The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-09
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Full moon.
The ice harvesters are happy.

The ice harvesters are happy.
Wednesday next 14th inst, is
st. Valentines Day.
No trouble for the ground hog to
see his shadow on Friday last.
Funds are being raised at Perry
vile for the organization of fully
equipped fire company.
The new High School building at
North East will be ready for oc-
cupancy by the 1st of March.
The Teachers Reading Circle of
the Sixth District met with Miss
Maude Kirk on Friday afternoon
last.
The ladies of Mt. Pleasant M. +.
church will hold a supper on the
evening of Wednesday, February
18th, at L. d. Willis.
Throngs of skaters are taking ad.
vantage of the fine moonlight
nights to enjoy the exhilarating
sport on Hunters dam.
a
Elkton Council, Jr. O. U. A. NJ,
will hold fair and festival in their
hall in that town on the evenings
of February % and March |.
Mrs. C. w. Mckinney. OF near
Calvert, gathered from a flock of
sixth five Plymouth Rock hens
during the month of January sixty,
five dozen eggs.
The Gilpin's Falls Electric Co.
is said to have contracted to furn-
ish power for the proposed exten-
sion of the trolley line from Viii.
mington to Elkton.
The Epworth League of Calvert
M. E. church will hold a Long
fellow and Washington social at
the home of Charles Ward on the
evening of Feb. 2S.
National Lodge, No 81, Indepen
dent Order Odd Fellows, of Elkton,
will celebrate the thirteenth ami
yersary of the institution of the
lodge on Feb. 81. The lodge has a
membership of 115.
The sacrament of the Lords
Supper will be observed at both
James and Sylmar NJ. q. churches
on Sunday next, services at the
former at 1870 a. IN. and at the
latter at 2:30 p. m.
A symposium will be held in the
session house adjoining Zion
PRESBYTERIAN church on Thursday
evening, March s. Fancy articles,
ice cream, confectionery, etc., will
be on sale at the various booths.
Invitations have been issued for
a dance in Bennett Hall, Oakwood,
tonight, the affair being in charge
of committee of young men of the
neighborhood. Music will be fur
nished by Taylor's orchestra.
Thermometers in town registered
% above zero on Tuesday morning,
while some of our nearby farmers
reported the mercury was as low as
% below zero-all agree, at any rate
it was the coldest morning we have
experienced this winter.
Work on the last span of the new
p, B. g. w. railroad bridge across
the Susquehanna river at Perry
vile, was begun on Monday
With the completion of this span
the draw alone will be to construct
to finish the bridge, and work will
commence upon it Immediately.
Granville W. Reynolds, of neal
Colora, has accepted the position Of
superintendent of the farms of II.
T. Cause, of Wilmington, who ow MS
about 500 acres of land near Center
vile, Del. Mr.. Cause is the party
who some months ago purchased
the Horseshoe Farm OF B. F.
Reynolds.
The hay house on the farm Of
John Clayton, near Calvert, had a
narrow escape from destruction by
fire last week. The building caught
fire from a grass field that was
being burned over, but lnckily the
blaze was extinguished before il
had gained any headway in the
building.
The MIDLAND tenders thanks to
the McClenahan Granite Co., o.
Port Deposit, for copy of theil
handsome calendar for 1906, which
contains fine Photographic view
of the extensive quarries of the
company together with a view O
the Susquehanna river and islands
in the distance.