The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-06-09

Ground has been broken for the new
three-story cannery to be erected at Colora.
There were forty-four graduates this
year in the Ave Cecil county High Schools.
Fine homegrown strawberries are
reaching the local market. selling for two
boxes for quarter.
The W. C. T.. U. will meet on Wednes-
day afternoon, June IA, at 2:3o o'clock,
with Mrs. Edwin Haines.
The postmaster at North East will re-
ceiye an increase Of 500 in his salary the
coming fiscal year, making it $I5oo.
The dwelling on North street, Elkton,
owned by the late Jacob Rambo,, has been
purchased by Arthur Rambo for $1,000.
The Lindsay farm at Eder station, in
Cecil county, embracing IS4>acres, has
been purchased by Charles R. Foard Of
Elkton.
WIS. DCtlAd A-s 1hAihuSciit Va a "
>posit, has entered suit for divorce, vim
cu1o matrimonii fromher husband, Harry
L. Smithson,
During his leisure hours. of the past
New months, Stanley Evans, of Elkton,
has built 3o-foot launch in the back
yard Of his parents home.
All interested in the centennial of West
Nottingham Friends Meeting are request
to meet in Y. F. A. room, Rising Sunhall
on Seventh day, Sixth mo. 10th, at 2 p. m.
The annual meeting of the Rising Sun
Library Association Will be held in the
library room on Wednesday evening,
June IA. All members are urged to be
present.
The heavy rain during the storm on
Monday night greatly benefited all grow
ing crops, that have suffered much owing
to the drouth that prevailed throughout
the entire month of May.
Dnyckinck, Sterrett & Co. have taken
the agency for the Stevens-Duryea motor
car and now have handsome fve-pas-
senger car of that make. See their an.
nouncement on last page of this issue.
The axle of the vehicle in which she
was riding, breaking while driving to
North East station last week. Miss
Marietta Mearns, Of Zion, was thrown to
the ground, but luckily escaped serious
injury.
Children's Day will be observed at the
NJ. E. church in this town on Sunday
next. The Sunday school has prepared a
special program and will have charge of
the exercises at 1890 o'clock. in the
evening
Rev R. T. Mcdowell delivered the
commencement sermon TO the graduating
class of West Nottingham Academy, in
the Presbyterian church on Sunday even
ing last, to large and deeply interested
congregation.
The postmasters were required to count
each piece of mail handled during the
month of May Postmaster Hambleton
reports that the count shows for Rising
Sun Office "A, $50 pieces of outgoing and
incoming mail, an average of 1914 pieces
daily.
Cool, unsettled weather, with occasional
light showers, has prevailed since Satur-
day evening. A decided change from the
weather we have recently been exper-
fencing, with the mercury in the nineties
and everything parched and dust-covered
for weeks.
The work of cleaning the bricks in the
burned M. E. church at North East has
begun. Plice Lowe and Raynor Carey
have contracted to do the job for $3as.
Architects F. E. and H. R. Davis, of
Baltimore. who furnished plans for the
old church, are making drawings for the
new one.
At the last meeting for the summer OF
the Hytheham Club. of Port Deposit, at
the residence of Mrs. L. C. White, Mrs.
Charlotte Newall, who was one of the
organizers of the club, and has been its
president ever since, extending over a
period of seventeen years, was presented
with beautiful Loving Cup, suitably
inscribed.
= During the electric storm late Monday
night the barn on the farm of Irving Hill.
near oolora. was struck by lightning and
considerably damaged. but luckily not set
!. on FIRE. A large locust tree within few
feet of the barn of w. X. Bird. at Harris
vile. was struck and shattered. A bolt
also shattered atree near the tenant house
on the farm of John Cullen. near town.
The heavy rain washed the shoulders and
cutters of the macadaized road along the
Dunlap and Cullen farms very badly, the