The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-14
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

PAINTERS are reureSSlnS y. NE.
Sterrett's dwelling on E. Main
street.
The business men of North East
are agitating the formation of a
Board of Trade.
The school year at the Jacob
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, will
begin Thursday, Goth inst.
Several cases of diphtheria are
reported in the neighborhood of
Baldwin's Banks, this county.
The Rising Sun Cornet Band
: furnished music for the festival at
New Bridge school last evening.
Owing to the scarcity of wood
the Elkton pulp mill has been COM
PEELED to close down indefinitely.
Quite number from this town
and vicinity have visited Baltimore
this week to witness the Jubilee
festivities.
Masons this week started the
foundation walls of H. L. Worth
iugton's new dwelling on East
Main street.
The September term of the Cir
cult Court for Cecil county will
convene at Elkton on Monday
morning next.
A festival will be held this eve
ming by the pupils of Conowingo
school. Oakryn cornet band will
be in attendance.
Robert Brumfeld, a Colora lad,
fell while playing in the yard of his
home one evening last week, and
fractured his wrist.
The steamer Susquehanna ran
aground early one morning last
week, below Havre de Grace light,
but sustained no damage.
John T. Adams has purchased
the johnson farm, near Rising Sun,
containing 4S acres of land with
improvements, for 81, 800.
John Denver, Jr., of Iron Hill,
fell from a barn at Brandywine
Springs last week and sustained a
fracture of the left leg and wrist.
Alfred Anderson had the mis-.
fortune to sever the fore finger of
his left hand on Saturday afternoon,
while chopping wood on the farm
of VIM. G. West, near Sylmar.
The survivors of Company b,
Purnell Legion, will hold their
annual reunion in Grand Army
Hall, North East, on Saturday.
DIR. T. A. Worrall will be the
orator of the day.
A festival will be held by Colora
Lodge, No. 81, X. of P, in the
grove at COlora on the evenings of
Friday and Saturday, Sept. IA and
Is. Music will be furnished by
Rising Sun Cornet Band.
The annual farmers institute
was held at Black Barrens Springs
on Wednesday and Thursday of
this week. The sessions were
largely attended, a number from
this vicinity being present.
The Cecil Manor Farm, contain
ing 257 acres, located near Port
Deposit, land belonging to the estate
of the late T. Egenton Hogg, was
sold at trustee sale in Elkton
Tuesday to Jefferson D. Young, of
Washington, for $4,000.
West Nottingham Academy re-
opened on Monday last, this being
the one hundred and sixty.sixth
year for the institution. Mrs. Geo.
Fl. Thompson, residing within a
short distance of the school, desires
MS to announce that she is prepared
to accommodate a few boarding
pupils.
The office of the Cecil Wing, at
Elkton, has been entered twice by
some unknown party, within the
past two or three weeks. A haul
Of two dollars was made on the first
occasion, but nothing of value was
missed after the raid of Friday
night. That is about the limit
the burglarizing of printing Office.
A driver of one Of the big paper
mill teams, who was as heavily
loaded as his wagon, caused an up
set just west of town, on Saturday
afternoon, the road being entirely
too narrow for him. The tangle
was Strengthened out, wagon re.
loaded and the team driven to the
mill by Fl. II. Reynolds, while the
hilarious driver was given the G. B.