The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-11-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

A few flakes of snow fell on
Tuesday.
John McCush has a pumpkin
weighing SO pounds which is one
of a crop harvested by him this
fall.
Mrs. Cloud England. of near
Calvert, recently lost fifty.five
chickens which were carried off by
mink.
The grocery business of G. s.
Baker, in Chesapeake City, has
been purchased by Dorsey J.
Dunlap.
The cunning season for par
tridges and rabbits opens in Cecil
county today, Nov. 15, and closes
Dec. %.
A supper will be held on
Wednesday evening, Nov. 20, at
Colora, by the ladies of Mt. Pleas
ant M. e. church. ii
The cold snap which the weather.
man had scheduled arrived this
week and sent the mercury below
the freezing point.
The seventy fifth anniversary of
the organization of Trinity Protes
tant Episcopal Church, Elkton, will
be celebrated November 23d.
Miss Mabel l.. Stephenson, of
Port Deposit, has been appoint
ed matron of the YanktOn In.
dian School, of Yankton, s. D.
The Inauguration of Maryland's
newly elected Governor, Hon. Aus
tin L. Crothers of Elkton, will
take place at Annapolis Jan. 4th.
Afootball team from Rising Sun
visited West Nottingham on Satur
day afternoon last and smothered
the Academy boys by score of 81
too
Corinne Eder, the 9.year old
daughter of Mrs. Fred Eder, of
Elkton, fell and fractured her arm
in two places, while at play few
days ago.
The pupils of North East High
School are preparing to hold an
entertainment on the 22nd and
23rd insts, the proceeds to be de.
voted to school purposes.
Rev. J. Wilson Sutton, rector of
st. James, Episcopal Church, of
Port Deposit, has accepted a call to
the assistant rectorship of Old st.
PauPs Church, Baltimore.
By the. will of the late John P.
Finn of the First district of Cecil
county, one twentieth of his estate
will go to st. Dennis Catholic
Church, Galena, Kent county.
For stealing bag of corn from
an Elkton farmer Harris Tilgman
will spend the next twelve months
at the stone pile of the Maryland
House of Correction.
. The ladies of West Nottingham
Presbyterian church will hold their
annual supper and bazar in the
chapel Friday evening, Nov. %,
from 6 to 9 o'clock. Supper, %
cents.
A Columbia & Port Deposit train
ran into fall of rock on the tracks
near Peach Bottom on Tuesday.
The pilot of the engine was torn off
aud other damage done. Traffic
was delayed four hours.
George A. Blake, trustee, last
week sold under deed of assignment
the personal property and real es-
tate of Louis o. /. Atwood. The
real estate was purchased by Dan.
iel L. Atwood for 1920.
The special train on Thursday
evening of this week to Elkton
carried a large delegation from this
place, headed by the Rising Sun
Cornet Band, to the iollification
meeting held in honor of the elec-
tion of Governor Crothers.
Two cars on northbound freight
train jumped the track at Bacon
Hill Sunday. Wrecking trains
from Wilmington and Perryville
were soon on the scene and cleared
the wreck before the regular
passenger trains were delayed.
While assisting in unloading a
scow at the Frenchtown end of
the B. & o. railroad bridge last
week, Joseph Mackin was struck
by one of the heavy iron hoisting
buckets, the chain Of which broke.
and badly injured, suffering com.