The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-30
COU NTY N EWS.
Friday, March 80 1900.
MI.sORLOCALS
lnday will be all fools day.

Franklin N. Jenkins had a horse
TO die from Inflammation of the
bladder last Saturday.
Charles Moody has succeeded
Edward Lynch as overseer of the
Cecil County Aims House.
Young Friends Association will
meet in the school building next
Sabbath afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock.
The steamer Sassafras is making
triweekly trips between Port De-
post, HAVE de Grace and BALTIC.
Henry E. Gallaher and d. L.
McCorkindale, of Childs, have been
granted a patent for a window
screen.
The large Denny hall building
at Sylmar will be torn down and
the lumber converted into two
dwellings.
Olivia F. Winchester has applied
to the Circuit Conrt of Cecil County
for divorce from Eden NJ. s.
Winchester.
While playing about the barn
last Tuesday evening, Chalmer
Reynolds fell and sustained badly
sprained ankle.
Frank Witworth, Of Elkton, has
purchased the house and lot owned
by the late Anna r. lamar, in that
town, for 1925.
Baker & Co., of Aberdeen con-
template operating cannery at
Fair Hill this season, in addition to
the one at Elkton.
Major w. g. Pnrnell, of Elkton,
has been elected a member of the
Executive Committee of the Mary
land Democratic Association.
An effort is being made by Thos.
p. Dale, of this county, to organize
a stock compay in Havre de Grace
for the establishment of a match
factory.
The American Mechanics of this
town will raise flag over Chestnut
Grove school house, near Wood
lawn, on Thursday, April IL, at
2 O'Clock p. M.
Messrs. John Leighman and
Clark Manldin have leased prop
erty in North East and will erect
brick making plant for the man
ufacture of building and square fire
brick.
The annual meeting of the
Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Societies of the New Castle
Presbytery will be held in Elkton
Presbyterian Church on April
III and II.
The Maryland Senate last week
confirmed the nominations of Byron
Bouchelle, Newton A. Nickle, j. r.
Craig, E. M. Kirk and Henry h.
Gilpin for justices of the peace for
Cecil county.
Governor Smith has signed the
bill passed by the legislature max.
ing Saturday a legal half holiday.
The National Banksof Cecil county,
beginning on Saturday next, will
close at IL o'clock.
Miss Emma e. Wilson returned
from the city last Friday where she
has spent the past month in buying
pattern hats and selecting the new
spring stock. See notice of spring
opening in another column.
Commencing Sunday next, April
list, the M. E. Sunday school will
be held in the morning at 8 O'Clock,
and in the evening services will
begin half an hour later than they
have been during the winter.
The News reports a theatre cir
cult has been formed consisting of
Chestertown, Cambridge, Eastop,
MIDI 'etown, Elkton, Havre de
Grace and Salisbury for the pro-
lection of managers and public.
E. r. Burlington s. Sons have re-
ceived the contract for one hundred
and forty yards of carpet to cover
the floor of the churcn at Blake.
Also for one set of upholstered
pulpit chairs of the latest pattern.
Mrs. Clara G. Hoffman, record
ing secretary of the National w. G..
+. u. and National lecturer, will
lecture in the NJ. Z. church on
Monday evening, April 2, at s
o'clock. The public are cordially
invited.
Representative Baker has intro
duced a bill in Congress to pay
Alfred Ford, executor of Joseph 7.
Stout, 1892 for an unregistered
United States bond, stolen from
Stout in 1873, and supposed to
have been destroyed.
The Milford, Del, Chronicle says
the story about contracts being
made for the killing of 30, 900 birds
for New York milliners, is a fake.
Nevertheless it is likely to be true.
The bird guerillas keep their cruel
business quiet if possible.