The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-11-22
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Thanksgiving Thursday next.

Rabbits are ripe as well as scarce.
The dredging of Elk River has
reached the lower end of the Pulp
Mill wharf at Elkton.
DIR. G. s. Dare this week sold the
England farm, near Rising Sun, to
Thos. Mcdowell.
Henry Burkins has purchased
the Miles Brown property near the
RedN Pump, from Charles Keilholtz.
The New Bridge school, which
was closed for some time on account
of. diphtheria, has been reeepened.
The November meAting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was held
Wednesday at the home of Maurice
G. Reeder.
Two new cases of typhoid have
developed this week, the sufferers
being James McKelyey and Gar
field Brinton.
The house and lot near Colora,
belonging to Rumsey Smithson, of
Port Deposit, was sold on Tuesday
to +. G.. White of Port Deposit for
$3.50.
Miss Penney, physical culture
teacher in the girls school, Tome
Institute, Port Deposit, a few days
ago had the misfortune to fall and
break small bone in her ankle.
An inside target range has been
installed in the armory of the First
Maryland Regiment in Elkton, SO
the soldier boys may practice shoot
ing without leaving their quarters.
The ladies of West Nottingham
Presbyterian-church will hold their
annual supper and bazaar in the
chapel Friday evening, Nov. %.
from 6 to 8 o'clock. Supper, %
cents.
The old McNulty property con
tanning ten acres of land, on the
road from Rising Sun to Farming
ton, was sold at mortgagee's sale
on Saturday to Thomas j. Wilson,
for $500.
A humorous lecture, entitled
1.-THE Funny Side of Love-" by
Rev. Forrest L. Dagger, of Phila.,
will he given in Mt. PleasantfM. Il
church on Tuesday evening, Dec.
10. Admission, 25c.
Julius Herbst and Benjamin Nor.
ton, arrested at Perryville for rid
ing on Pennsylvania Railroad trains
without tickets, were sentenced to
two months in the House of Cor
rection by Magistrate GilpiD, OF
Elkton.
Sixty-three tickets were sold at
this station on Thursday evening
of last week for the jolliication
meeting held at Elkton, the dele
cation from the Sixth district be-
ing accompanied by Rising Sun
Cornet Band.
Sheriff Kirk on Monday sold at
tax sale two lots at Principle,
assessed to Harriet r. Lynch, to
Samuel Gather, for $50, and a ten
acre property near Union, assessed
to Dinah Lee Heirs, to Winfield s.
Jewett, for $4S.
A party of little Misses of Elkton,
will hold an all day Market with
cake and candy sale in the evening,
Saturday, November %, in the
Perkins building. Elkton. Pro.
ceeds to furnish the children's room
in the Union Hospital.
Quite an interest has been
awakened in Rising Sun and Syl
mar in those recent developments
of Sunday School work, the Cradle
Roll and the Home Department.
Committees have been appointed to
take the matter into consideration.
Geo. G. Reynolds having just
finished threshing, reports yield
Of triflle over 40 bushels of wheat
per acre from fourteen acres on his
farm near Pennington. This is a
yield that is pretty hard to beat
and will come near taking the blue
ribbon.
On Thursday, 2Sth, at 1890 a.
M, the annual Thanksgiving ser.
vice will be held in James NJ. e.
church. The sermon will be
preached by Rev W. H. Briggs, of
Colora. All are invited. An of.
fering in aid of the Philadelphia
M n Hosnital will be received.