The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-12-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the Count
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

V2nG0 at ILIkLOA OA AAOAANOJ
You have only one more week Tor
that Christmas shopping--do it now.
TUESDAYS snow was heavy one,
being over four inches in depth.
Amos Clendenin has been appoint
ed rural mail carrier from Colora,
vice A. IT.. Wiley, resigned.
If the old tradition holds that the
first three days of December rule
the winter, we are to have mild
one.
George Sollars has opened
grocery, provision and meat store IN
the Hunt building, on South Queen
street.
y. Az result of scratching his fin
ger ON a tobacco tag, S. L. Emerson,
Of Earleville, is suffering with blooa
poison.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society will meet with Mrs. N. q.
Brown on wednesday, Dec 20, at
2::3O O'Clock.
The Masons Of Chesapeake City
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of the institution OF their lodge
Monday afternoon.
The public schools of Cecil Coun-
ty will be closed for the Christmas
holidays, from Friday, December ~
81 = - rT1,.acdov January 2.
Three hundred marriage licenses
were issued at the Cecil County OF
fee during November, an increase OF
nine over the same month last year.
Lester S. German, of Aberdeen,
finished second among the profes-
sionals in trapshooting this season,
beingi beaten by Homer Clark, OF
Alton, Ill.
The clay pits near North East,
formerly operated by Hanna Bros,
have been purchased by George
Luck, of New York, and will again
be worked.
The stage in the Elkton Opera
House has been torn out. This i'm
provement will give an extra seat
ing capacity for about 120 in the
building.
The Baldwin Manufacturing Com
pany, Of Elk Mills, has established d
small branch plant at North East
employing number Of women to dc
finishing work.
The barge of E. E. Dale, lumber
laden. from York River for Philadel'
phia. sprung a leak and was beacheo
in the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal, about six miles from Della
ware City last week.
Charged with interfering with
witness who was testifying, Alfree
Virgin, colored, was sentenced tt
six months in Maryland House O.
correction by Magistrate Harr!
jackson, of Perryville.
The Beers farm of 102 acres il
the Fourth district was sold las
week at the Court House door, Elk
ton, by William T. WarDurton, Esq.
Trustee, to former County Treasure
Charles K. Lynch, for $4,000
The sand plant at Broad Creek
near North East, is rushed witt
orders and by their new machiner
and labor saving contrivance attrac
great deal Of attention. They shil
from 20 to 80 carloads a week.
Henry Schofield has purchased 2
acres of woodland in the Eighth dis
trict from T. H. Cummings. MI
Schofield has been a potter sine
boyhood and intends to build a poi
tery and a poultry house this winter
Walter E. Patten, of Libeft
Grove, has been appointed carrier o.
rural route No /, from Rising Sur
vice Howard Reynolds, deceased
The route has been served TO
months past by substitute Paul Keer
The new appointment takes etfee
the first of the year.
After giving us weeks of the fines
fall weather ever enjoyed tn
weather man turned loose anothe
variety on Monday, when we ha
rain, hail, sleet, snow and a geners
mixture of bad weather. On Tues
day morning there was a heavy ia
of wet. clinging snow that spread II
mantle OF white over everything
All our stores have their Christina
- stocks displayed and are busy wit
e> holiday trade. Visit them an ~
AXE your purchases before tn
goods are picked over and the be'
selections made. You will find II
clerks ready to assist you with sui
gestions, if in doubt as to what
buy. and they will have more TIN
to devote to you now than later. !
that Christmas shopping now, al
don't put it on until the last minut