The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-06-25
COU NTY NEWS.
friday, June 20, 1897.
MINORLOCALS

John L. Crothers, near Principio
has been appointed teacher fol
Pilot Town school.
Two mowers, two hay rakes and
fifteen men were all busy in j. c.
Bells hay fields last week.
DR.. William Lee, Secretary of the
State Board of Lunacy, visited the
Insane Asylum and Jail Saturday
Loyal Temperance Legion will
meet in the lecture room of the
church tomorrow afternoon at three
o'clock.
The election supervisors Of Cecil
county will meet at Elkton today,
when the registration officers will
he appointed.
L. Blackburn sold Il head of
horses at public sale in Rising Sun
last Saturday, the prices ranging
from $35 to $50.
A. G.. Brown, of Elllton, has an
nounced his candidacy as Sheriff on
the Republican ticket, and he'll be
q hard man to beat.
There was Il woods meeting held
in the grove near Conowingo last
Sunday at which Rev. Mr.. Melroy
of Rowlandville preached.
Frank x. Finnan, son of L. j.
Finnan of Elkton, was examined by
the Court at the non-jury term
Monday and admitted to the prac-
tice of law.
The delegates to the county con-
vention from the Sixth district were
w. w. Nickle, Irwin w. Hill, DR..
T. B. Moore, James Vansant and
Arthur Tosh.
The Chemical Works at North
East resumed operations last week.
The plant is now under the control
of the Cecil Chemical Company of
Philadelphia.
Bailiff Morrison is putting crush
ed stone on the borough streets
where it will do the most good &.
Two carloads have been delivered
for that purpose.
Stephen j. Woodrow, of Como
wingo, has been nursing very sore
hand for several weeks, which is
afflicted with a bad abscess or some
thing of that nature.
Norman Kirk remembered the
MIDLAND this week by presenting
us with a bunch of sweet peas,
which are among the first of the
season and very pretty.
Sheriff Mackey was unable to
bring the Trott Brothers, wanted
for defrauding Elkton tradesmen,
back from New York with him last
week, the Governor of the State
having refused to grant a requisi-
ton.
Many of the horses of the race
track men, whom fortune 1orsook,
have sold for almost nothing, and
have been purchased by farmers
and others in the neighborhood,
who are training them as driving
horses.
Hay harvest has commenced in
earnest this week. Some fields of
clover are good, timothy is short
and will not be fit for harvest till
the wheat is on, which will be next
week. The wheat crop is excellent.
Gardens this summer are pretty
near a total failure, but potatoes
are at top notch.
The first commencement exercises
of the High School will be held in
the school building at Elkton today
The graduating class consists of
four students, Miss Ef1ie Husfelt of
Earleville, Mr.. Guy Johnson OF
Elkton, Mr.. George w. Ward OF
Cherry Hill, and Mr.. Henry L.
Scott of ElktOn.
Charles Pushed, a young man,
met with a serious accident at the
Charlton Works, North East, on
Wednesday of last week. He was
shifting a belt when his right hand
came in contact with one of the
circular saws. The hand was SC
badly mutilated that he was sent to
a hospital at Baltimore.
Mr.. C. C. Crothers, who has been
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital fol-
some time, where he had very
severe and critical operation per
formed, a piece of the jaw bone
being removed which had been
attacked by cancerous growth,
was expected to be able to return
home this week, having rapidly
eonvalesced after the operation.
We are in receipt of the partic
ulars of a thrilling CD adventure
with fractions horse by two Prin
cipio young ladies who were helped
out of the difficulty by the oppor
tune arrival of a gallant young man
&c. The reporter, "Stumpy," ne
elected to send his full name, ant
pet names are not definite enough
hence we refrain from publishing