The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-11-18
NEWS.
Friday, Nov. Is. 1898.
MINORLOCALS

month have been granted William
Lockard and James Morris, both of
Elkton.
The Jr. o. U. A. M. of lakewood
will turn out in a body at Bennett
Hall, lakewood, ON Sunday next at
2:30 p. M.
Joseph Harris, of North East,
was knocked down and severely
injured by bicycle ridden by
Clinton Mackey.
School No. A, Fifth district, has
been closed indefinitely owing to
diphtheria. School No. 2, in the
same district, will be disinfected.
The town commissioners have
received another shipment of paw
ing stone and are extending the
walk up Queen and Cherry streets
The second lecture of the Uni
versity Extention course, at Elkton,
was delivered Monday evening by
DR.. Frederick w. Sykes, to large
audience.
S. L. Jenness, of Kembleville,
has purchased of the Maxwell heirs
a store building and dwelling at
Principle, and will take possession
Immediately.
The Jr. o. u. A. NJ, of Colora,
will attend services in body at
Mt. Pleasant M. E. church next
Sunday morning, Nov. Goth, at
1890 o'clock.
Capt. James ID. West has pur-
chased of John r. Evan his 220
acre farm, near Port Deposit, for
$4,000. Mr.. West contemplates
erecting a fine residence in the
spring.
Harry Fisher, an employee of the
Perryville construction train, had
his foot mashed at Elkton on Fri
day morning last, by the fall of a
heavy piece of timber on the
member.
Mr.. VIM. Stebbing, of Port De-
post, and Miss Mary Shanks, of
Colora, were married at the M. E.
parsonage, Port Deposit, by Rev.
W. P. Compton, on Wednesday
evening.
John T. Lee has purchased at
private sale the residence of the
late Mrs. Anna r. lamar, mother
of DR.. John III. and Register of
Wills Reuben Z. lamar, on West
Main street, Elkton, for $2,O75.
The two canning factories in the
Sixth district have paid out for
tomatoes nearly $4,000 this season.
The tomato industry, a few years
ago unknown in Cecil county, has
become an important one today.
The N N N social was held at the
home of Miss Annie Simcoe, Bay
View, on Friday evening last.
Those in charge were Misses Arrie
Rowland, Rhoda Burns and Mabel
Tyson, Messrs. Jethro Johnson and
Ernest Abrams.
Susquehanna Council, Jr. o. U.
A. NJ, of lakewood, will hold a
Thanksgiving supper next Thurs
day evening. In addition to first
class supper, vocal and instru-
mental music will he furnished the
patrons, all for 25 cents.
Mrs. L. r. Atkinson presented
the MIDLAND Office with an i'm
mense bouquet of chrysanthemums
this weeks. Mrs. Atkinson has a
fine display of this hardy fall
flower and the many different va
rieties make a handsome appear
ance.
The two young children of Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Scarborough, of Port
Deposit, who were sent to the
Watson Home, Baltimore, some
time since, have been taken from
that institution and will be raised
by Mrs. Edward Lester, of st.
Georges, Del.
The abundance of rain in the last
two months together with the mild
weather, has given wheat a grand
start for the winter. The fields are
green and the growth almost reach
es rankness in the early sown fields
where cultivation was thorough
and the ground we'll fertilized.
John Burns, who fell between
the cars at Perryville and had boil
legs severed, while stealing a ride
on a freight train on the P, w. &
B. railroad, at Perryville, died il
Johns Hopkins Hospital where h
was sent for treatment, on Friday
He was forty years of age and gave
his address as Jersey City, N. j.
B. f. Lorraine, young white
man employed on the farm O.
Slayter BOuchelle, near Chesapeake
City, met with painful accident
on Sunday while driving young
colt to a dog.cart. The animal haf
only been driven few times, ant
was very wild. 1t began to rul
and kick, and Lorraine was thrown
out of the cart and severely Gu