The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-07-16
COU NTY NEWS.
Eriday, July l6, 1897.
MiNDRLOCALS

The price paid for June milk at
Hambleton's was on the basis of ID
cents for butter.
The paper mills at Conowingo
which have heen taking long rest
will resume business shortly it is
reported.
A party of young men from
Chester county is camping at Con
owingo, fishing, bathing and recre-
ating generally.
Stanley Brothers are overhauling
their cannery on Elk river, and ex-
pect to begin the canning of to-
matoes early in August.
The warehouse property of j. G..
Crothers & Son at Leslie, was sold
to G. A. Benjamin on Saturday last
at mortgagee's sale for $3.50.
The wheat crop of this part of the
country is perhaps the largest ever
raised. Thirty to forty bushels and
in some cases fifty bushels to the
acre is reported.
The Cecil county commissioners
have appointed Edward Taylor a
trustee of the poor and insane of
Cecil county, vice John w.
Harriott, deceased.
The Conowingo Wall Papering
Co., 'of which G. Wharton Smith is
proprietor, has decided to remove
its plant to Highlandtown, near
Baltimore, where a large wall paper
factory is to be built.
A sneak thief entered the bar
room of the FELTON, House, Elkton,
on Monday morning and stole a
gold watch from the vest pocket of
the proprietor, Mr.. Eugene Clark.
The watch was valued at $50.
Joseph Croshaden, a native of
Poland, who lives near Bacon Hill
and is employed as track laborer
on the p. w. q B. railroad, was
overcome by the heat on Thursday
of last week from the effects of
which he died ON Monday.
Haines England, who has a val
liable property at Raccoon Ford,
Va, was visited by a tornado last
week which uprooted an apple
orchard and a number of shade
trees on his lawn and destroyed
two barns, causing him a severe
loss.
1t is said that the managers of
the Cecil Chemical Co. of North
East (Charbon Works. have alb
seconded, leaving many creditors to
whistle for their money. Times
are not good enough for the manu-
facture of charcoal and wood
alcohol.
A cap and necktie social is to be
held ct Perryville for the benefit of
the church. When that fad has
run its course and ceases to draw, a
cap and bells social might prove a
drawing card. A great many peo-
pie would be willing to suffer for a
good cause.
A young son of Samuel J. Kill
man, who lives on the Elk Neck
road four miles from Elkton, on
Friday opened a bottle of coal oil
and drank enough of the fluid to
make himself deathly sick. A
physician was summoned and re-
lieved the little fellow. The lad
seems to have natural taste for
strong drink.
There will be a grove meeting on
the Bell property at Conowingo
next Sunday which promises unus-
ual attractions. The Columbia
church choir composed of "a young
men are on a camping-out excur-
sion at the former place, and will
take part at the woods meeting
service, which will no doubt prove
great drawing card.
The Maryland Teachers Associa-
ton summer iunket to Blue Noun
tain was not numerously represent
ed by Cecil county teachers. The
following named are all we hear OF
among the eXcursionists: Mr.. and
Mrs. George Biddle, Professor and
Mrs. George A. Steele, School Com
missioner George r. Ash, Prof. Il.
b. Fockler, of North East, Sallie
and Rachel Miller, of Elkton.
Farmers are pouring their wheat
into the warehouses and selling il
for 50 cents a bushel and not wait
ing for the good times prices the
goldbug papers assure them is il
the immediate future on account o.
poor crops in foreign counties. II
however is mostly a ''ground hog
case" with farmers, who have haC
so much goldbug good times thai
they are compelled to. sell at the
earliest moment.
The Singerly Pulp Works ship
ped on Monday three carloads o
wood pulp to Jersey City, where i
will be loaded on steamer fol
foreign shipment. MI. Singerly il
free trader-as the term goes, ant
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