The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-12-03
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

convene at Elkton Monday, Dec. ID.
The w. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs.
Joseph Smith Thursday, Dec. 9, at 2:3o
o'clock.
The salary of Rev. Samuel Polk, pastor
of West Nottingham Presbyterian church,
has been increased $500.
Miss Florence Marshbank, of Elkton,
will succeed Mrs. Nellie Reed as principal
of Jones school, Elk Neck.
A valuable cow belonging to T. A.
Mckinney, of Elk Neck, showing signs of
hydrophobia, had to be killed.
Their commissions not arriving the
newly elected officials of Cecil county did
not assume charge of their Offices Dec. I.
Physicians found it necessary to ampu-
tate the right arm of Casamo Gemmano,
of Perryville, who was struck by an ex-
press train.
Miss Bertha Graham, of Liberty Grove,
has been appointed assistant at Rising
Sun Grammar School, Miss Bessie Rawl-
ings, principal.
A. B. Keen is having new building
erected op his lot on Pearl street, in which
he will conduct his blacksmith and wheel
wright business.
The official board of the Mount Pleas
ant M. E. Church has requested the
return of Rev. w. H. Briggs for another
conference year.
Taking saltpeter in mistake for salts,
Mrs. George Poist, of near Woodlawn,
was made seriously i'll and physicians
were summoned to administer relief.
The Cecil County Court has granted
Lillian M. Nowland, of Chesapeake City,
divorce from her husband, Charles p.
Nowland, on the grounds of desertion.
The I'll Try Mission Band of Zion will
give on entertainment in the Session
building, adjoining the Presbyterian
church, Friday evening, Dec. 10. Admis-
sion IS cents. Everybody welcome.
At a meeting of the Directors of the
Farmers & Mechanics Insurance Asso-
citation held this week J. E. Crothers, of
Calvert. was elected director to fill the
unexpired term of John P. Wilson. de-
ceased.
Work was resumed on the State road,
east of town Tuesday, operations having
been suspended week on account of un-
favorable weather. The portion of road
bed upon which crushed stone had been
placed is being top-dressed and finished.
Young Friends Association will be held
Sabbath Afternoon, 12th month 5th.
Question : "Is Conscience an Infallible
Guide?" Opened by paper by Robert
Wood and talk by E. R. Burlington.
( General discussion, opened by .Harte
Coates.
Prof. Stockton Axson, of Princeton
University. and Bishop David H. Moore,
of Cincinnati, are scheduled to speak at
the Tome School for Boys in December.
Mr.. Arson is professor of English
literature at Princeton University. His
lecture will take place December and
will be on Robert Burns"
The annual meeting of the Md. High
School Teachers Association will be held
Friday and Saturday at the State Normal
School, BALTIC. DR.. Thomas S. Baker,
head master of Tome Institute, Port De-
posit will be among those to address the
association. He will tell of the necessity
of private reading on the part of the
teacher.
After the Larkin-Brown nuptials al
Sylmar, Saturday, the bride and groom
drove to Rising Sun to take the south
bound evening train. As news of their
coming had been telephoned ahead the
couple found a well organized cali
thumpian band at the station awaiting
them, and they were accorded noisy
serenade.
Inc tcPoit " TIC OOECAuOi Vi Tue Maj
land State Board of Dental Examiners fol
the year 1909, shows there were 64 can
didates who took the examinations during
the year, forty of whom qualified and
were granted license. Twenty-four were
found incompetent and were refused
certificates. DIR. T. B. Moore, of thi:
town is a member of the Board.
The second number of the course o.
entertainments was given in the public
hall on Tuesday evening by Clarencs
L. Burgderfer, whose clever imperson
ations and witticisms convulsed his audi
ence with laughter The hall was wei
filled, and everyone epjoyed wholesome
laugh, Mr.. Rurgderfer's "smile worth