The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-10-28
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Monday evening next is Halloween
Measles are reported prevalent in the
neigborhood of Calvert.
Special services are being held nightly
at Sylmar M. E. church.
The cunning season opens in Cecil
county on Tuesday, November I.
Chrysanthemum Tea in Rising Sun
church on Thursday evening. Nov. 10.
The dwelling occupied by H. c. Cum
mines and family is receiving new fall
dress Of paint.
The pack Of tomatoes at the cannerv
Of Silver & Liddell, Liberty Grove, this
season was 1900 cases.
The streets of North East are being
greatly improved by the laying OF 1000
feet Of concrete pavement.
George Bolton, farmer on the William
Price farm, of Bohemia Manor, and FIVE
Of his children, are i'll with typhoid fever.
Frank Hambleton, of this town, has
Joined the ranks of the automobiles,
having purchased handsome fve-pas-
senger Ford touring car.
The official Board of Tome Memorial
Methodist Church, Port Deposit, has
unanimously requested Rev. F. T. Car
penter to return next year.
Elkton Improvement Association will
ask the State Road Commission to remove
the bridge over Big Elk Creek farther up
stream to give the town more wharfage.
Work was begun last week on the Elk
ton-Chesapeake City section of State road.
It is understood operations this fall will
be confined to grading and concrete bridge
work.
s.Columbia's Court will be given in
the public hall, Rising Sun, on Wednes-
day evening. November ?. by members Of
the w. c. T. U. Admission 10 and IS
cents.
A fine COW belonging to Townsend Nc
Cummings, Of near Sylmar. got upon the
Baltimore Central railroad tracks one day
last week. and was struck by train and
killed.
Charles Scott and Richard Douglass,
two negro employees at Tome Institute,
Port Deposit. have been lodged in Elkton
jail. charged with robbing students of
jewelry.
M. Ely and family this week moved
their household goods into the dwelling
on Main street. recently purchased from
H. ], Efipe. who with his family removed
to Philadelphia.
AT the eighty-6rst stated meeting of the
Presbytery. Rev. L. R. Watson. pastor of
Manakin church. Princess Anne, was
elected moderator to succeed Rev. Bern
ard Brinkema. Of Zion.
The schooner Addison E. Billiard. I"
with which Walter Wellman's airship
America narrowly escaped colliding off
Barnegat, is under charter by the Scott
Fertilizer Co., of Elkton.
Rev. Samuel M. Perry. of Elkton, has
been selected as temporary pastor Of Pen
cader Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, vice
Or. T. c. Potter, who has resigned, owing
to his increasing deafness.
Three hundred laborers for the Ameri-
can Telegraph s. Telephone Company
are laying creosoted timber castings
through Cecil county for the conduit
system between New York and Washing
ton.
Quite a number from this vicinity at
tended the democratic meetings at Port
Deposit and Elkton on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. Both meetings were
addressed by Congressman J. Harry Gov
ington.
The freight shed and other buildings of
the Pennsylvania Railroad that were
swept from their foundations during the
Ice gorge at Port Deposit, have been pur-
chased by C. c. Caldwell. who will remove
the lumber to his farm at New Valley and
construct farm buildings out of it.
Willie assisting In the tearing down Of
an old blacksmith shop in Cecilton, Will
liam Lipscomb of that town fell from the
second story of the building, when a
rotten joist upon which he was standing
broke, and suffered the fracture OF several
ribs. in addition to receiving other severe
injuries.
Oxford High School defeated West
Nottingham Academy foot ball team, on
the academy grounds Saturday afternoon.
in an interesting game Four Of Noting