The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-19

realized $1O3.95 by the festival held
last week.
A Gun Club of thirty members
has been organized by the young
men of North East.
Emerson r. Crothers, of Elkton,
has been appointed one of the
clerks of the House of Delegates, at
Annapolis.
Moving ice in the Susquehanna
river last week carried away five
trestles from under the new rail-
road bridge at Perryville.
Clarence G. Cole, of Perryville,
has sold the storehouse and dwell
ling in Newark, belonging to him,
to Wilmer E. Harkness.
Howard Smith, of Elkton, re-
cived broken wrist LAST week as
the result of a fall from a ladder
while at work at the pulp mills.
The Cecil Farmers Telephone
Co. is busy stringing additional
wires to accommodate the rapidly
increasing number of subscribers,
The England farm of 598 acres
living about one mile south of town,
was offered at public sale on Tues.
day but withdrawn after being bid
to So, 1926.
Auctioneer J. C. Hindman, of
this town, called 161 sales during
1905. Mr.. Hindman called his first
sale in 1867 and during his nearly
80 years of experience has called
1879 sales.
Owing to the uncertainty of the
ice crop on the Susquehanna river,
it is doubtful if the immense houses
at Perryville, burned last week
and causing loss of $40, 900, will
be rebuilt.
The old Board of Town Commits
sioners of Charlestown was re-
elected for the ensuing year on
January 6, as follows: j. N. Black,
J. B. Graham, P. X. Barnes, c. 2.
Cooper and J. M. Heverin.
The January meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was held at
the home of Martin L. Thompson,
near Woodlawn, on Wednesday.
The proceedings Of the meeting
will be published in our next issue.
A reported sale of real estate in
this vincinity this week is that OF
the fine farm of George G. Reyn-
olds, located about mile and a
half north of town and containing
14O acres, the purchaser being
Samuel Tyson, of West Nottingham.
The Star says the only poorly
lighted part of North East at night
since the introduction of the electric
light is the railroad station and the
property adjoining. Evidently the
railroad company is too poor to-
keep up with the march of progress.
The Perryville Town Council has
rendered thanks and offered to re.
imburse the fire companies from
Havre de Grace, Port Deposit and
Elkton, which responded to Perry
ville's call for aid during the burn
ing of the large icehouses, when the
town was in danger of being swept
by fire.
Fire in the old Odd Fellows hall,
on North 9th street, Philadelphia,
on the 11th inst, caused heavy
loss of stock to Geo. s. Fox, of this
town, who had two rooms rented in
the building which he used for
store rooms for ladders. Luckily
the loss was nearly covered by in
surance. Mr.. Fox's main store, at
139 North 9th was not burned.
A variety of weather was exper-
fenced Sunday. Saturday nights
rain was converted into sleet by the
freezing temperature, everything
being covered with a coating of ice
Sunday morning. This in turn had
disappeared mostly by noon, the
sun struggling out occasionally,
while at night came a snowfall
which wrapped everything in a
covering of whiteness.
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the National Bank
of Rising Sun, held on Tuesday,
the following directors were elected:
Joel ]. Carter, A. L. Duyckinck,
Carlton Kimble, H. II. Haines,
Jesse Wood, Chas, S. Pyle, s. G.
England. The officers chosen were:
H. II. Haines, president; Chas. s.
Pyle, vice president; Fl. F. Rich
ards, cashier.