The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-01-12
COJJ NTY NEWS
Frida v, Jan. IL 1900.
MI .oRLOCALS


COW from milk fever on Wednes
day.
1t is reported that Webster
White has opened a dental Office a
Calvert.
The Detective Association din
ner on Saturday netted the Mite
Society $3l.00.
A government pension of SIP pei
month has been granted Martha A
Cephas, of Cecilton.
Charles Brown, colored, of Con
owingo, was arrested last week or
the charge of chicken stealing anC
lodged in Elkton Jail.
David Rutter, of Edgemore, Del,
has purchased the farm of J. j
Williams, containing sixty acres o.
land, near Elkton, for $3.50.
An entertainment will be held in
Jefferson school house this evening.
Admission, l5c; proceeds for bene-
fit of Hopewell NJ. E. church.
Rev. Geo. w. Townsend, of the
North East NJ. L. oh, rch has been
requested by the official board Of
the church to return for another
year.
Counterfeit dollars and halves
were circulated quite freely in Ok
ford last week, and ii number oil
merchants were caught for small
amounts.
Alex. Warfeld, one of Port De-
posit's colored gentry, has been
committed to the House of Correc-
tion for Is months for wife beating,
larceny, carrying concealed weap-
ons and disorderly conduct.
At o. d. Nesbitt's sale of cattle
last week cows brought from $50 to
$42 80 and brood sows $15 a head.
At q. Candy Balderston's sale
last Monday cows brought from $29
to $45 and a pair of mules $137.
is. Chapman, matchmaker and
jeweler of Rising Sun, received his
commission for Notary Public on
Friday last. Mr.. Chapman is one
of the best watchmakers who have
conducted the business in our town.
Miss Henrietta Hague, of the
Clerks Office, Elkton, has finished
making a transcript of the testi-
mony in the Naudain will case.
The record consists of $50 type.
written pages, and has been for
warded to the court printer, at
Annapolis.
At the reorganization of the FL.
G. Prick Coke Company, of Pitts
burg, last Wednesday, James
Gayley was elected one of the
directors. Mr.. Gayley is a son Of
Rev. S. A. Gayley, ID. D., for many
years pastor of West Nottingham
Presbyterian church.
A chapter of the Epworth League
was organized Friday evening last
by Cherry Hill M. +. church with
the following officers President, L..
r. Ward; vice presidents, P. r.
Arbuckle, Miss Dollie Miller, Miss
Elizabeth Sebold, Arthur Harvey;
secretary, George Ward; treasurer,
M. F. Magraw.
Mr.. Fred T. Haines, son of L. M.
Haines, and one of the promising
young members of the Elkton bar,
and who ran on the Republican
ticket last November for States
Attorney against VIM. S. Evans,
Esq, has moved to Philadelphia
and gone into the real estate bus
mess in the firm Of L. j. Jackson &
Co. Mr.. jackson is an uncle of
Mr.. Haines.
j. Wesley Hamilton, well
known carpenter of the Fifth dis
trict, is in a critical condition at
his home near North East, the re-
suit of being struck in the head by
falling elevator on Saturday. He
was working at the ice house of
Charles +. Mearns, and was under
the ice elevator when it fell, strik-
ing him on the head and fracturing
his skull. He was knocked over
board and would have drowned
had not several of his fellow work
men gone to his assistance.
The Detective Association Union,
composed of associations of Hartford
county, Md, and Chester and Ian
caster counties, Pa, held their
annual meeting at Conowingo, on
Monday, Jan. l, and elected the
following officers; r. A. McCom-
mon, of Lancaster coun'y, presi-
dent; j.. B. Keech, of Chester
county, vice president; William
Michigan, of Conowingo, secretary
and treasurer.
A committee was appointed by
Rising Sun Detective Association
to investigate the bi-state Associa-
ton of detective societies, composed
of Mr.. j. M. Campbell and DR.. G.
s. Dare, who reported adversely
and the Rising Sun Association
declined to join the union.