The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Nov. 20, 1908.
MINDRLOCALS


will be held on Saturday afternoon
at 1 80 o'clock.
Revival services will begin il
Bay View M. P. church on Sunday
evening next.
Tome Institute defeated Durham
Latin School in a game of foot bal
at Port Deposit on Saturday, by
80 too.
The public schools of the county
will observe both Thanksgiving
Day and the Friday following as
holidays.
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, be-
ing legal holiday, it will be SO
observed by the National Bank OF
Rising Sun.
The ladies of Harmony M. P.
church, Rowlandville, will hold
their annual Thanksgiving supper
on Thursday evening next.
Don't forget the oyster supper to
be held at the residence of Geo. W.
Poist, on Wednesday evening, Nov.
%, by the Hopewell Calendar Club.
The sum of 800. so was realized
by the ladies of Perryville M. E.
church at the supper held on Fri
day and Saturday evenings of last
week.
The engine and hammer in the
Mccullough Iron Works at North
East, have been taken out by the
Hedley Rigging Co. and shipped to
Reading.
Turkeys are scarce and high in
the markets, and numerous
Thanksgiving dinner tables will be
without their accustomed bird
next Thursday.
The Maryland Art Tile Brick
Co. is constructing a large down
draft kiln at its plant near North
East, preparatory to the manufac-
ture of fancy building brick.
An ordinance granting the West
Chester, Kennett & Wilmington
Electric Railway Company right of
way into Oxford, has been passed
by the Town Council of Oxford.
The old wave struck this Sec
ton on Wednesday some Their
mometers registering 1So early
Thursday morning. Ice formed
and the ground was frozen hard.
Miss Celia Jenkins, of Liberty
Grove, has accepted a position
as clerk in the store of e. r.
Burlington & Sons. The establish
ment now has three lady clerks on
the force.
Oliver Cooper, the colored tough
who slashed Harry Ivans, a Tome
Institute student, with a knife last
week, has been held under $500
bail for his appearance at the De-
cember term of Court.
Twenty-Five penitents confessed
conversion during the special SER
vices which have been in progress
at Mt. Olivet, near Chrome, for the
past six weeks. The meetings
closed on Sunday night last.
All interested in good roads
should attend the meeting in Ris-
ing Sun hall this afternoon, at 2
O'Clock. An address will be de-
livered by B. Howard Hannah,
Esq, author of the oyster and good
roads bills.
The rural mail carriers will OBJ
serve Thanksgiving as a holiday
and not be required to cover tt cir
routes next Thursday. Patrons
on routes starting from Rising Sun
can secure their mail by applying
at the post office.
The Orphans Court for Cecil
County on Monday passed the
third account of the executors of
Jacob Tome and made distribution.
The sum of $64, 1871 was passed
to the Jacob Tome Institute as
residuary legatee.
Russell & Willard of Baldwin
Station, have completed the con-
struction of a stone mill at that
point on the line of the B. & O..
railroad. The mill is 80 by 80 feet,
two stories in height, and is one of
the finest in the county.
Commissioner Geo. o. Carey, of
North Fast, will be one of the
speakers at the annual meeting of
Association of School Commits
siOners of Maryland, which will
meet in Baltimore Dec. 4 and 5.
His topic will be "Needed School
Legislation.
The pupils and friends of Frank
lin school, near Pennington, will
give an entertainment in the school
building on Wednesday evening,
Nov. %, consisting of vocal and
instrumental music, tableaux, drills
and two short dramas entitled,
"All in a Fog" and ga Perplex-
ing Situation"