The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-27
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Happy New Year.

NOW Tor those gOOd RESOLUTIONS
don't forget them.
The cunning season in Cecil
county closed on Christmas day,
25th inst.
The Harvester Mission Band, of
Zion, realized $75 by the recent
"Mother Goose Market"
Secure your ticket for the lecture
in the Town Hall next Monday eve.
ming by Judge Alfred Ellison.
James T. Hartnett, a farmer Of
near Elkton, has lost 20 turkeys
through some unidentified disease.
Appointed to War Department
position. John P. Davis of North
East has been assigned to Fort
Thomas, Ky.
Rev. Daniel II. Martin, of Bel
Air, has been appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt chaplain in the
United States Army.
The large hotel at Still Pond,
Kent county, near Betterton, was
totally destroyed by FIRE, Friday,
together with contents.
Monday mornings rain was a
heavy one and the public roads,
which were already in miserable
condition, were rendered worse.
The grocery and provision store
of the late Mrs. Mary j. Taylor at
Main and Bow streets, Elkton, has
been purchased by A. E. Miller,
for $315.
Henry D. Keen, of West
Nottingham, was painfully injured
last week by fall from horse,
caused by the breaking of the
saddle girth.
j. H. McKenney. formerly Of
Elkton, but now of Oyster Bay,
Mass, has been signed on the
pitching staff of the New York
Giants for next year.
Z Mary E. Collier, of Cecil county,
has applied to the Circuit Court
for divorce from her husband,
Charles w. Collier, of Philadelphia
on the ground of desertion.
To keep an eye on fishing legis-
lation the Tidewater Fishermen's
Association has designated one
representative from each county to
attend the coming session of the
Legislation.
At Minqua, the site of the
Mccall Ferry Power Company's
plant, Leon Lee, employed as
laborer, was killed Wednesday
evening, of last week, by falling
under derrick.
The inmates of the county Aims
house and Insane Asylum, at
Cherry Hill, were made happy on
Saturday when they were given
their annual Christmas treat of del
icies of the season.
Mrs. Blanche Adams has been
granted a degree of absolute divorce
from her husband, Edward f.
Adams, by the Circuit Court OF
Hartford County. She was also
given the custody of their two
children.
George K. McGaw, of Baltimore,
formerly of Hartford county,, has
endowed the cemetery of Grove
Presbyterian church with 5000.
The cemetery will be ineokpor.
Nated and governed and managed by
board of trustees.
The Christmas entertainment OF
the NJ. E. Sunday school of this
Z town, held Tuesday evening was a
pleasing one,-mOst especially to
the members Of the school, each
one receiving Christmas package
of good things A splendid pro.
gram of music and recitations was
rendered by the school. The silver
offering taken at the door, amount.
ed to over eleven dollars.
Christmas day dawned bright,
clear and frosty, and was observed
quietly in our little town, family
reunions and feasting being the
features, with good cheer
prevailing. EARLY morning SER
vices were held in the NJ. r.
church. The sporting fraternity
had big day with cunning,
shooting matches ,and wheel
barrow races, Louis Scott being
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