The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

nut street Is undergoing eAtcuSlNo
repair.
Joseph s. Pogue is improving
his double dwelling on Cherry
street by painting.
The residence of w. Scott Del
bert, in Elkton, has been purchased
by O. @. Giles for $1750.
Rev. J. II. Mitchell has been in
vited to return for another con-
ference year by the congregation OF
Zion M. E. church.
Secure your tickets for the enter
tainment course, on sale at Reyn-
olds drug store today.
The cunning season for rabbits
and partridges in Cecil county
opens on Monday next, 26th inst.
r. G.. Terry has sold his prop
erty at Pennington, embracing a
dwelling and blacksmith shop, to
Robert Cherry, of Germantown.
The net proceeds Of the chicken
and waffle supper held by the
ladies of Zion M. e. church
amounted to the neat sum of SOL.
The Assessors in the Third, Sixth
and Seventh districts being unable
to complete their work by Oct. 20,
have had their time extended to
November /.
The W. G. T. U. will hold a
meeting in the interest of Non
Alcoholic Medication at the home
of Mrs. Hannah Clifford. near
Pennington, on Thursday after
noon, October 90, at 2:30 O'Clock
8 Some miscreant who should he
given term in Jail, out of pure
maliciousness cut the harness OF
several teams hitched about Hope
we'll church Tuesday evening,
during the Poist- Keilholtz wedding
ceremony.
s. T. Regan left at the MIDLAND
JOURNAL Office a stalk of corn of
the Mcdowell variety, with two
fine ears upon it, both of which are
filled to the very point. Mr..
Regan reports a good crop, which
will make fully 80 bus. to the acre.
The farm of John w. Miller,
about one mile east of town, con
tanning 65 acres and known as the
Anthony Job property, has been
purchased by E. r. Sebold, OF
Philadelphia, a former resident of
this section. The price paid was
$3, 300.
The Elkton High School and
West Nottingham Academy foot
ball teams will play at West Not
tingham Saturday, Oct. "a, at 2:30
o. m. The two teams are of about
the same weight and the game
should be a good one. Admission,
15 cents.
Mrs. Little, who is conducting
the Maryland House, broke a blood
vessel in one of her limbs last Mon
day and lost large quantity OF
blood before medical aid could be
procured, all three of Rising Suns
M. Dps being out of town at the
time. DIR. T. B. Moore, dentist,
was finally summoned and stopped
the flow, and although somewhat
weakened by the occurrence Mrs.
Little has since been steadily
improving.
Judging from the tenor of the
expressions in last weeks issues OF
the Elkton papers regarding the
rumored curtailment of service and
increase of rates by the Diamond
State Telephone Co. in this county,
the Elktonians now see things in a
different light from what they did
a year or two ago when they allow.
ed their town council to repeatedly
turn down an application for a
franchise to-the Cecil Farmers COM
pany. The old expression, 81 told
you so /" seems to tit the case
exactly.
Two G.. o. p. spellbinders from
Germantown, r. D. Dripps and
William Wunder, landed in town
last Tuesday evening to address a
Republican meeting, stating they
had been sent by the National
Committee to try and stem the tide
which is flowing Bryanward at
Rising Sun. As no one hereabout
knew anything of the arrangement
to undertake sucha hopeless task
on that evening, they departed the
next morning with their speeches
still in their otherwise 'Aempty