The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-05-18
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

mark yesterday.
Samuel A. Taylor is erecting an
addition to his dwelling on Walnut
street.
North East Odd Fellows are
planning for the patriotic celebra-
tion of Fourth of July.
Quite number of our young
people attended the Tome meet at
Port Deposit, on Saturday.
Presiding Elder Mowbray occu-
pied the pulpit of James M. b..
church on Sunday morning last.
A medicine show is giving night,
II entertainments under canvas on
the ball grounds, to fair sized
audiences.
The Red Men of Oakwood are
arranging for picnic and festival
to be held near that place on Satur'
day, June 8.
The ladies of Zion NJ. E. church
will hold festival on the lawn
near the church Friday evening,
Nav 18. All are invited.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
Circle will be entertained at the
home OF Mrs. Mollie Reynolds on
Friday evening, 25th inst.
j.. R. lamar, son of DR.. John
H. lamar Of Elkton, has been ap-
pointed deputy clerk of the United
States District Court in Chicago.
The May meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held at Sedgley
Farm, the home of Frank r.
Cherry, near Principle, on Wednes
day.
Ex-senator Henry M. McCul
Tough, of Elkton, will deliver the
oraticn for Garfield Post, G. A. r.,
at Calvert on Memorial Day,
May 80.
Miss Eleanor Wood, of George
School, gave a talk on the Wood
brooke movement before the Young
Friends Association, on Sabbath
afternoon last.
The frosts on Wednesday and
Thursday nights of last week dam
aged tomato plants and beans and
fears are entertained that the fruit
buds were injured.
Miss Annie E. Lamm, of Phil.
adelphia, has purchased for 1926
the property near Colora, contain
ing 81 acres, belonging to John I.
Mccullough, of Oxford.
The report is current that the
County Commissioners will fix the
tax rate for Cecil county for the
ensuing year at e5 or 80 cents on
the $1OO. The rate last year was
$1.2O.
At the annual congregational
meeting of the Elkton Presbyterian
Church L.. M. Haines, II. M.
Mccullough and DIR. j. III. lamar
were reelected trustees for three
years.
An exemplified copy of the will
of the late David Davis, the dis
tinguished Illinois jurist, has been
filed for record in the Register of
Wills Office at Elkton. The will is
recorded at Elkton to give title to
certain property in the First dis
trict of Cecil county.
The project to incorporate the
Diebert s. Wilson Textile plant at
Elkton, with a capital stock of
$50, 900, has been abandoned. The
plant will be moved to the old
Mitchell building, on the fair
grounds, which has recently been
purchased by Messrs. Diebert s.
Wilson.
Governor Warfield has notified
the teachers at, the Elkton High
School that he will come to ElktOn
on the afternoon of May 81 and de.
liver the address to the graduates
at their annual commencement.
The Governor will also address the
graduating class of North East
High School the same evening.
The gross receipts of the festival
held by the teachers and pupils of
Rising Sun Grammar School, on
Thursday evening of last week,
were S56, the net receipts being
$33, which will be devoted to Ii
brary purposes. The festival was
largely attended and was enlivened
by music by the Rising Sun Cornet
Band. s