The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-30

A happy New Year.
1t was a white Christmas.
The public schools will reopen on
Tuesday.
The warm sun Friday put veto
on sleighing in short order.
The North East High School has
added forty volume set of Shakes
peare to its library.
The fog of Tuesday afternoon
and evening was one of the heaviest
that ever prevailed in this section.
A team match will be shot on
Tuesday, Jan. 3, at Rising SIM, by
the Elkton and Rising Sun gun
clubs.
Notice will be given next week
by E. R. Burlington & Sons of their
contemplated change in business to
take place the LIST Of End month.
The managers of the teams COM
posing the Cecil County Base Ball
League will meet shortly at Elkton
to arrange the schedule and other
details for the season of 1905.
Frank B. Evans, of Elkton, has
been elected class orator for the
graduating class of Delaware Col
lege, and Robert R. Frazer, Jr., OF
the same town, class prophet.
William R. Holt, an aged farmer
of near Leeds, was kicked on the
knee one day last week, by horse,
as he was entering the stable, and
suffered fracture of the knee cap.
AS January LIST occurs on Sun
day this year, January 2nd will be
observed as legal holiday, and
the National Bank of Rising Sun
will not be open for business on
that date.
The entertainment on Tuesday
evening at West Nottingham by
the Mission Band, with Miss Julia
Hail.. elocutionist, was a success in
every respect and much enjoyed
by those in attendance.
The gold medal offered by the
principal of Victoria public school,
near Lombard, for the highest
average in all studies during the
last term was won by Howard
Mendenhall, Jr., of Blue Ball.
Owing to the inclement weather
on Saturday evening the attendance
at the Christmas entertainment OF
the M. f. Sunday school was not
large but the scholars, large and
small, were gladdened by the an
nual treat.
The trustees of Elkton Council,
Jr. o. u. A. NJ, have rented to
the State of Maryland, the
auditorium of their hall in Elkton,
which will be used as an armory
tor Co. E, Maryland National
Guards.
The Democrat says prominent
and consistent member of Elkton M
E. church received an express pack
age last week which contained a
box of cigars and a bottle of whisky.
The "Christmas package" proved
to be the property ola colored in
diyidual of the same name.
The Circuit Court will reconvene
Tuesday morning. The case Of
Mrs. A. III. Hartman vs.. the
Standard Oil Company is set fol
that day, and at its conclusion the
trial of John Holland and William
Hops, colored, for the murder Of
Albert Constable, Esq, will be
taken up before the Court.
Until the LIST of Fifth month
West Nottingham meeting will be
held in Young Friends Association
room at 10 o'clock a. m. confer
ence for religious culture will be
held at close of morning meeting.
Young Friends Association will
meet next Sabbath at 2:30 p. m.
A cordial welcome to all seekers
for truth.
The warehouse formerly occupied
by r. l.. Christie, at Colora, has
. been rented by G. H. Cameron and
Harvey t. Davis who will embark
in general warehouse business al
the stand under the firm name Of
Cameron & Davis next week
Both members of the new firm are
well known young men of this sec