The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-16
Friday, Nov. l6, 1900.
MINORLOCALS

granted a divorce from Annie T.
James.
The Cecil Farmers Club will
meet with M. L. Thompson next
Wednesday, Nov. 81.
The.-Advance Club will hold a
banquet at the home of w. R. Buf.
fington on next Wednesday evening
Attention is called to the adv. in
another column of valuable mill
property at private sale, near Zion.
The Henry j. Briscoe property,
adjoining Rising Sun, will be offered
at trustees sale on Dec. s. See
adv. in another column.
Bailiff Biddle of Elkton has beer
mounted on bicycle and when he
spins through the streets the DPS
chickens flee in all directions.
Ollie Francis, co.,, of Elkton,
was badly injured last week by the
bursting of a gun, and as result
will probably lose the sight of one
eye.
Mrs. Wells, of Tennessee, pio-
neer organizer of the w. G. T. u,
will give an address in the M. E.
church on Sunday evening at 1880
O'Clock.
The store house and dwelling at
Pleasant Hill, owned by the late
Caroline G. Pritchard, was sold last
week at trnsee's sale to Henry
Henderson for $3.50.
Lawrence Nero dith was arrested
in Elkton Saturday night. charged
with stealing a coat from William
Tuft, and at hearing was held for
December term of court.
The County Commissioners on
Tuesday decided to accept the
proposition of the National Banks
of Baltimore city relative to taxes
due Cecil county for the past three
years.
The Standard Oil Company has
erected storage tank at Childs
Station, on the B. & O., with a
capacity of 1900 gallons, for the
purpose of supplying their delivery
wagons.
The Board of Election Super
visors, Messrs. John M. Tucker,
VIM. G. Cameron and DIR. Delmar
Smithers, met in Elkton on Tues.
day for the purpose of passing the
various election bills.
There is some prospect that the
Rising Sun shoe factory may be
converted into an iron washer fac
tory. Parties have examined the
location and building this week
and were pleased with both.
A wreck occurred on the Colum.
bia & Port Deposit road at Bald
Friar, ON Wednesday of last week,
in which eight cars loaded with
coal, coke and iron were thrown
from the track. No one was hurt.
A number of the members of
Winfield Scott Post, G.. A. r., of
Philadelphia, were the guests of
Garfield Post, of this town, and
Wingate Post of North East, at a
banquet held in the latter town on
Saturday last.
An anti saloon meeting will be
held in the Elkton opera house on
Friday, Nov. %, sessions 10 a. m.
and 2 p. m. The meeting will be
under the auspices of the State
Anti-Saloon League and will be
addressed by the superintendent,
s. e. Nicholson.
The Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Company is having safety
gates erected at all bridges on the
canal, which will prevent people
from driving into the canal when
the drawbridges are turned. A
number of lives have been lost by
driving into the open draws.
Mrs. Rachel M. Cameron, widow
of the late Andrew M. Cameron, of
Zion, has renounced in the Or
phans' Court for Cecil County, the
will of her deceased husband and
elected to take her dover share of
the estate, which is valued at
$4,000, composed mostly of per-
sonal property.
The real estate of the late Steph-
en- j. Crouch, in Elk Neck, was
sold on Thursday of last week at
public sale. The home farm of 81
acres and a tract of woodland. were
bought by James L. Crouch for
$1,000. The 81 acre tract with i'm
provements was bought by Stephen
j. Crouch for $25.
David Lilly, of Philadelphia, was
given hearing before Magistrate
Groves of Elkton on Tuesday,
charged with abduction, and held
in $500 bail for his appearance at
the December term of court. The
charge against him is made by the
parents of Margaret Mckinney,
aged about 16 years, of Elk Neck.
The stockholders of the Elkton