The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-06-09
COU NTY NEWS
Erida V, June 8, 1889.
MlNORLOCALS

$1,000 was raised at the Chill
dreG's Day service at the Union
(Houses) last Sunday.
Among the graduates at St.
Johns College, Annapolis, this
year, is John S. Strahorn of Cecil
county.
Herdman Sweetman, of Chesa-
peake City, has been granted an
increase Of pension from So to $40
per month.
Children's Day exercises will be
held in Rising Sun M. E. church
next Sunday evening and at Sylmar
in the afternoon.
The Friends Normal Institute
will close on Thursday next and
the school will picnic at Gilpin's
Rocks the next day.
John E. Wilson, formerly of
Elkton, has been appointed post
master at Centreville, the county
seat of Queen Anne's county.
The Patterson farm, in the First
district, containing 253 acres, was
sold on Tuesday to VIM. H. Lock
wood, of Cecilton, for $4,000.
Children's Day was celebrated at
Mt. Pleasant last Sunday, morning
and evening, the services being
attended by large congregations.
The School Board have at their
disposal first class scholarship at
st. Johns College, Annapolis,
which includes tuition, board, etc.
A singular accident happened to
Miss Maggie Burgie of North East,
last week, by which her left shout
der was dislocated by false step.
Next Sunday will be Children's
Day at West Nottingham Presby
terrain church. Rev. j. B. Kendall
of Lincoln will deliver the address.
The annual examination of school
teachers was held at Elkton on
Monday and Tuesday and at Port
Deposit on Wednesday and Thurs
day.
At meeting of the Civil Service
Reform Association, in Baltimore
last week, John S. Writ, Esq, of
Elkton, was elected one of the vice
presidents.
Several teachers and pupils of
Tome Institute visited Hopewell
cemetery on Decoration Day and
strewed roses on the grave of
Jacob Tome.
Elkton was visited last week by
committee from Queen Anne
county to examine the High School
building. Queen Anne contem-
plates building a High School.
The county officials are eXper-
fencing trouble again this year in
the collection of dog tax. About
$1,000 has been collected, which is
not one fourth of the amount due.
Last Thursday afternoon Charles
Vannort, of Port Deposit, sustained
a fracture of small bone in the
left leg, below the knee, by falling
down the porch steps into the yard.
DIR. Howard Bratton, Secretary
of the Board of Health, inspected
Perryville, Port Deposit and Rising
Sun last week. He found the Sun,
only for the dust, as clean as Il new
pin.
The Eureka Fertilizer Company
unloaded at its wharf at Perryville
this week, $50 tons Of South Caro-
lima rock. The vessel Immediately
returned and will make monthly
trips during the summer.
Pencil Martindale, residing on
the Lincoln farm, near Kinks
Mills, had a valuable COW killed by
lightning during the heavy thun
der storm which passed over that
section last Wednesday evening.
The trustees of the public schools
at Frenchtown, ConOwingO and
Cecilton have decided to petition
the School Commissioners of this
county for new schoolhouses before
the opening of school September /
Robert Stephenson and James
Buchenhart, Port Deposit fisher
men, caught a sturgeon Saturday
night nine feet long. The fish had
a bushel of roe which was sent all
the way to Germany to be canned.
The trustees of the Friends Nor
NAL Institute have secured Miss
Helena DeCou of Plainfield, N. j.,
as principal for next year. Miss
DeCou is graduate of Wellesley
College and is at present teaching
in New Jersey.
The congregation of the NJ. P.
church at Bay View propose i'm
proving their church and grounds
TO the amount of $1,000, one half of
the sum having been raised. The
last half of such enterprises is the
hard half always.
1t is reported that the Delaware
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