The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-04-20
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The man with the muck rake is
much in evidence on the farm at
present.
The w. G. T. U. will meet on
Thursday afternoon next, at 2:3O
O'Clock, with Mrs. Edwin Halnes.
The annual meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society will pc
held at Elkton on Friday, April
30, at IL o'clock a. m.
The April meeting of Cecil Farm
ers' Club was held at the home OF
James 81. Maxwell, near town, on
Wednesday.
Bicycling has taken a new lease
on life. Quite number OF the
Younger generation are daily tramp
ing the pedals up and down our
streets.
Baltimore & Ohio railroad sur
yeyors are engaged in surveying a
route for the extension of the
branch between Childs and Prov
idence.
The Kay farm of so acres, stu
ated about one mile west of town,
at Harrisville, was sold on Tuesday
at executors sale to Mrs. Elizabeth
III. Kay for S4l0O.
The rain Saturday night and
Sunday morning was one of the
heaviest downpours this Spring
Streams overf1owed their banks but
no damage was done.
William Stewart, Alfred Fassett ),
Austin Carhart, Charles Morris.
Wilmer Fox. Mearns Moore and
Joseph Grove have been elected
trustees of Rock and Zion PresbS
terian Churches.
The M. E. church was filled to
overfowing Sunday evening, when
the exercises were in charge OF the
Sunday school special program O
Easter music and recitations being
rendered.
The African Methodist Episcopal
Church. at Warwick, Cecil County.
was badly damaged by fire Friday
morning last. A spark from a
traction engine fell on the roof,
causing the fire.
Miss Margaret Koons, return
ed missionary from Japan, will
speak at Porter's Grove M. p.
church next Sunday, 22nd inst, at
2:3O p. m. Public cordially invit
ed to be present.
v. M. Torbert, until recently of
the Cecil Whig, Elkton, has secur
ed the position of assistant to the
manager of Munsey's publications,
with offices in the "Flatiron" build
ing, New York city.
A very successful Easter hop was
held in Elkton Monday night, when
the members of the Maryland Ma
tional Guard gave the first of a
series of dances to be held this
Spring in the armort on North ST
A movement has been started in
Elkton by number o. business men
of the town to reorganize the Del
bert s. Wilson textile mills in that
town. The plant is to be enlarged
and employment given to about l5O
more hands.
Rev. Frank Il. Williams, for the
past Is months pastor of Lewes,
Del, Presbyterian church, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
May LIST. Mr.. Williams recently
purchased the Cecil Wing. at Elk
ton, and will in future devote his
energies to the editing and manag
ing of that paper.
We publish in this issue a com
paratiVe statement of the National
Bank of Port Deposit which shows
this financial institution to be one
of steady solid growth in a remark
ably short time. Its surplus dou.
bled in 1905 over that of 1904 and
has again douoled, as shown by
the statement, in the year ending
April 6, 1906.
Constable Richard Howard, of
the Ninth district, had warrants
issued this week for the arrest of
Samuel Smith and Jos. T. Grove
on the charge of refusal to pay dog
tax and interfering with him in
the transaction OF his official duties.
Smith plead guilty and paid fine,
tax and costs, while the other case
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