The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-26

Friday, November z.
George G. Travers, of Aberdeen,
has enlisted in the United States
Navy.
The High School at Chesapeake
City has a library of three hundred
and orty.three volumes.
Samuel Morrison has purchased
the tract of land south of the
station at Sylmar, belonging to
Samuel Denny.
The little son of S. T. Wallis, of
Elk Neck, had a portion of the
thumb on his right hand severed a
few days since while playing with
a lawn mower.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Sulzner, of
NewIYork, enroute to Florida in a
45-ft. gasoline launch, passed
through the Chesapeake & Della
ware canal last week.
1t is reported a tramway, oper
ated by mule power, will be built
from the Keystone spar quarries to
Sylmar, for the purpose Of trans
porting spar to the railroad at that
point.
The County Commissioners have
instructed the Sheriff to collect all
taxes for 1905, now in his hands
unpaid, or show at the next meet
ing of the board if same are
collectable.
Miss Anna Fryer, Of Colora,
while attending Teachers Institute,
slipped on the stairway of Mechan
les Hall, on Monday, and fell head
long to the bottom but, fortunately
escaped serious injury.
Al. f. Wheeler's show, which
exhibited here on Thursday of last
week disbanded the next day and
moved to winter quarters at Oxford,
having been on the road continu-
ously for twenty, five weeks.
The personal library of the late
Jacob Tome embracing about 400
volumes, has been removed to
Memorial Hall, where it will be
used for special reference purposes
for Tome Institute students.
Elkton has been the Mecca Of
our public school teachers this
week, where they assembled to the
number of more than one hundred
to attend the sessions of the
twenty seventh annual Teachers
Institute.
The special service which was
announced to take place in Row.
landville M. P. church last Sunday
will be held the coming Sunday.
A special program will be rendered
by the Sunday school, beginning at
7:3O p. m.
The sun peeped out for a while
on Tuesday about noon, and shone
bright and warm, the first time for
a full week. Its face was hidden
again entirely on Wednesday, when
the same old dreary weather again
got in its work.
Dame Rumor says there is to be
a wedding on South Main street in
the near future. The home-nine
miles from Port Deposits said to
be rented and being prepared for
its occupants.-Port Deposit cores.
pondent to Cecil County News.
Conductor Guessford, of the P,
B. & W. railroad, met with pain.
full accident at North East on
Friday. He stepped from a car to
the path along the roadbed, but
slipped and fell into q ditch, sqs,
tanning injuries about the head and
back. He was taken to a Phila-
delphia hospital for treatment.
From the newspaper accounts of
the drunken disorders in the town
of Oxford recently, it would appear
that thirsty dwellers in prohibition
Cecil are not the only contributors
to the receipts of the hotel bar
trade and Police Court fines in that
town, as intimated by the article
in the Oxford Press of last week.
A light fingered colored youth
was detected purloining some loaded
shells at the hardware store of Jos.
s. Pogue, Sons & Co., on Tuesday
and arrested by Constable Brickley.
After paying the fine and costs i'm
posed by Magistrate Taylor the
darkey was released, having spent
considerable more than the shells
would have cost and still having
no ammunition with which to go
cunning.