The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-07-09

Children's Day exercises will been held
at Octoraro nj. E church on Sunday,
July II.
Ground has been broken in Perryville,
10 enlarge the Methodist Episcopal Chnrch
The addition will cost about $1,000
The Fourth District Ladies Auxiliary OF
Union Hospital has donated $50 to buy
surgical instruments for the institution.
Miss Francina Kirk has purchased
Chevrolet roadster and Curtis Reynolds
Chevrolet touring car from Wilson & NC
Nance.
Girls. beware of hammocks: BY falling
from hammock at the home OF Mr..
Thomas Cruikshank. near Cecilton. Miss
Mary Blanchfield fractured her arm.
The Cecil County School Board will
award by competitive examination on
Iuiy ~ scholarship at St. Johns College,
Annapolis. and a scholarship at the
Normal School.
I Charged with entering the residence OF
1fames Corkran, near Pivot Bridge. and
attacking Miss Mary Corkran. Joseph Cur
lis. a young negro farmland, has been
lodged 10 Elkton jail.
The Newark Trust and Safe Deposit
Company has declared an extra dividend
of per cent. over the usual semi-annuai
dividend. The new company was 10
years old on July Ist.
Benjamin Elliott. Ia years old, OF Pilot
town, this county. was arrested and lodged
in Elkton Jail, charged with stabbing
Delmar Devonshire. aged IS years, in the
abdomen with knife.
r. RI. Letter, of Elkton. member OF
the last General Assembly. announces his
candidacy in our advertising columns for
the House of Delegates at the coming
Democratic primaries.
Work on the new State Armory at Elk
ton, which will be occupied by Company
E, M. N. g.. is nearing completion. and
plans are under way for the dedication.
but the date has not yet been selected.
Rocco Denefroso. an Italian trackhand
on the section between Elkton and Bacon
Hill, met with a severe injury last week.
A passing train whirled piece of stone,
striking him in the eye and destroyed the
sight of the member.
State Senator Harvey L. Cooper. OF
Denton, has been elected President OF the
MARYLAND Bankers Association, Senator
Cooper is President of the Denton
National Bank and Director Of the
National Bank Of Elkton.
Al recently formed New Jersey corpora
lion is preparing toleoPen the old Conroy
clay plant, at North East, which has been
closed for several years. 1t is proposed
to manufacture porcelain insulators which
are used n the electrical wiring OF houses.
The Town Commissioners OF Chesa-
peake City have contracted with the
Home Light and Power Company of Elk
ton 10 furnish electricity for ten years at
a cost OF 81. I42. 20 annually TO: the first
three years and $o4a.2o annually for the
next seven years.
The Fourth. or fifth rather. was
observed very quietly in Rising Sun.
Young America put off the usual fire
cracker and several of our citizens had
FIRE works displays in the evening A
great number took excursions to Port
Deposit and other points where patriotic
demonstrations were made.
The Holstein-Fresian bull. sired by the
$50, 900 bull King Segis Pontiac Alcarta.
recently purchased by Woodrow & James,
Cloud England and w. K. Bird from
Iohn Arfman, OF Middletown. N. Y. for
81 900. was received by express at Rising
Sun on Friday last. The animal was
four months old the day it reached here.
Roy Millman. The "a year old boy. who
was recently taken to the Maryland In
dustrial School for Boys. having been
sentenced at the recent term of Cecil
Court, TO remain there until he reaches
the age of aI years, escaped from the in
stitution last week The lad was found
ia Elk Neck. the day after bis escape. by
Sheriff Morgan.
Harvest. which has been late at getting
under way 10 this section. is in full swing
week. both wheat and hay being cut.
number of fields of wheat were just
in right condition to cut and haul in, thus
saving a second handling later on.
Wheat is reported fair crop. while
report from the hay runs all the way from
very poor to very good. there being a
1slde difference 10 the fields of grass.