The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The public schools will close
Wednesday for the Thanksgiving
holiday.
N. r. Price has been appointed
an additional Game Warden for
Cecil county.
The supper given by the Prin-
cipio Sunday school netted about
$50 for the Sunday school fund.
Chas. J. Bayard has purchased
from Fl. W. Shallcross, the Ratten-
bury property, near North East.
Charles Mckinney shot a mad
dog at Calvert last week which had
been spreading terror in the neigh.
borhoOd.
Revival services began Sunday
evening at the M. e. church and
have continued each evening during
the week.
The poultry supper held by the
members of Mattahoon Tribe, Imp.
@. R. M, of Elkton, last week,
netted $100.
Robert J. McCleary, of Andora,
lost his faithful family driving
horse last week, the animal dying
at the age of % years.
The November meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was held at
the home of Wayne Reynolds, near
town, on Wednesday.
Col. Samuel B. Foard, of Elkton,
had the misfortune to trip over a
stone on the sidewalk in that town,
Monday, and dislocate his kneecap.
The Tome mansion in Port De-
uosit. has been fitted up as a club
for the senior students, with recep
tion room, library, billiard room,
etc.
r. Mitchell Barr, of near Elkton,
lost a portion of the index finger OF
his left hand on Saturday by the
accidental discharge of his gun
W0lle out uuutluS'
Samuel J. Terry, carrier of rural
free delivery route No. 3, has a
handsome new mail wagon, which
he christened Monday, notwith-
standing the mud.
Jefferson D. Beltz, of Cecilton,
has fled suit in the Circuit Court
for Cecil county for a divorce from
his wife, Susan V. Beltz, on the
ground of abandonment.
The Woman's Missionary society
of West Nottingham Presbyterian
church packed and started their
annual Christmas box on its jour-
mey of good cheer to the mission at
Malad, Idaho, on Monday.
The ladies of West nottingham
Presbyterian church will hold their
annual supper in the Chapel Fri
day evening, November %. Pro
ceeds for Home Mission. Supper
from 5 to 10 o'clock; price, 25 cents.
Charles Rothermel, of North
East. met with an accident Tues
day which resulted in broken leg.
He was in the act Of climbing a
fence. when he fell in such a man.
ner as to cause fracture of the
member.
Colora Council, Jr. o. 2. A. M,
will attend James M. e. church in
a body next Sunday morning, it
being the custom of the Order to
attend services as representative
body each year on the Sunday pre-
ceding Thanksgiving.
The lauies of the Hopewell Aid
Society will hold a poultry and
oyster supper at the home of Mr..
Clinton Thompson, on the evening
Of Friday, November 30, from five
to ten o'clock. Supper, either
poultry or oysters, twenty-five
cents. If stormy the next evening.
Bill Hopkins, a colored hand
employed on one of the boats car
rving wood to the Elkton pulp
mills, stole a gold watch and two
suits of clothes from the cabin
during the absence of Capt. Geo.
E. Files in Elkton, and made his
escape.
The Philadelphia, Baltimore &
Washington Railroad Company is
placing electric signals on its draw.
bridges oyer the Gunpowder and
Bush rivers, to work in connection
with the draw, for the absolute
safety of the trains passing over
the bridges.