The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-23
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blew down the straw house on the farm
of Miss A. R. Brown, near Port Deposit.
The County Commissioners set Feb. 2S
and ao as the date to meet and make cor
rections on personal property assessment.
The bill to incorporate the Farmers
Banking and Trust Company of Cecil
county has passed the House Of Dele
gates:
William r. Warburton, of the Elkton
Bar, is being doomed by his republican
friends as their candidate for Chief Judge
Of this Judicial Circuit.
William r. Logan, Of Charlestown; has
been appointed superintendent Of the
Diamond State Telephone Company in
Cecil county, with headquarters in Elkton.
Al box and shadow social will be held
AZ the home Of Chas. w. Mckinney,
Wednesday evening, Feb. 28 Ladies
please bring boxes. Cake and cocoa for
sale Money 10 be used for purchasing
new music books, for Epworth Leagne.
Owing to his i'll health. George A.
Blake. Esq. has resigned the secretary
ship Of the, Mutual Building Association,
Of Elkton. which position he has held for
many years. AT meeting Of the Direct
ors of the Association held on Thursday.
Charles S. Peacock was elected secretary
In Mr.. Biake's place.
The American Mechanics Of cclora
presentsd U. S. flag to Pleasant Mead
dows public school on the 10th inst, in
honor Of Lincoln aud Washington birth-
day anniversaries. Appropriate exercises
we're held, Old Glory being accepesd on
behalf Of the school by the principal. Miss
Rachel Rittenhouse.
Chicken thieves on Tuesday night paid
visit to the premises Of William Swish
er. near Rowlandville. Mr.. Swisher was
aroused by the noise and fred at the in
truders. butthey got away. taking twenty
Eve Of his fowls with them. A number
of fowls were stolen from Robert Russell,
ia the same neighborhood. on Friday
night.
The New Castle Presbytery. has dis
solved the pastoral relations between
\ Rev. Samuel Polk and West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church, he having accepted
a call to Lawrenceville. N. j.
The question of electing minister for
West Nottingham to succeed Mr.. Polk
will be decided at the next meeting Of
Presbytery. to be held at Dover the FIRST
Tuesday in April.
Jim McNally. an employe on Andrew
W. Vansants farm, near ,Galena, Ken,
county, has confessed to being the cause
of the FIRE which burned the stable and
seven horses on his farm last week. He
says il was accidental and the FIRE mar.
shall SO construed it. He used horse
and, forgetting TO remove the harness,
returned at night to do 50. struck match
and accidentally ignited the straw.
The several days of mild weather this
aud last week, with rain on Wednesday
caused freshet and the breaking up Of
the ice in the Octoraro creek. The stream
was high Wednesday afternoon. overflow
ing It's banks, where the receding waters
left large quantities Of ice. At Rowland
vile the -four mill was flooded and the
flood Of water reached the railroad tracks
ia front of Logan's store. The damage
done was not serious, but the public road
was badly blocked 10 several places along
the creek by huge ice packs.
Young Friends Association will be
held 3rd mo- srd. at 2:3o o'clock
Whittier Day" Horace Llppincott. oi
Philadelphia will address the Association,
Subject, Winters Fellowship" Ex
tracts from. paper prepared by M. Cath
arinc Albright will be read; subject,
Whittier's Religious Message Copies
Of this essay will be distributed among
the audience for ONE reading Paper by
Belle Haines. Life of Whittier" All in.
viled to take part.
ALERT L. BURLINGTON. Supt.
Che report published in an Oxford
paper that the Mccall Ferry dam had
cracked as result Of the tremendous
strain put upon il by the ice pressure,
was referred to the engineer in charge of
theabig electric plant, who states that such
report is too absend to even be dignihed
by denial,
Preparations are being made to put q
force of several hundred men at work, as
soon as weather conditions permit, for the
installing Of four additional wheels. the
demand for current being greater than
can be supplied by the plant in its present
incomplete state