The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-10-27
Tuesday night is Halloween.

Nov. / and closes April 10.
Rufus ]. Benjamin has purchased the
Shute farm of 70 acres. near Woodlawn.
]. M. Holdnn and w. B. Cooney re-
ceived another carload of artificial ice on
Monday.
The Cecil Farmers Club met on
Wednesday with Jos. S. Scarborough.
Pleasant Hill.
The cunning season for cartridges and
rabbits opens on November and closes
December "a.
The Rising Sun Hunt Club has sold
six Of its pack of hounds to the West
Chester Hunt Club.
Funds are being raised by the members
OF Chesapeake City M. E. church for the
erection of parsonage.
Work on the new Methodist Episcopal
parsonage at North East, has begun. The
building will be OF brick.
Joseph McMullen, of near town, has
had the misfortune to lose one of his
pair of fine mules from spinal meningitis.
The new training school for nurses at
Union Hospital of Cecil county, located
at Elkton, has opened with eight student
nurses.
Mrs. Clifton Jackson has been appoint
\ ed assistant at Rising Sun Grammar
School, vice. Miss Bertha Graham,
resigned.
The official board of the Elkton M. E.
Church has unanimously invited their
pastor, Rev. E. P. Roberts, to return for
another conference year.
Clerk of the Court Cecil Kirk will be at
Charlestown Tuesday morning, October
81. and at Perryville 10 the afternoon for
the purpose of issuing ducking licenses
The Granville w. Reynolds farm near
Cecil Paper Mill. was offered at attorneys
sale on Friday at the Court House door in
Elkton, and withdrawn at bid of $500.
Charged with assaulting Rosa Smells,
an immigrant, while she was on her way
to meet the man she was to marry. Ca
milo Defrancsco. OF Perryville. was sent
TO jail.
The fine, crisp fall weather. with ligh,
frosts every morning this week, is in
marked contrast to that of last. when fog.
mist and rain held sway from one end
TO the other.
The republican State candidates will
make second automobile tour in Cecil
county tomorrow to meet the voters and
try and inject little enthusiasm into a
listless campaign.
Mrs. Maude Feldmeyer Biles. now re-
siding in Annapolis. with her parents, has
entered suit in the Anne Arundel Circuit
Court fora limited divorce from her hus-
band. DR.. c. R. Biles. of Elkton.
Ralph Segar. a student at Tome Insti-
tute, had his arm broken last week. A
schoolmate tripped him. causing him to
fall heavily. The boy was taken to the
Maryland University Hospital, Baltimore.
The registration books of the several
districts of the county this year contain a
totalpf 6Io3 names of voters against 6rIs
last year. 347 white and II colored
names were added this year and 37I
white and 62 colored names were erased.
H. L. Worthington. of this town. who
= on August a6 caught with hook and line
big rock fish in the Susquehanna river,
near Octoraro Junction, entered his catch
in the Field and Stream contest and has
been awarded second prize.-ten dollars
worth of fishing tackle. The big fish
weighed 2o4 lbs. and measured three
feet. one inch 10 length.
The Tri-County League base ball
championship trophy. handsome silver
cup offered by the A. ]. Reach sporting
goods firm. has finally been awarded to
Aberdeen, the pennant winning team,
after disgraceful squabble that has
done. much to injure base bali in the
county, the prediction being freely made
by patrons of the game that there will be
mo tri-county league next year.
II you will get up at Ago or even soc
u in the morning and take peep at ths
eastern sky you win be repaid by view
Aof the comet and also Venus. which i,
now morning star. and a beautiful ans
brilliant spectacle, well worth a it'll
effort to see. Another comet is to be seel
low down in the western sky. at few
minutes after 6 o'clock in the evening
aud no doubt more Of our readers will
view this one than the one in the east il
Ehe mornings.