The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-04-20
COUNTY NEWS
Friday, April 20. 1900.
MINDRLOCALS

~AAOOAO OOh0ACbOANg III Atto OCOA
appointed Examiner in Chancery
by the Judges of the Circuit.
The contract for building the new
station at Perryville has been
awarded to Levi 3. Patterson of
Blythedale.
If the weather is favorable the
w. G. T. II. will meet with Mrs.
Amy Reynolds on Thursday, April
rs, at 2:30 o'clock.
The Easter services in the M. Z.
church Sunday evening were at
tended by a large crowd. The
offering amounted to over $12.
The bazaar held by the Ladies'
Aid Society of Hopewell M. E.
church, on Thursday and Friday
last, was success, $85 being
realized.
Report says that Mr.. John III.
Kimble, of Port Deposit, member
of the last legislature, will be a
csrdidate for Congress for the Sec
ond district.
The Appeal says the first loco
mobile seen on the streets of Elkton
passed through town on Friday.
The owner, Geo. I. Scott, is touring
the country.
Magistrate Philip M. Groves, of
Elkton, last week sentenced Thos.
Virgins to one year in the Mary
land House of Correction for assault
on Harry v. Manloye.
The pupils of North East High
School are preparing for their an
nua. entertainment, which will be
held in the G. A. r. hall, in that
town, Friday evening, April 81.
Henry NJ. Mccullough, of Elk
ton, has announced that he will be
candidate for district delegate to
the Republican National Conyen-
tion in Philadelphia next June.
Three Wilmington small boys, Of
about IL years of age, who had
run away from their homes, were
arrested in Elkton Wednesday
afternoon and returned to their
parents.
The Circuit Court adjourned last
week to the second Monday in June,
when several cases on the docket
will be tried. The present panel
of jurors was retained for the June
term, which is generally non,jury
term.
The legislature enlarged the
powers of the Susquehanna Power
4 Paper Co., who purpose con-
structing a dam which will cost
half a million dollars, giving fall
of Az feet and generating 10000
horse power.
The spring meeting of the New
Castle Presbytery convened at
Smyrna on Tuesday and Wednes
day. Rev. w. w. Shaw was mod
orator. A stated clerk was selected
to succeed Rev. Luther A. Oates,
who accepted q call to Chambers
burg, Md, recently.
The annual meeting and election
of officers of the Cecil County Med
ical Society was held in Elkton on
Thursday. The lecturer for the
occasion was DIR. John B. Roberts,
one of Philadelphia's most eminent
surgeons, his subject being Glare
lip" A banquet followed the
meeting.
Gilmore Lampson, colored, was
arrested in Elkton on Tuesday for
drunkenness and disorderly con-,
duct. When searched a loaded re-
vOlver was found on him and Mag
istrate Groves sentenced him to
year at Jessep's Cut.
This improved license law of ours
beats local option for producing
crime and adding expense to county
and state.
The athletic exhibition to be
given by the Elkton High School
pupils, ON the fair grounds, this
afternoon, promises to be very in
teresting. Among the events Will
be fencing with foils and broad
swords by Prof. Thos. M. Zehuter,
fencing master, and Prof. w. NJ.
MacDermott, director physical
training Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore.
There was but one change in the
appointments for Cecil county of
the Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church, which closed
its session at Westminster last
week. Rev. j. M. Brown succeeds
Rev. w. w. White at Warwick,
the latter going to Frederick. Rev.
b. f. Jester returns to Cecil Cir
cult, Rev. j. E. Maloy to Rowland
willie and Rev. A. w. Mather to
Union.
A young girl, Miss Nellie Nc
Henry, from Virginia, passed
through Singerly walking on the
b. &. o. railroad, one day last
,woalx headed towards C0atSVille