The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-09-18

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week.
Fifteen pupils are taking the
newly established business course
at the Elkton High School.
The September term of Circuit
Court for Cecil County will convene
at Elkton on Monday next.
The W. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. VIM. M. Pogue on Thursday,
Sept. oath, at 2:30 O'Clock.
Theodore Woollens is improving
his barn on the Sycamore Mills
property by the erection of 16x55
fit. addition.
j. M. Campbell, of Port Deposit,
has been elected a director of the
Cecil National Bank, to succeed
Edward Dorcus, deceased.
The September meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was held on
Thursday of this week, at the home
of A. FL. Mendenhall, Blue Ball.
A boiler valve blowing out, Wm.
Drummond and Morris Egnor were
badly scalded about head, face and
body at Marley Mill, near Childs
On Friday last while cleaning
out cistern at his home near
Liberty Grove, Joseph T. Caldwell
fell into it and suffered fractured
leg.
Running against knife point in
his meat store at Elkton, Victor r.
Bennett received a severe cash in
the leg which required several
stitches to close.
Raiding a speak easy in a woods
near Bohemia Manor Colored Camp,
Sheriff Hager confiscated 800
bottles of beer and several gallons
of cheap whiskey.
Elkton has two new cases of ty-
phoid fever, while Mrs. Giles and
Mrs. Gonce, who have been afflic
ted with the disease for some time,
are convalescing.
Miss Reba Hartenstine, of Prin-
cipio Furnace. graduate Of the
State Normal School, has accepted
a position as teacher in the public
school at Georgetown, Del.
Miss Christine I. Tinling, of
England, National Organizer and
Lecturer w. G. T. o., will speak
in James M. Il. church, on Thurs.
day evening, Sept. "a, ats o'clock.
The public invited.
The trustees of North East M. E.
Church, in whom is vested the title
of "Good Will Chapel,n which has
long been abandoned for religious
services, will offer the property at
public sale, Sept. 26.
For assaulting Samuel Lee at
Union M. +. church festival, Ere
mont, and for carrying concealed
deadly weapons, Walter Brinton of
this town, was fined SIG by Justice
Quigley of Nottingham.
The peculiar haze which has
almost ohscured the sun several
days this week is attributed by
scientists to smoke from the forest
fires which have been raging in
the West, burning over miles of
timber land.
The farm of the late James
Brown, located near Sylmar and
containing IA acres, was purchased
at public sale on Wednesday by
William Boyle, of Avondale, a
former Cecil countian. The price
paid was $3.50.
The statements o. those from this
town who attended the Bryan
meeting in Baltimore Monday
night, concerning the jam of hu-
manity at the Fifth Regiment
Armory and the enthusiasm with
which MI. Bryan was greeted,
hardly bear out the belittling ac
count of the meeting published in
the Baltimore Sun.
Workmen have been engaged
this week in digging trenches and
laying pipe on Walnut street and
East Main street, from the acetelyne
gas plant of E. r. Burlington &
Sons. The residences of N. @.
Brown, s. T. Reynolds, Edwin
Haines, DIR. G. s. Dare, E. r. Buff
5 fington, G. E. Burlington, the drug
store of Eli T. Reynolds, and the
M. e. church are to be lighted from
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