The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-01-22
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED


The best sleighing Of the winter
this week.
Thermometers near the zero
mark Tuesday morning..
The boys and girls have had a
glorious time coasting on the crust
which the sleet formed on the snow.
Miss Helen Wells, of Elkton, has
been substituting for Miss Helen
Clark, principal, of Butler school,
during her illness.
The County Commissioners will
meet in Elkton February "a, 25
and 26 to hear appeals from the
present assessment.
A movement has been set on foot
to build parish house adjoining
St. Mary's P. E. Church, North
East, the coming summer.
The centennial. anniversary of
the birth of Edgar Allen Poe was
observed with appropriate exercises
by our schools on Tuesday.
A case of diphtheria is reported
4 near Woodlawn, the sufferer being
the little son of w. e. Rea, sexton
OF Hopewell NJ. E. Church.
j. B. Ewing, of Blake, has an
nonnced himself a candidate for
County Commissioner at the ap,
preaching democratic primaries.
The Farmers Institute will be
held at Elkton today and at Calvert
tomorrow. The programs were
published in our last weeks issue.
Woodrow & James returned on
Wednesday after a weeks trip in
Virginia, with ear. load of horses,
which will be disposed of at public
sale.
Preparations are being made to
build the. dam of the Gilpin's Falls
electric power company higher, in
order that more water may be
stored.
The old schoo, building at Per-
ryviile, which was purchased by
Jacob Schneider, will be remodeled
and converted into a store and
dwelling.
The January meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was held
Wednesday at Sedgley Farm, the
home of Frank r. Cherry, near
Principle.
The W. G. T. u. will hold a
meeting in the interest of Sabbath
Observance at the home OF Mrs.
Jennie Gillespie, on Thursday, Jan.
28th, at 2:30 O'Clock.
A big force of ice harvesters went
to work on Hunters dam Wednes
day morning, the feeling seeming to
be that it was the last call. The
ice was between three and four
inches in thickness.
Miss Bertha Tyson and T. X
Mcdowell, of this neighborhood,
have exhibits at the Philadelphia
Poultry Show this week, the for.
mer Wild turkeys, and the latter
Silver Wyandotte chickens.
w. Irving Walker, of Chester
town, was chosen president, and
George Biddle of. Elkton, vice
president for Cecil county. of the
Peninsula Horticultural Society at
the session in Wilmington last
week.
Julian O. Smith, of Elkton, has
been notified by the commandant of
the U. s. Marine Corps, that he
has qualified for Second Lieu.
t,nancy in the Corps, and that his
commission will be issued on the
confirmation of his nomination by
the Senate.
The Lyceum Grand Concert Co.
was greeted with a packed house in
Rising Sun Hall on Wednesday
evening. The troupe is composed
of artists of the front rank; both
vocal and instrumental, and a mum
ber of their selections elected en-
cores. The fourth entertainment
of the course will be the Victorian
Party-vocal and instrumental
music and reading-on Feb. A..
w. P. Reynolds left at the MID.
LAND Office a sample of his corn
crop. 1t is the Farmers Interest
variety and when compared, point
by point, with the prize winning
ear at the recent corn show in Bal
timore, as shown by the description
issued by the Farmers Institute,