The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30
A white Thanksgiving.

TWO lncneS OF snow TUESDAY nlSnO
Miss Olive E. Jackson has been
appointed assistant at Colora public
school.
The ground was covered with
snow for the first time this winter
on Tuesday night, when fully two
inches of the feecy fakes fell.
Another temporary bridge has
been erected over the Little Elk
creek at Red Mill, to replace the one
recently carried away by the freshet.
sherifr-elect j. Wesley McAllister
has appointed Lewis A. Seth, Of Elk
Mills, as his Deputy, to take effect
when he enters Office on December /.
The dwelling of R. B. Merritt, Sr.,
at Warwick, Cecil county, was total
Ii destroyed by fire on Sunday after
noon of last week. Most of the
n household goods were saved.
The Havre de Grace Banking and
Trust Company has secured quarters
for 500 or more persons who will be
employed permanently at the new U.
s. proving grounds, at Aberdeen.
School Commissioner Wilmer J.
Falls Of North East, has been ap-
pointed a clerk in the Office of the
Circuit Court for Cecil county and
will enter upon his new duties De-
cember 1.
J. Harry Knode, of Washington
county, who will succeed D. L. Kauff-
man as Agricultural Agent for this
county, will enter upon his duties
Dec. /. Mr.. Kaufman will go to
Sussex county, Del.
Lewis Powell, aged 13 years, of
Chesapeake City, while cunning, was
accidently shot by the discharge of
his own weapon while climbing over
a clump of bushes. The injured lad
was taken to. a Wilmington hospital.
Roland Lockard, aged Is years, of
North East, tripped and fell while
looking at his rabbit traps and a
sharp piece of the trap entered one
eye. He was taken to Baltimore
hospital, but it is feared he will lose
the sight Of his eye.
Luigi Russ, an Italian, aged about
so years, employed on the B. & O.
r. r., was found dead Friday morn
I ing in bunk. car at Singerly. Cor
oner Litzenberg summoned a jury of
inouest. A verdict of death from
natural causes was rendered.
It is reported preparations are
being made for the establishment OF
auto truck service between Oxford
and Philadelphia and Oxford and
&Baltimore, Nor the carrying of parcels
post matter. The proposed service
will probably be established some
time next month.
The two "yeggs," Edward Wilson
and Joseph Martin, who were cap
tured by Sheriff Atkin, near Bel Air,
October 20, and turned over to the
Pennsylvania authorities, have been
sentenced to four years in the Allan
ia, Ca, prison, for robbing the post
Office at Roaring Springs, Pa.
The Local Draft Board has CLASH
fed the names of those registered in
Cecil county for service when called,
In accordance with the recent in
structions issued from Washington.
The Board is ready to select Cecil's
uuota when the next call is received,
and it is expected at almost any time
now.
The Elkton News reports the work
OF concreting West Main street in
that town, from Mackall avenue to
Red Mill crossing has been com
pleted, and the street will be opened
to trafic as soon as it is dry. The
contractors are now finishing the
work of surfacing North street,
above the railroad.
T. F. Grier, real estate agent, has
sold for Wilbur and Clifford Spotts'
their farm of 8S acres, with stock,
implements and crops, to Joseph P.
Armstrong, OF Ladysmith, Wiscon-
sin, who will take immediate possess
sion. The farm is in Lower Oxford,
near Mt. Vernon. SPOTS Bros. will
20 to their fathers farm, near Cal
vert, Cecil county.
Thanksgiving was very quietly OBJ
served in our town. Business was
practically suspended and the day
devoted by many of our residents to
II visiting. family reunions and the
popular big dinner, with turkey,
goose, duck or chicken as the piece
de resistance.
Services were held in the M. E..
church in the morning with an ap-
propriate sermon by the pastor. Rev.
n, =. Reed.