The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-12
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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Revival services are in progress at
Hopewell NJ. E. church.
Cecil County Commissioners will build
bridge over Big Elk Creek, near Rick
ett's mill.
James B. McClintock, of Perryville,
has purchased the small farm of John
Denver, at Iron Hill, for $4,000
Ness Wild West Show outfit passed
through town on Friday morning last,
headed for the Conowingo bridge.
An outpension of $40 has been granted
by the County Commissioners to Tillie
Tally, colored, payable to A. H. George,
Of Elk Neck.
The license question will be voted for in
Cecil county next fall. The only public
official to be voted for at that time will be
Congressman.
Rev. w. G. Rooms, of Wilmington, for
merly of this town, has been elected presi-
dent of the Wilmington Methodist Preach
ers' Association.
An unknown gunner killed ten ducks
owned by Delphos Price, of near Elkton,
while they were feeding on the marsh
along Elk creek.
John H. Kimbell, of Port Deposit was
elected one of the assistant secretaries OF
the Farmers National Congress. ip session
at Raleigh, N. c., this week.
+ HarryM M. Jackson, operator at Charles
town for the P, B. & w. railroad COM
pany, suffered stroke of paralysis Mon
day night while on duty and is in crit
ical condition.
Swarthmore Preparatory School defeat
ed Jacob Tome Institute in a game of foot
ball on the Institute grounds, Saturday
afternoon, by S to o, scoring touchdown
in the first half.
The Dinah Gibson house and lot on
South Queen street, owned by West Not
tingham Presbyterian Church, was sold
at public sale on Saturday to Miss Gertrude
Parson for $67o.
Star Council No. 7, of Principle Fur
nace, will hold poultry and oyster sup
per Thanksgiving evening at the home of
w. w. Dill. Proceeds for the benefit of
the council and the M. E. Church.
So many whips. blankets, rubbers and
wraps have been stolen from carriages at
Hopewell Methodist Church, Cecil County.
that the official board of the church has
taken action to apprehend the thieves.
Dutch Hans, well known to the
farmers of this section, was committed to
the House of Correction on the charge of
vagrancy by Magistrate Taylor, and taken
to that institution on Thursday by Com
stable Brickley
The bazar held by Riverside Cornet
Band of Port Deposit, the last week in
October was success. In the drawings
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potatoes, Jesse Mccullough a barrel of
-four, Hammond Nickle ton Of coal, and
William Moore, set of harness.
The ladies of West Nottingham Presby-
te,ian church will give supper on FRI
day evening, Nov. Ie. Any one who has
partaken of a supper prepared by these
ladies will not want to miss this one.
Tickets, CSC, Proceeds for the purchase
of a new church carpet. Should it prove
stormy on the above date, the supper will
be held the following evening.
DIR. William F.. Slocum, president of
Colorado College. Colorado Springs.
lectured on effectiveness" at the Tome
School for Boys, Port Deposit, Friday
night. DIR. Slocum was pastor of First
Congregational Church, Baltimore, for a
number of years before he was made
presiednt of Colorado College. His lecture
was the first of a series of addresses
which will be delivered during the winter
by distinguished speakers and writers and
men of prominence in public affairs.
With about a mile of the roadbed grad
ed, rolled and ready for crushed stone,
operations on the State road east of town,
are practically held up through the failure
of the firm from whom the crusher was
purchased to ship the screen. Everything
is in readiness at the quarry, with crusher
and engine set, bins erected, and great
piles of stone taken out, but still no screen,
hence no crushed stone. This certainly
speaks well for m!aapErgaiasstSripg nj Era plant
protesting tob be aane the he best lin the country,
Which Requires more thap two months
time to make and ship a screen for a
crusher !.