The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-19

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Nathan Britton will succeed
Isaac Riale as town bailiff March 25.
A rural free delivery route has
been laid out, starting from Row
landville and serving 81 families.
Thursday, March 25, will be OBJ
served as Maryland Day by the
schools, with appropriate exercises.
Governor Crothers has appointed
William r. Dempsey and Arthur
T. Nickle, deputy game wardens
for Cecil county.
William T. Fryer, of Colora, has
announced himself as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Register of Wills.
The Henry Phillips property, on
the Ridge, north of town, was pur-
chased on Saturday at public sale,
for $500, by Thomas Fisher.
Bird dogs on Sunday killed a
fine part wild and part bronze
turkey gobbler belonging to Miss
Bertha Tyson and valued at $25.
An empty box car on the Spar
vetta siding, near Sylmar, was
burned one morning last week, the
origin of the fire being unknown.
Run over by team belonging to
Ward Brown, of Port Deposit,
William Grant, a Tome Institute
student, had his right foot crushed.
Isaiah Biddle, Harry Harvey, E.
B. Fockler, John Tobin and J..
Albert Roney were on Monday
elected town commissioners of
North East.
William Boyle, of Sylmar, is
confined to the house with badly
sprained ankle, caused by the up.
setting of a wagon load of fodder
upon which he was riding.
Amos r. Brown has sold his fine
farm near Sylmar to his brother,
Calvin p. Brown, and purchased
the William r. Cameron and Jas.
H. Maxwell farm of 216 acres, near
Pennington.
The County Convention of the
Christian Endeavor Society will be
held at Bay View on Friday, April
80. Secretary Shaw, of Boston,
will deliver an address before the
convention.
A freight wreck at the McClen.
ahan quarries, near Rock Run, in
which three cars were deraied,
caused the northbound passenger
train due here at 4:45 to be an hour
late Monday evening.
Frank Lennon, one of the
teamsters of the Cecil Paper Mills,
had his foot badly crushed Wednes-
day by getting it caught in a rut
and mashed by a wheel of the
heavily loaded wagon.
Jacob Moorej colored, was given
a hearing Monday before Justice
Henry Ell. Gjpin, of Elkton, and
held for the September Grand Jury
on q, charge of stealing chickens
from County Commission Charles
A. Benjamin, at Leslie.
Someone stole a pound of butter
from the cellar of 81. K. Garvin's
restaurant on Saturday night. Mr..
Garvin desires to state to the party
that there will be another supply
in the same place on next Saturday
night, but that it will be under
lock and key.
The rain of Friday night and
Saturday morning caught the
family of 81. L. Worthington lily
prepared for it, with a large section
of the roof of their dwelling, on
East Main street, entirely removed,
preparatory to undergoing ex.
tensive Improvements. Contractor
Ryan and his force of men rushed
things Saturday morning and the
damage to the ceiling of second
floor rooms by rain was not serious.
Notwithstanding the stormy
weather and muddy roads, the fair
and festival held on Friday and
Saturday evenings last by the
members of Oakryn Cornet Band,
in their new hall, was well attended
and proved success. The Rising
Sun Cornet Band was in attendance
on Saturday evening and rendered
a'splendid program of concert music
in artistic manner. The band was
under the direction of H. X. Gar.
vim who was highly congratulated