The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-04-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Lawn mowers are getting busy.
Hargreaves' Shows are billed to
appear in Oxford on Friday next.
DR.. lamar has been appointed
physician to the county Jail at
Elkton.
The public Schools of the county
will close for the summer vacation
on Friday, June L.
John j. Hartnett, of Elkton, has
been reappointed Court Stenog-
rapher for the second Judicial
Circuit.
John W. Williams has purchased
for $1,000, the lot and double
dwelling in Port Deposit, belonging
to the White estate.
The reduction in the State tax
rate will not take effect until next
year, the rate for this year being
the same as last, 234 cents.
Northern Convocation of the
Diocese of Easton will meet in the
Church Of the Good Shepherd,
Chesapeake City, May s, 8 and 10.
1t is expected that the new P,
B. & W. railroad bridge over the
Susquehanna river at Perryville
will be ready for travel by trains
on July /.
Rising Sun Grammar school will
hold festival on the school
grounds on Thursday evening, May
10. Ice cream, cake and fancy
articles on sale.
Mrs. John Hilaman, of near Fair
Hill, recently met with a painful
accident while driving to Elkton.
Her horse ran away throwing her
out of the buggy and breaking
her nose.
Children's Day has been selected
as the date upon which special
effort will be made to pay off the
remaining Indebtedness of North
East NJ. e. church, amounting to
about 5000.
The pupils of North East High
School are rehearsing the operetta,
Little b. Peep" which will be
given in the assembly room of the
school Friday and Saturday eve
nings, May 18 and 49,.
The drop in temperature on
Monday, when the thermometer
touched the freezing point during
the night, has started speculation
as to the injury of the peach crop
as is the case every spring.
The County Commissioners have
given notice that the Calvert
Newark road, in the Fourth district,
will be closed pending the building
of the bridge at Willis Fording,
from point at Gallaher's shop to
the East end of said bridge.
81. H. Haines has lately return.
ed from a trip to southwestern Vir
ginia and western Virginia, where
he went as a committee to look over
a lot of coal and iron ore proper.
ties, with coke ovens and iron ore
furnaces, in the interest of the
Diamond State Steel Co.
Owing to the work in that vicin-
ity in connection with the McCall's
Ferry power plant, flag station
has been established on the
Columbia & Port Deposit railroad
a short distance north of the siding
above Conowingo. The station has
been designated Roman.
Isaac Jacobs, a widely known
farmer of the First district, Cecil
county, is in a critical condi-
tion at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. William Davis, in Sassafras,
suffering with injuries he received
Saturday from being thrown from
a young colt he was riding on his
farm. His condition is so serious
that little hope is entertained fol-
his recovery.
Mr. Jos. T. Richards, of Phila,
deiphia, one of the Trustees ol
Jacob Tome Institute, has presented
the Department of Mechanical
Drawing of that institution set OI
sixteen large pictures of distin
guished American and European
engineers. The Library has also
recently received from Mr.. Rich
ards two photographs of the new
Office buildings, one for the House
of Representatives and one for thu
U. S. Senate, now being erected il
Washington at a cost of 100000
each.