The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-01-29
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

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end of the month.
Chesapeake City public school
has added 98e new cloth bound
books to its library.
Burned while firing the North
East High School furnace, Ralph
Shippers may lose his sight.
G. T. Snyder has purchased a
steam merry go round and will
operate the machine this summer.
A reading room and gymnasium
has been opened in Roney's Hall
by a number Of the young men Of
North East.
Blythe will of the late Mrs. Mary
E. Jones, OF Wilmington, the Row
landville M. P. Church is be
queathed 5000.
Harry D. Carver has sold the
DR.. Lawson Ewing farm, in the
Second district of Cecil county, to
David X. Jones, for $3.50.
A farce comedy in three acts, en-
titled "Wanted-A Wife," will be
given in Rising Sun hall tomorrow
evening. See adv. in another
column.
The faculty of the Tome Institute
School rendered a banquet Satur-
day evening last to DR.. Thomas
Stockham Baker, the newly elected
head master.
The ice in the Susquehanna river
has broken up and is passing out
into the bay, the danger of another
disastrous ice gorge at Port De
posit being over for the present.
The National Bank of Port De-
posit, has issued a Farmers AL
manac which they will send on re
quest. Its contents are similar to
those of the famous Hagerstown
Almanac.
The old dilapidated wooden
wagon bridge over the railroad
tracks at the top of Stubbs hill
was replaced fhis week by the rail
road company with substantial
iron structure.
By shaft-iron on her carriage
breaking, and frightening her horse,
Mrs. Thomas A. Bay, of Jarretts
vile, Hartford county, was thrown
into a ditch, fracturing her collar
bone and set eral ribs.
Loosened by the rain a cave in of
rock and dirt occurred at the Spar
vetta mines, near Sylmar, on Mon
day. No one was hurt, but the
pump was broken and mill forced
to close down for a while.
The members and friends OF
Octoraro M. e. church will hold an
oyster supper in the church on
Thursday evening, Feb. 4. If this
date should prove stormy, the
supper will be held the following
evening.
Ella Davis, alias Ella Narvell, Of
Rising Sun, who was sent to ElktoD
Jail for larceny q money and
clothes from Miss Minnie Hamble
ton, has been committed to the
House of Refuge instead of being
held for Court.
The horse sale held by Woodrow
& James on Monday afternoon at
the Maryland House stables was
largely attended. Seventeen head
of Virginia horses were sold, good
prices being realized, averaging
$17O.l2 per head.
Mrs. Susan Beltz, of Cecilton, in
Elkton Jail several weeks, charged
with stabbing her husband, Jeffer-
son D. Beltz, in the abdomen with
a butcher knife, was given hear
ing before Justice Gilpin, of Elk
ton, Monday and discharged.
w. B. Cooney has disposed of
his baking business to Messrs.
Lynch, of this section, who took
hold on Monday. Mr.. Cooney will
still conduct his restaurant and is
having a cellar dug under the
building, which, it is reported, will
be fitted up with bowling alleys and
pool tables.
Thrown heavily to the ground by
the sudden tightening of rope by
means of which he was descending
from the new B. & o. bridge at
Akin, t. E. Whitaker received a
broken ankle by the fall. He had
almost reached the ground when
the rope was frightened by the
starting of an engine, and White
aker's hold on it was broken. He