The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

Moonlight nights and fine sleigh
ing and coasting.
Five inch ice is being harvested
from Hunters dam.
The Susquehanna river is frozen
from shore to shore.
Jacob Tome Institute will close
for the holidays Tuesday, Decem-
ber 20.
The oyster supper recently given
by the ladies of Zion M. e. church
netted $50.
The thermometer at Hunters
mill, near town, registered zero
early Sunday morning.
The National Bank of West
Grove has declared its usual semi
annual dividend of three per cent.
The public schools of the county
will be closed on Friday, December
23rd, and reopen on Tuesday,
January 3rd.
E. II. Reynolds is now laughing
at the wintery blasts, having re-
Gently installed steam heat in his
dwelling on Cherry street.
The teachers and pupils of Lib
erty Grove school realized S24 by
the pie social held Friday evening
last in the school building.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Cecil Farmers Club was held
at the home of Frank r. Cherry,
near Principle, on Thursday, 18th
inst.
Isaac Duling, employed at the
Elkton pulp mills, was painfully
burned on the feet and hands few
days ago, by falling into an acid
tank.
A barge bound from Philadel
phia to Norfolk loaded with 500
tons of stove coal, was cut through
by the ice off the mouth of Sassa-
frass river, last week, and sank in
Is feet of water.
Cecil E. Ewing and William
Reeder, of Harmony Castle, attend
ed the annual turkey supper of the
Oxford Eagles, served by the
Ladies' Aid Society in Oxford u.
P. church on Tuesday evening.
The birthday social given at the
home of Prof. and Mrs. E. Lynch,
last week, by the Ladies' Aid So
ciety of North East M. E. church,
was a very successful affair, both
socially and financially, over $40
being realized.
The pupils of Rising Sun gram
mar school will give an entertain
ment consisting of dialogues, recita-
tions, etc., in the school building,
on Wilson avenue, Wednesday eve
ming, December 81, at 7:30. Adj
mission 10 and 15 cents.
The Cecil Farmers Telephone
company is stringing wires into the
exchange on South Queen street.
The company is bending every
energy toward the putting in opera
tion of the main trunk line to Polt
Deposit, and spur to Colora, by
the first of the year.
While hurrying down the steps
at the station Wednesday morning
to catch the train, Bertram Thomas
met with a painful accident. He
slipped and fell, a heavy heater
CRATE which he was carrying on his
shoulder at the time, striking him
on the head and cutting an ugly
cash, which required several
stitches to close.
There will be an entertainment
given in the chapel at West Not
tingham, on Tuesday evening, Dec.
27, beginning at s O'Clock. Miss
Julia Hall, talented elOcutionist
of Baltimore, will be present and
give several recitations. Those
who have heard Miss Hall recite
will be delighted to have the op-
portunity of hearing her again.
Admission, 15 cents.
William Balderston, managing
editor OF the Daily Statesman, of
Boise City, Idaho, has been sum-
moned by the Smoot investigation
committee to appear before that
body in Washington on the 18th
inst. to give testimony. Mr.. Balder-
ston is native of Cecil county,
being son of Lloyd Balderston, of
Colo.n AID Ioont tod in thn Nnst