The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-02-24

The Cecil Farmers Club met on
Thursday of this week with Jos. 7.
Grove, near Zion.
Friday was the coldest day of the
winter. The mercury touched zero
and went below this mark.
John s. Owens, of Philadelphia,
has purchased the c h sap x e
House, at Betterton, at private sale.
william H. Johnson has been ap-
pointed treasurer OF the town OF
Chesapeake City, to succeed John M.
Reed, Jr.
An interesting meeting OF the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
was held Wednesday afternoon at
the Parsonage.
The Bay View Gun Club Will
hold a shoot Saturday afternoon,
February 25, in Samuel Kein's field
within the limits of the village.
Next Wednesday, March 1, will
be Ash Wednesday, the beginning OF
Lent. Easter will be on Sunday.
April Is.
An unused barn on the Whitaker
place near Blythedale was destroy
ed by fire of unknown origin early
Tuesday morning.
w. B. Cooney received carload
of Franklin county horses ON Sun
day for his public sale held on We'd
nesday. The animals were an un-
usually fine lot.
Port Deposit town election wih
be held Monday, Feb. 27, between
the hours of and 8 p. m, when
seven Commissioners to serve the
ensuing year will be chosen.
Charged with driving an automo-
bile while intoxicated John Brown,
colored, of chestertown, was arrest
ed in Elkton and sentenced to six
months in jail by Magistrate Frank
G. Pratt.
Poultry thieves on Saturday night
stole forty chickens from Fred Tay-
lor, of near Rowlandville. They
also raided the poultry house OF
Joseph Fulton and left but two
fowls.
North East w. c.. T. U. has secur-
ed the deed for the Academy build
ing in that town, from the New
Castle Presbytery, and it is under
stood will allow its use for com
munity purposes.
Sundays warm sun made short
work of sleighing. that had been ex-
cellent since Wednesday previous.
The continued mild weather on
Monday and Tuesday left only some
hard-packed snow banks of the
blizzard of January % stickins
about.
The report Of the tuberculosis
Christmas Seals sale in Cecil Coun-
ty shows a total gross receipts OF
$142.26. twenty-five per cent. OF
this amount goes to the Maryland
tuberculosis Association! leaving a
balance of $lO6.69 for anti-tubercu-
losis work throughout Cecil County.
Sunday night q young man carry
ing too heavy load of wet goods
either staggered into or struck one
of the plate glass windows in War
rem w. Bouiden's Garage, Elkton,
shattering 1t to pieces. 1t will set
him back about $185. which was
the cost OF installing the glass
Eikton News.
One of Elkton's veteran business
men. w. ID. Price. retired last week.
When a boy, In the early seventies.
he entered the employ of the late H.
G. Reese in that town. was with his
brother, the late Frank p. Price,
for q number of years, and in 1892
started business on his own account
in the store he has occupied for the
past thirty years.
Walter Clayton and Galen Mccoy
of the Cecilton section. were among
the rescued from the transport Nor
thern Pacific, which was burned
near the New Jersey coast last week.
DR.. Samuel ]. Price. of Queenstown,
formerly of Elkton. was returning
from France; on the Inflated craft
when she stranded on the Fire
Island sands on New Years Day,
1919.
Robert. the one year old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Null of Groff's
Mills, Pa, was suffocated by smoke
one night last week. The parents
were visiting neighbors during the
evening. and returning found their
infant dead and their three-year-olo
daughter unconscious. The girl re
vived. Wood placed in the oven OF
cook stove had caught hre and
burned. filling the room with dense
smoke.