The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.
Full moon.

The neaVy rain vi Odtufudy anu
Saturday night washed the roads
badly in many places.
The Elkton NJ. E. Sunday school
has raised over $3.50 for home and
foreign missions during the year
Senator France on Wednesday
introduced a bill in the Senate to
appropriate $4,000 to Union Hospit-
al of Cecil County.
The Martha Washington supper
held by the Willing Workers of
Tome Memorial M. e. church of
Port Deposit, netted $50.
J. G. Clark, a farmer of near
Earleville, in the first district, lost
a valuable horse last week, the
animal dying of lockjaw.
Mrs. Knight and Miss Huxley, of
Tome Institute Inn, the former
manager and the latter head of the
dining room, have resigned.
The last Quarterly Conference of
Cecil Circuit M. P. Church will be
held at Bay View Church on
Saturday, March 10th, at l p. m.
State Senator Joseph I. France,
of Port Deposit, has beer elected a
director of the National Bank OF
Elkton, vice Henry H. Brady, de-
ceased
Elkton Council, Jr. O. U. A. M.
held very successful supper in
its hall in that town on Wednesday
Of last week, the net proceeds being
$685.
Chas. E. Biddle, of North East,
is the first Chesapeake fisherman to
report a catch of shad. He landed
four fine ones off Poole's island,
February 26.
An oyster supper will be held at
Octoraro M. e. church on Saturday
evening, 10th inst, from & to .
O'Clock. Supper 25 cents. Pro
ceeds for the carpet fund.
It is expected the new North
East High School building will be
ready for occupancy on Tuesday,
March 90, which has been selected
for Opening Day exercises.
A number OF Oxford ladies held
an old fashioned quilting party
last week at which two fine quilts
were made and presented to the
silver Cross Home at Port Deposit.
Enoeh Morris, machinist OF
Elkton, met with painful accident
Monday, when . heavy piece OF
machinery fell on his leg crushing
it SO badly that amputation was
necessary.
The postoffice at Sewell, Harford
county, was entered by burglars one
night last week, and several regis
tered letters stolen, the amount ol
money they contained being
unknown.
Charles Vandegrift and family,
of Doe Run, have moved into the
house on z. Main street lately
vacated by Eli T. Reynolds, Mr..
Vandegrift having accepted posi-
tion with E. r. Burlington & Sons
A fine driving horse belonging
to Scott Jackson, of Baldwin, which
he had hitched in the rear of Coun
Gil Hall, Elkton, was driven off by
some unknown party late Friday
night, and has not since been
located.
William B. Coleman, an aged
resident of Chesapeake City, was
severely injured last week by being
thrown to the ground by the over
turning of ladder upon which he
was standing while trimming a
grape vine.
Rev. /. W. Sutton, B. D., rector
of the Church of st. James, Port
Deposit, has accepted an appoint
ment as Senior Curate ofSt. Mary's,
in Tuxedo, N. Y. The Rector oi
St. Mary's, whose staff the Rev. l.
w. Sutton is joining, is the Rev
William FitzSimon, formerly Pres
byterian minister at Zion, this
county.
A steel tank, 40 feet in height
and nearly the same in diameter
has been erected by the p, B. 3
w. railroad company at Ruthby
Just north of Newark, as reservoir
to be supplied with water from
Bufort Lake, near Christiana. The
tank is for the purpose of supply
ing the locomotives ofthe company
with water.