The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-02
COU NTY NEWS,
Friday, Nov. 2. 1900.
MINORLOCALS

James Phipps has been appoint
ed game warden for Cecil county
The ducking season opens today
with ducks reported scarce on tn,
flats.
John p. Wilson has erected &
fine granite monument on his lot il
Rosebank cemetery, Calvert.
A number of Friends from this
section were III attendance at Year
ly Meeting in Baltimore this week
Andrew M. Strickland, Of Elk,
ton, has been granted an increase
of $6 per month in his government
pension.
The eleventh annual convention
of the Cecil County Union of Chris
tian Endeayor was held at Port
Deposit yesterday.
The Young Ladies' Home Mis-
sion Society will hold a fruit So
ciable this evening at the home Of
Miss Mary S. Ryan.
The new weave mill of Deibert &
Wilson, at Elkton, is almost ready
for operations, the looms having
been placed in position.
The Directors of the National
Bank of Rising Sun will meet on
Monday next, 9TH inst, as Tuesday
being election day is legal holiday.
Harry B. Boulder, who was
found guilty in the Kent County
Circuit Court last week, has been
sentenced to 81 years in the Mary
land penitentiary.
Rev. Robert Watt, D. D., will
lecture on "Some Mistakes Our
Neighbors Make,n in Wesley
Chapel, Monday evening next.
Admission, Is cents.
Last Wednesday was Halloween.
Corn throwing, tick-tacks and
masquerading were INDUCED in
by the children about town and no
serious depredations committed.
A folding decoy duck has been
patented by Joseph Coudon, OF
Perryville. The device is very
light and compact and much SUI
perior to the heavy wooden decoy.
A Democratic mass meeting will
be held at lakewood Saturday
evening which will be addressed
by William J. Ogden, Albert s.
j. Owens and Albt. Constable, Jr.
The ladies of Rock Presbyterian
church will hold an oyster supper
at the church on Thursday and
Friday evenings, November s and 8.
The public is cordially invited.
Supper So cents.
Mark E. Founders, who has held
a position in Rising Sun pharmacy
for the past year, has secured a
similar position at Southern Pines,
N. c., and will enter upon his new
duties next week.
Capt. Moses Galloway, of Havre
de Grace, while cunning near City
Point, Va, last week, was shot
through the hand by the accidental
discharge of his gun which he was
removing from a boat.
Burglars broke into the office of
the railroad station at North East
on Thursday night of last week
and blew the safe open. They got
nothing for their trouble as there
was no money in the safe.
Water taken from the Elkton
water works and from private wells
was analysed by the State Chemist
and the water taken from the res
ervoir which supplies the town was
pronounced good; all that taken
from private wells was bad.
Typhoid fever in Elkton is pro-
nounced epidemic. Thirty five
cases were reported last week,
every day adding new victims to
the list. The cause is suspected to
Turk in the water or milk, which
should be boiled before being used
Hopewell M. L. church was re-
dedicated on Sunday. Rev. John
7. Swindell, of the Philadelphia
Conference, and Rev. Robert Watt,
presiding elder OF the Wilmington
Conference, assisting in the ser.
vices. The Church has been ex.
tensively repaired and remodeled
inside and out.
The farm of the late Barclay
Reynolds, containing 141 acres,
adjoining town, was sold at trns.
tees sale on Monday, his widow,
Mrs. Amanda Reynolds, being the
purchaser for $5, 100. A tract Of
Is acres situated along the railroad
west of town, was purchased by
John II. Kimble for $3.50.
William Pearce, stage driver be-
tween Elkton and Lewisyille, lost
his pocket hook, containing $50
in the Chinese laundry at Elkton
Friday morning last. Returning
some time after to make inquiries
when he discovered the loss, Mr.