The midland journal., 1899-05-19
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, May 10. 1899.
MINOR RLOCALS

Oxford spring fair will be held
June Z, 8 and 8.
Cecil Council, o. U. A. M, will
hold a strawberry festival in Rising
Sun June 16 and II.
The schools of Colora, Monroe
and Hickory Grove will hold a
union picnic in Magraw's woods
June 2.
A "Poverty Soshul" will be held
at the home of Miss Ella Gillespie,
by the I'll Try Mission Band Of
Zion, this evening.
The streets in town are being
patched in spots by beer and
whiskey, which contribute $3.50 for
that benificent purpose.
The cream separator belonging
to England & Riale located at Lib
erty Grove, has been closed and
the machinery moved away.
The round. trip fare from Rising
Sun to Washington, during the
Peace Jubilee next week, will be
$3.45, tickets good for ten days.
L. Marshall Haines, Esq, of
Elkton, will he one of the speakers
at the Memorial Day exercises of
Wingate Post, G. A. r., of North
East.
A thunder gust and copious
shower of rain Wednesday after
noon added to the humidity which
has been abundant the present
month.
A petition in bankruptcy has
been filed by Wilbur L. Shippers,
of the Fifth district, and he has
been adjudged bankrupt by Judge
Morris.
The five year old daughter of
Frank Krauss of Philadelphia died
last week and was brought to Bis
ing Sun and inferred at Ebenezer
last Friday.
The Singerly Pulp and Paper
Company plant, which includes the
mills at Elkton and Providence,
will be sold by the trustees on
Wednesday, June Ia.
Repairs are being made in the
mills of the Mccullough Iron
Works at North East, and new
rolls placed in Shannon Mill, which
indicates work will shortly be
resumed.
Rev. John McElmoyle of Elkton,
one of the representative of the
New Castle Presbytery, is attend
ing the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church which is in
session in Minneapolis this week.
West Nottingham Academy was
defeated by Pennington in a game
of ball on the Academy grounds,
Friday afternoon last. Score, Ii to
1S. Batteries-Academy, Caldwell,
Conner and Phillips; Pennington,
Sellers and McCardell.
The annual entertainment of the
Baconian Literary Society will be
held at the Friends Normal Insti-
tute on Friday evening, May 26.
The program will consist of music,
recitations, pantomime, farce and
tableaux. Admission, 15 cents.
A steel fiat car passed over the
P, W. & B. railroad last week en-
route to Providence, r. l., which
was loaded with block of white
marble measuring 81 ft. 2 in. long,
and 4 fit. in. square. The stone
was quarried at Marble Hill, Ga.
The price of wheat in Baltimore
on Monday was 73 cents per bushel.
A year ago this week $1.44 per
bushel was paid. The farmers
newspapers tell them they are more
prosperous than ever before and a
good many of them appear to be-
lieve their city party paper.
Chas. II. Stein, State Secretary
Jr. o. U. A. M, was in Conowingo
last week making inquiries into the
death of Scott Gray, who was a
Mechanic. In case "a true bill is
found against his wife, who is in
Elkton Jail, the insurance money
due from the order will be paid to
his children.
The atmosphere has been heav-
lily surcharged with electricity this
week and some of the lightning
flashes during the frequent thun-
der storms have been very sharp.
Two men, thirty head of cattle and
dog were struck and killed in
Harfcrd county on Tuesday. On
Wednesday the telephone wires
were badly affected. Two flashes
entered the exchange in Reynolds
drug store and burned out the fuse
on two of the long distance wires
shutting off the communication
with Baltimore.
The epidemic of cerebro spinal
meningitis which spread through
s. T. Reynolds stock at the REQ
Turkey is still confined to the one