The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-04-15
COlJ NTY NEWS
Friday, April 15 1898.
Ml.~,ORLOCALS


the home of Mr.. Will Kirk, near
Pennington, this e> ening.
A slight clap or two of thunder
on Sunday afternoon and warm
shower are the advance heralds of
spring.
Miss Marion Carhart, of Zion, is
attending the missionary conven-
ton at Smyrna, Del, this week as
delegate of the "I'll Try" Band.
1t is said there are fully 600 race
horses within a radius of five miles
of Elkton which the owners are
glad to get any kind of an offer for.
A mad dog was killed last week
at North East after having bit some
of Geo. w. Ketchem's cattle and
several fox hounds of Matthew
Russell's.
The teachers institute was in
session at Elkton three days this
week, conducted by Examiner Geo.
Biddle and the school children had
a holiday.
Rev. d. E. Shaw and A. L.
Dnyckinck will represent West
Nottingham church at the meeting
of New Castle Presbytery next
week in Dover.
McClenahan Brothers, of Port
Deposit, have a contract for sup.
plying stone for the Government
Notifications at Hawkins Point,
near Baltimore.
Mr.. Samuel Cole and Miss Clara
Hindman, of Colora, were married
on Tuesday evening, April 5, at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Krauss, Philadelphia.
Clerk of the Circuit Court John
G. Williams has appointed Major
w. G. Purneil, who for many terms
was secretary of the Senate, to
index the records in the clerks
office.
James and Jefferson Haines have
purchased of Henry NJ. Evans a
tract of woodland near Reynolds
pottery, and intend putting in
shingle machine to make chestnut
shingles.
Rev. A. W. Mather has been re-
turned to Cecil circuit by the Mary
land Conference of the M. p.
Church. Rev. F. H. Mullineaux
has been returned to the Susque-
hanna circuit.
John S. Writ, ESQ, has been
named one of the committee to dis
bursa the $4,000 appropriation
made st. Johns College, Annapo-
lis, by the legislature, for a new
college building.
Geo. A. Blake, trustee, sold at
public sale on Wednesday of last
week the farm of the late Watson
Kelley Scarborough, containing so
acres in the Third district, to John
Roberts, Blue Ball, for 1925.
A powder train laden with am
munition for the fleet at Key West
passed over the p, w. 4 B. rail
road On Friday. 1t was to have
been sent from New York on the
Dolphin, which became disabled,
and it was despatched on a special
train.
DIR. Bratton, the State Health
Officer for this county, has sent a
letter to the Board of Town Com
missioners of Port Deposit, protest.
ing against the unsanitary condi-
ton of the towns sewers. The
Commissioners decided to remedy
the defects in the sewers at once.
Straw in the stable yard of DIR.
G. S. Dare was discovered on fire
Tuesday and by prompt work ex
tinguished before any damage WAS
done, thereby preventing a serious
conhagration. The origin of the
fire is unknown, but is supposed to
have been caused by children play
ing with matches.
The town commissioners of North
East have organized by electing E.
L. B. Day president, E. j. Camp
bell secretary, and John L. Moore
treasurer. The commissioners are
working on a plan to better the
condition of the sidewalks and
streets. $4,000 was spent few
years ago to do that job.
Miss Mary A. Hogg, sister of Col.
7. EgentOn Hogg, met with pain
full accident at Perryville Tuesday
evening. AS she stepped off the
train her foot slipped, and she fell,
breaking her left arm between the
wrist and elbow. She was taken to
her home near Port Deposit where
DIR. r. E. Bromwell reduced the
fracture.
EIkton has become alarmed over
the filthy condition of the town
(unsanitary is the fashionable
world which breeds such danger
Gus diseases as typhoid and diph-
liberia, and measures have been