The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-27

Leslie Camp opened on We'd
nesday.
Woodlawn Camp will open on
Thursday next.
The oats harvest is finished in
this section, with the exception of
few belated ones.
The members of the Americus
Band, of Perryville, realized $151.-
A by their recent festival.
Twenty five tickets were sold at
Rising Sun station for the Tolches-
ter excursion on Wednesday,.
The Beatty property, in North
East, has been sold by attorney
John Strahorn to DR.. Arthur
Beatty for 81, 900.
The rain of Sunday afternoon and
night proved to be record breaker
in Baltimore, the downfall being six
inches within q few hours.
Dog days are full of humidity.
Oh, that they were dOggone days.
Oxford Press. They are about the
dog gonest days we know Of.
A. W. Kirk is the first to report
his oats harvest finished, with the
oats threshed and in the bin. Mr..
Kirk reports the crop only fair.
Charles Hughes, colored, has
been committed to Elkton Jail on
the charge of stealing a COW from
Robert Wilson, of the Third
district.
The ladies of Porters Grove M,
P. church will hold a festival on
the church lawn Friday evening,
July 81. Music by Rising Sun
Cornet Band.
The first death from whooping
cough at Elkton this summer oc
cured Monday, when the two year.
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Jones died.
The Pennington farm of 200
acres, situated near Bohemia
Bridge, Cecil county, has been pur-
chased by John T. Woolleyhan, of
First District, for $4800.
Miss Margaret Scott Miller, vale
dictorian of this years graduating
class at Western Maryland College,
has been appointed assistant prin-
cipal of the North East High
School.
The will of Nicholas Leithinger,
late of the First District of Cecil
county, has been admitted to pro-
bate in the Orphans Court at Elk
ton. All of his estate ia left to his
three children.
A large black snake was dis
covered by Mrs. Ollie Clark, one
day recently, in a clothes press in
bedroom of her home near Earle
Vile. The snake was killed and
measured over five feet in length.
William Reynolds, of near town,
has sold his fine pair of gray
Percheron horses to Baltimore
piano firm for $3.50. G. 7. Snyder
disposed of his fine driving horse,
which was speedy one, to the
same parties for $3.50.
Elias T. Jenkins and Ida Belle
jackson were married on July Is
by Magistrate Hudson of Hope
well, Pa. The bride was divorced
on July 2 from William Henry
Phillips, of West Nottingham
township, the parties all being well
known in this locality.
H. FL. Haines, president of the
National Bank of Rising Sun, has
been appointed by President Neill,
of the Maryland Bankers Asso-
citation, one of the three delegates
from Maryland to the American
Bankers Association to be held in
st. Louis, October 13 10.
The ministers of the M. E.
church in Cecil County have organ
lied an anti.Saloon League for the
county, with Rev. Vaughn Collins,
of Port Deposit, president, and
Rev. l.. E. Poole, of Elkton, sec'y.
The league proposes to wage war
on the license question this Fall.
Roger Kirk, while playing with
a number of other boys in Center
Square Tuesday evening, received a
badly cut forehead by running
against the iron hitehing rail in
front of the hotel. The wound bled
profusely and Roger was down and
out for awhile and is carrying court
plaster and bandages to show for
his initiation to the buffers in.