The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-07-12

McCardell
There have been several hottest" days
recently. the mercury having no difficulty
ii creeping up TO o6o and higher.
The EIkton merchants will close their
stores at O'Clock during July and Au-
gust, except Saturday evenings.
Special meeting of Friends will be held
at West Nottingham Seventh mo. 2Ist, at
1880 o'clock No meeting at Rising Sun.
that day.
Miss Edna Reisler, of Calvert, grad
uate of West Chester State Normal School,
! has been appointed principal Of Mt.
Rocky school.
Hugh w. Caldwell. of Chesapeake City.
was elected secretary of the Maryland
AState Teachers Association at its recent
annual meeting,
Additional buildings are being erected
at the plant Of the Colora Canning CO..
and preparations made for the coming
canning season.
Oliver P. Haggerty, of Port Deposit
has purchased a handsome seven pas
senger National automobile from Dnyck-
inck. Sterrett & Co.
Charged with robbing the money
drawer of Elkton Candy Kitchen Of $25
in cash, Hinson Anderson has been
lodged in jail to await trial.
Mrs. Gertrude Kirk Taylor, of Richards
mere. has secured divorce from her
husband. John X. Taylor of Oxford, on
the grounds Of cruel treatment.
John Fl. Kimble. Of Port Deposit. past
master Of the Elkton Lodge of Masons.
has been presented with a handsome
jewel by the members Of theslodge.
vnlcan's Hall. the iqe I7s-acre farm Of
G. G. Hopkins, near town, on the Rising
Sum Pennington macadam road. has been
purchased by ]. M. Holden for $I2,25o.
Joseph M. McVey has been elected
County Superintendent Of Schools, for a
term of one year from August Z, IoI2,Sto
July 81, 1913, to succeed w. D. Bratton.
North East's new M. E. Church which
was dedicated on June 2o, cost $23. 900.
3 The sum OF $500 was raised on the day
OF dedication. An Indebtedness of So, 100
remains unprovded for.
After thirty years of service. for several
years past as superintendent, Amos Allies.
has resigned from the Cecil paper mill.
Theodore Bickney, OF Coatesville. Pa,
has beepappointed his successor.
Beginning July I4th. and continuing
throughout the warm weather. the COM
bined Sunday evening service OF James
M. E. Church will be held on the Church
lava at o'clock. Everybody invited.
Hans Olsen, Oxford's athlete, proved
Quite star at the track meet in Lancaster
on Iuly 4th, winning every event in
which he participated. These were the
hundred yard dash, the high jump and
the broad jump.
The thunder gusts Wednesday after
noon aud evening brought some much
needed rain. and tempered the torrid
atmosphere wonderfully. The dust.
which had become intolerable. was also
effectuaiiy abolished.
Inquiry has been made of US whether
the town ordinance, prohibiting the
riding of bicycles on our pavements is
dead letter. So repeatedly is this ordi-
nance violated that pedestrians are COM
PEELED to be continually on the lookout for
bicycles to avoid being run down.
The only Fourth of July casualties re-
ported as occurring in Rising Sun were the
buraing of shock of wheat in the field of
Duyckinck & Sterrett, ignited by sky
rocket, and black eye sustained by one
OF our tennis experts as result of being
struck by tennis ball while playing on
the court of the Pioneer club.
AT the annual stockholders meeting of
the Elkton & Mieddletown railroad. the
following directors were reelected:
Samuel Rea, Henry w. Tatnall, S. C.
Long aud George VI Massey. Philadel-
phia; Samuel c. Rowland. Baltimore,
Murray Vandiver. Havre de Grace. Fred
erick r. Haines. William H. Mackall,
Charles B. Finley. Elkton.
With ideal weather conditions for ten
days or more, the harvest of hay and
wheat in this section is well along. The
hay crop has been good one, with a
Weld Of fully two and a-half tons per acre
reported in many instances. The wheat
crop promises fair returns only.
The protraeted dry weather threatens to
greatly curtail the potato crop. while corn
Is also suffering for lack Of rain, and
Gardens are driving un.