The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
A light snow Saturday morning

Grippe still has the call, keeping
our physicians busy.
The dwelling of Alice and Shep-
herd is being frightened by a new
dress of paint.
Our public schools re opened
Monday, after the holidays, with a
full attendance of pupils.
Protracted meetings are in pro
gress nightly at the M. E. church,
under direction of the pastor, Rev.
j. P. Otis.
M. @. Reeder is hobbling about
with cane as result of ladder
slipping from under him on the
barn floor last Tuesday.
Rev. j. Earle Maloy, of Colora,
has been elected Chaplain of the
House of Delegates for the first
month at a salary of $3.50.
The Grand Lodge, 1. O. O. F.,
of Maryland, has arranged to hold
a special session of that body in
Elkton on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
Woodrow & James have pur
chased of w. B. Cooney his farm
of 68 acres lying about one and a
half miles west of town for $3 800.
Monday morning was cold one
thermometers in town registering
15o, while some of our neighboriug
farmers report the mercury went
still lower.
Edmund G. Lynch, of Elktor,
had three ribs broken and received
internal injuries Friday at Leslie
when a heavy oil wagon passed
over his body.
a fair and festival will be he'd
in the town hall at this place on
the evenings of Friday and Satur
S day, Jan. "a and %, under the
auspices of Rising Sun Cornet Band
L. G. White, for twenty-five
years past cashier of the Cecil
National Bank of Port Deposit, has
resigned from his position. His
successor has not yet been chosen.
Ladies Aid Society of Octoraro
M e. Church will give an oyster
supper Wednesday evening, 22d.
Cake and home made candy also
on sale. Supper 10 and % cents
Mrs. Sarah Hopkins, of Port De-
posit, fell while descending the
stairs at her home, breaking her
collar bone and receiving other in
juries. Mrs. Hopkins is 81 years
Of age.
The farm of the late Amos B.
Rogers, near Lombard, in the Ninth
district, containing 105 acres, was
purchased last week at. trustees
sale by David B. Mcdowell, for
$4,000.
Wayne Reynolds and Jesse Wood
represented the Rising Sun De-
tective Association at the annual
meeting of the Detective Associa
ton Union held at Oak Hill on
Monday.
Elkton had mad dog scare on
Monday evening, when Fred KEN
pa was bitten twice by strange
dog, which ran through the town
and was lost sight of before il
could be killed.
A checker tournament was held
at Elkton New Years Day, a
number of out oftown players com.
peting with Elkton talent. The
best scores were made by w. L.
Couden, of EIkton, n. W. Cald-
well and O. G. Laws, of Chesapeake
City.
A Spelling Bee and Box Social
will be held at Birmingham school,
near Fremont, Wednesday evening
Jan, 10th. Prizes will be awarded
the two best spoilers. Literary
and Photograph entertainment.
Proceeds for benefit of library fund.
Ladies please bring boxes. II
stormy the following evening.
Tuesdays storm was of unusual
violence. Starting in the early
morning with a fine rain, which
froze as it fell, covering everything
with coating of ice, pedestrians
found the payements slippery
propositions and joined the middle.
of the readers without much per-
suasion. Later in the day it mod
Grated, and the rain fell in torrents
while the wind blew a gale, the
storm continuing until late at
night, aud being general through
out the east.