The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-10-05
COU NTY NEWS
Friday, Oct. s. 1900.
MINOR LOCALS

The Hartford County Fair will be
held at Bel Air October 8, 10, IL
and IL.
lightweight votes we're regis
tered in the Third district on
Tuesday.
Miss Emma Wilson announces
her fall millinery opening for Oct.
II and IS.
A. FL. Briscoe lost valuable
horse this week from cerebro spinal
meningitis.
the congregation of Leeds M. P.
Church has begun the erection of a
new parsonage.
The Home Mission social will be
held at the home of John l.. Ste
phens this evening.
The annual reunion of Shows
Maryland Battery will be held at
Port Deposit tomorrow.
Capt. Andrew Woodall has sold
the Hessey farm, in the First dis
trict, to G. Powell for $4,000.
Harmony Castle, X. G. E., will
attend Rising Sun M. E. church in
a body next Sunday morning.
A Bryan and Stevenson pole one
hundred and five feet high has
been raised by George Poist, OF
near Woodlawn.
Young Friends Association will
meet as heretofore on next Sabbath
afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock. Every
body invited to attend.
Ralph Bingham will give an en-
tertainment in the town hall on
Thursday evening, Oct. Is, under
theauspices Of the Epworth League.
There were A new names added
to the list of voters in the Sixth
district at the Tuesday sitting of
the registrar, 81 of whom were
Bryan men.
Mrs. Olivia Farr Winchester has
been granted an absolute divorce
from her husband Eden Ms. Win
chester by the Circuit Court. for
Cecil County.
While cutting corn on the farm
of Mrs. G. M. Head, near Port
Deposit, Arthur Murphy sustained
a severe cash on his right leg be-
low the knee.
w. B. Wales, piano and organ
dealer of Oxford, this week sold an
upright piano to 3. r. Burlington
who has had it placed in the newly
refitted town hall.
Mary Jones, colored, who was
shot by Robert Taylor in fit of
jealousy at Port Deposit on Septem-
Der 9th, died at the City Hospital,
Baltimore, on Wednesday of last
week.
Magistrate Groves, of EllSton, on
Monday placed Thomas Hitchcock,
OF Bacon Hill, under 5000 bail for
appearance at December term of
Court on the charge of i'll treating
his wife.
Deputy Sheriff McAllister took
two colored men, Jacob Wiggin and
Joe Peters, to the House of Cor
rection on Tuesday, they having
recently been sentenced to one year
in that institution.
Application has been made to
the Governor for the pardon of
Charles Lee, who was convicted in
September of attempted felonious
assault and sentenced to the peni
Tertiary for eight years.
A second consignment of choice
Delaware apples, embracing over
forty varieties, has been shipped to
the Paris Exposition by A. M.
Brown, president of the Delaware
Farmers PROTECTIVE Association.
While on his way to the town
hall last Monday evening to deliver
a temperance address, Rev. A. S..
Mowbray inadvertently stepped
into the cellarway in the rear of the
hall and fell, severely spraining his
ankle.
The officers of the Democratic
Club recently organized in Port
Deposit are: President, Samuel G.
Rowland; vice presidents, John 81.
Kimble, a. Il. Barry and Robert
A. Stephens secretary, John F.
Mohrlein. ,s
A Bryan Club was organized at
Perryville on Thursday evening of
last week. Charles w. Ward was
unanimously chosen pres, Alex.
Peoples and M. ID. Craig vice.
presidents, John B. Dawson secre-
tary and James A. Knight treas.
A Bohemian who had been EN-
plOyed in a cannery at Darlington,
Hartford county, was in Port De
posit on Friday night and went to
sleep on the wharf. He woke up
at about eight O'Clock, walked over
board and was drowned. He had
been paid off but short time be-
fore and had $52 .S5 in his pocket.