The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-20

opened on Monday for its 16Sth
year.
The annual Cecil County Teach
ars' Institute will be held in Elk
ton October 21-25.
P. E. Sharpless & Co. will open
branch receiving station for milk
at Cream, Pa, on October l..
A supper will be held on the
lawn of Sylmar M. E. church
Wednesday evening next.
Elkton milk dealers have given
notice that they will raise the price
of milk next month from six to
eight cents per quart.
The September meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was held at
the home of F. r. Cherry, near
Principio, on Wednesday.
Registration days this year are
October first and eighth, the first
and second Tuesdays in October,
while the Third Tuesday, Oct. 10,
is for revision only.
The Perryman's Social Club and
it's manager, George Scherling,
have been indicted by the Hartford
County Grand Jury, charged with
violating the county prohibition
Law.
Mr.. J. G. Richards has been
ordered by the Treasury Depart
ment to the jamestown Exposition
to appraise some foreign goods
which have just arrived at that
point.
The M. E. Parsonage in this town
has been greatly improved by re-
painting. The Ladies Aid Society,
under whose direction the work
was done, has also purchased some
new furniture for the dwelling.
A new rural free delivery sys'
tem from Elkton to Freeman's
Mills, thence to Glasgow, Del,
covering a distance of twenty five
miles, was established on Monday,
with James P. Alexander in charge.
Among the applicants for the
vacancy at the West Point Military
Academy, to which the First Con
gressioual District of Maryland, is
entitled, is Robert Anderson, Of
Cecilton, who graduated from St
John's College, Annapolis, last
June.
Attention is called to the adver,
tisement of Oxford Fall Fair, found
on the fourth page of this issue
The popularity of these exhibitions
has led the management to hold
the fair this fall four days instead
of three as formerly-Sept: "a, %.
26 and 81.
Mendels Bros, of Baltimore
Manufactures of kimonas, wrap
pers, etc., have been in communi
cation with Elkton parties in re-
ference to establishing factory II
that town, to employ 30 or 70 girls
They ask for suitable building
with rent free for two years.
Harry G. Evans, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William S. Evans, of Elkton,
has resigned his position as Assist
Engineer on the Southern Railroad
with headquarters at Birmingham
Ala., to accept a position as Divi
sion Engineer of the Sac Paulo'
Railway, Brazil, at a salary O.
$4,000 per year.
Melvin Sill, of Baltimore, son o.
DIR. G. G. Sill, formerly of this
town, met with painful acciden
one day last week. In jumping
from a delivery wagon, his foo
shipped on car rail and he sns
tanned such a severely sprainef
ankle that it was necessary to TAX
him to hospital for treatment.
Misses Agnes Mowbray and e
s. Deakyne, for several year
members of the faculty at Tom'
Institute, Port Deposit, have sew
cred their connection with tina
school and accepted positions witf
DIR. A. W. Harris, former difeeto
at Tome, but now president of tn
Northwestern University, at Evans
ton, Ill. A
The Engineer Corps Of the Har
ford County Pole.Line Compan.
are at work on their survey of tn
route from Flintville to Bel Air
1t is stated that the survey appear
to include data for an Electri
Railway, as well as the Pole Lin
which is to be a distributor @
current from the Mccall Ferr,