The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-15
COU NTY NEWS
Friday, Dec. l5. 1880.
Ml>.ORLOCALS

w dtCh AOl NuC CCA1P oO vi tAC IuOOA
tomorrow evening from 6:45 to 10.
Geo. W. Evans has received the
nomination for postmaster al
Aberdeen.
Christmas service will be held in
the M. i. church on Christmas
morning at 6 o'clock.
s. Kennard Blake qualified as
Judge of the Orphans Court Tues
day and entered upon his official
duties.
Rev. B. T. Price, the oldest min
lister in the Wilmington Conference
in point of service, last Wednesday
celebrated his eighty fourth birth
day.
The Sunday School will give a
Christmas entertainment and treat
on Friday night, Dec. %. A good
program is being prepared. Ad-
mission to all, Zoe.
The County Commissioners on
Wednesday appointed Hiram
Crothers and S. III. Moore con-
stables for the Eighth election dis
trict of Cecil county.
All persons desiring to contribute
vegetables, cakes, candies, toys,
nuts, fruits, etc., to the Free Kin
dergarten at Baltimore, will please
leave the same with Mrs. Edwin
Haines on Tuesday, Dec. 10th.
Miss Jane Torbert has transferred
to Victor M. Torbert the property
on Main street, Elkton, adjoining
r. B. Frazer's drug store, and oc-
cupied for many years by Albert
Constable, Esq, as law Office.
Mrs. Katharine Mccullough,
mother of III. NJ. Mccullough, Esq,
and Mrs. G. M. Boulder, was
stricken with paralysis Tuesday
morning at her home in Elkton,
and is now lying in a critical
condition.
James H. lamar, formerly of
Elkton, and son of the late James
III. lamar, who was a leading mem
Der of the Cecil county bar and ex-
member of the Maryland Legisla-
ture, died at st. Paul, Mimi, on
the 9th, aged 80 years.
A public meeting will be held in
Colora hall on Tuesday evening,
Dec. 10, at 7:30 O'Clock, for the
purpose of making arrangements to
gravel the public road from Colora
TO West Nottingham. All in favor
of good roads are urgently request
ed to come out.
Rev. Robert Watt will deliver a
lecture on "The Mistakes of Our
Neighbors," in Hopewell M. Il.
church this (Friday) evening,
under the auspices of Woodlawn Y.
w. G. T. U. Admission, 20 cents;
proceeds for the benefit of Hope
well Improvement Fund.
Banner Council, No. II, O. u.
A. NJ, Of Calvert, will erect a
flag pole in front of their hall at
noon today. Among the speakers
for the occasion will be DIR. Theo-
dore Worrall. At one O'Clock the
Council will present flag to White
Oak school with appropriate
exercises.
Mrs. Alice G. Shippers, of Colora,
who was one of the speakers at the
Maryland Equal Suffrage Associa-
tion which met in Baltimore last
week, returned home strengthened
in the belief that the women ought
to vote. The men do need help
undoubtedly, but it is from the
schoolmaster the most.
The Board of Managers of the
Cecil County Agricultural Society
held special meeting on Thursday
of last week, for the purpose of
authorizing the president, DIR. G..
M. Ellis, to consent to decree for
the sale of real estate of the Society
under the mortgages held by the
Mutual Building Association.
The will of Samelia Mearns, of
Zion, was probated on Monday.
She devises to her sisters, Mary L.
Mearns, M. Josephine Mearns, and
Vinia Mearns, ali her property
dnring their natural lives, and at
their death the residue to be
divided among her heirs at law.
Abel j. Mearns is named as
executor.
Charles j. Merriken, treasurer of
the Maryland Clay Co., whose
works are located at North East,
disappeared two weeks ago, and
the books at the Baltimore office
are now being examined by experts
to ascertain the amount of the
sho. tage, which it is understood is
between $50, 900 and $4,000. He
is said to have forged checks and
drafts.
Railroad business has so increas-
ed at Perryville, that that point
has gained in Importance and de-
mands better facilities for accom-
m0dating Transportation and travel