The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-01
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The residence of DR.. G. s. Dare
is being given new spring dress
of paint.
rawberries reached our local
market last week, selling at 18
cents per box.
With the mercury registering
$40, Sunday was a reminder of the
good old summer time.
The Circuit Court for Cecil
County has granted divorce to
Mrs. Bayard Evans of Elkton.
The dredging Of the channel of
the Elk river from Cedar Point to
the wharves at ElktOn has been
completed.
DIR. Charles r. Biles, of Elkton,
has been appointed member OF
the State Veterinary Board by
Governor Crothers.
Corn planting has been progress
ing rapidly with our farmers, the
warm weather the past week
making conditions favorable for the
work.
The housekeeper is in the height
Of happiness with spring house.
cleaning, while mankind in general
is in the depths of misery as it
progresses.
The members of Cherry Hill
Council, No. 19, o. U. A. M. cele
brated the forty fourth anniversary
of the organization of the lodge on
Saturday night.
United States Senator Knox, of
Pennsylvania, will deliver the
memorial address at Jacob Tome
Institute, Port Deposit, on Found
er's Day, May 5.
Young Friends Association will
be held one week later than usual,
on May 10th, to be addl essed by
Clinton Arnold, Esq, of Lancaster
City. Subject-Press Literature.
SIN the Shadow of the Rockies, !"
the entertainment given on Friday
evening last by the pupils Of West
Nottingham Academy was very
successful, the sum of $48 being
realized.
An ice cream festival will he
held by Calvert Agricultural High
School on Tuesday evening, May
9th, for the benefit of the library.
Music by hand. Come .and have a
good time.
The young people of Octoraro
M. e. church will hold box social
in the church on May 8. Ifstormy,
on Monday eve. Ladies please
bring boxes. Home made candy
will be on sale.
The wagon of John Nickle
whose team was hitched in front of
Nichols, store, was upset and a
wheel broken Wednesday morning
by being run into by one of the
paper mill teams.
A camp of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America was instituted at
Cecilton, Wednesday evening, by
w. j. B. Lofand, President of the
18th district, assisted by the lead
ing degree team of Baltimore.
Clifford Hoover, Of Ceeilton, well
known to base ball enthusiasts of
this section, has accepted an offer
as manager and captain of the
Bedford, Pa, base ball team, a
member of the Interstate League.
The appointment of DR.. I. B.
Moore of Rising Sun, as member
of the State Board of Dental Ex-
aminers, which had been antici-
pated for some weeks, was an
nounced by Governor Crothers
Monday night.
The Pioneer Tennis Club has or
ganized for the season by electing
Edwin L. Haines president, Miss
Armenia Wilson secretary, Bernard
Efing treasurer. Grounds have
been rented on Pearl street and a
fine dirt court laid out. The club
has about twenty members enrolled.
While this section was swelter-
ing with heat on Sunday and Mon
day tornadoes We're devastating
sections of the South, being follow
ed by hail and floods, while in
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri
snow fell, street car service being
blocked by snow in some Wisconsin
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