The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-02-26
COU NTY NEWS.
friday, Feb. 26 1897.
NILS 4ORLOCALS


be March 3, and Easter Sunday,
April IS.
The birthday penny sack business
is having quite run this winter
among the churches.
A large increase in attendance at
the public schools of this county is
reported, there being 462 more than
last year.
Haines & Kirk offer a seasonable
line of spring goods for housekeep-
ers and others. See their ad. in
another column.
Our shooting statistician reports
that $500 have been shot away this
winter at clay pigeons and ton of
shot left in Hunts meadow.
The March meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Climb will be held at MIR.
Thomas G.. Bonds, near Port De
post, on Wednesday, March 10th.
Mr.. George G. Haddock and Miss
NJ. Farra, of Kimbleville, Pa, were
married on Wednesday, Feb. IL by
the Rev. William Fitz Simon at the
manse, Zion.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland and
children passed through Elkton
Tuesday morning at IL O'Clock, en-
route to Princeton, N. J. They
were travelling by special train.
Mr.. Tome will commence the
erection of school building No. 2,
in the spring-it is said.
The Episcopal church is to be
moved to make room for the build
ing.
A deed of assignment has been
filed with the Clerk of the Court
for the benefit of the creditors of
E. L. Hicks & Bro, of Jackson.
J. Wesley Falls of North East is
trustee.
John G. Williams, Clerk of the
Circuit Court, has in his possession
a pen knife 1877 years old, it being
made in the year 1860.
There are no living witnesses to
vOuch for the knife.
The County Commissioners were
in session Wednesday to correct
errors in the assessment. They
will also sit to-day for the same
purpose.
Few applications for change are
made.
The gunners report ducks plenti-
full on the flats and in good order
but very shy yet, some of the boxers
killed from % to so blackheads
last Friday. They are only worth
scots. a pair which is too cheap to
make cunning pay.
Fishermen along the Susque-
hanna and North East and Elk
rivers are preparing for the spring
fishing season Tor shad and herring,
which will open in month or so.
A determined effort will be made
this season to enforce the pound
net law.
The cylinder head of the large
Corliss engine at the Singerly Pulp
and Paper Company mills, Elkton,
b.ew out Tuesday morning, injuring
James Sykes, engineer, painfully
but not seriously, and causing the
stoppage of the mills until repairs
were made.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage of Miss Rachel Lake
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j.
Lake of Pivot Bridge, and Mr.. J.
Ogle Mccullough of Elkton. The
ceremony Will take place at the
residence of the prospective bride
on March Sd.
The belled buZZard having beer
relieved of his troublesome bell by
a kind friend whose house he
stopped near, another of the per
fumed dusky family has put in an
appearance with a steel trap fast
ened to one of his feet. The latter
unfortunate was seen in East Elktol
last week.
The hour for Miss Benfey's read
ing at the Tome Institute is ar
ranged for 1.30 o'clock, Saturday
afternoon, February 9th, in ordel
that all pupils and out of tow
friends desiring to attend the enter
tainment can do so, and return
home on the afternoon trains
Tickets 25 cents.
Mrs. Susan e. Rutter, relict o
the late Willis Rutter formerly o
Elkton died in Oxford last week
Her son Fred S. Rutter aged % VIII,
was very sick with grip when hi
mother died, when told of her dealt
was so affected that he gave up ant
began to grow worse. His mothe
died on Monday and the son on tn
Thursday following.
Mr.. G. S. Griffith, President o
the Maryland Aid Association ha
recently finished trip through
number of the Southern states an,
in nine states he found 1852 chill,