The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

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this year was 10000 cases.
Revival services will begin at
Bay View M. P. church on Sunday,
Nov. 3.
A republican meeting was held
at Calvert on Thursday evening OF
this week.
Splitting wood, William Cooper,
at Port Deposit, nearly severed his
left thumb.
Rally Day services were held in
James M. E. church on Sunday
evening last.
Falling from train near Aiken,
on the B. &. o. railroad, John
Schroeder, met instant death.
III. Linn Worthington this week
shipped finely bred pointer pup
to a party in Indiana, receiving 500
for the canine.
The public schools of the county
have been closed this week on
account of Teachers Institute
being held at Elkton.
The October meeting of the Cecil
farmers Club was held at the
home of James q. Maxwell near
Pennington, on Tuesday.
The apple crop in this immediate
vicinity is good one and several
car loads have been shipped from
here. 60 cents a bushel being paid
The sBlue Hens Chickens" are
cordially invited to flock in Will
mington at the Old Home Cele.
bration on Thursday, October 81.
There is a movement to establish
an Abbott creamery at Colora, an
option having been secured on a
piece of ground there for that
purpose.
Contractor L. 0. Cameron has
completed the foundation of the
annex to Union Hospital, Elkton,
and begun work on the frame OF
the building.
Special Autumn service, consist
ing of recitations and songs, will be
held by the Sunday school of Har-
mony NJ. P. Church, Rowlandville,
Sunday evening, beginning at 7.3O.
One hundred and forty seven
school teachers assembled in
Mechanics Opera house at Elkton,
Monday attending the twenty eight
annual school teachers institute,
which will be in session until
Saturday.
The schedule of rural route No. 2,
Samuel Morrison, carrier, has been
changed and he now starts from
Rising Sun at s a. M, instead OF
10 O'Clock as heretofore. Other
changes are contemplated which
will more nearly equalize the dis
tances covered by the three carriers.
Mrs. E. M. Hunt while pOking
up the furnace fire one morning
last week was painfully burned
about the face and one arm by the
flames suddenly bursting forth
from the door. The hair was bad,
ly singed and skin blistered but
luckily the burns were not deep
enough to cause serious injury.
The republicans held their first
mass meeting of the campaign at
Elkton on Friday evening of last
week, which was addressed by state
candidates Thomas Parran and
Hammond Urner. DIR. Worrall, of
North East, candidate for the Legis-
lature, also spoke. George R.
Gather, candidate for Governor,
was present, but did not deliver an
address.
Hon. Austin L. Crothers, the
Democratic nominee for Governor,
who has been i'll with typhoid
fever at his rooms at the FELTON,
House, Elkton, since September
20, is convalescing.
His nephew Emerson Crothers,
who has also been suffering from
the same disease is rapidly i'm.
proving.
The Nehemiah Guild organized
last October aAong members of the
Tome Memorial M. e. Church OF
Port Deposit, for the specific pur-
pose of liquidating debt of $4,000
due the estate of the late Jacob
Tome. The first annual meeting,
held Oct. IL, showed that success
is attending the efforts of the Guild,
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