The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-02-07
st. Valentines Day next Friday


A farmers institute will be held
ia Elkton February IA and 10.
Revival services began at R,w
landville M. E. church on Sunday
evening.
The snow spoiled the skating but
the young folks are now enjoying
coasting.
The annual farmers institute
will be held at Rising Sun Satur
day, February %.
Presiding Elder Mowbray oc.
cupied the pulpit Of james M. r..
on Sunday evening.
A company Of Port Deposit young
people visited Rising Sun Friday
evening on a straw ride.
s. Ell. Barnes has accepted q
position as travelling salesman for a
Philadelphia millinery firm.
Nearly Eve sixths of the taxes of
Elkton for the year which closes
April LIST already have been paid.
Leroys Advanced Vaudeville Co.
gave an exhibition in the Town
Hall last evening to a good sized
audience.
The Cecil Farmers club will hold
!. its February meeting at the home
Of the President, R. &. Rawlings,
on the 10Th inst.
Harvey Sentman, a farmer livirg
near Fair Hill, has lost seven hogs
within few days from some
mysterious disease.
Wednesday next. Feb. IL. is
Lincoln's Birthday and is observed
as a legal holiday in some States,
but not in Maryland.
There were 295 deathsSand .2O3
births reported ID Cecil county last
year. in comparison to 800 deaths
and 279, births in 1906.
Miss Florence Scott has been aL.
pointed principal of the Washing
ton school, near Bay View, Miss
Arrie Duhamel, resigned.
The Craig farm of 85 acres near
Charlestown has been sold by L..
Marshall Haines, Esq Trustee, 70
Jerome Webber, for 81 ,O4O.
William B. Davis.sof the, First
district, has heenG nominated, by
Governor Crothers, to the Senate
as one OF the directors ofthe Female
House of Refuge.
Great success has attended the
revival services at Mt. Pleasant M
Il. church, in charge Of the pastor,
Rev. w. FL. Briggs. There have
been 45 conversions.
T.. G. White, who recently re
signed as cashier of the Cecil
National Bank at Port Deposit.
after filling the position for % years,
has been reappointed.
For the third time in as many
years Atwood Jamison, of near
Lees Bridge, mangled his left hand
in a fodder cutter last week. This
: time amputation may be necessary
John s. Donahoo last week took
q force of forty men from Havre de
Grace, Perryville and vicinity to
Dukmnn, N. Y, where they will
assist in the ice harvest of the
American Ice Co.
Postmaster j. Kinsey Chambers,
of Newark, has sold his farm, con-
tanning about 40 acres, together
with the large mansion, at Dean
dale, to Mrs. J. W Barnard. The
price paid was SO, 1000.
Jacob Biddle, of Elkton, on
Saturday was appointed private
messenger to Governor Crothers
during the session of the Maryland
Legislature and entered upon his
new duties Monday morning.
If the ground hog braved the
saSld and wind on Sunday he had
little difficulty in seeing his
shadow, hut if he were wise he re
NAMED in his hole and let the
Bureau at Washington look after
the weather.
The IL months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Eli T. Reynolds, of this
town, met with what might have
proven a serious accident several
DAYS ago. Unnoticed by any of the
other smemhers, of the family the
little fellow had chmbed the stairs,
when he felhthe entire fight to the
first floor, being severely bruised,