The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-07-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

chester, run by the Pennsylvania railroad.
About $,s was the sum realized by the
festival held last week at Octoraro M. T:
church. Rising Sun Cornet Band was
in attendance.
G. G. Hopkins lost another horse from
cerebro-spinal meningitis on Wednesday,
making eight he has had to die within the
past two years.
Struck in the side by a COW suddenly
turning its head to brush. away flies, Mrs.
lanes Woodrow, of near Colora, was
severely injured.
Government surveyors have placed a
tide clock below the Lock at Chesapeake
City, to give the correct rise and fall OF
the tide at any hour.
DR.. T. B. Moore had the good luck to
land three and a five pound rock tlsh
Wednesday, with hook and line, at the
mouth of the Octoraro.
One pier has been completed OF the
Conowingo bridge. The piers are being
raised four feet, and the new bridge
structure is to be of iron.
Family thefts to crafty passion for
crap shooting have put Roland Hartshorn,
colored, Seventh district of Cecil, in the
House of Correction for three years.
Having reached the age of 10 years,
Lieut.. Colonel William G. Purnell, of
Elkton, has been retired from active
service in the Maryland National Guard.
The colored folks will hold three-Sun-
day camp meeting in Chambers grove,
near North East, beginning August I, to
be followed by two-Sunday camp at St.
Marks, Elk Neck.
Many dead fish have been noticeable in
Elk River the first of each week recently,
due, it is claimed, to the mills at Elkton,
allowing washings from their acid pans
to run into the river.
BY colliding with another lad while
playing base ball last week, James Old
ham, of Elkton, had his arm dislocated.
This is the second time the lad has met
with similar accident
The Cecil County School Board will
award free scholarships by competitive ex-
aminations on July 29, to Washington
College, Western Maryland College, Char
]otte Hall, and St. Mary's Seminary.
The taking off of the o:56 northbound
passenger train has necessitated the at
taching of passenger car to the market
train on Tuesday and Friday mornings
for the accommodation of the market men.
The members of National Lodge, I. o.
o. F.. of Elkton, have presented z. T.
McKenney, of that town, who is mem
Der of Triumph Lodge at Bel Air. Md,
with handsome gold jewel as a token of
appreciation of his help in degree work
during the past year. and also for his
completion of twenty-five years as an
Odd Fellow.
Leslie camp-meeting, under the aus
pices of the National Local Preachers and
Exhorters' Association opened Wednesday
with Rev. George w. Bradley, of Trainer,
Pa, in charge.
During the time of Leslie Camp, the
B. & o. Railroad will stop trains at
stations on its line for those attending
camp, on week days as we'll as Sundays.
H. F. Richards and Barclay Reynolds
of this town, will play M. L. McCul-
Tough and Hawley Kendall doubles, on
the court of the Oxford Tennis club to-
morrow afternoon. 1t is expected there
will also be other matches, both singles
and doubles, arranged between members
of the Pioneer Tennis club of this town
and the Oxford club, during the afternoon.
The Sunday school of James M. E.
church held their annual picnic on
Wednesday in the grove on the farm of
Duyckinck, Sterrett & Co., south of town,
where jolly days outing was had by
both little folks and big. The feast of
good things prepared and served by the
ladies for the ravanous appetites was no
small part of the days celebration. Over
one hundred were assembled in the grove,
the picnic being voted a big success by
every one present
The threatened rain Sunday evening
failed to reach Rising Sun, although
several nearby sections were favored with
generous showers. There has been no
rain in this immediate vicinity since the
last Sunday in June, and the lack of it is
severely felt. The ground is hard,
pasture fields parched, growing crops
suffering and dust two or three inches
deep, in roads and on our streets, which
every wind swirls about and Sits over
everything. Agood, soaking rain would
be welcome visitor.