The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-23
COUNTY NEWS
Friday, March 23, 1900,
MlNORLOCALs

lie sale tomorrow evening.
The w. G. I. U. will meet with
Mrs. Amy A. Reynolds on Thurs
day, March 20, at 2:30 o'clock.
The T. Snowden Thomas farm.
at North East, was offered at public
sale on Tuesday, but Withdrawn at
a bid Of $4,000.
Joseph Tomilson, of Woodlawn,
has been granted an increase OF
pension from Sc to So per month by
the government.
The snow of last week (Thnrs-
day. afforded three days of the best
sleighing that has been enjoyed in
this section for several years.
Fifty barrels of fish, yellow perch
and pike, were shipped by North
Esst fishermen last week. They
MT from $40 TO $50 per barrel.
The Colchester Steamboat Com
pany has awarded John Banks the
contract for building a new wharf
at Fredericktown, on the Sassafras
river.
Miss Lidie Reynolds, teacher of
New Bridge public school, is i'll
will typhoid fever, and the school
has been closed on account Of her
sickness.
Three of Colora's young men,
Will Christie, Albert Barrett and
Harry Love left that town last
week for South Dakota where they
will be employed on the farm of
Henry g. Cooley.
Esther p. Reynolds gave IA birth
day surprise on the 10Th to her
brother James ID. H. Reynolds,
which proved u success. Twenty
five Of his friends appeared and
spent u very lively and pleasant
evening with him.
HI. III. Bowden, an expert cyclist
of Havre de Grace, met with very
serious accident last Tuesday, by
being thrown from an old fashioned
high wheel. He was picked up
unconscious, one arm was sprained
and he was severely cut and
bruised.
Ex-Sheriff Harvey III. Mackey,
of Elkton, is making contracts with
farmers to plant tomatoes for the
coming season for the Elkton can
merry, operated by Mr.. William H.
Baker, of Aberdeen. Over one
hundred acres have so far been con-
tracted for.
According to the astronomical
calculations for the year spring
began Tuesday evening at S:3S
o'clock. at that time old Sol
climbed over the equatorial fence
and started for the North Pole,
where he will shine several months
without setting.
An eagle which for twenty years
had been annoying the farmers
in the neighborhood of Elkins has
at last been caught in a steel trap.
The bait used was lamb he had
killed, which was staked to the
ground. The bird measured seven
feet from tip to tip.
Thomas Reese, of Colora, who
has been employed for some time in
the saw mill of Holmes & jackson
at GAINESVILLE, Va, recently met
with a painful accident at that
place by having his foot caught
between two logs, breaking and
badly masking his ankle. He re
turned home last week.
The farmers of Kent county and
the packers of canned goods have
agreed upon the following prices:
Tomatoes, So per ton; corn, IS per
ton; beans, 15c per peach basket;
peas, 21c per pound, the growers
furnishing the baskets. Ten cents
per basket for tomatoes will be paid
the growers along the ISassafras
river, settlements weekly.
Tuesday evening a number of
representative citizens of Elkton
met at the Office of l.. NJ. Haines,
Esq, when a modified proposition
from the Liberty Silk Company was
laid before them by Frank t.
Whitney. This proposal, however,
did mot meet with very great en-
thnsiasm, and to speak candidly it
does not look very promising for
the establishment of a silk mill at
ElktOn.-News.
While passing through the p,
w. g. B. railroad bridge across the
Susquehanna, Wednesday evening,
the steamer Sassafras collided with
the draw, having her pilot house,
smokestack, steampipe and walking
beam torn away. Captains Kir-
wan and .Tarbntton were in the
pilothouse at the time and narrowly
escaped by jumping. The steamer
was beached on the Island Bar, and
afterwards towed to the Havre de
Grace landing.
A contract has been entered into
by Delaware gunners with New