The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-02-11
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY. NOTED
Saturday is Lincoln's Birthday.

Saturday is Lincoln's Birthday.
! Monday next is St. Valentines
Day.
The Ninth District Farmers Clut
met this week with Mr.. and Mrs
D. B. Mcdowell; near Calvert.
William Shallcross, of North
East, had one of his hands badly
lacerated while operating circular
saw.
4 Saturdays snow was about the
heaviest of the winter, covering the
ground to depth of between four
and five inches.
A clinic for diseases of the chest
will be conducted in The Health
Center, Elkton, Wednesday. Feb
ruary Is, at 1920 A. M.
Willis l.. Ely, of this town. has
purchased the lot on Pearl street,
formerly owned by Nathan Volk,
and will erect residence thereon.
The Rising Sun Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union will hold a
"Get Together Victory" banquet in
the M. E. Church on Thursday eve
ming, February "a, at 1880 o'clock.
A meeting of the Milk Producers
Association was held in the public
hall of Rising Sun on Wednesday
morning of last week. The question
of testing cows for tuberculosis was
discussed.
The annual meeting of the Mary
land Press Association will be held
at Annauolis on February 15. The
Association will be entertained al
luncheon by Governor Ritchie at the
executive mansion.
The Woman's Club of Earleville,
Cecil county, has presented Mrs.
Rodney Frazer, formerly Miss Lillian
r. Grimm, Home Demonstration
Agent, with a handsome sterling
silver mayonnaise set.
Because of conditions beyond
control, the Denton M. P. Church
has been released from its obliga-
t .ons to entertain the next session
of the Maryland Annual Conference
of the Methodist Protestant Church
An employee on the Chesapeake &
Delaware Canal wofk was taken te
the Soldiers Home last week. The
man was a shell-shock victim OF tn
World War, and lost his reason wher
he heard the explosion in the cana
work.
What is known as the Sterret,
farm, in the Eighth District, oc
cupied for some years by the lat
Cephas B. Dalton, and embracing
9S acres, with improvements, ava
sold on Tuesday at Attorneys sale
to G. P. Connolly & Sons for $405O
The bake held on Saturday after
noon by the girls of the I'VE Sew
Club was 4iberally patronized de
spite the inclement weather tina
prevailed, and the club is mucf
pleased with the outcome OF the
affair. The gross receipts were
$25.35.
The ladies of the Sixth District
Auxiliary have had attractive llttl'
tags printed, embellished with red
white and blue shield, and viii
conduct "a "Tag Week" campaign
for the benefit of Union Hospital
ending Washington's Birthday You
will want one of the attractive
little souvenirs, and will not miss
the small amount charged for it,
The entertainment given or
~~esday evening, in the pubil'
hall by the Alexander Novelt!
Feur, proved very popular. Every
number of the varied program
rendered received an encore,-some
of them two or three encores, the
performers responding readily to the
urge of the audience.
The next number of the course
will be by the Apollo Duo, OF
February 25,
Joseph McIntire has neatly httee
up the rooms in the Alice & Shep
herd block, on Queen street. To-
years occupied by Rising San post
office, and opened first class
restaurant at the stand, where NJ
hand Mrs. McIntire are prepared U
i've meals, lunches, etc., at al
hrs. Mr.. McIntire comes to ou'
from Oxford, and brings viii
through knowledge OF TN
int business, as well as skill
linary art, as all those VIII
tonized the newly opene'
ut will bear testimony. Tn
nj opened for business OF
Rv and its popularity is at
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