The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-05-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The public schools Of the county close
today.
The eclipse Monday night was Witnessed
by many Of our citizens.
Oak Grove school, near town, netted $24
a by the festival held last week.
The ladies of Calvert M. E. church will
hold festival in Rosebank Hall on
Decoration Day.
The Litzenberg property, on Main
street, Elkton, has been purchased by
James Alagia for $500.
gold watch and chain belonging to
Mrs. Isabella T. Bagley were stolen from
the Tome Institute, Port Deposit.
The heavy rainfalls in this section on
Saturday and Wednesday caused work to
be stopped on the State road here.
H. Winfield Lewis, Of Elkton, has been
appointed clerk under the Public Utilities
Commission at salary of $12oo year.
Children's Day exercises will be observed
at Zion Presbyterian Church June S, in
the morning; at the M. E. Church June IL.
Kicked by another horse, one belonging
to rural mail carrier William Hines, OF
colora, sustained fractured leg and had
to be killed.
]. M. Arters, Superintendent Of the
Anti-Saloon. League, will deliver addresses
in the Zion and Calvert churches, Sum
day, June 5th.
While pulling tacks from carpet at her
home in Elkton, Mrs. John Conoway was
struck in the eye by one Of them, and
painfully injured.
Garfield Post will attend Ebenezer
church in body on Sunday the 2oth, in
full uniform. Preaching by the Pastor
Rev. w. H. Briggs at 8 o'clock.
The residence of w. Arthur Mitchell,
located at the corner of Main and Church
streets, Elkton, has been purchased by
DIR. w. T. Morrison for $3.50.
Griffith Brown, son of J.B. Brown, of
Co1ora, had his right hand caught in a
cutting-box while cutting hay, and three
of his fingers were badly injured,
The 2Io acre farm Of Richard L. and
Samuel Price. near Warwick, has been
sold to Mrs. ]. P. Algire. for $I5,25o, in
Guiding the wheat and other growing crops.
Pleasant Hill Council Jr. o. U. A. M,
presented a flag to Zion public school
Monday afternoon, when the banner was
flung to the breeze with appropriate
ceremonies.
Two musicians with harp and violin
stopped off between trains in Rising Sun
on Friday, and treated residents in various
sections of the town to some of the popular
music Of the day.
The teachers and pupils Of Principle
Furnace school will hold strawberry and
ice cream festival May 2S. Music fur
nished by the North East Band. Proceeds
for benefit of school library.
An exhibit of the work of pupils Of
Elkton Colored Industrial School was open
to the public at the school house on
Thursday, May 60 1t consisted of sew
ing, basket work, chair Gaming, etc.
George German an employee at the
Elkton foundry, caught his right hand in
the "rumbler," or castings cleaner, and
had his fore6nger so badly mashed that Il
may require amputation,
A freight wreck occurred at Elkton
station Wednesday morning. when the
rear truck of a tank car was derailed. All
trains were sent over the southbound
track until the wreck was cleared away
Despite the fact that Miss Eta Bouchelle
member of the graduating class of North
East high school, fell down stairway al
the home of neighbor one evening last
week and broke her left arm, she was al
school the next day and will participate in
the graduating exercises of the class this
evening.
An Indian girl from Carlisle School,
who has been at the home of the family
of George S. Fox about three weeks, left
some time Sunday night. She was located
Monday morning at Oxford, to which
town she had walked. Policeman Ringler
took her in charge until Mr.. Fox arrived
and brought her back to Rising Sun.
A good view Of the comet was obtained
on Wednesday evening from about 9 tc
o;3o o'clock, after which it was obscured
by the clouds. The comet is high up ir
the western sky, the head being bright
but the tail hardly distinguishable. The