The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL. HAPPENINGS. BRIEFLY NOTED

a yield of 94 bushels OF wheat from
three acres.
Hopewell Sunday School will at
tend the Colchester excursion on
Friday, July 81.
The Board Of Election Supervis-
ors met in Elkton on Friday to
qualify election officials.
The Cecil Farmers club will
meet on Wednesday, July 20, at the
home of J. Harry Maxwell, near
Principle.
A festival will be held Saturday
evening, 25th inst, at Octoraro M.
E. church. Music by Rising Sun
Cornet Band.
The post Office at Richardsmere
will be discontinued on August 10,
and the patrons of that Office will
be supplied from Colora.
The Rising Sun base ball team
visited Oxford last week and beat
the caramel team to B. Effing
and w. Snyder composed the win
ming battery.
The evening trains over the Bal.
timore Central road were delayed
/ an hour and half Wednesday by
a washout at Canal Station, caused
1>xr fho hoo Uu roin
An absolute divorce, on the
grounds of desertion, has been
granted Saml. J. Gather, of Princi
p;o, from his wife, by the Circuit
Court of Cecil County.
A Cecil County Sunday School
convention will be held at Leslie
Camp on Tuesday and Wednesday,
July % and 20, County President,
George Q. Carey, presiding.
From burns received by setting
fire to his clothing while playing
with matches, Joseph, five year old
son of Carl Servino of Port Deposit,
died in the Baltimore City Hos
pital.
Owing to the establishment of
the rural mail routes the postoffice
at Barksdale has been discontinued
and those at Blake, Leeds and
Cowantown will be discontinued on
July 3lst next.
Eighteen tickets were sold at this
station Wednesday morning for the
COLCHESTER excursion run by the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad. Three hun
dred and fifty passengers were on
the train when it reached this
point.
Using coal oil to start kitchen
fire, Miss Mary Elburn fired her
clothing and was severely burned
about the body, at Elkton. jump
ing into nearby millpond she
would have been drowned but for
Miller Topper rescuing her.
Kicked by horse while work,
ing in DIR. G. M. Ellis stable, at
Elkton, Charles Piner, aged 10,
was probably fatally injured
When the boys father went to his
assistance the horse kicked him on
the leg, with painful injury.
III. X. Garvin pulled two fine
bass from the Octorara with hook
and line, near Cecil Paper Min, on
Tuesday. The fish were nearly the
same sizh, each measuring over
twelve inches in length, the larger
one weighing one pound, six
ounces.
The rain on Wednesday evening
caused postponement of the Jun
Tor League festival on the church
lawn, until the following evening,
when it was held, the affair prov
ing success. The Rising Sur
Cornet Band added much to the
occasion by several fine selections
Two heavy rains visited this sec
ton Tuesday evening, the first
coming without warning at about
seven o'clock, while the second
which was accompanied by severe
electrical discharges occurred be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, an6
tho of not many minutes duration
was a veritable deluge while il
lasted.
The sermon for next Sunday eve
ming, at Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church
w. II. Briggs, pastor, is ''Interest
ing Sinners and Stale Saints .
There will be a debate Thursday
evening next on the question
ais lie ever justifablel" The
Sunday school will have its annual