The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-06-23
Harvest has begun.

Harvest las DcSuu.
The cherry crop is not a large
one this year.
A festival will be held on the
ball grounds Wednesday evening
next.
A bake will be held by the
Ladies' Aid Society in the base
ment of the church this afternoon.
The Children's Day collection Of
Tome Memorial Sunday school,
Port Deposit, amounted to $40.
Arrangements are being made
for Joint meeting of Hartford and
Cecil county lodges of Knights OF
Pythias.
The Simcoe farm, at Bay View,
was offered at public sale on Mon.
day and withdrawn at bid OF
$4,000.
Baker & Arthur, of Aberdeen,
who will operate the Elkton can
merry again this year, will pack both
corn and tomatoes.
John McCaslin, of Oakwood, has
a crimson rambler rose bush in his
yard which has two white roses
among it's many blooms.
Miss Ella Cannan won the medal
at the Cecilton High School Com
mencement for the highest average
in scholarship during the year.
The gross receipts of the festival
held by the members of Porter's
Grove M. P. church, on Friday
and Saturday of last week, were
$5S.
Ernest Congo has been lodged in
Elkton Jail on the charge of steal
ing Sl5 from Florence Brown. The
parties are colored and reside at
Cedar Hill.
A shepherd dog, supposed to be
MAD, escaped from pen in which
it had been confined by A. A..
Russell, of Oxford, on Tuesday,
and is still at large.
Morris G. Dunbar, of Elkton,
who for the past four years has
been a fireman on the p, B. & w.
railroad, has been promoted to the
position of engineer.
The thermometers in town failed
to agree as to the exact degree OF
heat on Monday, ranging from go
to 96o, every one is positive, how
ever, that it was a hot day.
Howard Reynolds has received
the appointment as carrier of rural
free delivery route No. 1, vice
Chalmer @. Reynolds, resigned,
who has been appointed substitute.
Mrs. Maude Rose, of North East,
suffered the fracture of her right
arm last week by the breaking OF
a step ladder, upon which she was
standing, throwing her heavily to
the floor.
The Children's Day exercises at
Sylmar and Ebenezer M. E.
churches on Sunday afternoon, and
at Mt. Pleasant in the evening, were
largely attended, special programs
being rendered.
The Commencement exercises OF
Delaware College, Newark, were
held on Wednesday. Frank B.
Evans and Robert B. Frazer, two
Elkton boys, were members of the
graduating class.
The time for filing the bill OF
exceptions in the case of John M.
Shippers, convicted at the March
term of Circuit Court for Cecil
County of the murder of Albert
Constable, Esq, which expired on
Monday was extended by Judge
Edwin H. Brown until September l /.
A. A. Kirk, who has been op.
Grating a creamery at Tweedaie,
Pa, has been missing from his
place of business for several days,
and farmers who have been sup
plying him with milk are desirous
of locating him. Action has been
taken by his creditors before
SQUIRE Hudson of Hopewell.
Mrs. w. P. Reynolds has an
exceptionally fine patch of alsike
clover on her farm near town and
sent a few sample stalks to the
JOURNAL Office this week, the
longest of which measures 4 ft.
Q in. The patch consists of one
acre and has a very heavy growth,
averaging nearly four feet in
height.