The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-05-24
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, May "a, 1895.
MINORLOCALS

Sh'~o NHAAAN'RAOf VI
Rowlandville, has been appointed
station agent at Conowingo, in place
of S. j. Caldwell, resigned.
The paper mill plant at Como
wingo will pass into the hands of
the Susquehanna River Electric
Power Company on June L.
John p. Wilson was appointed
general superintendent of Rosebank
Cemetery at a special meeting of
the association on May 18th.
Thomas Bull of North East and
wife were sent to jail by Squire De
ford for receiving stolen goods in
default of 5000 bail for each.
Much complaint is heard of cut
worms destroying the young corn.
Cold wet weather while bad for
corn is prime for the cut worm.
The next regular meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club will be held at
the residence of Mr.. E. L.. Duy-
ckinck, near Calvert, on Wednes-
day, May Doth.
The ballots used at the last
county election were ordered by the
Orphans Court to be burned
which is its duty six months after
the election takes place.
Mr.. James Mallen, manager of
the Mccullough Iron Works, North
East, has been granted a patent on
his oil sheet mill furnace which had
been used at the works.
Marriage licenses were issued
last week to Joseph f. Deckman
and Florida F. Jones of Dublin,
Hartford county; John w. Jones
and Clara Lucas, Of st. Augustine.
Perryville Chapter of the Ep-
worth League was represented at
the Epworth League of New Castle,
DEL, held this week, by Miss
Gussie Kelsey, Miss Maggie Craig
and Miss Carrie Cole.
Rev. A. P. Prettyman, pastor of
the Zion M. E. Church while going
from Ebenezer church lost about
$31.
Mr.. John Lakeland of Principle found
the money lost by Rev. Mr.. Prettyman
and restored it to him.
The cold wet weather through
out the middle of May has been a
serious set back to garden and corn.
The first of June will find vege-
tables not much advanced ON their
usual first week in May growth.
Mrs. Naudain, wife of James N.
Naudain, of Singerly, died Monday
morning after a lingering illness.
She was a daughter of the late
James L. Foard, of Elkton, and
was about forty-fve years of age.
Secure your seats for the enter
tainment in the Town Hall to-
morrow evening. '"The Chrome
thanatoletron, or Time and Death
Exterminator" will carry you into
the past or future without extra
charge.
An ice cream and strawberry
festival will be held on the church
grounds of Ebenezer M. E. Church
on Saturday evening, June list.
Proceeds for the benefit of the
church and Sunday school. If
stormy the festival will be held on
Monday evening.
Cambria & Co., proprietors of
the cotton goods mills at Baldwin,
this county and Parker & Bros,
manufacturers ofcaramels in Oxford,
Pa, are both applicants for the
Knauff organ factory in Newark,
Del. Either company will employ
about 200 hands.
Serious results are often produced
by trivial causes. Miss Kate Smith
son, of Port Deposit, daughter of
the late Col. Smithson, in taking a
mirror from the wall drew the nail
it was hung ON which struck her
in the right eye causing the loss of
sight of that member.
Mrs. Elizrbeth Hasson, wife of
the late VIM. G. Hasson, of Cherry
Hill, died on Friday morning at her
home in Baltimore of paralysis, in
the 18th year of her age. Her
remains were brought TO Elkton on
Monday and taken thence to Cherry
Hill where they were buried.
"Jack the Hugger" was caught
while attempting to "hug" a
woman on the street in Whining
ton, His excuse when taken before
the police court was that he was
drunk, but that didn't SO with the
court. His name is Jacob SelgieF
and he halls from Lancaster, Pa.
Malvern Jones, while blowing on
the site of old Fort Hollingsworth,
at the head Of the Elk river, turned
up seven cannon balls-twelve-
pounders-which had evidently
been in the fort for use against the
British in the war of 1912. The
British assembled the river as fa1
north as Fort Defiance, two miles
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