The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Thos. G. Bond has been elected
assistant cashier of the Cecil
National Bank of Port Deposit.
William T. Coulson was nomi
mated last week as postmaster at
Port Deposit, by President
Roosevelt.
The Christmas entertainment OF
Sylmar M. E. Sunday school will
be held Saturday evening, Dec. Il,
at Z O'Clock.
The December meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club will be enter
tanned at the home of Wayne
REYNOLDS on Wednesday, 18th inst.
Andrew Buchanan is suffering
with a badly mashed finger, having
had it caught in a freight car door
at Duyckipck, Sterrett & Co.'S.
warehouse.
j. M. Creswell, marble and
granite dealer, of Port Deposit, is
the first to favor the MIDLAND
JOURNAL with a 1908 calendar,
and it's beauty.
The Ladies and friends of Ehen-
ezer M. e. Church will hold a
Poultry Supper and Bazaar at the
home of James T. Armour on
Wednesday evening, Dec. 18th.
If stormy. next fair evening.
The real estate and personal
property belonging to the late M.
Louisa Richardson, at New Valley,
was sold at Attorneys sale on
Saturday, Dec. Z. The property
was bought by Sarah r. Bostwisk,
of Chester, Pa, for 81 ,055.
Notwithstanding the lateness a
large quantity of corn is still un-,
husked on numerous farms in
Cecil and adjoining counties. The
unfavorable weather has greatly
retarded Fall work on the farms,
and the snow last week added still
further to the delay.
The cold snap of last week, when
the first sleighing, coasting> and
skating of the winter were enjoyed,
was followed 10y two or three day s
of almost spring like mildness, the
snow soon melting and the roads
being transformed into quagnires
of slush and mud, rendering travel
extremely bad since.
The election recently held in
James and Sylmar churches for Lay
Delegate and Alternate to the Lay
Electoral Conference, next March,
resulted in the choice of N. c..
Brown as delegate, and Mrs. A. Il,
Brown as alternate. This Confer
ence elects Lay Delegates to the
General Conference and votes on
changes in the Discipline.
Edna Reisler, aged IL years,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. C. nj.
: Reisler of Calvert, was successfully
operated on Sunday at her home
for appendicitis, with which she
had been suffering since the Friday
previous. Drs. Clifford, Stump and
Hopkins conducted the operation,
and the patient is resting quietly at
her home, with every indication of
recovery.
VIM. Balderston, son of Lloyd
Balderston, of Colora, has been
slated for appointment as Register
of the u. s. Land Office at Boise
CITY, Idaho. Mr.. Balderston has
for number of years been editor of
the Statesman, the leading daily
paper of Idaho, but the confinement
Of the position necessitated change
of duties and that of Register has
been assured him.
The purchasers of the abandoned
blast furnace at Principle Furnace
have completed dismantling it and
are shipping the material to East
Jordan, Michigan, where it will be
re erected and put in operation.
The forge of the Whitaker Iron
Co., at Principle, is running day
and night turning out charcoal
hammered blooms.
Under the law, the new States
Attorney for Cecil County, Albert
Constable, ESQ.,, will assume the
duties of his Office the first Monday
in January, the sixth. AS the
Legislature meets on January l.,
and the present States Attorney,
Mr.. Squier, has been elected to
that body, he will resign as States
Attorney on December 81, and the
Court will appoint an officer for the
six days interval.
Bufington's store will be open