The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-04-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

lob Kirk, Of this town, will play this
season with the Newark team in the
Maryland-D Delaware league.
Fire ON Saturday at the saw mill OF
Oscar Thompson. Scarboro. Hartford
county destroyed $4,000 feet OF lumber.
Twenty-three properties were sold in
Hartford county on Monday by the Sheriff
for taxes.
z D. Grant has returned to Rising sun
and re. opened his shoe shop in the store
of B. F. Culleny,
William Sleicher, of Chesapeake City.
accidentally shot himself through the hand
on Sunday while carelessly handling a
pistol.
Calvert High School base ball team
visited Rising Sun Friday last and were
victors in game played with the Juniors
the score being 10 8.
Clarence Thornton and Leila M Ihorn-
ton have bought from the heirs OF Tabitha
I. Thornton. the ro3 acre farm near
Pivot Bridge, for $4,000.
The P E. Sharpless Co., of this town.
have received a contract from the Govern
ment for ten car loads of condensed milk
tor-use in the U. S. Navy.
Their horse shying and upsetting the
buggy Mrs. William McAllester and two
daughters were thrown out and painfully
injured while driving to Elkton.
Henry L. Constable, of Elkton. in a
card in another column, announces MS
candidacy for the democratic nomination
Of States Attorney for Cecil county.
E Kurtz Taylor, of Blythedade, an
nounces himself elsewherelin our columns
this week. as candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination Of Register of Wills.
Operations at the Government Fish
Hatching station at the Battery. below
Havre de Grace. are under way thus
far 60. ooo. 900 yellow perch eggs has been
taken.
George Lee and John Harris. colared.
are accused of beating Harlan Hess. Rock
Spring. and rebbing him of $I3 one night
last week AS yet, the youthful robbers
have not been captured.
Alexander Peoples. while at his work
ON the draw of the Pennsylvania Railroad
bridge over the Susquehanna. on Wednes-
day night. missed his footing on the steps
and fell dislocating his shoulder.
One hundred dollars in cash, gold
watch studded in diamonds and pearl
decorated chain were among the valuables
lost in the fire which destroyed the home
of Miss Sarah McClenaghan in Colerain
township, late Friday afternoon.
The Oxford News reports the state road
between Barnsley and Calvert is being
surveyed for the sixth time in less than
two years. but nothing definite in the way
of permanent pike has been done as yet
DR.. Delmar Smithers. of Chesapeake
CITY, was recommended to Governor
Goldsborough for appointment as School
Commissioner of Cecil county. TO succeed
the late DR.. John H. Jenness, of Rising
Sun, by the Democratic State Central
Committee.
The Ladies Auxiliary OF Port Deposit.
Seventh district will hold subscription
card and lunch party in the Arlington
Club room on Tuesday night, April 20.
Proceeds for the benefit of Union Hospital
of Cecil County. Tickets on sale at the
Drug Stores.
MARYLAND Annual Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church. in session at
Washington. adjourned on Tuesday night.
after announcement of appointments.
Rev. F. H.. Gift was reappointed to the
charge at Bay View. Cecil county; Rev.
T. c. Jones. Leeds; Rev. H. D. Johnson.
Chesapeake.
The Old Maids Club. recently present.
ed by number Of Rising Sun young
ladies in the public hall here. was given
in Oakryn Hall. Lancaster county, on
Friday evening last, but was not patron
lied as it meFited. The audience was a
small one, and after all expenses were
paid the proceeds showed net balance of
six dollars.
The ladies Of the Home Missionary
Society of Port Deposit. presented Mrs.
T. A. H. O'BEien with dozen silver tea
Spoons, and her Sunday school class pre-
sented her with a cut glass dish Rev.
Mr.. O'Brien was presented with chair
by the Arlington club.
Mr.. O'Bnen. who was stationed at
Port Deposit last year, was made Super
intendent Of Salisbury District al the
annual Conference.