The midland journal., 1916-02-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Tomorrow is Lincoln's birthday.

Tomorrow is Lincoln's birthday.
Monday next is St. Valentines Day.
The snow on Wednesday of last week
brought out few sleighs.
Ground has been broken for new NJ.
E. church at Town Point, Cecil county.
Monroe public school has been closed
on account of diphtheria in the neighbor-
hood.
The Cecil County Commissioners have
decided to abolish the Office of counsel to
the Board.
The Colora Canning Company is con-
tracing for acreage of sweet corn for the
coming season at $I2 per ton.
During the month of January ZIG
marriage licenses were issued at the Office
of the Clerk Of the Court in Elkton.
H. L. Woodrow and E. Nelson James
left this week for Virginia, where they
will purchase carload Of horses for their
trade.
While digging cellar for new bunga-
low on the farm of Saml. Shanbacker,
Town Point, Cecil county. workmen un-
earthed skeleton.
A public sale of fifty registered and
grade cows was held last week at Oxford.
prices ranging from $Ioo to $445 per
head. The sale totalled $7.7o5.
A mass meeting to oppose the Havre
de Grace race track was held in the Bel
Air M. E. Church Thursday afternoon.
February 10th. DIR. Wilbur F. Crafts
addressed the meeting.
The Tyler Tube & Pipe Company will
install In the near future an additional
6.ooo-pound steam hammer at their forge
at Principle Furnace. The plant is now
running on full capacity, working day
and night.
We are indebted to the Denton Journal
for copy Of its 1916 Almanac. which in
addition to the calendar feature contains
fund of valuable information, making
the publication valuable little volume to
have on the desk.
The mercury still continues to bob up
and down at wonderful rate. the changes
OF temperature from high to low coming
every day or so. Monday night was a
cold one. II degrees being recorded on
Tuesday morning.
The Bauer Manufacturing Co.. OF
Havre de Grace, has been reorganized,
and Frank M. Clapp of Port Deposit.
elected manager. succeeding ]. w. Bauer,
resigned. Mr.. Bauer retains his interest
in the company as heretofore.
Harmony Castle, Knights ofthe Golden
Eagle. attended services in a body at the
M. E. church, on Sunday morning last.
About IS Sir Knights turned out. The
astor, Rev. A. P. 2rettyman, preached
an able and appropriate sermon.
Our rural delivery mail men. who are
on the roads every day and should be
competent to judge. report the worst roads
recently that they can ever recall. and
they have seen them in all sorts of shape
in the years they have travelled over their
routes.
Grip weather clings to this neighbor-
hood as tenaciously as the grip itself.
Scarcely do we take hope from clear skies
and bracing breezes than the murk, damp
and grip-inviting conditions return and
give fresh encouragement to the dreadful
infiction.
Fletcher Williams. young son of State
Senator Frank E. Williams. editor of the
Cecil Wing, was taken to Union Hospital,
Elkton, last week. suffering with a badly
lacerated foot, the result of an accident
while cutting wood on his fathers farm
near that town.
Attention is called TO the report. else.
where in this issue. of the General Edu
cational Board of New York. after 9
thorough inspection Of the school system
10 Maryland. The article is critica
review Of the subject and we urge it.
careful reading.
The will of William R. Witworth
late of Elkton. has been filed in tn,
Orphans Court for probate. To hi'
widow he devised 5000. while his sor
md daughter are left his interest in tn,
Witworth Hardware Company, his rea
\ estate, stocks, ETC., share and share alike
~ Revival Services win commence a
Rowlandville Methodist Protestant Church
Sunday, Feb. 10. Preaching al 1885
a. M. and 1880 p. m. Rev. Eben N
Baldwin. of Claymount, Del, win preact