The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-12-27
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, Dec. ~, 1895.
MINORLOCALS

Loyal Temperance Legion will
meet Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
People want office badly. Twenty
five applied for the position of
ducking police.
An institute for colored teachers
will be held at Mt. Zoar, near
COnowingO, January 2 and 3.
The court will hear arguments
in the contested election cases after
the holidays. The defendants filed
their answer last week.
After two weeks of severe winter
weather a season of sunshine and
spring like days was ushered in
with the holiday week.
Thomas P. Jones, ST., has been
appointed by Governor Brown
Justice of the Peace at Warwick
vice John w. Day deceased.
Charles Smith has bought the
small farm owned by Robert Stew
art of Baltimore, situated near Oak
wood, to which he will remove in
the spring.
Last Thursday night the ladies
of Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church held
their second annual supper in the
church. About $50 was realized
on the sale of tickets.
Burglars recently made an at
tempt on the store of E. B. Nc
Dowell at Conowingo, but the dog
gave Mr.. Mcdowell the alarm and
the night providers fled.
The frame storehouse and dwell
ing on Main street, Elkton, owned
by Frank J. Kerr & Co., merchant
tailors has been sold at private sale
to R. G. Lewis, for $21OO.
The residents of the upper dist
riots of this county are experience
ing much inconvenience from the
drying up of their wells and the
matter is becoming serious. The
flour mills along the Principle creek
are being run by traction engine.
DR.. John H. lamar, of the Elkton
board of health, in response to a
communication from DIR. Hardcastle,
visited the first district Saturday
to investigate the cases of scarlet
fever reported from that neighbor-
hood. He found that scarlet fever
was prevailing in the vicinity, and
also diphtheria and chicken pox.
The Normal entertainment given
in the Town Hall last Thursday
and Friday evenings proved a very
successful and entertaining affair.
The pupils were greeted with a
fair audience the first evening and
with a crowded house on the latter
The dramas were especially well
rendered and some very beautiful
scenes enacted in "ImOgene." The
net receipts were about $35.
Peter B. Abrams was arrested on
Wednesday of last week charged
by Harvey Boulder, who is super.
intending the removal of the old
saw mill for 81. III. Hames, of ap.
propriating $500 or 90 worth OF
lumber, he having bought several
dollars worth, but had more hauled
away than belonged to him. He
was given a hearing before Magis
trate Deford of North East and was
held under 5000 bond for his ap
pearance at the March term o.
court, having appealed the case.
The public schools throughout
the county closed Friday of last
week for the Christmas holidays
The schools will reopen on Thurs
day, Jan. 2.
Two solid weeks are squandereG
in the very heart of the schoo
season. The practice is senseless
People engaged in personal business
observe Christmas day and go about
their work the next day. Ever
New Year day is not observed as {
holiday except in an incidental
way. But those employed by the
public leave no excuse to squandel
the public money and waste thu
time. If each head of family ha(
to pay for tuition for the children
there would be lusty kicking anC
docking for lost time when the bills
were rendered.
Our readers who have been look
ing for Hoods Calendar for 1885,
will be glad to know that it is on
and may be obtained from tn,
druggists or by sending 6 cents il
stamps to G. l. Hood & Co., Lowell
Mass. The new calendar is Ger
family a triumph of art, 1t repre-
sents a lovely head in beautiful
brown tints, surrounded by a gol(
frame, embossed and decidedly "ul
to date" 1t makes useful orna
ment for the home and a pleasan
reminder of Hoods SarSaparilla.
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