The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-21

has been appointed constable for
the Third district.
The Boulden property, at Bald
win, has been purchased by Wal
ter E. Hargan, for $31O.
A horse being driven by Norman
Cummings on the streets OF Oxford
Sunday evening fell and broke its
neck.
A barge loaded with lumber for
the new bridge work sank in the
Susquehanna off Perryville one day
last week.
The sum of $4,000 was expend-
ed on the roads and bridges of Cecil
county during the fiscal year end
ing June 80 last.
The Elkton Cunning Club will
hold a trap shoot at the Elkton
Baseball Park on Saturday after
noon, at 2:30 clock.
John G. Yeatman, of Chester
county, has purchased the Kirk
property, of 132 acres, in the
Fourth district, for $2,54O.
The receipts for the Fall exhibi
tion of the Oxford Agricultural
Society were $3,276.5O, expenses
$2,704.76, leaving a balance of
$574.71.
Rev. Robert Watson, pastor Of
Oxford Presbyterian church, has
received a call from the Second Pres
byterian church, Cincinnati, and
will accept.
Ducks are reported as appearing
in great numbers on the Susque-
hanna Flats and in Bush and Gun
powder rivers. The led heads
predominant.
Work on the piers of the new
railroad bridge across the Susque-
hanna at Perryville is progressing
rapidly. Two piers have been
completed on the Hartford side o1
the river and one on the Cecil side.
During the republican rally held
one night last week at Oak Hill,
one of the features of which was a
pole raising, the pole fell as it was
being raised, catching Frank Riley
under it and breaking his leg near
the thigh.
An epidemic of measles in the
neighborhood of Lewisville, Ches.
ter county, has kept more than half
of the scholars of the public school
of that place out of school the past
month. Over twenty cases have
been reported.
J. s. Elliott, superintendent of
District No. 8 of the P, B. & W.
Railroad, extending from Havre de
Grace to President Street, Balti-
more, received $500 and his assist
ant, W. E. Brown, 5000, offered
by the company tor the best kept
section of rOadbed.
The fifteenth annual session of
the Wilmington District Epworth
League will be held in Harrison
Street M. E. Church, Wilmington,
on October 81 and %. Rising Sun
chapter will be represented by Mrs.
Gertrude Pogue and Miss Elizabeth
R. Stephens as delegates.
Miss Kate Reese, of Elkton, met
with a severe accident on Monday
while visiting friends in Chesa-
peake City. The chair in which
she was about to seat herself slip
ped from under her, throwing her
heavily to the floor and causing a
fracture of the hip joint.
The total amount of dog tax col
lected in Cecil county the past fiscal
year was only $119. Judging from
the number of dogs to be seen on
the streets of Rising Sun at any
hour,-and heard at all hours of
the night-there are enough ca
mines in the Sixth district alone to
cover that amount of tax.
In the suit for $4,000 damages
brought by Blanche Crawford, ad-
ministratrix for Mrs. Katherine A.
Mcgee, against the p, B. & w.
railroad company for injuries re-
ceived in alighting from a train at
Elkton station, the case was
brought to an abrupt termination
of Friday afternoon of last week,
when the Court called attention to
the fact that the plaintiff had fail
ed to prove that she had been duly
appointed Administrative of the de-
ceased, hence had no right to bring
suit.