The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-12-11

The stores in town have taken on
their holiday attire and are centers
of attraction for holiday buyers.
Mrs. H. III. Keilholtz has been
elected president of Hopewell Cal
endar Club and Mrs. r. Goodwin
Terry secretary.
Thomas j. Wilson lost valuable
horse ON Thursday of last week
from some unknown disease. The
animal was sick but few hours.
Sheriff Biddle on Monday arrest
ed j. w. Geisler, of Port Deposit
against whom there are several in
dictments for violating the county
liquor law.
The annual turkey dinner of
Rising Sun Detective Association
will be served by the ladies of the
Aid Society of the M. E. church on
January I'd.
The Blue Ball -Elkton road is
being improved by the Third Dis
trict Road League with a dressing
of gravel ten feet wide and eight
inches deep.
William H. May, Jr., of Elkton,
who for number of years has been
Secretary to Senator A. P. German,
has been promoted Committee
Clerkship at Washington.
A purse containing S125 was
last week presented to Rev. and
Mrs. John McElmoyle of the Elk
ton Presbyterian church, by the
ladies of the congregation.
The ice harvest from Hunters
dam began on Monday fine ice,
Al inches in thickness, being stored
away in several houses in the
town and near neighborhood.
While alighting from a train at
Secane, few days ago, Miss Ger
trude Pollock, of Nottingham,
slipped on the car step and fell to
the platform, breaking her leg.
The farm of the late Jehoiakim
Brickley, containing Sc acres, ly-
ing near Principle, was sold at
public sale on Thursday, 10th inst,
70 Jesse w. Hambleton for So 900.
Maurice G. Reedef, of near town,
was elected treasurer of the Mary
land State Grange, at its thirty
first annual meeting, which was
held in Baltimore ON Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week.
Rev. A. S. Mowbray of Tome
Memorial M. E. church, Port
Deposit, will lecture in Zion M. E.
church on his recent travels in
Europe, Tuesday evening, 10Th.
Admission, 20 cents.
The bazaar held by the committee
of Elkton ladies last week, to aid
the Union Hospital of Cecil County,
was p fiattering success, the total
amount realized being $3.50, which
will help swell the fund for this
laudable purpose.
According to the figures in the
Appeal this week, the amount
of stone placed upon the completed
portion of the Rising Sun armig-
ton road, a stretch of about half a
mile, ought to keep teams travelling
it, out of the mud this winter.
J. M. Sterret has purchased OF
Geo. III. Cooper, of Philada., the
dwelling house and lot on East
Main street, at present occupied by
John Keithley, at private sale for
$1715. Mr.. Sterrett contemplates
greatly improving the property in
the near future and occupying the
same.
The Cecil County Medical Society
at special session on Tuesday,
decided to re, organize at the April
meeting whereby County Societies
will become the units of organiza-
tion for the whole medical profess
sion throughout the United States.
A physician must be member Of
his local society before he can join
his State Society or the American
Medical Association.
Rev. J. d. G. Hanna, d. D.,
will give an illustrated lecture on
"Ben Hur' in the M. e. church,
Rising Sun, on Monday evening
Dec. IA. All who have read Gen
Lew Wallace's great romance, and
those who have not, should moi
fail to avail themselves of this op
portunity of hearing and seeing de-
picted on canvas this famous tale
of the Christ. Admission, adults
25c, children 15c.
An overloaded individual who
resides on Tick Ridge, endeavoreG
to give W. B. Cooney few point
ers on the conduct of his restaurant
business, on Thursday night of las
week, and was promptly introduc
ed to a base ball bat, which wal
broken over the obstreperou,
party's head, who concluded it wa.
time to retire from the premises
A warrant has been placed il
the hands of the Constable, but Al