The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-16
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, March l6 1900.
MlN,lRLOCAIS

North East, which on general prin
ciples ought to be popular.
Rev. A. A. Farrant, of Philada.
will occupy the pulpit of the M. e
church on Sunday, March %.
Revival services are still il
progress, 112 conversions hav,
been made and other pendants a
the altar.
Forty eight adults and thre,
children were baptised at the M
q. Church in Rising Sun at las
Sunday mornings service.
1t is reported that the Southern
Pulp Co., who own the pulp works
at Elkton, will shortly erect paste
board mill near the pulp works.
Stanley & Bro, of Elk Neck
are putting in place machinery fol
the manufacture of crates and boxes
for shipping vegetables to market
Edw. Kirby has had his ware
house at Conowingo torn down ano
will remove it to Haines station
where it will be converted into q
cannery.
Henry Vinsinger, of Elkton, on
Monday purchased one half of the
double frame dwelling on High St.,
in that town, of Chas. w. Shippers
for $500.
A daughter of Harlan Hess, re
siding near Rock Springs, has be
come violently insane, caused by
injuries of the spine from excessive
bicycle riding.
1t is expected that the question
of the establishment of a silk fac.
tory in Elkton will be definitely
settled on Monday, when the par
ties interested will hold con.
ference.
Elkton Council, No. %, Jr. o. U.
A. M, has presented Miss Ethel
McVey, of Wilmington, with a
handsome gold medal in apprecia.
tion of her services at their recent
entertainment.
The Grand Lodge of Delaware,
Ancient Order of United Workmen,
has paid Mrs. Howard Titus, for
merly of Elkton, $4,000 benefit for
the death of her husband, who was
a member of the order.
VIM. B. Pugh, Of Belair, recently
left that town for the city of Balti-
more in search of work. On Satur.
day morning last his dead body
was found in the Monumental
Hotel, his death resulting from
asphyxiation by gas.
A mortgage for 100000 has
been recorded at the Clerks Office,
Elkton, from the Eastern Shore
Telegraph and Telephone Co. tc
VIM. III. Dewese, trustee, to secure
the issuance of bonds, etc. The
Cecil telephone lines are part of the
system.
There is movement for change
of the law to have FIVE trustees ir
place of three for the Insane Asy.
lum and Almshouse. Such q
change of law stands a fair chance
of passing the legislature, as crea
tion of new offices is in the line oil
succession by legislatures.
Two suspicious looking women
visited Elkton last week, begging al
the houses, receiving several small
amounts of money and some cloth
ing. They claimed to be keeping
house in Elkton but upon investi
cation they were found to be i'm
posters and hastily left town.
A meeting was held by the tax,
payers of the Fifth district at North
East to discuss the advisability Of
having a new iron bridge in place
of the wooden structure across the
creek on Main street. A committee
of five was appointed with view
to having the county make an
appropriation for the new bridge
Dunbar's wheelwright shop and
the shop adioing, in Elkton, were
entered on Thursday night of last
week, chests broken open and tools
scattered about. The same night
an attempt was made to enter the
residence of Mr.. n. Frank Wit
worth, but the intruder was fright
ened off by the barking of a dog
after getting the window up.
Joel J. Carter, of Pleasant Grove
Pa, has been added to the number
of Directors of The National Banl
of Rising Sun. He is one of tn,
representative men in his section O.
Lancaster county, and is very effic
lent and obliging.
When the Bank was started al
Rising Sun Lewis Haines, thu
father of 81. HI. Haines, who il
President of the institution, wa
the Director in that locality. Sine,
the death of Lewis Haines, Tim
Othy Haines served in that capacity
until within short time, having
lately moved to Oxford.