The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-09-24
Corn cutting in progress.

Full moon Thursday night, 23rd This
is the Harvest Moon.
The FIRST frost of the season on Thurs
day morning of this week.
Autumn began officially on Wednesday,
with appropriate weather.
Rising Sun Cornet Band furnished
music for the festival at Mt. Pleasant on
Wednesday evening.
Rev. F. H. Huffman will preach at the
Octoraro Peoples Church on Sabbath.
October 3rd, at p. m.
The slipping OF wrench caused Joseph
Mccall, an Elkton plumber. to sustain
broken finger last week.
The tomato canning season in Cecil
county will probably close this week with
one OF the smallest packs on record.
Columbus Vansant. of North East, was
seriously injured last week by being
thrown from horse and trampled upon.
meeting will be held In Elkton on
Saturday evening, Sept rs. for the pur-
pose of organizing dairyman's associ-
alton.
Programs have been issued for the
18th annual Cecil County tournament OF
RISING Sun Gun Club, to be held Tues
day. October IL.
Miss Mary Gardner, of Perryville. has
been appointed teacher of kindergarten
work at the Wilmington Conference
Academy. Dover.
The Automobile Club of Maryland is
preparing to thoroughly signpost the high
ways of the Eastern Shore. from Elkton
to Ocean City. Md.
Oxford Fair on Wednesday. Thursday
and Friday of this week. Special train
to oxford from Perryvile this morning.
Leaving Rising Sun at o:42.
The rain Saturday night broke the back
bone of the hot spell, and fall of 2o0 in
the temperature. within few hours on
Tuesday brought real fall weather with
out warning.
Chicken thieves have been operating on
a wholesale scale in the neighborhood OF
Aberdeen. Hartford county, where poul-
try raisers have lost 400 fowls by theft
within a shoit time.
John c. Hindman. OF Rising Sun. has
sold at private sale the farm belonging
to Mrs. Ross Martindale. situate near
Colora, and containing rs acres, to James
M. McCush of Rising Sun.
Report says speakeasy is in opera
ton in the neighborhood of Vinegar Hill,
and the disorder at the festival there on
Wednesday night was of the brand germi-
mated by blind tiger product.
Miss M. Frances Strickland. of Elkton
met with painful accident on Thursday
evening by having her hand caught In a
cab door. the little finger being broken
and the end of same nearly severed.
w. X. Bird. OF near town. has added to
his dairy herd two registered Holstein
cows purchased on Tuesday at the public
sale of w. H. Wicks. West Chester. for
which he paid $3.50 and $3.50 respectively.
Special exercises are being arranged for
by the State Armory Commission when
the new armory for Company E, of Elk
ton, will be dedicated and turned over to
the company the first week in October.
Nottingham High School will hold a
festival on the school grounds, Thursday,
Sept. 80. for benefit of Senior Class. Ice
cream. cake. candy. lemonade. peanuts
and bananas will be on sale. Everybody
invited.
Thomas Longer, negro. has been ar
rested and lodged In Elkton Jail charged
with shooting Katie Young at a negro
campmeeting near Cecilton on August 23.
Longer shot at another negro and struck
the woman who was sitting in buggy,
E. Bowen Milburn, of Blossom Hill
Fruit Farm. near Barksdale. Cecil county,
received 81 premiums out of 2s entries In
the Fruit Department of the Delaware
State Fair. 20 of the number being blue
ribbons. first premiums, and second
premiums.
In getting over fence with gun, one
day last week. Hill Thomson. colored. OF
Newark. met with serious accident.
The fence broke, throwing Thompson to
the ground. The gun was discharged by
the fall. the load taking effect in the un-
fortunate man's wrist