The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

Five inches of snow on Saturday.
We wish our readers one and all
a merry Christmas.
Jesse West has been appointed
postmaster at North East, Cecil Co.
G.. 0. Carey has been elected
Superintendent of North East M.
E. Sunday school.
An epidemic of mumps and
whooping cough is prevalent in
the neighborhood of Fair Hill.
Iron Hill passenger station was
broken into Sunday night by burg
lars who secured twenty y-five cents
for their trouble.
New Years love feast will be
held in Rising Sun M. E. church
at $50 a. m. Sunday, Jan. 1, when
revival services will be inaugurated.
Misses Emma and Ella Haines
will close their branch millinery in
Port Deposit and give their entire
attention to their store in this town.
The Wasson property Of four
acres, with improvements, near
Lombard, was purchased on Mon
day by Walter Anderson for $SOl.
Monday, Dec. 26, will be observ-
ed as the Christmas holiday this
year by the National Bank of Ris.
ing Sun, which will not be open for
business on that date.
The receipts from Bishop
McCabe's recent lecture on the
alright Side of Life in Libby Pris-
on,n delivered in North East M. 3.
church, amounted to $44.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Commit
tee of the Third district has succeed
ed in raising during the past year,
$1,000 of the fund for the erection
of the proposed Union Hospital.
According to the almanac winter
did not begin until 1:12 a. m.
yesterday, 22d inst, but it will be
pretty hard to convince most pee
ple it was not here before that time
Mrs. John Quein, of Fair Hill,
had the misfortune to trip and fall
while walking across a room at hei
home, last week, sustaining a frac'
ture Of the knee cap.
The will of the late Henry r.
Carter of Singerly, admitted to pro,
bate Saturday, in the Orphans
Court for Cecil county, distributes
an estate valued at $4,000 among
relatives.
The M. L. Sunday School viii
hold their annual treat Saturday
evening, at 1880 o'clock, when g
special program of music and recita'
sion will be rendered. An admis
sions of ten cents will be charged
adults.
st. Mary's P. E. church, al
North East, will be reopened or
Christmas morning for services
after having been closed severa
months, during which time it has
undergone Improvements and rem
ovation.
There will be an entertainment
given in the chapel at West Not
bingham, on Tuesday evening, Dec
81, beginning at s O'Clock. Miss
Julia Hall, talented elocutionist
Of Baltimore, will be present ano
give several recitations. Admis
sion, 15 cents.
The Delaware Ledger, of New
ark, say: sThere is a .rumor thai
we are to lose our day telephone
operator of the ID. & A. Co. JUS
who the lucky man is we are un
able to say, but rumor has it thai
he is we'll known around Rising
Sun, Maryland"
Rev. Robert Watson, Phi. d., fol
the past eight years pastor of Ok
ford Presbyterian church. has ac
cepted the call extended to him by
the Second Presbyterian church o.
Cincinnati, Ohio, and will preach
his farewell sermon on Saturday
evening, Jan. 1.
The entertainment given by tht
pupils of the Grammar School or
Wednesday evening, proved a sue
cess in every respect, and those
participating acquitted themselye:
with much credit. The large mum