The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-19
Lent began on Wednesday.

Lent began on Wednesday.
Monday will be Washington's
Birthday.
The W. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. G. S. Pyle on Thursday, Feb.
25th, at 2:3O o'clock.
The revival meetings have closed
at North East M. E. church, with
twenty-fi five conversions.
A Gipsy Cantata will be held at
Mt. Pleasant M. E. church on
Wednesday evening, Feb. "a.
Numerous loaded barges bound
for Philada., are tied up at Chesa-
peake City, owing to the ice-locked
canal.
Samuel A. Taylor will shortly
commence the erection of an Office
and work shop on his premises on
Walnut street.
Thomas G. Bond has been elect
ed teller at the Cecil National
Bank of Port Deposit, vice VIM.
R. Nesbitt, resigned.
A Leap Year dance will be given
in the Town Hall on Monday eve
ming, 22nd inst, by a number of
young ladies of Rising Sun.
The public schools of the county
will not close May 1st, as reported
in some papers, but will be kept
open for the usual full school year.
Monday, February %, Washing
toms birthday, being legal holiday
the National Bank of Rising Sun
will not be open for business on
that date.
The sum of $26.65 was realized
by the supper given by the
Stewards of Mt. Pleasant NJ. E.
church, on Thursday evening of
last week.
While wrestling with a fellow
student at the Cecil County High
School, Elkton, one day last week,
Joseph Zebley of Appleton, had
one of his legs broken.
Company E, First Maryland
Regiment, of Elkton, which was on
duty in the burned district OF
Baltimore last week, has been re-
lieved and returned home this
week.
DIR. III. w. Bolton, who recently
delivered lecture at North East,
will again appear in that town on
Friday evening, Feb. 26, when he
will give his popular lecture
"Our Boys.''
The double frame dwelling and
lot on Cathedral street, Elkton, ad-
joining the Catholic Church, be-
longing to Mary H. Ward was sold
at attorneys sale, Tuesday, to j. s.
Writ, for 81 200.
Governor Warfield has appoint
ed the following Board of Election
Supervisors for Cecil County: John
M. Tucker, Democrat; Delmar
Smithers, Democrat; William A.
Cameron, Republican.
The B. G. Bibb Stove Foundry,
at Port Deposit, has been forced to
close down for few days on ac-
count of the burning of the BALTIC.
house of the concern IN the great
conflagration last week.
A flag raising with appropriate
exercises, will be held at Blake
school this afternoon by the
American Mechanics of Calvert,
which order presented the school
with the stars and stripes.
Mrs. Dinah Gibson came near
having serious fire last Tuesday.
An ovenful of wood caught fire
and Mrs. Gibson pulled the burn
ing sticks from the stove onto the
carpeted floor. By the time Dinah
hobbled out and got bucket OF
water the carpet was burning, but
luckily there was enough water
about the premises to extin.
guish the blaze before it got
beyond control.
All who attended the entertain
ment given in the Town Hall on
Friday evening last by j. P. Carey,
will readily acknowledge that as a
lecturer Mr.. Carey is in a class to
himself. His indiscriminate ma
nipulation of the stereoptican slides
carried his audience from the ridic-
ulous TO the sublime with an alter
mating frequency, which was alto
gether original in its grotesqueness.
A fair sized audience was present at
this m@t novel of entertainments.