The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-10-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

Mt pleasant M. E. Church next
Sunday evening.
Extensive repairs and improve
ments are being made to st. Marks
Chapel, near Perryville.
Rev. j. F. Bryan will preach at
South Baltimore M. P. church,
Baltimore, next Sunday evening at
8 o'clock.
Hon. L. Irving Handy, of New
ark, has been elected Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge OF Delaware,
A. F. and A. M.
A mammoth pumpkin is on ex-
hibition at Reynolds restaurant.
II weighs LOG pounds and was grown
by John Sergeant, near town.
The County School Board, at its
meeting on Tuesday, decided to
hold the annual Teachers Institute
at Elkton, on Oct. 1927 inclusive.
Homard Terry, who moved to
Atlantic City last spring and engag-
ed in the butter and eggs business
there, has removed to his former
home near Colora.
A steam merry go, round has
been set up on the ball grounds
and is occupying the attention OF a
great many of our residents-Dlg
and little-in the evenings.
The farm belonging to the estate
of Emma 81. Armstrong, deceased,
was sold at public sale on Tuesday.
The property contains 173 acres,
living in the Fourth Sistrict, and
was purchased by Fred Armstrong
for $4,000.
R,y. w. Ernest Greenfield,
pastor of Perryville M. 3. Church,
reports that the Indebtedness
against the new paronage is only
1926. and is making special effort
to raise large portion OF that
fund by Thanksgiving.
The work of laying the gas mains
in the town of Oxford has been
completed by the Citizens Gas and
Fuel Co. President ]. D. Burn, of
the company, drove the silver rivet
which marked the completion OF
the gas tank, on Friday.
The Third District Republican
Club has been organized at Elkton
with Geo. A. Blake, president; P.
M. Groves, secretary; G. Q. Strick-
land, treasurer.
Philip Torbert, of Perryville, a
railroad brakeman, was knocked
from his train near Columbia by an
overhead bridge, one day last week
and received serious but not fatal
injuries.
The p, B. & W. Railroad Com
pany is erecting a large water tower
at it's track tanks just east of New
ark. Water will be pumped into
this great reservoir from the Small
ey millpond, some distance away.
Rev. DR.. J. F. Bryan will preach
ON Cecil Circuit M. P. Church next
Sunday az follows: Bay View,
1880 a. M, and Bethel at 3 p. m.
Rev. w. H. Wiley, of Oxford, will
preach at Mount Olivet church at
81 m.
John w. Burgess of Hockessin,
DEL, has been appointed an assist.
ant appraiser in the customs survice
at New York, at an annual salary
of 5000. The new appointee has
a technical knowledge of pottery,
which line of goods he will inspect.
The property of Lewis @. Ste-
kann was sold at mortgage sale last
week. The 85 acre tract on Red
Hill was sold to Louis o. /. Atwood
for $500; the old Larzalere farm of
l65 acres in Upper Elk Neck was
sold to A. Lincoln Lyon of Hartford
county, for $l,5 500.
A Democratic Amendment Meet
ing will be held at Calvert on
Saturday evening, October ID, at
7.3Op.m., and will be addressed by
Albert Constable, Hiester Hess and
Austin l.. Crothers, Esqs. The
Elkton Mandolin Club will be pres
ent, and also brass band will rem
der music.
Mrs. L. r. Atkinson left with
MS this week large bouquet o:
dahlias, embracing some eight or
ten different varieties of this bean.
tiful flower. Mrs. Atkinson is a
great lover of flowers and suo-
eessful grower of them, having over
fifty varieties of the dahlia alone in
her yard near Pennington.