The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

pointed assistant at Colora school,
Miss Anna Fryer principal.
Fine midwinter weather-thun
der shower Friday and the ther-
mometer registering 700 Monday.
A meeting of the Cecil County
Medical Society will be held at
Elkton on Thursday, January II.
The ladies of the Mite Society
cleared $56 by the Detective dinner
and supper held on Saturday last.
e. W. Kirk, of Sylmar, lost a
number of chickens few days ago
by the fowls eating a quantity
of salt.
The January meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held Wednes.
day at the home of Jos. 7. Grove,
near Zion.
Harvey Barrett has been reap
pointed sexton of West Noting
ham Presbyterian church by the
board of trustees.
Frank B. Evans, of Elkton, has
some fine Homer pigeons on exhi-
bition at the Delaware Poultry
Show, being held in Wilmington
this week.
The ground for the switch that
is to be put in near Sylmar for the
Sparvetta Mining Company was
surveyed last week by engineers of
the Pennsylvania railroad company.
Chesapeake bay shad are arriv
ing in the Baltimore markets, in
small numbers, bucks bringing
$1.25 each and roes S1.50. Flor
ida shad are selling at wholesale
from 80 to 40 cents each for bucks,
and 75 to so cents for roes.
In addition to those mentioned
last week we acknowledge receipt
of attractive calendars from Eli
T. Reynolds, Haines & Kirk,
Cameron s. Davis, Colora, Brown
& Mcmahon, Philada., Provident
Life and Trust Co., Philada.
Chicken thieves have been oper
ating in the neighborhood of Prin-
cipio Furnace lately. Mrs. Fl. A.
Pitt has lost pair of ducks and all
but thirty of a flock of 15O chick,
ems, while sixty fowls have been
stolen from Mrs. W. B. Reed.
The mild weather caused a
break up of the ice in the Susque-
hanna river last week, and immense
quantities foated out into the bay
carrying with it timbers, parts of
machinery, derricks, ETC., from the
Mccall Ferry Power Co. plant.
The many friends of Mr.. Wilson
Il. Coudon, formerly editor and
proprietor of the Perryville Rec.
ord, will be pleased to learn that
he has re- e-entered the journalistic
field in Cecil, having associated
himself with the Cecil Whig, of
ElktOn.
"A class in singing was organized
in thW lecture room of the M. Il.
church, on Wednesday evening, by
W. J. Harrington, of Boston, with
a membership of twenty-five. Prof.
Harrington conducts the class on
the institute plan, with daily ses-
sions of two hours duration.
The Rising Sun Dancing Asso-
citation gave ball on the evening
of Friday, Jan. 4, in the Town
Hall, under the management of
Mr.. Isaac Riale. About seventy
five guests were present, music for
the occasion being furnished by
Reynolds Orchestra of three pieces,
from Oxford.
The fourth Quarterly Conference
of James M. E. Church will be held
in Rising Sun, Saturday, 18th inst,
at 10 a. m. Preaching on Sunday
at 1890 a. m. by the pastor At
1880 p. m. the Presiding Elder,
Rev. A. S. Mowbray, d. D., will
occupy the pulpit. The first half
hour will be an experience meeting
in charge of the Epworth League.
Miss Bertha Tyson, of near town,
while chopping corn with a
hatchet a few days ago, to feed
ner poultry, met with a painful
accident. She had the misfortune
to strike the forefinger of her left
hand, completely severing the end
of it. The severed portion was not
found, one of the fowls evidently
appropristipg it as a part of its
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