The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
Moonlight nights.
Happy New Year.
Fine skating on the dam.

Fine SkatlnS on the udin.
Ice harvesters getting busy.
The enrolment of pupils at the
Agricultural High School, Calvert,
has reached forty seven.
Christmas passed quietly, the
day being cold and windy, making
one glad to remain indoors.
William George, farmer of
near Elkton, fractured rib by a
fall from his hay wagon last week.
A Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union has been organized at
Perryville with a membership Of
seventeen.
Howard Reynolds received last
week from Virginia fine 1S-
pound wild turkey for his Christ
mas dinner.
The Country Store held by the
ladies of Charlestown M. E. church
repaid them for their efforts, $S9. 80
being netted.
The ladies of st. Paul's M. E.
church, Earlville, succeeded in
raising $67 for church purposes
with monogram quilt.
The Rising Sun Cornet Band is
making preparations for fair and
festival to be held in the Town
Hall, January 25 and 26.
Miss Margaret Gilpin, of near
l;Ikton, suffered severe injury, a
few days since, by fall, dislocat-
ing her arm at the elbow.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
Social will be entertained at the
home OF Misses Armenia and Edna
Wilson on Monday evening.
The Howard property, on Main
street, Elkton, has been purchased
of Mrs. Sarah A. Gilmour by
Victor r. Bennett for $3, ,250.
Miss Alberta Heisler, daughter
of Mr.. Jos. M. Heisler of Charles
town, had the misfortune to fall
and fracture her leg last week.
Pennsylvania railroad detectives
are looking for the party who fired
II bullet through the window of a
Baltimore Central passenger train
near Port Deposit on Tuesday.
The ice harvest began yesterday,
when four and half or five inch
ice was being cut on Hunters dam
The weather moderated consider
ably and the light rain in the
afternoon put the harvesters on the
anxious bench.
Garfield Post, No. IS, G. A. R.,
will have public installation of
officers elect on Thursday, Jan. 3,
concluding the ceremonies with a
camp fire and smoker. All vet
Grams especially invited. Installa
tiOn at one p. M.
The property of the late Gran
vile w. Lynch, about one and a
half miles northeast of town, and
containing 35 acres of land with
improvements, was sold on Friday
at administrators sale to John l..
Stephens, for $1360.
Aaron Reynolds, son of Howard
Reynolds of this town, is carrying
his hand in sling, the result of a
broken finger, which he caught
between palings few days since,
while holding his hand against the
fence as he walked along the street.
Clifford 81. Robertson, for several
years past associated with the firm
of Jos. S. Pogue, Sons & Co., of
this town, has accepted position
with the Geo. A. Fuller Con-
struction Co., with headquarters
in the Flatiron Bldg, New York,
and will leave on Monday for his
new field of labor.
Severed Rising Sun citizens spent
Christmas with relatives in Chester
county and returned home on the
evening train. The party became
so engrossed in discussing the joys
of the occasion that when the train
stopped at Nottingham they mis-
took the station for Rising Sun and
all Pyled off, bag and baggage.
Luckily they discovered their
mistake in time to resume their
journey and two of Rising Suns
foremost business institutions were
opened to the public on time the