The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-08
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

High School was laid Monday
without formal exercises.
Dame Rumor reports the we'd
ding bells will ring near Halls
Gross Roads when the leaves begin
to fall.
David Mackey has disposed OF
his general warehouse business at
Providence to JethIo johnson, OF
Bay View.
The Calvert M. E. Sunday
school will hold it's annual picnic
in the grove adjoining the church
on Saturday.
The Americas Cornet Band, OF
Perryville, has been organized with
twenty-five members. A festival
will be held Sept. Ia, 15, and 16 to
raise funds with which to puy in
struments.
Quite number from this town
and vicinity expect to attend the
demonstration at West Chester to
morrow, commemorating the fiftieth
anniversary of the republican party
in Chester county, Pa.
The annual reunion of Company
E, Purnell Legion, Md. Vols, will
be held in Wilmington on Monday,
Sept. IS. All members of the
Company are requested to attend.
SAML. HAMBLEToN, Sec.
DR.. Ira Burns, of Havre de Grace,
expects to locate at Woodlawn,
where he will practice medicine.
DIR. Fl. G. Donahoo, who has been
practicing in the neighborhood since
April, has decided to- locate in
Chester, Pa.
The first quarter of West Not
tingham Academy begins Monday
Sept. IL. Students desiring to
enter should make special effort to
be there on the first day. A larger
number than usual have expressed
their intention of attending.
About thirty neighbors and
friends assisted on Saturday in
raising the frame of the new barn
beingerected by Granville W. Lynch
on his farm near town, to replace
the one struck by lightning and
burned on the evening of July 90.
The property of Capt. John G..
Shippers, at Colora, embracing half
an acre ofland, with dwelling, barn
and other outbuildings, was sold on
Thursday at the Court House door,
Elkton, by w. S. Evans, assignee
of mortgage, to Wilbur w. ,McCar-
dell, for 1896.
B. T. Banghart, the engineer in
charge of the macadam road build
ing between Rising Sun and Far
mington, has severed his connection
withthe State Highway Commission
and accepted position with the
Erie railroad. He leaves Rising
Sun this week to enter upon his new
duties at Cory, Pa.
Contractor Il. Ward Brown COM
pleted the Rising Sun Pennington
macadam road this week and moved
the stone crusher, steam roller and
other road machinery, together
with his force of men and teams,
to Perryville where he commenced
work on a mile of road between
that place and Aiken.
The w. G. T. u. Parlor Meeting
held Wednesday evening was a
very pleasant affair. A splendid
program of recitations and music
had been prepared and was rem
dered, at the conclusion of which
light refreshments were served and
social intercourse enjoyed. The
proceeds from the silver offering
were $3.50.
The public schools of the County
opened on Monday, Sept. 4th.
Rising Sun school had As pupils
enrolled the first day, with Miss
Eleanor M. Jenness, principal, and
Miss Ruth Brown, assistant. Ris-
ing Sun grammer schools enroll
ment was 43, with Miss Bessie
Rawlings, principal, and Miss
Naomi Vandegrift, assistant.
The basket picnic and democratic
demonstration held on the Knight
farm, near Cecilton, on Tuesday,
was largely attended by citizens of
the First, Second and Third dis
tricts. The meeting was presided
over by A. L. CrotheIs, Esq, of
Elkton, and number of speeches
made, there being a full turnout of
democratic candidates and much
political enthusiasm.