The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-04
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Thunder gust Monday evening.

since the rain yof Monday and Tuesday
The Calvert Agricultural High School
is raising funds to purchase new piano.
The w. C. T. u. will meet with Mrs.
N. c. Brown on Thursday, March 10th
at a.3o o'clock.
Another rural delivery route has been
established at Rowlandville, with Harry
Shippers as carrier.
The March Term Of the Circuit Court
for Cecil County will convene at Elkton
on Monday, March !.
Clearinghouse operators in Cecil county
are making contracts for tomatoes for the
coming season at So per ton.
The George Biddle High School, Cecil
ton, has recently installed fine new up
right piano in their new building.
!. Woodrow and James sold thirteen head
of horses at their public sale on Monday,
prices ranging from $3.50 to $I74.
George Strahorn. of Newark, has been
appointed resident manager Of the
Diamond State Telephone CO., at Elkton.
Z The post Office at Singelly, Cecil county,
has been discontinued, and partrons will
be served from Cherry Hill by rural de-
livery.
A Presbyterian mission is to be estab-
lished on the site of the old Fulton Meet
ing house. in the Eighth district, so
rumor says.
George H. Huber. of Delaware has pur-
chased from Harry E. Clemson the III
acre farm near Singerly, in the Third dis
trict, for $3,oso.
The Red Mems Band Of North East has
purchased set of twenty-five new instru-
ments, which cost $500. The band is
now finely equipped.
c.. T. Snyder opened his new pool-room
on Monday night, setting up two tables on
the first floor Of the newly-erected addition
to his store building.
!. Howard Reeder and Charles Roth
nell, of North East, made catch one
day last week OF 100 perch by fishing
through the ice with lead minnow.
The Frenchtown farms. near EIkton,
belonging to Hardie B. Walmsley, of
New York, have been purchased by
Herbert Paul. of Philadelphia, for
4 $I3,5oo.
In attempting to light his pipe with a
match, E. H. Babbers. q telegraph oper-
ator at Port Deposit. set FIRE to a celluloid
eye shade he was wearing, and was slight
" burned about the face.
In drawing competition among the
students of West Nottingham Academy,
G. E. c.. Garrett won frst.and Warren
Taylor second prize for boys. and Frances
Steel first and Nellie Slicer second for
girls.
s w. S. Deibert & Co., operating a textile
mill at Elk Mills. has Withdrawn from
the firm. The firm is now composed OF
w. S. DeibeTt. Elmore Deibert and
Clarence Deibert.
On account of nervous prostration OF
Miss Ada Brown, principal of the New
! Valley school, the School Commissioners
have appointed two pupils. Helen Sterrett
e and Beatrice Riley as assistants They
are the youngest teachers in Cecil county.
Zion experienced FIRE scare on
Wednesday morning of last week. when
defective hue set fire to the roof of Mrs.
Matilda Carhart's dwelling. The prompt
use of chemical extinguishers soon put
out the flames without much damage
being done.
The weather for the greater portion OF
the week has been mild. Sunday was
warm with bright sunshine, but Monday
was wet one, rain falling nearly all day.
with thunder gust in the evening. The
wet spell continued Tuesday and Wednes-
day, thick fog enshrouding US. The
mild, wet weather has had its effect on the
roads. which have become soft and deep
with'mud, the frost being about all out OF
the ground.
L, R. Atkison. of Pennington, left with
us the Christmas number Of the Inca
Chronicle, which is magazine published
at La Fundicion. Peru. bv the Incas, a
society composed of the employees of the
Cerro de Pasco Copper Mining Company.
icle is handsomely printed and illustrated
and contains many interesting facts about
the country and the mines. La Fund.-
cion, where the mines are located is "a, 500
feet above sea level, which in itself shows
that Chester is getting up in the world.