Middletown transcript., 1900-12-08
MY MARYLAND

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James Cam, a prominent farmer nea
Glasgow, five miles east of Elkton, il
dead, aged about s6 years.
The newly organized national bank al
st. Michaels, to be known as the
Farmers National bank, opened for bust
ness Monday.
/ Many turkeys are being bought in Cecil
county by agents, who will ship them to
the markets of Philadelphia and New
York.
The December term of Circuit Court
for Cecil county will begin at Elkton next
Monday. The prospects are that it will
be very short term.
Harry Wilson, of Elkton, son of the
late John Emory Wilson, will leave Elk
ton in few days for Utah, where he
will work at civil engineering.
As q result of the revival meeting held
by the Elkton Methodist Cuhrch during
the past three weeks, several probationers
have joined the Elkton NJ. E. Church.
Joel Dean, grocery merchant of North
East, Cecil county, had his store closed
by Sheriff F. Ambrose Price, of Elkton,
on Saturda, on judgments amounting to
nearly $500.
Mrs. Deford, wife OF Ex-Justice of the
Peace Steward Deford, ,sef Mort East, Cecil
county, died at her home in that town
Monday morning, after very short i'll
ness, aged about 66 years.
Rev. Thomas E. Terry, pastor of the
Elkton Methodist Church, and Rev. w.
L. S, Murray, pastor of St. Pauls Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, of Wilmington,
Del, will exchange pulpits next Sunday
and evening.
Attorney General Isador Rayner, of
Maryland, considers the $5S,0OO appro-
priation made by the last Maryland Leg
islature to aid in building the Cherry
Hill, Elkton and Chesapeake City Elec-
trio Railway as unconstitutional.
A contract has been made with the
Delaware Construction Company, of
Del, by the Baltimore,
and Atlantic Railway, to re-
move %, 900 yards of material from the
harbor of Claiborne, at cost of about
$1,000.
The new water works in the town of st.
Michaels will be accepted by the Town
Commissioners this week. The pump
.or the works was put into position the
past week and water turned into the
pipes The pressure was very satisfactory
The Seventh Day Adventists, of Balti-
more City, who came to Cecil county last
summer and started meetings at Chesa-
oeake City, have made number of con-
'erts to their faith and are now trying to
ecure the old Universalist Church to
lold services in.
A number of the business men and
of Centreville are making an
fort to have an afternoon mail leave for
Baltimore at 5 o'clock daily. The mail
will go to Queenstown by stage, and from
here to Baltimore on the steamer of the
queen Anne Railroad.
The directors of the Belair and Havre-
Ie-Grace Electric Railway Company have i
iven notice to the Town Commissioners
f Belair that they wish to withdraw !;
heir application for right of way on :
he streets of the corporation. Active +
york of building the roads which will be +
ixteen miles in length, will begin within !;
very short time now. "
The fruit growers on the Eastern Shore Fl
f Maryland are complaining very much a
ver the excessive freight rates on their p
roduce, and say that if something is not Il
one in this matter the growing of small t.
ruit will soon be thing of the past on p
he Peninsula. Figures show tremen- ia
Gus decline in the quantity of small tt
ruit grown and evidences are abundant 81
hat, with each succeeding year, there p
I'LL be a smaller number engaged in n
he business. p