The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-02-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
hort Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
|OCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Good time to trim your trees and
Ines.
Monday last was the seventeenth
anniversary of Baltimore's great
re-
Extra services will commence in
Rising Sun M. E., church on Sunday
levening.
The Junior League will held a
! social in the Sunday School loom'
on Friday.
Robins have made their appear
ance, indicating that spring is not
SO many weeks off.
James B. Yeager, the Hazelton
weather prophet, predicts three biz
yards before spring.
John Mackey, of Providence, sus-
tanned a broken ankle last week by
falling while skating.
A good top-dressing of stable
snaAnure on your lawn and garden
month will prove it's value later.
omorrow, 18th inst, is Lincoln's
thday and a legal holiday in
Eenty-two states, but not in Mary
and
The Mite Society of Principle
Furnace M. E. church cleared
s10S.25 by their recent apron and
pie social.
The signal tower at Bacon Hill
has been abandoned in the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Co.'s plan to cut
down expenses.
Charles c. Baer, druggist, of Ok
ford, has purchased the drug store
of Coates Caldwell, in that town,
and will combine the two stores in
one.
The revival services held in Row
landville M. P. Church by Rev. Mr.
Bee of the Church Seminary at
Westminster have closed with fifteen
converts gained.
The Juergens farm of 81 acres ad7
Joining Elkton was offered at public
sale last week, but was withdrawn
at a bid of $1,000, and is held by
the Trustee at private sale.
The sailboat Martha Stevens, en-
route from Philadelphia to Norfolk
Va, via Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal, was so badly damaged by the
ice in the upper bay near Grove
Point, this county, that she sank
In view of the long established
custom in Cecil County to accord a
faithful public official second term
Register of Wills Rufus d. Bowland
states that he will make public an
nouncement of his candidacy in due
time.
A balance of $500 is held by ]
Wilson Squier, Esq, and c. S. Abra
(. hams, receivers of the dissolved
Woodlawn Campmeeting Associa
tion, who have wound up its affairs
which they wish to distribute among
its shareholders.
February Is, 1898, twenty-thre'
years ago, the battleship Maine wa'
blown up in Havana harbor, leadin'
to the war with Spain. A Rising
Sun boy, John A. Kay, was one o
those who lost their lives on the i'll
fated battleship.
Jesse Saunders and Henry Bris
ton, both colored, charged with rob
bling the premises of Cooling VII
liams, a farmer living near Turke
Point, of corn, chickens and meat
were arrested last week, and ar
held under $500 bail each. TO
Court.
Ex-Sheriff J. w. McAllister, VIII
purchased the Tuite farm in tn
northern section of Elkton, has OF
fered to the Odd Fellows of Mary
land, several acres of ground, fre
of cost, upon which to erect tn
proposed 100000 Odd FELLOWS
Home.
Tommie Riale, of Rising Sun, an
Ches. Huss, of Oxford, played thel
third pool match on Friday evening
Tommie again demonstrating hi
superiority with the cue. Tn
match was played at the Glover Clu
room in this town, and drew larg
crowd of spectators.
The Cecil Paper Mill, which ha
been doing all its hauling OF COZ
and material from and to con'
wingo, in future will make Risin
sun the shipping point. Two b
trucks are now making several triI
daily between the mill near tow
ara fha Yailroad station here