The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-06
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the. County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


benefit of Zion M. E. church.
The Cecil County Circuit Court
in special session at Elkton on
Monday, heard several registration
appeals.
AS result of the revival SER
vices at Big Elk Chapel, near Fair
Hill, 26 persons professed con
version.
Seventy three licenses for sneak
boats and twenty.three for sink
boxes have been issued in Cecil
county to duckers.
81. L. Worthington, of this town,
and Joseph Clifford, of Sylmar,
bagged 1Ol ducks on the Susqne-
hanna flats Monday.
Susquehanna Tribe of Red Men
will hold supper and fair at Oak
wood three nights next week, 18th,
18th and 14th insts.
Jess Gibson, colored, has been
lodged in Elkton Jail charged with
stealing wagonload of corn from
Robert Shockley, of near Elkton.~
December Z and 9 are the dates
the County Commissioners will hear
appeals from the Sixth district on
fhe recent assessment of personal
property.
Theodore Garvin left at the
MIDLAND Office mammoth turnip
as a sample of his crop. 1t meas
ures % inches in diamater and
weighs Al pounds.
Three dancing bears made their
appearance in the town Monday
morning, with their attendants,
and furnished amusement on the
streets for young and old.
The w. G. T. U. will hold a
postponed meeting in the interest
of Medical Temperance at the home
of Mrs. Edwin Haines on Thursday,
Nov. 18th, at 2.30 o'clock.
William N. Woodrow, of near
Colora, while at work on the new
B. & o. railroad bridge at Aiken
fell about thirty feet into the water,
but was rescued by fellow workmen.
The Sunday School and Epwortb
League will hold their annual
chrysanthemum tea in the lecture
room of the M. 3. church Wednes-
day evening, Nov. IL. Supper SOC
and 40c.
The ladies of Bay View M. p
church will give poultry supper
in American Mechanics Hall. Bay
View, on Saturday evening, Nov
z. Public is cordially invited.
Supper 25 cents.
Lady, the sorrell driving horse OF
the late DIR. q. E. Turner, died on
Monday morning at the advanced
age of "a. Lady was a splendid
driver in her day, but of late years
had led a retired life.
At the fall meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society, which will
be held in Elkton November IL,
"Infant Feeding and the Diseases
and Disorders Due to Faults sin
Diet" will be discussed.
A cold wave struck this section
on Wednesday. The wind was
high and had a keen edge which
sent a chill through one. A de.
cided tumble in the mercury was
noted, and by Thursday morning it
registered as low as 26o.
The corps of surveyors, engaged
for some weeks past on the State
Road survey from Conowins o
through Cecil county, have CON-
pleted their work as far as Fair
Hill and left this week for Chester
town, where they will begin work
on the Kent county survey.
Miss Lucy Muirhead, Of Pitts.
burg, who is visiting JOS s. Pogue
and family, lost fine gold watch
while attending the Tome football
game at Port Deposit last Saturday.
Luckily the watch was found by an
honest Port boy and returned to
the Young lady a few days later.
Things were lively in town on
Halloween with the band ont, a
political meeting in progress, mum.
mers on parade and roustabouts re.
moving gates, running off wagons
and machinery, aud misplacing
property generally. Considerable
damage. was done by these latter
and if the authorities are successful