The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-11
] TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

peake City.
The drug store Of Eli T. Reynolds is
receiving new dress of paint.
The I32-acre Mearns farm, near Cal
vert, Cecil county, has been brought by
Abel ]. Mearns for $7aso.
Riverside Cornet Band. of Port Deposit,
netted about SIS by the fair and festival
held in that town last week.
The P. E. Sharpless CO., paid as high
as $2.47 per hundred for October milk at
their condenserylin this town.
Jordan Algard. of Blake, Cecil county,
has purchased the meat market in West
Grove owned by George Barton.
Falling down fight of stairs at his
home on Monday night. 0. r. Washburn,
Of Iron Hill, fractured his left arm.
Bayard Harris. of colora, sustained a
crushed hand while at worksin McClena-
hans granite quarry at Port Deposit.
Tome Institute foot ball team was de-
feated on Saturday afternoon, at Port De-
posit, by Hill School. of Pottsville. Pa,
byI6stoo.
James McCauley will hold public sale
of personal property at his residence near
Rock Springs, on the old Garvin property,
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A supper will be held by the ladies of
Ebenzer M. E. church on Wednesday eve
ming. November II, at the residence of
Hugh Armour, near Greenhurst.
There will be. total eclipse of the
moon. visible all over the United States
on Wednesday. November 10. The
eclipse will begin about 4.44 p. m.
A shanty at Iron Hill occupied by
Italians working on the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company's conduit
line. was destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
A number from this section attended
the aviation meet at Halethorpe, near
Baltimore, this week, and witnessed the
flights of the bird-men, in their machines.
Havre de Grace High School and
West Nottingham Academy foot ball
teams viii play on the Academy grounds
at West Nottingham, Saturday afternoon.
Nov. II, at 2:3o o'clock.
Chief Judge Pearce on Friday ordered
that Harry S. Loves name be restored to
the Eighth district list and dismissed the
petition of John G. Williams for restora-
ton in the Fifth district.
The election passed off quietly in this
town on Tuesday. The total number
Of ballots cast was 5oo. twelve Of which
were defective and were thrown out. The
registered vote Of the District is 7o7.
w. Burge has sold his dwelling house
and bakery in the town of North East, to
Jacob SCHNEIDER, baker, of Perryville.
\ Possession to be given January 2, 1917.
Mr.. Burge will move to Kennett Square.
A. kilchen has been fitted up in the
Realey building, Elkton. for use by the
class in Domestic Science of Cecil County
High School. The class will be in charge
of Miss Clara A. Tomkins. of Clyde, New
York.
All friends OF the w. c. T. U. kinder
garten of Baltimore. win please leave all
contributions of potatoes, cabbage. dried
beans. -four and anything suitable for
soup at the home of Mrs. VIM. M. Pogue
on or before Tuesday. Nov. r5th.
Henry Vergeiner. Albert Filchner and
4 Francis Xavier Kleiber. who are studying
for the priesthood at the novitiate Of the
Oblate Fathers Of St. Francis de Sales,
Childs, Cecil county, were ordained by
Bishop Monaghan, at Wilmington, last
week.
The handsome pair of driving horses
owned by the late DR.. George E. Morrow,
of Elkton, were sold at public sale Elk
ton last week to Daniel E. Baldwin. OF
Elk Mills. for $475. Dr. Morrow refused
$1,000 for these two mares shortly before
his death.
Chief Judge James A. Pearce on Friday
heard testimony 10 habeas corpus plo-
seedlings brought by Lee c. Elliott. OF
Newark, Del. for the custody of his four
year old son. now with his wife, Mrs.
Edith Willis Elliott, who is living with
her mother in Chesapeake City,
A large garage is being built in Havre
de Grace by the Havre de Grace and
Perryville Bridge Co. Il is expected the
garage will be largely utilized by owners
Of automobiles, who on their way north
or south, will find Havre de Geace con-
yenient stopping place over nisht.