The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-03-11
NTY NEWS.
Friday, Mar. L 1, 1898.
NIL, .DRLOCALS
Esmeralda tonight.

A Government pension of SIC
per month has been granted ZadoB
Sturgis, of Iron Hill.
A campaign prohibition paper is
talked of for Cecil this fall to be
called the Prohibition Bee.
James A. Harding, of Port De-
post, has been granted patent
for fastening numbers on Jockeys
arms.
Capt. Philip III. Ellis, of the u.
S. Army, stationed at Buffalo, has
been visiting his brother, DR.. G. M.
Ellis, of Elkton.
The dramatic entertainment in
Pleasant Grove Presbyterian chapel
has been postponed until Saturday
evening, April 8.
One night last week James III.
Hines, of Massey postoffice, was
wayldid and robbed on the out
skirts of Wilmington.
A petition is being circulated
asking Governor Lowndes to ap-
point Wilmer j. Falls, of North
East, notary public.
Carlton Kimble has bought of
II. l.. McCardell the farm near
Colora former y the property of
Moses and Joseph Nesbitt.
John Howlitt, a blacksmith en-
ployed by George Lamm, of Port
Deposit, died on Friday Of pneu-
monia, after a short illness.
L. III. Worthington & Son have
leased the store room adjoining
their general merchandise store and
put in stock of carpets and wall
paper.
Fryer & Crothers are making
preparations for the opening of a
cannery at Colora. A large amount
of machinery has been received from
Hartford county by them.
Miss Bessie Culleney, manager of
the Cecil Telephone Co., and a
highly respected young landy, is
dangerously ill at her home in
Elkton with typhoid fever.
A meeting of the Cecil County
Medical Society will be held today
at Perryville, at one o'clock. Sew
eral papers on pleurisy will be read
and medical subjects discussed.
Rev. j. d. G. Hanna of Whining
ton, will deliver his stereoptican
lecture on "Pilgrim's Progress
and "Ten Nights in Bar Room"
in Zion NJ. Z. church on Tuesday
eyening, March 10TH.
The Philadelphia capitalists who
are interested in the gold fields of
the Eighth district, this county,
are buying up more property, and
it is reported that $50 men will be
put to work on the first of May.
In the fire which destroyed the
large barn and ontbuildings on the
farm of William Dreakas, near Sas-
safras, Saturday night, two horses
and four head of calves persisted in
the flames. The loss is about
$1,000.
The new draw on the P, w. &
B. railroad bridge at Perryville has
been placed in position. The
tracks on the bridge are being rails
ed twenty inches, and it will re-
1uire several months o complete
the work.
The End executive meeting of
Cecil County w. G. T. U. will be
held at Zion on Thursday, March
II, at 10 O'Clock. Memorial ser
vices will be held for Miss Frances
j.. Willard at 2:30 p. m. All are
cordially invited.
The "horror" social held at the
home of Misses H. Jennie and A.
Mabel Reynolds last Monday eve
ming was a unique affair. The
"horrors" made amotley collection,
including mice, bugs, onions, false
teeth, cod fish, miniature skel-
etOn, &c.
w. S. Evans, States Attorney,
who went to Texas a few days ago
to bring his son home who has been
seriously i'll, was halted at Houston,
on account of a smallpox quaran
tine at Columbus. His son is bet
ter and will join him at Houston.
He telegraphs they will reach home
today or tomorrow.
The real estate of the late Rich
ard G. Porter, at Cherry Hill, was
sold Saturday at public sale. A
two thirds interest in the Porter
Hall property was purchased by P.
III. Cleaver, of Elkton, for 81, 435.
The home place and two dwelling
houses were purchased by Mrs.
Matte G. Porter for $1,000.
A. M. Strickland, contractor of
Elkton, was seriously injured on
Monday while at work at North
East. Mr.. Strickland fell from the
house upon which he was working
TO the ground, a distance of %
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