The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-09-25

Aulumn OCS"n VI
West nottingham Academy
opened on Monday with thirty-six
pupils.
II. G. Cummings, liveryman, lost
one of his horses from an attack OF
collie last Monday.
Already some chance trees here
there are beginning to put on
their autumn hues.
Tuesday September 20 and Octo-
Der 6 are registration days. Octo
Der 13 is for revision only.
81. s. Reed, of Media, Pa, has
purchased the Russell Reynolds
property, of "a acres, near town,
for 81, eco.
Mr.. George Biddle, the public
school superintendent, has been
visiting the schools in this vicinity
this week.
AL. f. Wheeler's show, which
has exhibited here on a former
occasion, is billed to appear in
Rising Sun on Monday.
John G. Hindman, Jr., has sold
his Rising Sun daily newspaper
route to Fl. K. Garvin & Son, the
business to change hands Oct. 2.
Rev. w. H. Briggs has been in
vited to return as pastor of Mt
Pleasant M. e. church the next
Conference year, by his congre,
cation.
William T. Dinsmore, of Farm
ington, has purchased the Robert
Cherry farm, located near Prin.
cipio and containing 20 acres, for
$3.50.
Elkton Town Council has award
ed Harrigan & Co., Of Wilmington,
Del, the contract to build a sewer
from Bridge street to Main street
for $266S.
Miss Nora A. Stoll, a graduate of
Western Maryland College, is the
assistant at Calvert Agricultural
High School and entered upon her
duties this week.
Elmer Johnson, a notorious char
acter of the Barrens, has been sen.
fenced to three months in West
Chester Jail on the charge of steal
ing a pair of shoes.
Robert Coulter, Of Ohio, who
recently purchased the mill prop
erty of j. P. Kirk at Liberty
Grove, has taken possession, Mr..
Kirk having moved to this town.
Work on the macadamized road
between Bay View and North East
was begun by contractor 3. Ward
Brown last week at a point just
south of the B. & o. railroad at
Leslie.
DR.. H. Arthur Mitchell, County
Health Officer, visited the First
district on Thursday of last week,
and ordered School No. 5 closed for
an indefinite period because of the
prevalence of diphtheria in the
neighborhood.
The Taft and Sherman club of
this district will have to elect a
new presiding officer, as Postmaster
Samuel Hambleton, who was chosen
president of the club, has been noti-
fed by the Administration that
Federal officer holders must not
engage actively in politics.
j. D. Donache, of this town, met
with painful accident on Tuesday
at Oxford. While assisting in I'M
loading a gasoline engine at the
fair grounds the heavy piece of
machinery slipped and fell against
his left leg, injuring the member
badly and spraining his ankle.
Imported booze caused a row late
Saturday night in Center Square,
and one Jesse P. Mace was landed
in the lookup on the charge Of
being drunk and disorderly. Mag
istrate Taylor has bound him over
under the threat of term in the
House of Correction if the offense is
repeated.
Walter Reeder, of near town,
had the cushion stolen from his
buggy on Saturday night, while it
was hitched in the alley by the M.
E. church. The cushion was new,
the buggy from which itwas taken
having been in use but short fine.
< The parties who appropriated it
for their own use replaced it with a
y Il A. l.