The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-12-18

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Igifts purchased yet?
Jesse West has been reappointed
postmaster of North East.
4 A two days farmers institute
will be held in Elkton January %
and %.
4 Tome Institute closed on Thurs
day of this week for the Christmas
holidays.
| The ladies of Summit Bridge M.
p. congregation cleared $108 from
their recent supper.
! The supper held by the women
of Pierson Grove Sunday School,
near Elkton, netted $828
| A number of boys of the Preshy
| terian Sunday school have fitted up
la gymnasium and reading room in
Elkton.
j Application for the pardon Of
Harry Boulden, of near Elkton.
serving d years for incest, has
been made.
The pupils of New Valley School
cleared @l2.88 from their Box
Social held Wednesday evening,
December 9.
| The National Bank of Newark
takes an advanced step on January
1, next, whereby it will pay per
cent on daily balances.
Government agents are reported
to have bought the entire potato
|crop of W. T. Bye, of the Kemble
vile section, at OIL per bushel.
| The Providence paper mill has
completed large order for paper
for the United States Government
to be used in the manufacture OF
postage stamps.
| A number of young men of Elk
ton have formed a social club, to
be known as the Crescent Club.
Samuel King, Jr., Is President.
The club has headquarters in the
Elkton Opera House building.
| Joseph 81. Sloan, proprietor of
the Elkton Marble Yards, has been
awarded contract by the Elkton
Town Council for 900 feet of 15
inch terra Gotta sewer pipe laid on
North street extended, for 1886 so.
| The first patient received at
Union Hospital since it opened on
December /, was Mrs. Davis who
has been keeping house for w. j.
Kearney, near Rising Sun and was
taken to the hospital for treatment
on Monday last.
| Miss Eliza Ewing was thrown
from her buggy Wednesday morn
ling by her horse becoming fright
ened at the large oil tank recently
nnloaded at Colora, and painfully
but not seriously injured about the
face and shoulders.
| The Rev. W. W. Shaw, of the
Presbyterian Church, formerly To-
Gated at Port Deposit, has received
a call to become pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Seattle,
I WASH, and has gone to the latter
city to look over the field.
A handsome altar cross of solid
brass, by Geissler, of New York,
has been placed at Saint Andrews,
Andora, in memory of the late Jos.
Steele, of the Fourth district, by
DIR. George A. Steele, first principal
of the Cecil County High School.
The belt slipping from a horse
power being operated at Elan
Krauss', near town, where thresh.
ing was being done, caused one of
the horses to fall from the power
and so injure itself that it had to
be killed. The animal belonged to
John Sebold.
i DIR. Horace Jenkins, of Atlanta,
Ca, whose family is spending the
winter in Elkton, has brought suit
against Joseph Hinohcliffe, a news
dealer, for $40, 900 damages for in
ljuries sustained by Jenkins's four
year old son, who was bitten sew
eral weeks ago by the DEFENDANTS
pet dog.
A mad dog scare was created last
Wednesday by VIM. Sterrett's dog
appearing on several farms north
of Rising Sun and fighting the
dogs on the premises The dog
had been feasting on a dead horse
in BENZ. Garvin's meadow and
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