
leading from Porter's Bridge t.
Colora against any in the county
as being the worst. .