The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-02
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, March 2. 1900.
MI Or LOCALS
ent began on Wednesday.

The Home Mission will hold a
sociable in the lecture room of the
M. L. church tomorrow evening.
A mad dog was killed at College
Green last week, and several dogs
that had been bitten by the rabid
animal were also shot.
Owing to lack of funds the re-
Gently organized Young Mems
Christian Association, of Chesa
peake City, has disbanded.
DIR. Howard Bratton, of Elkton,
has been appointed member of
the State Board of Health by Gov.
Smith and confirmed by the Senate.
The farm of the late David
Moore, containing 100 acres, near
Fair Hill, was sold on Monday at
trustees sale to Mrs. A, Z. Johns,
for $4,000.
lakewood school will hold an en-
tertainment in Bennett hall on Fri
day evening. March Q. A very
pleasing program is being pre-
pared. Admission, 10 cents.
Samuel jackson, COL, of Oxford,
while at work in the deep railroad
cut at Rowlandville was painfully
injured by Il hot cinder from the
hosting engine dropping on his
eye.
The New Castle Presbytery,
which comprises all the Presby-
terian. churches of Cecil county and
New Castle county, DEL, will meet
at Smyrna, DEL, on Tuesday,
April 3.
We have had all sorts of weather
this week except warm weather.
Snow, rain, piercing cold wind,
storm and dark nights with intense
cold, the thermometer registering
So above zero.
A unanimous invitation has been
extended Rev. j. Earle Maloy, by |
the congregation of the Rowland
will MI. P. church, to become their
pastor for the seventh year, which
he has accepted.
Chas. F. Hinchliffe, formerly of
Elkton, who has for the past eight |
years been doing newspaper work
in the west, has recently accepted
position as editor of the Fond du
Lac, Wisconsin, Daily News.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature for a legal half holiday
in Cecil on Saturdays. The public
schools are away ahead of that.
They have a whole holiday on
Saturday and several other days.
The Elkton silk factory is re-
ported progressing-on paper at
least. More than one third of the
requisite capital has been subscrib-
ed and an agent for the Elkton
folks was sent to headquarters this
week to investigate.
An entertainmentcwill be held in
Chapel school house, near Wood
lawn, Friday evening, March 9th,
under the auspices of the "Y," for
the benefit of Hopewell Improve
ment Fund. If stormy, next even
ing. Admission, zoe.
At the regular meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the Poor and
Insane, held on Saturday last,
warrants were drawn on the
County Treasurer to the amount
Of 1867 80. Charles Francis was
employed as cook at the Aims
House.
Revival services are still in pro-
.gress at the M. e. church. Seven
teen persons joined the church on
Sunday, making fiftythree since
the meetings commenced. The
total number of converts to date is
nearly one hundred, there being ten
new penitents forward on Tuesday
night.
The progressive euchre club was
entertained by Miss Maude v.
Thompson on last Friday evening.
Four tables were played. Miss
Ella Kirk and DIR. T. b. Moore
carried off the honors of the even
ing. The next meeting of the club
will be held with Cecil and Evans
Ewing.
John Swan, engineer of the steam
yacht Caperon, whose boiler ex-
ploded at Delaware City ca Jan
nary IL, injuring ten persons and
eavsing the death of Capt. Geo: A.
Cieayer, has been. -suapeloned TO
appear before the qhaftermaster
department at Washington, and
make his defence to the charge of
negligence.
Price Ferguson, of Elkton, was
fined 81 and costs by Magistrate
Groves on the charge of being
drunk and disorderly, and was COM
mitted to Jail for thirty days in
default OF payment.
This is quite common occur
renee under "high license" The
legislature might try its hand on
another whiskey law. They might
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