The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-20
Wednesday next is Christmas.

morning.
Sunday next, 22nd inst, is the
shortest day in the year.
The Bible Glass met at the home
of Miss M. Addie Smith on Wednes
day evening.
Rufus Bowland, Jr., has been
appointed transcribing clerk il the
office of the Clerk of the Court, at
Elkton.
The public schools of the county
close today for the Christmas holi-
days. They will re open Monday,
January 6.
The Girls Middle School, Tome
Institute, Port Deposit, was closed
on Monday, owing to an outbreak
of scarlet fever.
The Zion M. e Sunday school
will hold a Christmas entertain
ment in the church at that place on
Monday evening.
The December meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was entertain,
ed on Wednesday at the home OF
Wayne Reynolds.
The Christmas entertainment OF
the M. E. Sunday school of this
town will be held in the church
on the evening of Tuesdey, De,
camber "a.
We have received this week at
tractive calendars from j. ID
Donache, steam filter, and W. B.
Cooney, baker, for which we ten
der thanks.
Saturdays sleet and rain storm,
accompanied as it was by high
wind, was severe one, but no ser.
ious damage was done in this i'm
mediate locality.
An exploding lamp in the home
of Edward L. Barnard, Perryville,
caused considerable damage to fur
niture, carpet, &C., before the fire
was extinguished.
E. G. Gather has soldss his fine
farm, containing 143 acres, and
located about two miles from Rising
Sun, on the road to Port Deposit, to
Perry A. Gibson, for SO, 200.
Among the applicants who pass
ed the State Bar examination held
in Baltimore recently, was George
w. Williams, Jr., a son of Captain
&. w. Williams, of Port Deposit.
The steamer City Belle, which
plies to and fro between Port De
posit and Lapidum, has gone out of
commission for the winter, on
account of ice in the Susquehanna.
The centenary of the birth OF
John Greenleaf Whittier, the laure
ate of Abolition, was celebrated
Tuesday evening with appropriate
services in the M. E. church of this
town.
A Christmas entertainment by
the Sunday School of Mt. Pleasant
church will be held in the church
on the evening of Dec. "a, at 1880
O'Clock. Admission free; the pub
lie cordially invited.
Delphos Price, proprietor of the
FELTON, House, Elkton, has decided
to discontinue the hotel business
and has leased his hotel to Frank
Corridean, who will take charge
about the middle of next month.
Tt is rumored there is to be a
change in the train service of the
Baltimore Central road by which
Oxford will lose four trains, which
are to he taken off. The report
going the rounds is that twelve
trains in all are to be taken off.
Thieves visited James M. Tosh's
hen house on Sunday night and
with a crowhar taken from the
wagon house pried off the lock.
Twenty five pullets were missing
the next morning and the Rising
Sun Detective Association offers a
reward of $15 for the arrest and
conviction of fowl extractor.
The Rising Sun Shooting Asso
citation held its first shoot for the
Dupont bronze trophy last Tues
day. A. B. Keen and Willet
Ewing tied with 81 out of % and
Ewing won in the shoot off. The
trophy must be won three con.
secutive times to become the indi.