The midland journal., 1908-10-02
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in. the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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The last day of registration will
be Tuesday next, October 6.
Two hundred and ten tickets
were sold Friday at Rising Sun
station for Oxford Fair.
The County Commissioners have,
extended the time for Assessors TO
make their returns until Oct. 20.
The Riverside Cornet Band will
hold a fair and festival beginning
October "a, in the Town Hall, Port
Deposit.
Seruch Kimble, of Appleton. has
been appointed an assistant in
structor in Wenonah Military
School, N. J.
The double dwelling of Miss Ella
Brown and Mrs. Julia Devon, on
South Queen street, is being bright
ened with coat Of paint.
Charles Keiiholtz has purchased
of George Sollars his property,
one mile south of town and contain
ing about 81 acres, for $4,000.
Governor Crothers has secured
his transfer from Elkton and reg
istered at Annapolis, where the
law requires the Governor to vote.
Earl Anderson, of Blake, has
been awarded a free scholarship
at the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege by the Cecil County School
Board.
At the reunion of Company u,
Purnell Legion, at North East, w.
81. Abrahams was elected presi-
dent, s. 81. Hambleton secretary
and Samuel Burns treasurer.
The conductor of the train that
was on the B. & o. bridge when it
went down was Curtis Mccullough,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch McCul
Tough, of near Liberty Grove.
Moore's Methodist Episcopal
Church, Blake, will be rededicated
on October A. The church has
been closed for several weeks under
going extensive improvements.
The registrars of the Sixth dis.
trict last Tuesday added 81 new
names to the list and issued 10
transfers to other districts, making
a net gain of IL votes for the dis
trict.
The Sunday School of Octoraro
M. e. Church will hold cake and
pie social at the home of Theodore
Woollens, Sycamore Mills, near
town, on Friday evening. If.
stormy, following evening. Young
ladies will also have lunch boxes
on sale.
Samuel M. McCardell, of Mt.
Pleasant met with an accident
Saturday, which resulted in
broken wrist. He was erecting
wire fence around his premises and
was in the act of stretching wire
which broke, precipating him down
an enbankment, the left wrist being
broken in the fall.
The opening fall meeting of
Young Friends Association will be
held next Sabbath, 10 NO., 4th, at
2:3O. E. R. Burlington having lately
visited the tomb and old home of
John Brown will give a talk on his
life. We will have read his speech
in court, also some of his writings
while in prison cell.
Jesse p. Mace, of this town, who
last week was arrested on the
cx kge of drunken and disorderly
conduct, was re-arrested on Tues.
/, day morning for a similar offense
and fined $25 and costs by Magis.
trate Taylora In default of pay.
ment he was committed to Elkton
Jail for thirty days. Magistrate
Taylor has similar dose in pickl
for others who have been violating
the peace in this town.
A brilliant display of northern
lights was noticed in the heavens
on Tuesday night. Next week
brilliant display of acetylene lights
will be noticed in a number of
stores and dwellings, in Rising Sun.
The workmen are still busy laying
pipe and expect to attach all the
fixtures within few days. Resi-
dents outside of the piped section
are evincing desire TO come in out
of the darkness and it is hoped
Messrs. Burlington will extend the
mains to other parts of the town