The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-08-27

wiz lam T. Fryer's tomato cannery, at
~olora began the seasons pack on Friday
fr'e nds' Quarterly Meeting will be held
at tnek Brick Meeting House, Calvert. on
fri0a y, a7th inst.
! Ie annual picnic Of West Nottingham
Pre- ksbyterian Sunday school was held in
the Church grove yesterday.
Mrs. Mary l. Mackie has purchased the
oY-acre farm of Miss Katharine L.
rutherford, near Zion for $4,5oo,
Overcome by the heat horse dropped
dead while being used by Fri clendenin,
on his farm near Blake, Monday afternoon.
A special excursion to Atlantic City
will be run over the Baltimore Central
Division on Tuesday, Aug. 81. See ad-
vertisement.
Ollie M. Coslett, of North East, has
accepted a position as instructor in the
Wilmington Business School, from which
he graduated.
Gunners report the wild oats crop along
the rivers in Cecil county very small,
which means poor cunning season Tor
rail and reed birds.
Falling into an old soapstone quarry
near Pilot. while walking in his sleep,
Burton French, one of party OF campers
suffered dislocated hip.
The State Camp Patriotic Sons of
America, which recently convened in
Baltimore, decided to hold its next
annual meeting at Elkton.
The section of gravel road from Kinks
Bridge to Pleasant Hill, being constructed
by the County Commissioners, is expected
to be completed this week.
Raymond McCann, of Hayre de Grace,
has been appointed Adams Express mes
senger between Perryville and Philadel-
phia, over the Baltimore Central Railroad.
Patrick Gone, employed at the Elkton
pulp mills, got his hand caught in the
machinery on Friday, two fingers being
SO badly lacerated as to necessitate
amputation.
Frank Harris, of Bay View, was adj
mitted to Union Hospital, Elkton, last
week, to undergo treatment for injuries
resulting from being struck in the
stomach by baseball last spring.
Two fine colts, one black three year
old. and the other mole colored year
ling, were taken from field on Jacob
Pooer's place, near Warwick, on the
night of Aug. ID, and have not yet been'
traced.
John H. Kimble received his newly
purchased 4o-horse power Pullman tour
ing car on Wednesday. The machine
was brought from Philadelphia by
chauffeur H. NJ. Duyckinck; the run being
made to Rising Sun in four hours.
Chairman Murray Vandiver, of the
Democratic State Central Committee, has
issued call for meeting of the COM
mittee on September 2, at the Eutaw
House, Baltimore, to complete plans for
the conduct of the democratic campaign
this fall.
The seventh annual Maryland State
Shoot, for amateurs, was held at Electric
Park, Baltimore, on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday of this week, under
the management of J. NOVEL; Hawkins,
of Forest Park, and H. Linn Worthington,
of Rising Sun.
|. D. Donache, of this towu, enjoys the
distinction of being the first person from
this section to drive over the new Como
wingo bridge. He crossed the bridge into
Hartford county. on Wednesday, 18th
inst, immediately after the hosting en-
gine was removed from the structure.
Jos. T.>Richards, Jr., who has had
general supervision of the road work done
blythe Rickey-Swann Co., between Barnes
cross roads and Korner Ketch. left this
week for La Plata, Charles county, where
he will superintend work on FIVE miles of
gravel road, to be built for the State by
the same company,
Chairman Tucker OF the State Road
Commission inspected several farms In
this section on Saturday in the hope of
finding stone suitable for road building,
in SUFFICIENT quantity to warrant the open
ing of a quarry. 1t is the intention of
the Commission to get stone for the
Rising Sun~Calvert State road from some
point near at hand. If any suitable
for road building can be found, otherwise
it will have to be shipped here by rail,
greatly increasing the cost of the road.