The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-12-31

Happy New Year
o, for an air ship
Sleigh bells jingling.
1t was white Christmas.
Detective dinner tomorrow.
Too much snow-on most roads-fol
sleighing even.
The cunning season closed in Cecil
county on December "a.
e The barn on the farm of Matthew
Russell, near Charlestown, Cecil county,
was burned Saturday.
Isaiah Biddle has been elected superin-
tendent of North East M. E. Sunday
school; ]. F. Diggs, assistant.
Slips for thousand feet of nickels for
the benefit Of Union Hospital, have been
put out by the Ladies Auxiliary Com
mittee, Of Elkton, and will be called in
about January IS.
The sale of the Rebecca Haines farm,
near Rising Sun. advertised to be held on
December 28. was not held on account OF
the blockade. Another date will be SET
for some time in January.
John w. Gilpin and his wife, Iva M.
Gilpin, who made an unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide by taking strychnine in
the Elkton Jail last week, have fully re-
covered from the effects of the poison.
Abraham English, former Director of
Public Safety. of Philadelphia, has pur-
chased at trustees sale the Upper Ford
Landing farm on Elk river, in the First
district Of Cecil county. containing 800
acres, for $1,000.
Following the Christmas blizzard cold
wave struck us Wednesday evening, when
the mercury began to tumble, ther-
mometers in the neighborhood ranging as
low as 90 yesterday morning, the lowest
mark this winter. 4
II is reported that Governor Crothers
will appoint r. T. Howard, of the Ninth
dist. member of the Board of Election
Supervisors to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of w. A. Cameron, who
has removed from the State.
The National Bank of Port Deposit has
declared semi-annual dividend of per
cent, payable January /, and passed a
substantial amount to its surplus account
which is now $aa, 500. This has been the
most prosperous year in the banks
history.
The annual Christmas entertainment
and treat of the M. E. Sunday school was
held in the church on Thursday evening
Of last week. Each member Of the school
received package Of candy and an
orange. All the candy distributed, about
so pounds. was made by the young ladies
of the different classes of the school,
Frank Herberg, a foreigner who has
been employed by the State Road Com
mission at the quarry for some weeks
past, while, going to work early Friday
morning last caught his foot in a rut in
the road and fell. fracturing his hip. The
unfortunate man was taken to Union
Hospital, Eikton, on the afternoon train
for treatment
Robert Crawford is lying in critical
condition, at his home near town, from
paralysis. He had been to the woods on
Thursday to cut aNChristmas tree and on
reaching town with it was stricken while
running the wagon he had borrowed in
the barn of E. H. Reynolds. He was
taken to his home and has since i'm
proved but slightly.
A number Of men employed in shovel
ing snow in Hunts cut, near town, on
Tuesday, had narrow escape from being
run down by freight train. The train
bore down upon them without warning
whistle and the men barely escaped by
plunging into the deep snow. The es-
cape of Lawrence Buckley. whose hearing
is impaired. was so narrow that the
shovel he was using was struck by the
train as he jumped from the track.
II was white Christmas and no
mistake, snow beginning to fall about
seven o'clock in the morning and con-
tinuing steadily throughout the day and
night. While the storm ragged without
the Christmas spirit of good cheer pre-
vailed within. with glad home-comings
and family reunions. Christmas services
were held in the M. E. church at six
O'Clock in the morning. All business
was suspended and the day given over
entirely 70 Yuletide enjoyment