The midland journal., 1906-08-17

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season to Colchester will be run on
Wednesday next.
The Rising Sun Cornet Band
furnished music for a festival at
Pilot on Saturday evening.
w. B. Cooney has erected a
commodious wagon shed in the rear
of his livery stable on Pearl street.
The August meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held at the
home of Maurice G. Reeder, near
town, on Wednesday.
Owing to Biennial Conference at
Mountain Lake Park, Nottingham
quarterly meeting will be held one
week earlier than usual, the oath
inst.
A festival will be held by the
members of Octoraro M. E. church
on Thursday evening of next week.
Music will be furnished by Rising
Sun Cornet Band.
The Cecil County Commissioners
have appropriated $1,000 to the
/ School Board to make a practical
test of school consolidation in the
Fifth district of Cecil.
Miss Beulah CresWell has
resigned as teacher of Chestnut
Grove school, near Woodlawn Camp
grounds and been appointed teacher
of the Blythedale school.
The Town Commissioners are
having gravel hauled from the pits
on the farm of Joseph Krauss, near
Woodlawn, and placed on the
streets in town where in need of
repair.
W. Louis Ryan, contractor, has
force of men engaged in the
erection of fine dwelling house at
Rowlandville for Lee Moore, mana
ger of the paper mill operated by
VIM. T. West & Co.
The Rising Sun Pennington ma
cadamized road is to receive much
needed top. dressing, and crushed
granite is being hauled along the
road preparatory to being placed
upon it and rolled with the steam
roller.
About $50 was netted by the
game of ball played at Elkton be-
tween the County officials and
members of the Elkton Bar. The
proceeds were donated to the Union
Hospital fund. The lawyers won
by s to Z.
Eighty nine persons from this
vicinity availed themselves of the
opportunity to enjoy day at the
seashore on Tuesday, when the sec
ond railroad excursion to Atlantic
City was run over the Baltimore
Central division.
A festival will be held on the
ball grounds on the evenings of
Friday and Saturday of next week
oath and 25th insts., by the mem
bers of the Rising Sun baseball
club. Music will be furnished by
the Cornet Band of this town.
A shaft 6x1O feet and running to
the third story, is being erected in
the rear of the furniture store
building of E. r. Burlington and
Sons, in which to install freight
elevator of 1000 pounds capacity,
for the purpose of handling
furniture.
Turner & Wescott, creamerymen
of Glen Roy, who have operated a
separator here for some years, noti-
fed their patrons this week that
they would discontinue their Rising
Sun branch, located at the foot of
Pigeon hill, and closed down on
Wednesday.
Benz. Briscoe dug from his gar
den on Pearl street this week a
potato of the York State variety
which outstrips all of its compan-
ions in size aud weight. The cir
cumference of the tnber about the
middle and lengthwise was eleven
and seventeen inches respectively.
while it weighed % ounces.
Stewart Ward experienced run.
away last Tuesday which resulted
in badly demolished buggy. He
} had driven out of the lane leading
from Jacob Kinks, near Oakwood,
and left the team, to close the gate,
{ when the horse got the gold fever
and started for the Klondike but
got mixed up in its bearings and
finally collided with John Regan's
wagon house. The vehicle looked
like a flying machine struck by two
cyclones but the horse escaped
injury.
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