The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-03
TOWN AND COUNTY. I
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

The 80-acre farm of Elwood
Webster near Calvert, has been
purchased by-Howard Kimble.
Rev. Chester Gnatt, of New
York ,ihas accepted the rectorship
of st. James, Episcopal Church,
Port Deposit.
The Reuben England farm of Is
lacres, in East Nottingham town
ship, has been purchased by j. T.
Woollens, of Philadelphia.
The town council Of Bel Air has
passed an ordinance requiring the
removal of all dynamite from with
in the limits of that town.
Minnehaha Lodge of Good
Templars will celebrate its forty.
second anniversary on the evening
|cf Jan. 16, in the lodge room at
Chrome.
i The year just closed holds the
record at the Weather Bureau for
being cold and wet. There were
only 100 clear day, while 145 were
partly cloudy and 120 rainy.
/ Charles Wilbur has been arrest
ed and held under bail for the
action of Hartford County Court,
charged with the larceny of $1200
from John 81. Carroll, of Magnolia
The store Of the late G.. M. Boul
den, in ,,Elkton, will be continued
by Mrs. BouldeD, under the man
|agement of r. D. Brown, who was
for a number of years Mr.. Boulden's
chief clerk.
Paul r. Rossell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John 8. Rossell, of Whining
lton, formerly Of Elkton, has been
'Iappointed assistant engineer in the
Department Of Public Works Of
Porto Rico.
| William Swift, a young Hartford
i county farmer, was thrown against
y ear while unloading milk at
| Pylesville Station, and sustained a
broken arm and painful bruises
about the body.
/ The Oxford News reports so
much petty thieving in the neigh
borhood of Oxford, that it would
not be safe to leave unprotected a
pan of ashes or red hot stove for
fear of them being carried off.
/ A bill to prevent orphans and
dependent children from being
placed under the care Of improper
persons in the State of Maryland
| has been prepared In Ekton to be
introduced in the Legislature.
| The directors of the Citizens
National Bank at Galena, Kent
county, have purchased the bank
ling building and fixtures of the
Farmers Trust and Banking Com
pany, which failed about two
months ago.
A petition has been sent to Gov
lernor Warfield asking him to par
} don Nathan Cohan, Of Havre dc
Grace, who was sent last week te
the House of Core ction for four
months for riding on a P. B. & W
Railroad freight train.
An Oxford lady secured two two
and a half dollar gold pieces from
the bank in her town, with tht
view of gladdening some heart or
Christmas by the gift, but when she
later looked in her purse for the
gold pieces it was discovered she
had either lost them or given them
in change as pennies.
The patrons of the Baltimore
!. Central road from Oxford and West
Chester are not pleased with the
contemplated change Of schedule
which goes into effect on Sunday
next. The change among Other
things, involves the taking away o
two trains daily from Oxford and
several from West Chester.
Miss Esther P. Reynolds enter
tanned at six o'clock dinner or
Tuesday evening in honor of hel
guests, Misses Bessie McVey and
Mary E. Thompson. A cobwet
tree was an enjoyable feature Of
: the evening. Those present were
Mrs. Farren, Mrs. Pugh, Misses
Helen Pownall, Helen Wood, Mary
Thompson, Ethel Fulton, Bessie
McVey, Messrs. Robert Webster
Stanley Webster, James Reynolds
and Harry Wood.
q Mr.. Philip Craig and Miss Sarah
Whitaker, Of near Port Deposit
were married on Christmas Day al