The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-04-14
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, April Ii 1899.
MI>ORLOCALS

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severe cash in his ankle while
chopping wood one day this week
May 6 will be May Day at Red
Point, which in local celebrity has
become as famous as "Rigby's'
Sunday.
Governor Lowndes has appointed
Gabriel M. Senderling, of Blake
Fourth Election district, q Justice
of the Peace.
An Elkton merchant advertiseS
a large stock of "aristocratic wal
paper" He ought to find plenty
ofcustomers.
Joseph S. SimcOe, of North East,
has bought of the Mccullough Iron
Company the dwelling on Main st.
in that town.
Harlan's pasteboard mill, near
Leeds, has resumed operations after
Il long shutdown for repairs and
new machinery.
Joseph G. Townsend, of Will
mington, has purchase of Milton
Steele the Deer Park hotel, at New
ark, for $27, 800.
Squire Fassitt, of Sylnar, has
gone to Baltimore to he treated for
rheumatism, entering one of the
hospitals of that city.
Sixteen members of Harmony
Castle, X. G. b., paid a fraternal
visit to Granite Castle, Port De-
post, last Wednesday evening.
VIM. NJ. Pogue & Bro. intend
running hack from Rising Sun to
West Nottingham onSunday during
the spring and summer months.
The Havre de Grace City Council
has contracted for lightingthe town
by electricity for a period of twenty
years at an annual cost of 81 400.
Burglars succeeded in forcing
open a rear window of DR.. House
keepers dwelling, at North East,
one night last week, but were
frightened away.
At the municipal election held
in Elkton on Monday afternoon to
elect two members to the City
Council, w. II. Mackall and Harry
II,
Two gunboats captured from the
Spanish in the late war passed
through the canal below Elkton
last Tuesday. They were being
towed to Portsmouth, N. H.
Quarterly meeting services will
be held in Mt. Pleasant M. E..
church Sunday evening, April 10.
Love feast at 2 p. M; preaching at
2:3O by Presiding Elder Robert e.
Watt.
1t is estimated that the value of
the muskrats caught this season in
Dorchester county is $4,000. The
season closed last Saturday, $50, 900
muskrats having been killed up to
that time.
Mrs. Evelyn Tome, of Port De-
post, has been elected director of
the National Bank of Fredericks-
burg, Va. Mrs. Tome is president
of the National Bank of Elkton and
the Cecil National Bank, of Port
Deposit.
The year old daughter of Sam'l.
Murphy of Seneca Point Club
House, CharleStown, had three
fingers of her right hand accident
ally cut off by an axe, on Monday
evening, while playing with some
older children.
The drug store at Aberdeen,
Hartford county, was entered by
thieves on Friday night last, and
some cigars and a small amount of
money taken. The P, w. & B.
railroad station was also entered
the same night and several pack
ages stolen.
Rev. w. 7. Hammond, of North
East, Manager of the Local Preach
ers Camp Association, has pur-
chased 60 tents, size 12Xl4. They
are of the latest improvement with
fly attachment, and will be used
the first time at the camp meeting
which opens in July.
A farmer of Galena, Kent county,
has lost six cows with rabies since
last fall. Some months ago dog
went mad and bit one of his cows,
which afterward died of rabies.
several heifers and cows licked
silava from the mouth of the COW
which was afterward affected.
Ebenezer M. f. Sunday school
recognized last Sunday with the
following officers Supt., Daniel
Hawk; vice-supt., Frank Brickley;
secy., Miss Mary L. Hawk; organ
list, Miss Eva Brickley; librarians,
Misses Della Kirk and Nettie Brick
ley, Messrs. Clinton Logan and
Thomas Mcdowell.
The School Commissioners have
completed all arrangements for the
Teachers Institute, which will be
hold Of Don't naDocit nu;l ~