The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-08-31

The public schools of the county
open on Monday.
Smiths circ&s is billed to
appear in Rising Sun next Monday.
Old Jupiter Pluvius has had
things pretty fmuch his own way
for the past week.
Walter Merry, of Elkton, has
been appointed carrier on the new
Elk Neck rural free delivery mail
The Storm that swept over this
section shortly after noon on Friday
last Mas perfect deluge while it
laYfed.
The County Convention of the
Nv. C. T. U. will be held in Grand
Army Hall, North East, on Mon
day, Sept. 10.
Monday, Sept. 3, being Labor
Day, legal holiday, the National
Bank of Rising Sun will not be
omen for business on that'date.
A festival will be held on the
school grounds at Pilot Saturday
evening. Sept. s. Music will be
furnished by Rising Sun Cornet
Band.
The Elkton Presbyterian church,
which has been closed for some time
undergoing improvements, was re-
opened Sunday with appropriate
services.
The old NJ. +. church building
at Perryyille is being fitted up for
school purposes. and will be ready
for occupancy at the opening 0f the
school year on Monday.
Matinee races will be held at
JacksOn Park on Monday asKt,
Labor Day, as follows 800 min
ute class; 2.5O class; 2:4O class; 2:35
class; free for all class.
William Clifford and William
BriscOe each lost valuable driving
horse last Tuesday. The animals
were sick only q few hours and the
complaint is supposed to be cereDro
spinal meningitis.
Howard M. Wilson, of this town,
Who always raises a crop OF sun
flowers for chicken feed, cut one
stalk which measured fifteen feet in
height. The largest flower in his
crop measured fourteen inches in
diameter.
The members of EbRneHer N. =.
church will hold lawn -fete at the
home of Geo. Williams, Greenhurst,
Thursday evening, Sept. 6. Pro,
ceeds for benefit of cemetery fence.
If stormy, next fair evening. All
are invited.
The members of Rising Sun base
ball club encountered unfaVOFable
weather for their festival last week
and continued it on Wednesday
evening on the ball ground. The
gross receipts of Saturday evening
and Wednesday evening were $40.
The delegates chosen at the re-
publican primaries on Saturday
afternoon, to represent the Sixth
district at the county convention
on Monday were Cecil Armour,
Herbert Kirk, Wayne Reynolds,
Ernest BricEley and Frank Foster.
Contractor W. Louis Ryan has
81 .Ged out H. Linn Worthington's
4 mouse. to be erected on E. Main
Street, and ground was broken
yesterday morning by ThOs. Rink,
who is doing the excavating. The
dwelling will be frame, 2Sx32 feet,
and is to be ready for Occapany by
December 1st.
Chester England is entitled to
the blue ribbon for the finest apple
exhibit this week. He brought to
the MIDLAND Office one dozen
perfect specimens of the Western
Beauty variety which look tempt
ing enough TO be from the original
tree which caused Adams downfall.
The dozen aggregate l2l ounces
or over 10 ounces each.
Friends Quarterly Meeting was
held at Calvert on Friday last,
and was attended by the usual
large assembly, it being estimated
there were nearly five hundred
persons present. The principal
speakers of the occasion were +. b.
burlington, of this town, and Mrs.
Mary Heald Way, of Oxford.
Among the business transacted was
the election of delegates to the
yearly meeting.