The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-12-13
COUNT NEWS.
Friday, Dec. LIB 1901.
MlNORLOCAIS

The young folks enjoyed the line
skating on the dam on Friday and
Saturday.
Cecil Brown, of Calvert, butch
cred a hog last week which weighed
$40 pounds dressed.
A handsome new organ is to be
installed in st. Stephens p. E.
church, near Earleville.
The annual dinner of the Not
tingham Detective Association will
be held on Saturday, Dec. %.
The Elkton M. Z. church, which
is undergoing extensive repairs,
will be re- opened Sunday, Jan. u.
Jesse Wood has sold to John w.
Conrad the home farm of 100 acres
at Kinseyvile Pa, on private terms.
Benz. w. McVey lost another
horse on nIonday, which is the
second he has had to die within a
week.
The Susquehanna river was closed
with ice, from shore to shore, for the
first time this winter, by the cold
snap last week.
Rev. r. X. Stephenson, pastor
of Elkton M. E. church, has been
invited by his congregation to re-
turn for the next conference year.
Rev w. A. Coale, rector of St.
Stephens P. E. church, Earleville,
received Thanksgiving gift from
his congregation and friends in the
shape of check for $129.75.
Home council, o. U. A. M, of
Principle, will hold an oyster and
poultry supper on New Years eve.
A number of valuable prizes will
be awarded during the evening.
The eight-ye old son of Joseph
B. Johnson, who resides near North
East, died on Saturday after a
short illness, from Group. The
funeral was held Tuesday afternoon.
The Atkinson farm of 80 acres in
the Fifth district was sold at mort
gagee's sale on Tuesday, to B. f.
Taylor, who now tenants the place,
for$1010.
The SANDER suit of Mrs. George
E. Warner against Jonathan G.
Moore, of Millington, Md, resulted
in a verdict for the plaintiff, the
jury awarding her 1915 damages.
The County Commissioners have
decided to build a bridge over Har
lan's fording, near Cherry Hill,
which is undoubtedly one of the
most dangerous fordings in the
State.
The United States Fish Commits
sion expended for the propagation
Of food fishes at the Battery, in the
Susquehanna River, below Havre
de Grace, last season, the sum of
1929.
The Peninsula Horticultural
Society will meet on Jan. s, 8, and
10, 1902, at Berlin, Worcester, Co.,
Md. Governor Smith has been
asked to deliver the address of
welcome.
The new drinking fountain for
Elkton has arrived. 1t is a hand
some iron structure, eight feet in
height, with fountain for horses on
the street side and for people on
the pavement side.
The Rising Sun public school
will give an entertainment in the
hall on Friday evening, Dec. 20.
The program will consist of two
plays, interspersed with music and
drills. Admission, 10 and Is cts.
Robert j. Walker, of near Gar
land, Hartford county, has sold his
farm containing 40 acres, to j. E.
Silver. of the canning firm of w. F.
Silver & Bro, near Havre de Grace.
This farm has been in the Walker
and Spencer families for the past
200 years, and is one of the best in
Hartford county.
The supper and bazaar held
Wednesday and Thursday of last
week, by the Ladies' Aid Society
of Zion Presbyterian church, assis-
ted by their many friends, was a
pleasant and successful social and
financial affair. The gross receipts
for the two evenings were $232, the
net proceeds being S195.
A. L. Duyckinck & Co. are re-
ceiving bids for the grading Tor a
new siding at their warehouse
They intend charging their plant
by the addition of new buildings
in the spring. The siding will
commence some distance in the
present cut and run down the
south side of the public road pas
the lumber yard.
A shooting affray occurred Mon
day afternoon at Perryville wher
Samuel Smith shot Thomas Nc
Keever, colored. The trouble be
tween the two men was over {
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