The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-06-26
Sweltering weather this week.

Has any one seen that street
sprinkler yetg
Wheat harvest began in this
section the present week.
Extensive repairs are to be made
on Mt. Pleasant church in the near
future.
The gross receipts of the festival
held at Hopewell M. E. church
last week were $57.
Miss Nellie Armstrong, Of Fair
Hill, has been appointed teacher
in Oxford High School.
w. B. Cooney, baker, has placed
two handsomely lettered new de-
livery wagons on his routes.
Sunday was the longest day Of
the year, as well as one of the
hottest, the mercury reaching 92o
Mary v. Price has been appoint
ed postmistress at Cecilton, in
place OF Thomas P. Jones, deceased.
The subject of the sermon for
next Sunday night at Mt. Pleasant
church: ssGood Men Outside the
Church.
The cherry crop has been a big
one this season, with the fruit so
plentiful that gallons are going to
waste on the trees.
The Elkton Town Council has
passed an ordinance limiting. the
speed of automobiles to eight miles
an hour in the town.
William Norris, a Port Deposit
lad, had the misfortune to fall from
cherry tree one day last week
and fracture his right arm.
Falling from a cherry tree in Elk
Neck on Saturday, Ralph Dean,
aged IA years, son of Harry O..
Dean, of Elkton, was seriously in
jured.
Members of the Pioneer Tennis
Club of this town, will visit Oxford
on Saturday afternoon for the first
of a series of contests between rep
resentatives of the two clubs.
A festival will be held on the
evening of Friday July 3, at Mt.
Pleasant for the benefit of the M.
e. church. Music will be furnish
ed by Rising Sun Cornet Band.
Arrangements are being made to
hold Fourth of July celebration
in EIkton on the afternoon of that
day. Governor Crothers is expect
ed to be present and deliver an
address.
Wednesday next, July 1, County
Treasurer elect Charles K. Lynch
will succeed w. Arthur Mitchell,
and assistant Treasurer-electJ John
H. Terrell will succeed G. G.
Hopkins.
The promising three year old
trotter, Herr Axworthy, belonging
to Samuel 7. Shippers, of North
East, and valued at $1,000, died last
week from cerebro spinal menin-
gifts. The animal was being train.
ed at Newark.
The Junior League picnic which
was to have been held near Griest' Is
Fording on Wednesday of this
week, was postponed until July 5,
on account of the inability to pro
cure conveyances to the picnic
grounds during this busy harvest
season.
The Red Mems Cornet Band will
hold q Fourth of July Fair and
Festival on the Shippers lot, in
North East. The festival will be-
gin on the evening of the 3rd and
continue all day and evening of the
4th. The feature of the day will
be a big concert by visiting bands,
The general store of @. G. Bay
ard, in North East, was entered
aDne night last week and robbed OF
about three dollars in small change
and a quantity of goods to the
value of about fifteen dollars,
Entrance was made by removing
one of the large panes of glass from
front window.
Hopewell M. E. Church, Wood
lawn, Rev. J. Howard Gray pas
tor. Sabbath services June IS;
Sunday school at $50, Preaching
at .I0:30 and s p. m. by pastor.
Morning subject, "God Forsaken;"
evening sub, "Shipwrecked," /" 3rd
in series. Epworth League at 1880.
Preaching AZ Asburv at 3 ID. m.