The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-04-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


day and Friday nights last.
The w. G. T. u. will meet with
Mrs. E. P. Haines at 2:30 O'Clock
on Thursday afternoon, April 30.
Haines & Kirk, hardware deal
ers, have put handsomely lettered
new delivery wagon in commission.
Many of our farmers have finish
ed planting their potatoes, and
other spring work is progressing
rapidly.
Charged with beating his sweet
heart, Miss May Pugh of Elkton,
James Foraker has been lodged in
Elkton Jail.
Mrs. Thomas Mcdowell, near
town, accidentally cut the end of
one of her fingers off few days
since, with an axe.
Elkton Presbyterian church,
which has undergone improve
rnents at a cost Of $1,000, was re-
dedicated on Sunday.
Town Bailiff Riale last week gave
the street lamps and posts their
annual coat of paint,-a beautiful
shade of Easter green.
The School Commissioners were
in special session on Tuesday for
the purpose of paying the public
school teachers of the county.
Thomas S. Benson, of Earleville,
has been appointed standard keep
er for one year from April IA, 1908,
by the County Commissioners.
The entertainment for the bene-
fit of Union Hospital will be given
in Elkton by the Paint and Powder
Club, on Friday evening, May s.
Residents for the Fifth. district
have petitioned the County Com
missioners for bridge over Clark's
run, from North East to Elk Neck.
Our tennis enthusiasts have rent,
ed the lot on Pearl street, owned
by j. E. Brumfeld, and had a
court laid out and put in shape for
play.
Elkton Odd Fellows celebrated
the eighty ninth anniversary of the
organization of the order Wednes-
day evening by a public enter
tainment.
H. I. Armour, of near Bay View
was placed on trial before the Fed
eral Court, in Wilmington. on Mon
day, charged with violating the
oleomargarine laws.
Rev. Samuel Polk, pastor of West
Nottingham Presbyterian Church,
was elected moderator for the
ensuing year at the meeting OF New
Castle Presbytery on Wednesday.
a contract has been made by the
School Commissioners with A. M
Strickland to erect fire escapes at
the High School, Elkton, and No
IL, Third, to be completed Sept. l..
Taking a dose of laudanum by
mistake, George Draper, an Elkton
painter, became unconscious and
his life was dispaired of for several
hours, but heroic measures resorted
to were finally successful.
The County Executive of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was in session Wednesday
at James M. E. church, Rising Sun,
every Union in the county, with
the exception of Cherry Hill, being
represented.
Special Easter services were held
at James NJ. E. church on Sunday.
The Sunday school had charge of
the exercises in the evening, a pro-
gram of recitations and music,
principally by the primary classes,
having been prepared.
The students at the Cecil County
High School are preparing to give
an operatta and play in the Elkton
Opera House, on Wednesday even
ing, May 9th, for the benefit of the
piano fund, also for helping to de-
fray the expenses of the Com
mencement.
Rising Sun Grange, P. of H.,
will hold an open meeting in
Mechanics Hall, at Calvert. on
Tuesday evening, April 28th, at
1880 o'clock, for the purpose of
organizing a Grange of the P. of FL.
Farmers, their wives and all in
terested are invited to ATTEND. By
order of H. j. Patterson, State
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