The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-03
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

hO 0AAP AZ ASPOseO
in many sections of the county.
The ground hog saw his shadow
yesterday-six weeks more of
winter.
A large bell has been placed on
Hickory Grove school house, near
Mt. Pleasant.
DIR. Ernest Rowland, of Liberty
Grove, has purchased a large tim
ber tract in Virginia.
The young men of Char .estow n
have formed Bachelors Club'
numbering fourteen members.
The W. G. T. q. will meet with
Mrs. E. A. Reynolds on Thursday
afternoon, Feb. 9, at 2:3O O'Clock.
The pupils of North East public
school will give an entertainment
on the evening of February 22nd.
A fleet of five coal and coke
laden barges was caught in the ice
pack off Turkey Point last week
and is still frozen in.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Grant, of Port Deposit, had
the misfortune to fall while at play
and fracture his collar bone.
The Jr. O. u. A. NJ, of Perry
Vile will hold their annual ban
auet and entertainment in their
hall, in that town, on February %.
The Colora base ball club has
organized for the coming season by
th election of L. G. Tosh, manager,
and w. w. McCardell, assistant
manager.
We were compelled to issue a
four page paper last week, instead
Of our usual eight pages, as the
blizzard blocked our paper supply
until Saturday evening,
The members of Riverside Cornet
Band, of Port Deposit, have pre-
sented their leader John M. Cres
well, with handsome ebony baton,
embellished with gold bands and
tips.
Young Friends Association will
meet next Sabbath, at 2:30 p. m.
A description of a trip to Palestine
will be continued, embracing that
part from Oxford, England, to Con-
stantinople. !.
The Noyes farm on Mt. Ararat,
near Port Deposit, has been ,pnr-
chased by Mrs. J. |. France. Mrs.
Moves and family contemplate re-
moving to their former home in
Connecticut.
A meeting of the Cecil County
Medical Society was held at Elk
ton on Thursday, February 2. DIR.
Joseph G. Bloodgood, of Baltimore,
addressed the meeting on the treat
ment of diseases of the joints.
Protracted meetings, which have
been in progress at the M. E.
church for the past four weeks,
closed on Sunday night. The
meetings were very successful, be-
ing the means of twenty-seven con-
versions.
Tuesday morning holds the re-
cord as the coldest for the winter.
A number of thermometers in town
registered zero, while So below is
reported from nearby points, and
400 below at Lees bridge, four
miles north of Rising Sun.
Eleven candidates are now train
ing at Jacob Tome Institute for the
relay team to compete at the
Georgetown meet on February %,
Tome will also enter a squad OF
athletes at the Johns Hopkins Un-
iyersity meet in Baltimore on Feb
ruary IL.
A barge loaded by Brumfeld &
Foster, of Colora, with 1850 tons oi
bituminous coal, bound from Phila-
delphia to Boston, was lost during
the blizzard of last week, with all
on board, which INDUCED crew oi
five men. The barge and contents
were fully insured.
VIM. T. Drennen, who for the
past year has been clerking for E. R,
Burlington s. Sons, left on Wednes-
day morning for Elkhorn, w. Va,
where he has secured position
with firm OF railroad contractors
The vacant position at the store oi
the Messrs. Burlington will be fill
ed by Hudders Greenfield, of Avon
dale.