The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

commenced.
The public schools of Kent coun-
ty will reopen September IL.
James Campbell has purchased
the dwelling of Miss Rachel Douty
in Port Deposit.
| 1t is expected the work of dredg-
ing the channel of the Elk river
will be completed next week.
Peach growers of Elk Neck have
a fair crop and are realizing from
rs cents to 81 .25 per basket.
The Republican State Convention
will be held at the Lyceum Thea
tire, Baltimore, on Wednesday,
Sept. 6.
The ladies of st. Rose Catholic
church of Chesapeake City realized
$40 by their recent fair and
festival.
Miss Mary Mohrlein, of Port De-
posit, fell from swing at her home
in that town last week and broke
! her left arm.
The Daughters of Liberty of
North East will hold festival in
that town on Saturday evening,
September 2.
VIM. FL. Nelson, of White Hall.
Hartford county, shot an eagle last
week which measured seven feet
from tip to tip.
Clayton L. Ellison, of st. Aug
ustine, Cecil county, threshed from
a yield of lit acres of wheat
1908 bushels.
The Kent County Commissioners
have fixed the tax rate for the year
at $1.15, a decrease of fifteen cents
from last year.
Harry G. Merritt, a merchant of
Bel Air, has executed a deed of
trust to Harry s. Carver, for
the benefit of his creditors. Bond
was fixed at 81, 500.
Mary E. Hicks, of Havre de
Grace, has been granted a divorce
from her husband, John Hicks,
and the decree allows her to resume
her maiden name, Mary E. Moore.
The annual farmers institute
will be held under the auspices of
the Department of Agriculture, at
Black Barren Springs, Lancaster
county, Thursday and Friday,
September 7 and 8.
Prof. J. Albert Loose will give
1.-TWO evenings of illustrated songs
and goblet chimes, at Mt. Olivet
Methodist Protestant church, on
Sept. 4 and 3, at Z 80 O'Clock. Ad.
mission, adults, 15c; children, 1Oc.
| A rigger assisting in erecting q
flarge derrick at Havre de Grace
for the bridge work, had one of his
legs broken last week by the part
ling of heavy guy rope, one end
flying back and striking him with
such force as to fracture his leg.
Rev. F. 7. Tagg, D. D., the pres.
ident of the General Conference of
the Methodist Protestant church,
will preach on Cecil Circuit next
Sunday, Sept. 8, at Bay View at
1890 a. M, Mt. Olivet 800 p. m,
and Bethel 1880 p. m. DIR. Tagg is
a pulpit orator of high rank.
The foundation for the new rail
road station at Havre de Grace is
being laid. The building will be
of hard white brick. The arched
tunnel beneath the tracks, by
which ingress and egress to and
from the north and south bound
tracks will be made by passengers,
is also being built.
The next full moon occurs on the
18th inst, and is known as the
"Harvest Moon, THE moon near
the full at the time of harvest in
England, or about the autumnal
equinox, when by reason of the
small angle of the elliptic and the
moons orbit with the horizon, it
rises nearly at the same hour for
several days.
The Press says that W. Lewis
Terry, ticket agent at Oxford, on
the Baltimore Central Division, has
not lost a day from his duties for
thirteen years. Mr.. Terry, who is
a former Rising Sun boy, will start
on an extended vacation trip Satur-
day, touring Yellowstone Park and
visiting the Lewis and Clark expo
sition at Portland, Oregon, before
returning.