The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-28

Good skating has been enjoyed
The past week by lovers of the sport.
District superintendent Robert
Watt has appointed Rev. E. T. Nor
ton pastor of Elk Neck charge in
Cecil county.
recent catch of twelve tons OF
rock at Love Point is reported oy
the Kent News. The fish sold fo1
forty cents pound
= BY cutting out glass in the front
door thieves entered the store OF
Joseph Duke, at Port Deposit, and
stole a large amount of goods.
The State Game Department con-
templates doubling it's capacity LOT
the propagation of Chinese ring
neck pheasants at the State game
farm, this year.
The directors of the Farmers ana
Mechanics Fire Insurance Co., OF
cecil county, nave ~ ONo
D. Carhart, secretary and treasurer
for the ensuing year.
The Winter meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society was helo
Thursday, January 20, at Union
Hospital, Elkton. The subject tor
discussion was Diabetes.
The 1920 Church League cham
pionship pennant is on display at
Moore's drug store in North East,
together with photograph Of the
winning North East base ball team.
The Gibson farm of 202 acres ad-
Joining Charlestown was sold at the
Court House door by Joshua Clay
ton, Esq, Assignee, to J. Chester
Gibson, of Philadelphia, for $16'-
500.
The annual meeting of the Mary
land Press Association and the Del
Mar-yia Press Association will be
held at Hotel dupont, Wilmington,
ON Saturday, January 20. at eleven
O'Clock.
Twenty per cent of the employees
of the Pennsylvania Railroad are to
he laid off, all departments belng
affected. The reduction is said to
he due to the falling off of freight
and passenger receipts.
Stella Cannon and Blanche Col
Inns. of Wilmington, Del, who were
arrested in Elkton recently as they
alighted from a train, carrying
whiskey, were fined $25 and costs,
in the United States District Court
at Baltimore.
The cold snap this week put new
life into the ice harvest. A few
were fortunate enough to cut and
store last week before the soft
weather of Friday and Saturday
spoiled the ice, and the low temper
atures this week again made cutting
and handling possible.
Robert c. Thackery, of Elkton,
wishes correction of the statement
made in the Midland Journal, and
other papers, that he had assumed
editorial management of the Cecil
Whig, published at Elkton. Mr..
Thackery states he is not and has
no intention of becoming editor OF
the Whig.
While hauling poplar from the
woods of the Misses Morrison, near
Rowlandville, last week, the team 81
James T. knight became unmanage-
able and ran away. One of The
horses fell and broke its leg. 1t was
necessary to shoot the animal and
the owners loss is great as the
horse was a fine one.
Thomas Riale, of Rising Sun, and
Chester Huss, of Oxford, played the
first of a series of pool matches IN
Oxford on Friday night last, the
former winning by 200 to las. The
match in it's early stages was MI
and tuck, but Tommie got goine
later in sthe game and ran up the
necessary 200 points by remarkable
playing while his opponent wa'
gathering 143.
The second match will be played
at Kennett Square this week and
third match at Rising Sun mex
week.
The Ladies Aid Society of Hope
well M. E. church will give tea il
their Hall Feb. End. A very inter
esting program has been arranged
including an historical sketch of tn
organization from its origin, also
ouartette in quaint costumes ant
the humorous sketch Ma Sweet ant
her Family. Refreshments will b
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