The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-04-16
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Plum trees in blossom.

Democratic candidates Dusy
shaking hands.
The thermometer recorded S00
on Tuesday-of last week, while on
Friday night ice formed.
The Cecil county School Board
has approved the plan to locate
High school at Fair Hill.
The Presbytery of New Castle
will hold its spring meeting at
West Church, Wilmington, April
20 and 81.
Victor R. Bennett and Cadmus
Price were chosen Councilmen at
the municipal election held in Elk.
ton on Monday.
Easter was clear and cold, but
not too cold to prevent a display
of new spring hats, so dear to the
feminine heart.
Harry E. Mahoney, of Akin,
has been granted an absolute di.
vorce by Cecil Circuit Court, on
the grounds of desertion.
Town Treasurer Scott, of Elkton,
has reported receipts during the
fiscal year of $40, 1867 SO, and dis
bursements of So, 1902.
Owing to inability of the Judges
to attend, the March term of Cir
cult Court for Cecil county did not
reconvene in Elkton on Monday.
J. Wynne Jones, of Baltimore,
Post Department Chaplain, will de.
liver the Memorial Day address for
Garfield Post, G.. A. R., at Calvert.
The piers of the old Conowingo
bridge, across the Susquehanna
river, are being put in shape for
the new iron structure to be erected
this summer.
The receipts of the Rising Sun
Postoffice for the fiscal year ending
March 81 amounted to the sum OF
SO, ,40S 40, being an excess over last
year of 1892. so.
John Kimble brought his newly
purchased Rambler automobile
home from Perryville on Sunday,
the trip being made in fast time
and without mishap.
The Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary Societies of New Castle
Presbytery convened in Zion Pres
byterian church on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week, the sessions
being largely attended.
Mrs. Briggs of the Poultry Yard,
a comedy in three acts, will be
given by home talent in Calvert
Agricultural High School on Tues
day evening, April 20. Music by
orchestra. Admission, 25 cents.
The following trustees have been
elected by the Zion Presbyterian
church William Stewart, Charles
Morris, Alfred Fassitt, Cecil Mack
ey, Wilmer Fox, Ross Smith,
Austin Carhart, Joseph Groves and
tMearns Moore.
There is talk of recognizing the
Cecil County Base Ball League
The plan outlined is that no club
be permitted to pay its players, but
if any money is made it will be
divided among the players at the
end Of the season.
The extreme cold weather Satur-
day and Sunday nights, when ice
was formed an inch thick in ex
posed places, caused great damage
in the fruit districts of Maryland,
Delaware and Virginia, early vege-
tables also suffering in the trucking
districts.
Easter was appropriately OBJ
served at the M. E. church in this
town, by special services Sunday
morning and evening. The SER
vices in the evening were in charge
of the Sunday school, the program
of recitations and music being es-
pecially we'll rendered. The seat
ing capacity of the church was
taxed by the large assemblage
present.
The brake of a heavily loaded
coal car failing to hold when the
car was shifted onto the trestle at
Duyckinck, Sterrett & Co.'S. ware
house, Monday morning, the car
crushed the heavy stop block like
kindling wood. and ran off the end
of. the trestle, knocking the end out
Of the shed and falling a distance
of twenty feet to the ground, the
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