The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-04-07
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, April z. 1899.
MlN!ORLOCALS

EA-OOuuty COMMISSIONER y. ".
Price, of Earleville, recently lost a
valuable Gilt Edge horse.
The Singerly Stock Farm, at
Elkton, shipped twenty four race
horses to Kentucky on Monday.
Sheriff j. Ross Conoly on Friday
attached the barge Daisy, loaded
with ties at Chesapeake City, for a
claim of $500.
The will of Barclay Reynolds,
decd, was admitted to probate last
Tuesday. His son, Howard III.
Reynolds, was appointed executor.
Elmer Bigler, who was arrested
at Perryville March IA ON the
charge of horse stealing, has been
turned over to the Lancaster county
authoities.
S. P. Ryan & Son have secured
the contract for the erection of a
new dwelling to be occupied by the
sexton of West Nottingham Pres
byterian church.
John " Terrell sold at the Court
House door, Elkton, on Tuesday,
the Barney Moore farm of 81 acres,
in the Fourth district, to Charles
3. Evans of Newark, for 1928.
Eugene Conner has accepted the
position of manager Of a creamery
at Smyrna, Chester county, Pa,
with his father as assistant. He
will enter on his duties May LIST.
W. j. Alrich, who conducted the
jewelry business in EIkton for SO
many years, has purchased sim
liar business at Waynesborough,
Pa, and will remove to that town.
At the annual election of officers
of the NJ. E. Sunday school last
week w. Louis Ryan was chosen
Superintendent; N. G. Brown, Sec
rotary, and Edwin Haines, Treas.
State Game Warden Gilbert has
sent the names Of j. I. Richards,
of Richard SIN ere, aId E. II. Gosner,
of Oakwood, to Governor Lowndes
for confirmation as deputy wardens
fer Cecil county.
1t is currently reported that An
drew Buchanan, living about two
miles north of Rising Sun, has sold
his place to a Lancaster party for
800 per acre. The place is said to
he rich in iron ore.
The congregation of West Not
tingham Presbyterian church have
voted their pastor, Rev. ID. E.
Shaw, a vacation of several months,
which Mr.. Shaw with his wife and
son Arnot, will spend in Scotland.
The annual meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society will be held
at Elkton on April ID, when of
iicers will be elected for the ensuing
year. DR.. Harry Thomas of Johns
Hopkins Hospital will address the
meeting.
The public schools of the county
were closed from Thursday night
until Tuesday morning. Four
days "hand running" of solid rest
ought to refresh the overworked
teachers and assist the scholars to
forget two weeks studies.
John Owens, II year old boy,
while at the home of James f. Rob
inson, near Newark, on Sunday,
was seized with an epileptic fit and
falling into an open hearth was so
badly burned as to necessitate the
amputation of his left arm.
Washington Lake, of Philada.,
has purchased the large -four mills
at Back Creek Neck, this county,
from William Freeman. He will
take charge of the plant at once.
This is the oldest and largest flour
mill in the lower part of the county.
L. S. Jenness, who lately removed
from Kembleville to Principle, has
purchased from the Maxwell estate
the store building formerly occu-
pied by George Anderson at that
place. He has laid in a stock of
general merchandise and will open
up for business tomorrow.
The Aid Society of Hopewell M.
E. church will have poultry sup
per on the evening of Wednesday,
April u, (if that evening is stormy
the next evening" at the residence
OF Clifton Miller, on the road from
Rea's Corner to Principle. Ice
cream and cake will also be for sale.
Admission, Zoe; 15c for supper.
Rev. HI. A. G. Westerfeld
preached his first sermon before a
Rising Sun audience last Sunday
morning and at Sylmar in the
afternoon. In the evening very
interesting Easter service was held
by the Sunday school.
A reception was rendered the
new preacher and family at the
parsonage last evening.
The rolling mills of the McCul.
Tough Iron Company at North East
resumed operations on Monday.
The officers of the Company since