The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-12-04
NTY NEWS.
Friday, Dec. A, 1908.
MINOR LOCALS

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Council Jr. o. U. A. NJ, organized
in 1902, collected $266.23.
Elmer J.. Reese has purchased at
private sale, the property Of
Homard Terry at Mt. Pleasant.
A special session of the Orphans
Court was held Monday to approve
the bond Of Sheriff George Biddle.
A. and J. B. Fassitt report hav-
ing filled their ice house Dec. 1 and
2 with Ga loads of fine four-inch ice.
Fine skating on the dam Fri
day and Saturday. The earliest
skating in this neighborhood for
years.
The Hopewell Calendar Club
netted $3.50 by the oyster supper
held at the home of George Poist
November %.
Carpenters and painters are at
work on the Kirk drug store
property, recently purchased by
E. r. Burlington.
The recent cold snap froze the
Susquehanna river from shore to
shore, an unusual occurrence for
the month of November.
Appleton public school caught
fire on Monday afternoon and but
for the timely arrival of persons
living near would have been
burned.
Clarence Biddle, son of Isaac
Biddle of North East, fell from a
trapeze on Saturday, striking on
his head, and was seriously injured.
A freight train jumped the track
at Avondale on Saturday afternoon,
delaying traffic over the Baltimore
Central road about an hour and a
half.
The farm of Granville W. Rey-
nolds situated near Cecil Paper
Mills, was offered at public sale on
Saturday, but withdrawn at bid
of SO, 900.
The congregation of st. Johns
M. E. church, LeWisville, has in
vited Rev. E. G. Wright to return
as their pastor, for another con-
ference year.
Twenty. five conversions are re-
ported as the result so far of the
protracted meetings which are still
in progress at Mt. Pleasant M. E..
church, near Colora.
Director VIM. L. Amoss has
selected January % and rs as the
dates upon. which the Farmers
Institute will be held in Cecil
county, and likely at Rising Sun.
Young Friends Association will
meet in Rising Sun hall next Sab
bath afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock. E.
r. Burlington will give a short talk
on the Old Testament and its rela-
tion to the life of today.
The total amount of the subscrip-
ton to Union Hospital of Cecil
County to date is 81, 031.51. The
bazaar being held in Elkton this
week by the ladies of the town,
will help to swell the fund.
Work at the stone crusher, near
town, ceased for the winter on
Tuesday. Since operations began
1900 two horse wagon loads OF
stone have been crushed and
placed on the Rising Sun Farming
ton road.
The Ladies of the Parish Aid
Society of st. James Church, Port
Deposit, will give a supper on Fri
day night, Dec. 4th. In connec-
ton with the supper there will be
a sale of dolls and various other
articles.
Home Council, No. 4, o. U. A.
M, will hold an oyster supper at
Principle, Tuesday evening, Deem
Der %. Oysters in every style will
be served. A cordial invention is
extended to all.
The John II. Marshall property
about two miles from Rising Sun
embracing one acre of ground and
frame dwelling house, was sold
on Tuesday to David Harding, Of
Oxford, for $136.
The county commissioners ir
session on Friday passed election
and other bills. 1t is understood
that T. J. Murray will be offered
$3.50 damages for injuries to his
horse, sustained by the animal
getting its foot caught in hole il
the bridge over Perch creek.
The frame of the barn on the
Mrs. Rebeeca Haines farm, neal
town, was raised on Friday and
Saturday last, and work on thu
building is progressing rapidly
1t is large double decker and il
being erected on the site of the
one burned September 9Th.
The first real snow storm of the
season set in Wednesday morning
continuing all day and until late a.
night. About five inches of snow
fell and the Sleighs were on