The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-31


5, and continue two weeks.
The new Union Hospital at Elk
ton is expected to open about
October l for the admission of pa
tients.
Governor Crothers has appointed
DIR. II. M. Black, of Cecilton, a
member of the State Lunacy Com
mission.
The special train carrying Super
intendent E. F. Brooks and party
passed through Rising Sun Sunday
evening.
Thomas Krobick, of Wilmington,
was struck and killed by a train on
the B. & 0. railroad at Jackson
station on Saturday.
The gross receipts of the festival
held by members of the Junior
League Thursday evening of last
week were over $40.
The July meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held at the
home of j. Harry Maxwell, near
Principle, on Wednesday.
The Rising Sun ball team on
Thursday of last week played at
Liberty Grove, defeating the team
of that place by score of 8 to 5.
During the month ofsAugust the
evening service at Mt. Pleasant
Church will begin at Z O'Clock
and will be held on the Church
lawn. All invited.
Wednesday Aug. 70, has been
selected as Temperance Day at
Woodlawn Camp, when the pro-
gram for the day will be conducted
by Cecil County W. G. T. U.
The business men of North East
have petitioned the Adams Express
Company asking for free delivery
wagon, as those who have goods
shipped by express have to pay an
additional charge for delivery.
The rain Saturday evening cause
ed a postponement of the festival
at Octoraro M. E. Church until
Monday evening, when it was held,
proving a success. Music was rem
dered by Rising Sun Cornet Band.
The farm of Hollis Reynolds,
situated in the Sixth district, about
two miles west of town and contain
ing 244 acres of land, with improve
ments, was sold on Monday at pub
lie sale to Russell Reynolds for
$3.50.
The small farm of the late Amos
B. Lewis, consisting of 18 acres on
Elk River three miles below Elk
ton, was sold last week at the
Court House door by II. M. Nc
Cullough, Esq, Trustee, to Miss
Sadie Lewis, daughter of the de
ceased, for 81, $50.
Frank e. Williams, editor of the
Cecil Wing of Elkton, has publish
ed card requesting the Cecil dele
cation not to place his name before
the Republican Congressional Con
vention, which meets at Ocean City
next month, declaring he is not
candidate for the Office, and never
has been.
Quite number of shooters from
this town and vicinity attended
the fifteenth annual trap shooting
tournament held at Betterton,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of this week, among them
being A. B. Keen, III. L. Worth
ington, Clarence Kirk, Harry Eng
land, Joseph Clifford and Willett
Ewing.
A staggering and belligerent
resident of the Tick Ridge neigh
borhood appeared in town Friday
afternoon with chip on his
shoulder and fancied grievance
against a popular young clerk in
one of our stores, and proceeded to
berate the said clerk in a foul
mouthed manner. There is por-
tion of the scene following to which
there were no witnesses, but
certain it is had it not been for the
timely arrival Of good samaritan
who pulled the clerk off of the
prostrate form of the belligerent
Tick Ridger, the latter would have
soon been a fit candidate for the
Union Hospital, as it was he es-
capped with a knocking down, and
after being assisted to his feet lost
little time in climbing into his
wagon and driving back to Penn
sylVania, sadder if not a wiser