The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

Sunday is Mothes's Day; wear
carnation.
Hog cholera is reported to exist
on the premises of J. Stanley Frazer,
near Fords Landing.
The barn of Supt. Lindsay of the
Providence Paper Mill, was burned
on Thursday last.
Calvert Epworth League will OBJ
serve anniversary services Sunday
evening, May 18th.
The Peter Peterson farm in the
Fourth district has been purchased
by Frank l.. Peterson, for $3.50.
I. Irwin Griffith, son of County
Commissioner Irwin Griffith, of the
Second district, while feeding his
horse, was bitten on the ear by
another horse.
Midsummer temperatures prevail
ed on Sunday and Monday. The
thermometer registered Sc. The
heat wave brought rain, with de-
cidedly cooler weather since.
The annual election of officers of
the Mems Bible Glass will be held in
the lecture room of James nj. e..
church, Rising Sun, on Thursday
evening, May Is. A full attendance
of members is urged.
The annual election for five Com
missioners of the town of Rising
Sun, to serve for the ensuing year,
will be held at the Commissioners
Office on Monday afternoon, May IL,
between the hours of 3 and s
o'clock.
The County Commissioners have
decided to build an improved high
way from the end of the present
macadam road, leading from Eikton
to Cowentown to Millers' corner,
thence to Elk Mills, total distance OF
about rs miles.
William Reynolds, who conducts
garage near Porter's Bridge, over
turned his automobile on the curve
at the Burnt Barn" near Sylmar,
Thursday of last week. He escaped
with minor injuries, but his Ford
auto was completely wrecked.
The Havre de Grace Republican
reports very few fish being caught
by local fishermen. The retail price
of roe shad is 35 cents per pound,
and for bucks, 29 cents per pound.
Herring are retailing at $1.50 per
hundred, and rock fish at 25 cents
per pound
John Sollars and w. A. Starkey,
under the firm name of Starkey 4
Sollars, have taken out real estate
license and sold this week the
Thomas Cooney farm Of 1913 acres,
near Birmingham school house, to
H. L. Akers, of Washington, D. G.
The price paid was $4,000 and in
cludes all the stock on the farm.
A large moving van taking load
of household goods from Perryville
to Philadelphia, in making the turn
at Bacon Hill bridge, at too fast a
speed, crashed through the guard
rails and fell down twenty foot
embankment on to the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks. The machine was
damaged badly. The driver of the
van escaped injury.
West Nottingham Presbyterian
Sunday school was reorganized,
with new officers in their places on
Sunday last. Isaac Yocuin, supt. !;
Chas. S. Pyle, assistant supt.; Chas
A. Hutchens, secretary; H. l.. Giack-
en-, treasurer; Miss Elsie Aiken, Ii
brarian; Miss Florence Yocum, as
sistant librarian. The music will
be in the hands of an orchestra with
a number of pieces.
The Darktown Minstrels of Oxford
drew a crowded house on Thursday
evening Of last week. and the enter
tainment the boys gave in Rising
Sun public hall was good one.
The local hits made by the end men,
the songs, dances, musical numbers,
etc, were all enjoyed and the audi
ence had many laugh. The show
was given under auspices of the
Patriotic Order Sons or America,
and as the net receipts were over
500 the local Order and the Oxford
boys both had something to show for
their efforts.
So many were unable to secure
tickets for the show on May that
the Minstreis have been persuaded
to give return engagement and
win appear in Rising Sun again on
Monday evening, May IL, under
auspices of Rising Sun Base Ball
Club. Tickets will be placed on
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