The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-05
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

A quiet Fourth was the order of
the day in Rising Sun.
The moving machines were start
ed in grass fields in this. section
the present week.
A. J. Jones, of Pennington, has
sold his speedy little gray PAGER,
Arbutus, to DIR. Lee, of Whining
ton, for $500.
McMullen's merry go round,
which has been located here for a
month or more was moved to North
East this week.
Elkton ice dealers have announc
ed to their patrons that they will
furnish no ice to any one after 10
O'Clock Sunday mornings.
A "grandfather's clock" 100
years old, was sold at public sale in
Elkton, Saturday afternoon, to
Judge A. L. Crothers for 500.
Cecil County Commissioners have
appropriated $500 towards the
maintenance of the Union Hos
iptal, to be opened in Elkton in
September.
The Asa Churchman farm of so
acres in the Ninth district was
sold last week by r. G. Thackery,
Attorney, to Elwood Webster, OF
Oxford, Pa, for $1,000.
The "Horseshoe" farm, near
Cecil Paper Mills, owned by 81. 7.
Cause of Wilmington, was offered
at public sale on Monday but with
drawn at bid of $4,000.
Morris E. Cole, of Perryville, is
the promoter of daily ferry be-
tween that town and Havre de
Grace, which it was expected
would be inaugurated this week.
Master Richard Tome, of Balti-
more had the misfortune to fall and
break his arm few days ago while
playing at the Inn, Port Deposit,
where his parents are spending the
summer.
Extentive improvements are to
be made to Union church, near
Mechanics Valley, cash and sub
scriptions to the amount of 5000
having been secured for the
purpose.
Mrs. Matte Norris of Elkton,
has been granted an absolute
divorce from her husband, Henry
E. Norris, by the Circuit Court
for Cecil county, on the ground of
abandonment.
The Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Cecil County has appointed
Saml. A. Taylor agent at Rising
Sun and A. L. Duyckinck has been
elected manager, vice Mount e.
Kirk, deceased.
The County Commissioners have
concluded that $1.06 tax rate was
not large enough to include an
appropriation for the erection of an
Agricultural High School building
at Calvert, SO the $4,000 petition
was turned down.
A number of plates are still in
DossesSion of the cake committee of
the recent festival held by the band,
and any parties who failed to have
their property returned will confer
a favor by notifying the secretary
or any member of the band.
Ashes from the pipe of one of the
workmen, carelessly emptied on
the roof of Wayne Reynolds barn,
which was being repaired, caused a
blaze Monday of the dry shingles,
which but for the fortunate dis
covery and the ready access to a
bucket of water, bid fair to result
in disastrous fire.
The authorizes are on the lookout
for the party, who is known, who
recently stole blanket and whip
from the team of Frank Roberts
while it was hitched along the
street in town, and who on another
occasion cut the harness and
cushion on the seat, and he will be
dealt with according to law when
apprehended.
The case of Harry B. Hause, VS..
the County Commissioners of Har'
ford county for injuries received
on the public road, in which Hause
was awarded $1,000 damages at the
December term of Court in Elkton,
and which was carried to the Court
of Appeals, has been decided IN
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