The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-22
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Merry Christmas.
The sleighing was short lived.
The mercury reached 140 Monday
morning.
According to the almanac winter
began today.
Monday will be Christmas-have
you all your presents ready?
Clinton Dunbar has been appoint
ed Constable for the Third district.
w. A. Fox, of Zion, lost a val
liable young horse from collie on
Monday night.
The rural free delivery mail
carriers will not serve their routes
on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. day.
W. T. McKinsey, of Octoraro,
butchered hog this week which
tipped the beam at 542 pounds.
The w. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. s. Taylor Reynolds on Thurs
day afternoon, 2Sth inst, at 2:30
O'Clock.
The Cecil Farmers club was
entertained at the home j. Harry
Maxwell, near Principle, on
Wednesday.
The Smithson property at Mount
Pleasant was offered at public sale
on Tuesday but withdrawn at a
bid of 1000.
The public schools of the county
will close today at noon, for the
Christmas holidays, and reopen
Tuesday, January 2.
The Christmas entertainment of
the Sunday school of James M. E.
church will be held this evening at
1880 O'Clock. Admission 10 cents.
The Gilpin's Falls hydro electric
power plant began furnishing
current for the Elkton Electric
Light Company on Friday evening.
The recently organized camp of
Modern Woodman treated them
selves to a fine spread in their new
quarters in what was formerly the
DIR. Kirk hall, on last Wednesday
evening.
Kemp Brown, of Colora, while
stringing wire for the Cecil Farmers
Telephone company, fell from a
pole near Liberty Grove and frac.
tured one of his wrists yesterday
afternoon.
A fine portrait of the late Judge
Frederick Stump, enlarged from a
photograph, has been hung in the
Circuit Court room of the Court
House at Elkton.
E. G. Gather butchered nine pigs
nine months old last Monday which
weighed respectively 34S, 324, 295,
1856, 800, 318, 3O4, 317, 254, total
weight, 1886 and an average of
31O3 pounds. Next!
Andrew Russell received a badly
mutilated hand a few days ago by
having it caught in the rolls of a
calendar machine at Providence
Mills. The ends of two fingers
were completely severed.
J. M. Post, of Elkton Appeal,
was elected second vice president
and a member of the executive
committee of the Republican Edi-
torial Association of Maryland, at
the meeting of the Association last
week.
DIR. Worrall, of North East, was
painfully hurt about the shoulder
and side a few nights ago by being
thrown from his buggy. The night
being dark his team was in collision
with team going in the opposite
direction, the doctor being thrown
from his vehicle.
Parties interested in baseball at
Havre de Grace have decided to
form stock company with 1000
shares of stock at 81 per share, for
the organization of a strong team to
represent the town in the Athletic
Baseball League of Maryland, COM
posed of six strong amateur teams.
Elkton or Bel Air may also join
the League.
The first snow storm of the sea-
SON struck US Friday morning last
at about Q O'Clock, and continued
most of the afternoon, about three
inches of snow falling. The'sleigh
bell began to jingle about the mid
die of the afternoon. the impatient
ones being unable to wait until the
ato~v., had caaaad hafnrA aniOvinp 4