The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-02-10
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Shon Paragraphs Of Events in the County
I During the Past Week.
LOCAL. HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Time to trim fruit trees.


Tuesday next, 18th inst, is st.
Valentines Day.
Russellville, Pa, has a new post
master in the person of Frank \.
Hoy.
The net receipts of the recent
Firemen's bazaar, held i'm North
East, were $500.
Abraham Lincoln was born Feb
ruary IL, 1909. Sunday next is the
anniversary of his birth.
Clarence Brittingham. formerly
station agent at Oxford, has been
made Yardmaster at Thurlow.
The annual meeting of Maryland
Press Association will be held IN
Annapolis on Tuesday, February IA.
Tuesday, 7th inst, was the anniyer-
sary of Baltimore's great fire that
swept away a large area of the city
in 1904.
Port Deposit has a watchman pa
trolling the railroad track night and
day to give the alarm in case OF an
ice gorge.
: The Community Fire Company OF
Rising Sun, is negotiating with +.
R. Burlington for the purchase OF the
three-story brick-public hall build
ing and lot in this town.
Morgan Williams, "a Bridgeville,
Del, farmer, has been issued
patent on machine which binds
fodder and ties it in bundles.
1t is reported that the stove
foundry in Port Deposit will soon
reopen in full blast, after having
been shut down for four weeks.
Miss Iris Y. Shepherd has been
appointed one of the instructors at
Calvert High School, succeeding
Miss Sara E. voorhees,, resigned.
Fredericksburg, Caroline county
Gamers are contracting for tomatoes
with the farmers in that section at
SIS ton for the coming season.
Newton e. Palmer has been ap-
pointed postmaster Of Oxford, Pa
He will succeed ]. Denny Moore,
who has held, the position for several
years past.
The lease which the United States
Post Office Department had upon
the garage in the rear Of the Octo-
raro Hotel, Oxford, has been cancel
led. The building will be given up
on April 9Th.
Young ladies Of Elkton have is
sued cards for Washington s
Birthday Dance in Elkton Armory,
for the benefit of disabled members
Of Company E. The Original Six
Orchestra of Wilmington, will fur
nish music.
The pool room of Brown & Fisher
was entered on Thursday night OF
last week and about $50 in small
change and quantity of cigarettes
and tobacco stolen. Entrance was
effected by prying up side window
The guilty party has not yet been
apprehended.
The Sunday school classes OF
Misses Mabel johnson and Helen
Nields will hold bake in the
Friends meeting room Of the public
hall building, in this town, Saturday
afternoon, Feb. IL. Rolls, Pies
Bread, Cake, etc., will be on sale
Proceeds for Sunday school.
The Circuit Court for Kent coun-
ty. In the suit of Mrs. Gooding and
others VS.. Mrs. John Toulson and
others as to the disposition Of the
! $4,000 insurance on the life of the
late Judge James Alfred Pearce
left to his wife, who died two weeks
after his decease, has decided In
favor of the plaintiffs, heirs Of Mrs
Pearce.,
The Maryland Flint & Feldspai
Co. property at Kalmia, Hartford
county, has been purchased by Nor
man A. Merritt, the mortgage, for
$4,000. More than 100000 has
been spent on this property by MI
Gray and his associates and the
mortgage under which the sale was
made was for $65.00O. 1t is RS
ported that the old Company will be
reorganized and re-fnanced.
Tayler Freeman. OF Washington
d. O., wanted at West Chester az
one of the gang who robbed James
poolittle. of Philadelphia. of thirty,
odd cases OF whiskey. on road near
West Grove, on February IA of last
year, has been apprehended and
taken to West Chester whore he
joined C. C. McCurley and Herbert
King, two OF his comrades. who are
behind the bars there awaiting trial