The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-09-24
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Sept. 2A, 1897.
MIN.ORLOCALS
Frost on Tuesday morning.

Harry Lynch won the first priz
at the bicycle race at Theodore
Saturday afternoon.
Rain came on Thursday night o
last week which laid the dust for ;
while and brought cooler weather
The w. G. T. U. will meet il
the lecture room of the church or
Thursday, Sept. 30th, at 2:30 o'clk
G. w. Clifford, of Zion, had 6
valuable horse to die of spina
meningitis last Saturday morning
George McKelvey has sold tt
Mary e. Booker his farm, neal
Elkton, containing 397 acres of land
for $4,000.
A 16 year old girl named Agnes
Dugan went off with one of the
moral shows that exhibited al
EiEton Fair.
VIM. Shelly, for many years a
resident of Rising Sun, died at his
home at Auburn, Pa, last Friday,
aged 81 years.
Charles W. Shippers and Richard
Il. Remmey have sold to DIR. Chas.
M. Ellis 100 acres of farmland neal
Elkton for $1,000.
The tenth annual celebration or
reunion of surviving members OF
Shows Battery will be held at
Perryville next Saturday.
Miss Elizabeth d. Clements, of
Lombard fell down stairs last week
at her home sustaining a broken
neck, which caused immediate
death.
There will be preaching next
Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock, in
Pilottown hall, by Rev. w. E.
Greenfield, pastor of Mt. Pleasant
M. e. church.
A long trestle over an arm of the
North East river near Charlestown
is being erected as a part of the
new railrOd improvement going on
in that vicinity.
John Twadell has sold the Ken
nett Hotel in Kcnnett Square, Pa,
to Sam'l. j. Babb, formerly pro-
prietor of the Octoraro House,
Oxford, for $23, 800.
The attendance was very good at
Rev. j. ID. G. Hanna's stereopticon
and photograph entertainment in
the church last Monday evening,
which Melted the Epworth League
$500.
Odd Fellows Hall in Elkton is
being greatly improved by DR..
c. M. Ellis, the owner. New floors
are being placed in the hall, with a
new stage, scenery and chairs of the
latest pattern.
An epidemic of hog cholera is
raging in Kent county and also a
disease is prevalent among horses
in Kent and further down the
Shore, much resembling in its
symptoms the hog cholera.
A request has been addressed to
the treasurer of the Cecil County
Agricultural Society asking for a
detailed statement of the Society's
affairs since October 1895. The
request had sixty odd signers.
Prof. E. B. Fockler, principal of
the North East public school, who
some weeks ago resigned to accept
a position in South Carolina, has
withdrawn his resignation and will
continue as principal of the North
East schools.
James ROney, young man EN-
ployed on a farm near Chesapeake
City, while practicing jumping on
Sunday last, sustained a compound
fracture of the left leg between the
knee and the ankle. He was taken
to the Aims House where the
fracture was reduced by DR..
Housekeeper.
CDR" Jas. E. Haines purchased
at trustees sale at Bel Air last
Monday IA tract of Is acres, situated
at Darlington, Hartford Co. The
property abuts on Swan creek and
has an excellent shore for ducking
fishing, boating, &c. A. c. Brown
who has resided near the Ceci
paper mill for a number of years
will remove to "Bud's' new pur
chase ,'and farm thereon, it being
an excellent tract for trucking.
An attempted assault on Miss
Lavenia Shaffer, of Elkton, about
1880 o'clock Sunday night caused
considerable excitement. Tit
young woman had left her hom'
and was walking up the street whel
she was approached by a negro ant
thrown to the ground. She made
an cutlery and number of citizens
ran to her assistance. The mar
made is escape. Miss Shaffer was
not injured beyond few scratches
County fairs this year, so far al
we have observed, have been al
most uniformly successful. L
olo,lJ no orrotifUinU IN oil 70 NOT.