The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-16

Spring.
Saturday, 18th inst. is st. Pat
rick's Day.
1t is reported wedding bells are
to ring in Rising Sun the present
week.
The ground was covered with
about two inches of snow on Friday
morning.
Several large fiocks of geese have
been seen flying North. Spring is
on the way.
with the frost nearly all out OF
the ground, the bottom is dropping
completely out of the dirt roads.
Raymond ]. Boulay, of Chesapeake
City. has been elected assistant Sec
retary of the Baltimore Trust Co.
Foundations are being laid for
houses to be erected on Mount ST. Dy
Karl ]. Austin and Herbert Ryan.
The annual shift of homes has al
ready begun, truck and wagon loads
of moving" coming and going daily.
The Ninth District Farmers Club
met on Wednesday last. with Mr..
and Mrs. William Little, of Calvert.
The ladies of st. Marks Church,
Perryville, realized $113 by the sup
nor held AT the home of Mrs. Samuel
Aiken. /
"A meeting of the Directors OF the
Susquehanna League is called TOT
saturday, March II, in Elkton High
School.
A clinic for diseases OF the chest
will be conducted in Elkton, March
81. at the New Health Center, at
1890 A. M.
While fixing the fire in the furnace
of her home Mrs. George L. Boyd. OF
Perryville, was painfully burned,
when her clothing caught fire.
Outbreaks of hog cholera are re-
norted on the premises OF g.
B ath, A. B. Wilkinson and Charles
Marcus, near Red Mill, Elkton.
Beacon lights have been placed or
Bacon Hill and near Perryville by
the government These revolving
elactric search-lights form link OF
an airway to aid night airplane fiiers
Lynn B. Gillespie, formerly o.
pising Sun, assistant Treasurer o.
the E,kton Banking & Trust Co
nas resigned to accept a position
with the Keys & Miller Lumber co.
Elkton.
lust at the noon hour on Friday
an alarm of fire was sounded,
chimney of the Misses Reynoldf
dwelling being reported on fire
The firemen failed to locate an!
blaze. the alarm being a false one
rhe barn on the farm of Shepherd
Brothers. near Iron Hill, was totally
destroyed by fire, together with con
tents. including a quantity OF hay
and machinery, on Thursday after
noon OF laSJ We0h. n AoAoS "AA0 WV
pigs perished in the flames.
Among the Maryland Postmaster
whose nominations were confirmed
by the U. S. Senate on Wednesday
February 20, are the following:
Charles H. Johnson, Edgewood
Stella B. johnson, Fort Hoyle; Chas
D Uyilh,alm MOnktOn
Contractor Ryan on Wednesday
'aid the foundation for S6 1T. hose
tower to be erected in the rear OF the
Community Fire Co. engine house.
The tower will be great convent
ence in the washing, drying and
proper care of the fire hose.
Some parties recently stole nine
t..,n nice chickens from Mrs. Rebec
ca Reynolds, of near Oakwood
Mrs. Reynolds has been i'll since De
cember and not able to get about
yet some person who is utterly with
out conscience saw fit to add to her
troubles by stealing her chickens.
Owing to the banquet of the w. Z
r. U. being held on the regular meet
ing date OF West Nottingham Mis-
sionary Society. the March meeting
will be held on Thursday next, 22nc
inst, at the home OF Mrs. Eli 4. Rey
notds. The leaders are Mrs. Leslie
Rawlings, devitional; Mrs. Curtis e
Irwin, Japan; Mrs. Joseph Smith
Foreigners in America.
A Missionary Rally is the special
fSture of the Sunday evening ser
vice, March IT. at james M.
church, Rising Sun. at 7:45 O'Clock
Mrs. Nellie Davis Hansack, returned
missionary from India, and Miss Del
la sherman, Field Secretary of Bal
timore Branch Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, Will be tne
speakers. Special music. An OFFER
ing will be taken.