The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-04-30
Arbor day.
Fruit trees in bloom.

Fruit trees in bloom.
The Kent county public schools
will close on June Is.
The Town Commissioners of
North East are compelling property
owners to relay defective sidewalks.
Four thousand shad and a large
number of rock fish were shipped
from COLCHESTER in single day last
week.
Fire of an unknown origin de.
stroyed the large frame warehouse
near Singerly, Cecil county, Sunday
night.
The annual convention of the
Cecil County Christian Endeavor
Union will be held at Bay View
today.
William E. Taylor, Of Cecilton,
has formally announced himself a
candidate for Sheriff on the Re-
publican ticket.
John H. Dean, of North East,
has been appointed carrier on rural
( route No. 3, which will be started
from North East May /.
John e. Boyle has been appoint
ed carrier on r. F. D. route No. /,
RowlaDdville; service to begin May
/; length of route 16 miles.
Former County Treasurer W.
Arthur Mitchell, of Elkton, has an
nounced himself candidate for the
Clerkship of the Circuit Court.
Manly Drennen, OF Elkton, Clerk
of the Court of Cecil county, has
announced himself a candidate for
denomination on the Democratic
ticket.
Wayne Reynolds this week sold
his Spring Hill farm of 100 acres,
about three miles northwest of
Rising Sun, to the present tenant,
j. Gainor Reynolds.
Rev. David 81. Moore has been
assigned by District Superintendent
Mowbray to fill the pastorate Of
Elk Neck charge, made vacant by
the resignation of ReP. B. F. Jester.
John Frazer, of Elkton, has plant
ed 300 young locuststrees, obtained
from Kentucky, on the1Barr farm,
in the Glasgow section, which he
recently purchased.
The receipts from lone Night
Only,'' presented by hhe "Paint
and Power Club" at Elkton Opera
House, for the benefit of Union
Hospital, were about $95eand the
net returns were about $50.
Garfield Post, No. Is, G.. A. r.,
of this town, will hold memorial
exercises at Rosebank cemetery on
Saturday, May 30. j. Wynne
Jones, Past Dept. Chaplain, Dept.
OF Maryland, will be orator of the
day.
Under the will of the late Frank
Kerr, of Elkton, probated Monday,
all his personal property is be:
queathed to his wife, and all his
real estate, after his wife's death,
is to go to his son, Frank j. Kerr,
of Philadelphia. L
Demanding free county service
for the subscribers, Havre de
Grace Town Council has refused to
grant the Chesapeake s. Potomac
Telephone Company any additional
privileges until such conditions are
complied with.
Rev. DIR. John McElmoyle, pas
tor of Elkton Presbyterian church,
will deliver the address to the
graduating class of North East
/ High School at the Commencement
to be held Friday morning, May
28, at ten o'clock.
The Oxford Concert Band netted
$57 by the sale of tickets on a
johnson handy wagon, dress suit
case and an umbrella. The wagon
was won by d. H. Menough, the
suit case by John M. Shellender
and the umbrella by Elmer Grason,
of Wilmington.
r. L. Morgan has resigned as
cashier of the First National Bank
of North East, to accept more lu-
crative position. The directors on
Tuesday promoted assistant cashier
Robert @. Reeder TO the position of
cashier and selected James r..
Simpson, of Philadelphia, TO fill
&hn r,oaifinn of aasisfa MT cashier