The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-14

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tomato cannery near North East.
The public schools of Hartford
county opened for the scholastic
year ON Monday.
Turner & Westcott are equipping
their Glen Roy creamery with ma
chinery for the condensiDg of milk.
A room in the basement of North
East high school building is being
fitted up for manual training
purposes.
The biennial Convention of the
Maryland Christian Endeavor
Union will be held in Salisbury
October 1918.
The residence of the late John I.
Brown, in Elkton, has been pur-
chased by DR.. G. W. Biles, Jr., at
public sale for $2,70O.
Elwood Shippers has resigned as
postmaster at Leslie, Cecil county,
and will remove to Chester, Pa,
and engage in business.
The Elisha Griest farm in East
Nottingham township, containing
70 acres of land, has been pur
chased for $2, 800 by L. M. Wittig.
A shaft is to be erected on the
Liston Point farm, in Blackbird
Hundred, to mark where the Della
ware river ends and the bay begins.
A horse belonging to George
Shivery got upon the P, B. & w.
railroad tracks near Bacon Hill
Monday morning and was run down
and killed by a freight train.
A State Leauge is being talked of
by base ball enthusiasts, to include
Bel Air, Havre de Grace Elkton
and three other teams represent
ing Baltimore suburban towns.
A festival will be held Friday
evening, 14th inst, by the I'll Try
Mission Band of Zion Presbyterian
church, on the lawn of J. Hopkins
England.
A lecture will be given by Prof.
r. B. Dilworth in the M. E.
church, Calvert. on Friday evening,
Dist inst, under the auspices of the
w. G. T. U.
Rev. G. 7. Denroche, of Massey's,
has reconsidered his acceptance of
the rectorship of the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Chesapeake City,
and will remain at his present
charge.
Special attention will be given to
instruction and practice in vocal
music at the North East high school
this year. The new assistant,
Miss Miller, is an accomplished
vocalist.
At a recent meeting of the Leslie
Camp Meeting Association the old
board was reelected and the time
of next years camp was set to begin
the fourth Wednesday of July, to
continue over two Sundays.
Henry Norris, colored, has been
sentenced to three months in the
House of Correction for violation of
the local option law of Hartford
county, by selling intoxicating
liquor at the Fair View Tourna-
ment on Aug. 8.
Bandmaster John Philip Sousa
passed through Elkton on Wednes-
day of last week, on horseback.
Mr.. Sousa was accompanied by
two friends, the party being on a
horseback trip from New York to
Washington, the home of the great
bandmaster's mother.
The Americas Band of Perryville
has elected the following officers ::
E. Ward, president; Elmore Ell.
Owens, secretary; T. M. Owens,
vice president and treasurer; Blair
Hopkins, leader and instructor; E.
E. Ward, Il. Ell. Owens, T. n.
Owens, Burt Little and f. III.
Walker, directors.
Porters Grove M. p. church will
reopen next Sunday after being
closed for some time undergoing
extensive repairs. Services will be
held as follows At 2 p. m. the
following ministers will deliver ad-
dresses-Rev. J. D. Reese, of Mt.
Pleasant, Revs. ]. E. Maloy and
W. r. Graham, D. D. Octoraro
Tribe of Red Men will attend in
the afternoon and special program
has been prepared for the occasion.
At 1880 p. m. DR.. Graham will oc.
cnpy the pulpit. The public is
cordially invited to attend.