The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-12
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

aEC0 IN our lOCdl mdEkct tulS Wcch .
The election of five Town Com
missioners will be held in North
East on Monday.
It is reported a plant for the
manufacture of artificial ice is to be
built in our town.
Our warehouses are offering $l.20
per bushel for wheat, and but little
of the grain is being received.
Harry Williams, student at
Tome Institute, of Lynchburg, Va,
died early Tuesday morning Of
pneumonia.
Elkton Methodist Episcopal Sun.
day School raised $500 for home
and foreign missions the past coa-
ference year.
March has been showing its many
moods. Last week the blizzard
whistled, while this week the robins
have been singing.
The receivers of the Galena,
Kent county, Bank have declared
another dividend of 81 per cent,
making x per cent to date.
H. L. Worthington is improving
his dwelling on East Main street
by raising the roof in order to pro
vide more room in the upper story.
The Rising Sun Cornet Band will
furnish music on Saturday evening
at a fair in Oakryn Hall, held by
the members of Oakryn Cornet
Band.
The new rural free delivery route
recently laid out through Elk
Neck, with North East as a start
ing point, will be put in operation
on April ].
Rev. Vaughn S.-Collins, pastor
of Tome Memorial Church. Port
Deposit, has notified his congre
cation that he will not return
another conference year.
We are reliably informed that it
is an assured fact the Conowingo
bridge across the Susquehanna will
be completed by September. The
new structure will be Of,iron.
A st. Patrick's tea will be given
in Porter's Grove church Wednes-
day evening, 18th inst. If not clear
on that date, the tea will be held
the following evening. All are
invited.
Cliff and Fred Hoover, of Cecil
ton, well known to lovers of the
national game in this vicinity,
have signed with the Wilmington
base ball team for the coming
season.
Charles Lawson has rented the
store property on Pearl street,
recently occupied by j. E. Britton,
and will open a green grocery and
provision business at the stand in a
few days.
The spring schedule of the steam
ship li6e between Port Deposit,
Hayre de Grace and Baltimore
Went into effect March 5th, when
the steamer Susquehanna made her
first trip from Baltimore.
The will of the late William T..
Richardson, of Charlestown, was
filed for probate at Elkton on Fri.
day. The estate, valued at about
$4,000, was bequeathed to his
daughters, sisters and grand
children.
w. B. Cooney opened his, pool
room and bowling alley to the pub
lie on Monday. The room is To-
Gated in the basement of his
restaurant property, and is fitted
up with two pool tables and first
class ten pin alley.
The directors OF Union Hospital
have elected Miss Made G. Camp
bell, the head nurse, superintendent
of the institution, and appointed
George G.. Vasey, as an orderly.
A fine large kitchen range has
been presented the Hospital by
Miss Ellen Barroll, of Elktou.
j. I. Richards, Jr. and II. 8.
Swami, of the hickey Swami Co.,
engineers and contractors, of Tren-
ton, N. j., were in Rising Sun this
week looking over the road from
Carlton Kimble's to Gathers
Corner with a view of bidding for
the macadamizing of that portion.
They could not have struck a better
time tO see how >hadlv il neaded