The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-07


day at Bakers Cove, on Furnace
creek.
The public schools throughout
the county re-opened after the
summer vacation on Monday.
The Octoraro Sunday School will
picnic in the grove adjoining the
church on Saturday, 18th inst.
Three children of Mrs. Annie
Kitchens, of Elkton, are confined
to their beds with typhoid fever.
West Nottingham Academy
opens for its one hundred and
sixty.sixth school year on Monday.
Mains circus and Cummins'
Wild West Shows will exhibit in
Elkton on Tuesday, September IS.
Porters Grove M. P. church will
reopen Sunday, Sept. 16, after
undergoing extensive repairs, both
exterior and interior.
Bel Air won the deciding game
of series of three games with
Elkton, on Monday, at Havre de
Grace, the score being s to Z.
Henry Vinsinger, of Elkton, has
purchased the Benjamin F. Cham
bers farm of 200 acres in the Sec
ond district, near Knights Corner,
for $4,000.
The Riverside Cornet Band of
Port Deposit, expects to be in line
in the industrial parade Sept. II,
during the Baltimore Jubilee
celebration.
The State Board of Education
has granted a pension to Miss Helen
Powers, of Millington, who has
taught in the public schools of the
State for forty years.
DR.. G. G. Laws and T. N. Lo
raine, of Chesapeake City, have
purchased five hundred homer
pigeons and will embark in squad
raising for the city market.
A cantata, "The Garden of Sing
ing Flowers" will be given by the
choir in West Nottingham Presby-
terian church this evening, at
eight O'Clock. Admission, 15c.
Gamers report the prospects are
that the tomato pack will be short,
owing to the unfavorable weather
conditions, which have been
detrimental to the growing crop.
Smith Keithley of near Oc-
toraro, has COW which gave birth
to a calf with two tongues. The
calf was well developed, but owing
to the difficulty it experienced in
eating, was killed.
Smiths pony and dog show,
which exhibited on the ball
grounds Monday night, drew a big
audience, every seat in the tent
being occupied. The performance
was a creditable one.
The 21st annual convention of
Cecil County W. G. T. U. will
meet in North East on Thursday,
Sept. 13, at $50 a. m. The eve
ming meeting will be a Demorest
contest, with Crowl quartet to fur
nish music.
Oxford's dog ordinance goes into
effect October LIST, when all CANNES
found on the streets of that town
without registration collars will be
caught anu placed in the pound, to
be either bailed out or shot-Rising
Sun get in line.
The annual tournament at Dewey
Park, Chesapeake City, will be
held Monday, 10th inst, beginning
at one o'clock. Four prizes will be
given,-frst, $40; second, $15;
third, SO; fourth, S5, all in gold.
The entrance fee to knights is 81.
Two men and girl appeared in
town Wednesday with large
street organ with drum attachment,
comprising whole mechanical
brass band in fact, drawn by a
horse, and furnished music by the
wholesale in exchange for frequent
collections.
The public schools in town re-
opened Monday after the summer
vacation with good attendance.
At the Grammar School, Misses
Rawlings and Vandegrift teachers,
d pupils are enrolled, while at the
Primary Department, Misses Jen-
ness and Brown teachers, forty
pupils are in attendance, promotions
to the Grammar Department not
having been made yet.