The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-12-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

1AiAdJ ACAt 10 NOW C"A y 10y .
About five inches of snow on
Tuesday.
The cunning season in Cecil
county closed yesterday.
West Nottingham Academy clos
ed Wednesday for the Christmas
vacation.
The e. c., Cannon property, in
North East, has been purchased by
Everett Janney.
We acknowledge the receipt of a
handsome calendar from John M.
Creswell, Port Deposit, dealer in
marble and granite.
William A. Grubb has been ap-
pointed carrier, and Charles A.
Grubb, substitute, on the Eew
rural free delivery route to be
started from Conowingo.
Governor Crothers has announced
that he will declare February -,
which will be the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Abra
ham Lincoln, a State holiday.
An examiner from the Postoffice
Department has laid out a route be-
tween North East and Turkey
Point with view of establishing
rural free delivery in that section.
Rising Sun and Aberdeen Gun
clubs held shoot at the latter
place on Tuesday and out of 800
targets each, the following is total
broke: Rising Sun, 399; Aber
deem, 345.
While playing shinny with a
number Of other boys, near the
Elkton High School, Stanley Moore
was accidentally struck in the
mouth with club and six teeth
knocked out.
George M. Clark, "a farmer of
near Elkton, has freak in a three
legged calf. One leg supports
the forward portion Of the body,
while the other two are in their
natural position.
"A large maple tree at the corner
of the residence property OF Alice
& Shepherd was cut down last
week as the -decayed condition Of
the trunk rendered it liable to be
blown down by storm.
The Directors of Union Hospital,
Elkton, have elected Miss Mazda
G. Campbell, assistant superinten
dent of the Hebrew Hospital, Bal
timore, to the position of head
nurse at the Cecil county institution.
Frank E. Williams, of Elkton,
has purchased from John Moody,
of the New Castle section the farm
known as the "Pine Grove EARN, y
lying between Newark and Stanton,
Del and containing about 800
acres.
Efforts are being made to secure
a pardon for Hugh 1. Armour, of
Greenhurst, serving a sentence of
Is months in the Federal peniten
tiary, at Atlanta, for violation of
the oleomargarine laws. Armour
is suffering from tuberculosis.
The horse of Robert Wilson, col
ored, of Elkton. was taken from its
stable early Thursday morning of
last week by some one who also
carried off gum coat and a pair of
gloves. The horse was later located
near Elk Mills, where it had been
turned loose.
Joseph T. Grove, of near Zion,
has purchased the Arbuckle farm,
containing 40 acres, and adjoining
his own property.
J. w. Astle, of Zion, has pur-
chased from j. K. Fairlamb of
White Rock, Pa, his farm of III
acres, at Principle.
A fine Ivers and Pond piano
hired through Prof. E. G. Lynch
from Sanders and Stayman, Balti-
more, for use in the Nolth East M !.
r. Sunday School by a number of
young men of the congregation will
be purchased by them at a cost of
$435, and presented to the school.
The County Commissioners, who
have been sitting the past month
as a Board of Control and Review,
on the new personal property as
sessment, on Friday finished that
work, when the Ninth district was
completed. The new assessments
"a rn now hainu onfarad IN fha hoob~