The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-16

by the KICK OF a VICIOUS morse
Winfield Futty, of Elk Neck,
recently sustained broken leg.
Mrs. H. j. Effing spent several
days in Baltimore visiting her
mother the early part Of this week.
Luther Barrett, of Port Deposit,
was seriously injured last week by
falling rocks at McClenahan's
quarry.
Several hundred dollars worth
of hoop nets were lost and destroy
ed in the North East river by the
recent freeze.
w. w. Michigan, of Conowingo,
narrowly escaped serious injury on
Monday by the falling upon him of
barrel of gasoline. He was pain
fully bruised about the hip.
The County Commissioners have
assessed the property of the South
ern Pulp Works in Elkton at
800, 900, and the Elk Paper Com
pany's property at Providence at
$4,000.
The Belle Hill farm, near Elkton,
at one time the home of the late
Congressman Hiram Mccullough,
has been sold by John M. Terrell
to Frank HI. Moody for $1,000.
The farm contains "a acres.
The March term of the Circuit
Court for Cecil county will convene
on Monday. The criminal calendar
is unusually short. There are six
teen appeals marked for trial, and
the civil calendar contains eighty
six cases.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Kimble, of
Nottingham, Pa, have issued in
vitations for the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Hanna Louella, to
John X. Thompson, of Chrome,
Pa, on Wednesday afternoon,
March 81, at two o'clock.
A. Fl. Tinges, supervisor of the
P, w. & B. railroad between
Wilmington and Perryville and
well known among railroad men,
died suddenly while on train at
Newport, DEL, Sunday evening, of
congestion of the lungs.
DIR. Howard Bratton, of the Cecil
county board of health, reported to
the Surgeon General of the United
States Marine Hospital Service in
regard to the town of Elkton for
1899 that there were "a deaths in
an estimated population of 1900;
rate per thousand, 1907.
Ellwood Nichols, who has been
in the grocery business at Perry
vile for a number of years, has
disposed of his store to William J.
Little who will hereafter conductit.
Mr.. Nichols has rented warehouse
property at jackson where he will
engage in canning the coming
season.
Senator Austin L. Crothers will
recommend to Gov. John Walter
Smith for reappointment the pres
ent Board of School Commissioners
for Cecil county, Messrs. Geo. A.
Blake, G. s. Abrahams and Geo. o.
Carey. Messrs. Blake and Abra-
hams are Republicans, and Mr..
Carey a Democrat.
The will of Mrs. Esther Coulson,
of Port Deposit, has been admitted
to probate in the Orphans Court
with John E. Coulson as admis-
traitor. All the real estate. and
ground rents are devised to her son,
John E. Coulson, during his life
time and at his death to be equally
divided among his children.
Rev. w. Harvey Ewing, son of
VIM. H. Ewing of this county, and
pastor of the M. E. Church in Gov
ington, KY, has accepted a call to
a Boston church at salary of
50, 200. The Rev. Mr.. Ewing until
recently was a member of Whining
ton Conference, and was stationed
at Port Deposit at the time of his
transfer to the Kentucky Con-
ference.
Cecil and Evans Ewing enter
tanned the progressive euchre club
last Friday evening. Five tables
were played and the honors were
accorded Miss Gertrude Dare, who
won IL out of 15 games. and Messrs.
Clifford Kirk and Evans Ewing,
who scored 8 games each. The
next meeting of the club will be
held at the home of NJ. G. G..
Hopkins on March 30.
The ice having passed out of the
Susquehanna without flooding Port
Deposit, and the coast being clear
for business, fishermen will soon
cast their nets in search of the
finny tribe, and the luscious, in
comparable Susqnehanna shad will
be in evidence shortly on every
table. In its season the Susque-
hanna shad is the most popular of
fish. AS the shad ascends that
stream it increases in size and
quality.