The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-07-10
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Wheat is being threshed and the
yield reported is only fair.
The sermon tor next Sunday
night at Mt. Pleasant M. e. church
will be can Open Secret.
The annual excursion of Mt.
Pleasant M. E. Sunday schoo! to
Betterton will be held on July is.
The site selected for the new
school house at Perryville is the
Casey lot, nearly opposite the
present site.
The annual railroad excursions
to Colchester, conducted by the
Pennsylvania railroad, will be held
July %, Aug. 5 and 19.
A festival will be held Friday
and Saturday evenings of this week,
on the lot near the old ball grounds
by members of Rising Sun Cornet
Band.
The Junior League will have a
special program and refreshments
will be served on the church lawn
at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday
afternoon.
The old wooden bridge at the
mouth of the Octoraro creek, on
the Columbia & Port Deposit rail
road, was replaced on Sunday by
an iron structure.
VIM. G. West, of Sylmar, last
week parted with "Strychnine"
selling the animal at private sale
after the Belmont races to Howard
Fulton, of West Chester.
Magistrate II. II. Gilpin, of Elk
ton, lost his valuable setter dog
s.Rocku last week, the animal
being run over and killed by the
automobile of J. w. Scott.
The second of series of contests
arranged by the Oxford and Pho
neer tennis clubs will be played
this afternoon on the court of the
Pioneer club, in this town.
The roaring of the raging Octo-
raro combined with the roaring Of
some raging drunks kept the resi-
dents of Richardsmere awake most
of the night of the Fourth.
During the heavy storm on
Thursday evening of last week
lightning struck and shattered four
poles of the Cecil Farmers tele-
phone line, near Hopewell.
The rains on Thursday and Fri
day evenings of last week were
welcome visitors to this section, the
long continued hot, dry weather
having fairly parched all growing
crops and vegetation.
The next regular meeting of the
N'Cecil Grange No. 3, will be held at
Calvert, Md, in Rose Bank hall,
July 18th, at 2 O'Clock pm. 1t is
desired that all members be pre-
sent. D. W. McVEY, Sec'y.
The members of the Junior
League picniced at Griest's Fording
on Wednesday. The party was
transported to the picnic grounds
in two large hay ricks and spent a
jolly day along the banks of the
Octoraro.
Rev. and Mrs. j. P. Otis are alb
sent on visit to relatives, and the
pulpit of james M. E. church will
be in charge of Rev. A. r. Brown
of Sylmar, the next two Sundays.
The evening services will be in
charge of the Epworth League.
State engineers have been sur
veying the road from the town
limits at the>foot of Stubbs' hill to
Cullen's corner this week pre-
paratory to macadamizing. 1t is
the intention to reduce the grade
of Stubbs' hill by cutting eight
feet from the top.
The festival held at Mt. Pleasant
on Friday evening last, by the
Stewards of the church was a
"stormy" success. The evening
was threatening, but notwith-
standing this fact the attendance
was good. The total receipts were
$95, the profits amounting to 500.
The Fourth was spent with al
most Sunday quietness in Rising
Sun. A small party of "rooters"
went to Avondale to tender con-
dolences to the ball team which
met defeat in both games played
that day. In the evening a few
drunks returned from Oxford and
sobered up without the aid of law.
A limited supply Of fireworks were
touched off during the day and
evening.