The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

An election for seven Town Com
missioners will be held at Port De-
posit next Monday, February q.
Baker s. Arthur, who operate a
cannery at Elkton, are offering but
S6. 90 per ton for tomatoes this year.
Samuel Sheppard has bought the
property of the late James A.
Pierce, in New London, for 81, 200.
The sum of S56 was realized by
the "Huskin' Bee," held in the
public hall at Nottingham, Chester
county, on Saturday evening last.
Mrs. Dickey, of Port Deposit,
suffered a broken arm by fall on
the icy pavement in front of the
post office in Port Deposit last
week.
Rev. Thos. r. Mcdowell, pastor
of the Upper Octoraro Presby-
terian Church, has been called to
the ,pastorate of the Avondale
Church.
Among the prizes offered by
Washington Camp, P. O. S. of A,
of Warwick, at its bazar this week
were ton of coal and $25 set of
harness.
Prof. E. B. Fockler, of North
East High School, has purchased
the Foster dwelling in North East
and will occupy the same after
April L.
An inspection of the P. B. & w.
railroad was made on Friday last
under the direction of hief I3ogi
neer of Maintenance of Way Jos.
T. Richards.
The Avondale, West Grove and
Oxford trolley line has been grant
ed the use of Third and Lincoln
streets, Oxford, for IFS tracks, by
the Borough Council.
DR.. James II. Frazer, former
resident of Elkton and founder of
the Cecil County News, has sold
his residence, on Linden Ave, in
Baltimore, for $500.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill reported to the House of Re.
presentatiyes, last week, contains
an item of $500 for one custodian
at Battery Island Fishing Station
below Havre ue Grace.
| Fishing through the ice. with
lead minnows is great sport at
North East and other points along
the rivers. The fish bite greedily
and good strings are caught, yellow
perch being the most numerous.
The heavy blanket of snow has
kept the ground from freezing to
any great depth this winter, there
being about four inches of frost in
the ground. Last year the frost
was from Is to 26 inches in depth.
1t is claimed the much married
Johann Hoch, who is at present in
the tolls of the Chicago police, was
united in wedlock to one of his
numerous wives in. Aberdeen, Har-
ford county, some years ago, by
Rev. r. W. Fl. Weech, during his
pastOrate in that town.
A steamboat that was carried
down the Susquehanna river from
Harrisburg by the flood and ice
last month is now at Red Lion,
York county, loaded for shipment
by rail to Harrisburg. This boat,
one of the eleven that were torn
from their moorings, landed at
Shenk's ferry.
Geo. A. Blake, W. S. Evans, of
Elkton, and Prof. G. A. Ewing, of
Port Deposit, will act as judges at
the debate between the Athen9an
and Delta Phi Literary Societies of
Delaware College, Friday evening,
oath inst. The subject for dis
cussiOn is, Resolved: That the in
terests of civilization will be best
advanced by the success of the
Japanese in the present war
between Russia and Japan.
The following officers have been
elected by the Woman's Home and
Foreign Missionary Society of Zion,
for the ensuing year; Mrs. Clayton
Carhart, president; Mrs. William
Murray, vice. president; Mrs. Adam
Morris, secretary; Mrs. Amos Mar
tindale, treasurer.
The Harvester Mission Band of
the same place has elected the fol-
lowing: President, Miss Katharine
Rutherfordj vice president, Miss
Marietta Mearns; secretary, Miss
Eta Wileyi treasurer, Miss Lor-
aine Fassitt.