The midland journal., 1909-09-10
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The box social held by Mt. Pleasant M.
E. church last week netted SIS.
September term OF Circuit Court con-
venes at Elkton Monday, goth inst.
Frost is reported Monday morning.
The mercury touched the AZ mark.
West Nottingham Academy will reopen
for its I6oth year on Wednesday, 18th
inst
P. E. Sharpless Co. is paying $I.s5 for
q per cent milk during the month Of
September.
Two traction engines broke through a
bridge near Boulden's Chapel, in this
county. last week.
Merton Cameron, Of Zion, has accepted
a.position as instructor in military acad-
emy at Gainesville, Georgia.
Oil has been placed on the main street
in Colora, by. the Standard Oil Company,
to demonstrate its effectiveness as dust
ailayer.
The great 52o-foot span on the new
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge over the
Susquehanna at Aiken was connected up
Sunday.
Even the s'signs" have failed,-the
moon has changed and still no rain. The
long continued drought is said to be the
worst in fifty years.
C. T.. Snyder received car load of
artificial ice from Lancaster on Saturday,
his supply Of the natural product stored
last winter being exhausted.
The National Bank of Rising Sun will
observe Monday, Sept. 10, Defenders
Day, which is legal holiday, and will
not be open for business on that date.
Mr.. Samuel E. Osborn. instructor of
mathematics at the Tome School for Boys,
Port Deposit, has been appointed senior
housemaster, in charge of Jackson House.
Matinee races will be held at the track
of the Rising Sun Driving Association on
Saturday, Sept. II. The events will in
clude 3:I5, 1850, ago and Free-for-all
classes.
The weekly publication, The Peninsula
Methodist has been sold by L. Bates
Russell, of Chestertown, to Harry E.
Ramsdell, and hereafter will be issued in
Denton.
For over-driving and cruelty treating a
horse he hired from an Elkton livery,
Thomas L. J. c. Freeman, travelling
salesman from Philadelphia, was fined $5
and costs.
The house and lot situated at Vinegar
Hill and belonging to S. M. McCardell
was sold at trustees sale on Saturday for
$r,o62 to Lewis H. Kirk. trustee OF
mortgage.
The public schools of the county re-
opened Monday. There are twenty-five
pupils in attendance at the Rising Sun
Grammar school, and ffty-two at the
Primary school.
The mile of State road at Oakwood was
completed on Saturday. Work on the
second mile at the same place is pro.
crossing rapidly, a large force sofs men
being employed.
The Towson News and the Baltimore
County Union have been consolidated,
and will be known in future as the News
Union. Harry c. Longnecker retires
from journalistic work.
Bay mackerei and diamond fish are
being caught at Otter Point. something
that was never know before. Fishermen
assert because of the drouth the bay has
become so salt the fish are seeking fresh
water
pF. Theo. A. Worrall. of North East
has accepted an invitation to deliver ar
address at the dedication of monument
on Cold Harbor battle field. near Rich,
mond. Va. Oct. 40. The o7th Penna,
Vols. of which the doctor was member
fought in this battle.
The Christian Endeavor Society of Bay
View M. P. church has elected the follow,
ing officers President, Mrs. w. S. Ben
jafnin: vice-pres., Miss Annie Smith
treas, Miss -Poea Reed; cor. Sec, Mis-.
Cora Benjamin; rec. Sec. Mrs. Cora
Cameron; ORGANISE, Miss Blanche Abrams
The farms Of the late Isaac H. England
Of Zion, were sold at public auction
Saturday, at the Court House, in Elkton
to Mrs. Helen Cook. of Glen Roy, Pa. {
sister of the deceased. for $I4. 500. Tn,
properties contain Iso acres, with two
separate sets of buildings, and are rated
among the finest farms in Cecil county