The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-06-12

County Agricultural Society.
a number Of the taxpayers of
the Fourth district are petitioning
fora High School at Fair Hill.
A number of farmers in the
neighborhood have started the
harvest by cutting their clover
fields.
The June meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held Wednes
day at the home of John P. Will
son, near town.
A festival will be held on the
evenings Of Friday and Saturday,
July 10 and II, in this town, by
the Rising Sun Cornet Band.
Friday was the big day at Oxford
Fair. One hundred and sixty
four round trip tickets were sold at
this station for Oxford on that day.
A concrete bridge, probably the
first of its kind in Cecil county,
has been built across the Elkton-
Kembleville road, near Cowantown.
The Oriziba farm of 44O acres
near Bacon Hill was sold Saturday
morning at the Court House door
in Elkton, to Manley Drennen for
$2, $50.
Children's Day will be observed
at james M. E. church, in this
town, Sunday evening next, at 7:30
o'clock, the exercises being in
charge Of the Sunday school.
Isaac Alexander was kicked in
the mouth and painfully injured
by a horse which was being shod
at the blacksmith shop at Sylmar
last week. He was rendered I'M
conscious for a time.
Thirty candidates for the posi-
tions of carriers on the new rural
free delivery routes to be put in
operation from Elkton and Childs,
next month took the examinations
at the Elkton High School building
Saturday.
Watson Keilholtz, son of Chas.
Keilholtz of near town, has dis
covered that mixture of ordinary
dough made of -four and water, to
which has been added small
quantity of assafoetida, makes the
best bait to catch carp Of anything
yet tried. +
Hugh Armour, of Greenhurst,
recently convicted in the United
States Court on the charge of sell
ing oleomargarine and taken to
Atlanta, Georgia, to serve his SEN
tence, is seriously i'll, and it has
been necessary to move him to the
hills, where he is living out OF
doors in a tent.
The commencement exercises OF
Maryland Agricultural College
were held at College Park on
Wednesday. Governor Austin L.
Cr0thers delivered the address to
graduates. Walter Cameron Reed
er, son of Maurice G. Reeder, OF
near town was a member of the
graduating class.
The mistake of Mrs. A. M. Nc
Nance, of Principle, in giving her
infant son William, halfa teaspoon
full of belladonna, thinking it pare.
goric, nearly cost the life of the
child on Wednesday night of last
week. Medical aid was hastily
summoned and heroic measures
saved the life of little fellow.
Some midnight prowler entered
the residences of Howard Reynolds,
N. G. Brown and John Cutlery Of
this town, on Friday night last, but
after ransacking several rooms ap-
pears to have carried off little OF
value. Suspicion points to party
well.known in the neighborhood,
but no arrest has yet been made.
There will be a large number of
adults and children baptized at Mt.
Pleasant Church next Sunday
morning, June 14th, and in the
evening a delightful Children's
Day program will be rendered.
You are welcome to these services
If stormy, the following Sunday.
W. II. BRIGGS, Pastor.
The w. G. T. U. will hold a
spaahor meeting at the home of Mrs,
WilEam Clifford, Cloverly, on
Wednesday, June 18th at 8 O'Clock.
Each .mamber is expected to con-
tribute to the literary entertain
ment. Silver offering. Refresh
ments will be served. Everybody