The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-01-05
COJJ NTY NEWS
Friday, Jan. ) 1900.
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at Rising Sun NJ. E. church on next
Sunday evening.
Minnehaha Lodge of Good TEN
plars, at Chrome, celebrated it,
34th anniversary on Jan. 2.
A chapter Of the Epworth
League will be organized at Cherry
Hill NJ f. church this, Friday
evening.
With the mercury ranging from
50 to l2o above zero this week, we
have been enjoying some fine winter
weather.
The knights of Pythias held a
public installation of officers in G
A. r. Hall, at North East, on Mon
day evening.
BENZ. w. Burhly will take charge
of West Nottingham Friends Meet
house and burying ground after
March 18th.
Joseph Richards, third son of j.
Granville Richards Of Richards
mere, left Thursday to take posi-
tion on the Pennsylvania r. r.
Henry Gordon, COL, who claim
ed to be l05 years old, was frozen
to death on Saturday night in his
shanty on Water street, Elkton.
The house and lot adjoining Rose
bank cemetery, belonging to the
heirs of Rebecca Brown, was rec
emily sold to the cemetery associa-
tion for $345.
The widow of engineer David
Mcdonald is searching for evidence
preparatory to bringing suit
against the Penna. r. r. for the
death of her husband in the recent
collision near Chester Heights.
At the election at Havre de
Grace on Monday the following were
chosen Mayor, r. K. Vanneman;
Council, Bennett Charsha, John N.
Spencer, Jacob Osmond, Jr., VIM.
Fisher and VIM. S. McCoombs.
The State Comptroller has made
the quarterly distribution of the
public school tax, the amounts
being payable on and after Jan. 10.
Cecil receives So, 461 90 for white
schools, and $690.72 for colored
schools.
The Epworth League of this
town has elected the following
officers; Pres, w. X. Terry; vice
pres, A. Mabel Reynolds, Mrs. a.
Il. Keen, Mrs. e. P. Haines, Lucy
B. Gillespie; secretary, Eddie l..
Haines; treas, N. G. Brown.
Benz. Briscoe sold yesterday a
small house in Port Deposit belong
ing to the estate of Harmon III.
Brown, decd, on the property of
Mrs. Ester Z. Coulson, to satisfy a
claim for ground rent. Mrs. Conl-
son was the purchaser for $l25.
Under the privileges granted by
his Holiness, Pope Leo XIII, of
Rome, the Catholics of Elkton held
midnight mass in the Church of
Immaculate Conception, and ush
cred in the new year with appro-
pirate religious service-Appeal.
Filling ice houses has been the
principal occupation this week,
Hunters mill pond furnishing an
abundance of excellent ice. The
ice houses in town and the adjacent
neighborhoods have been filled,
and a supply for next summer
secured.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
the Peninsula Horticultural Society
will be held at Salisbury, Md, on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
Jan. 10, IL and u. A paper on
sour Apple Orchards" will be
read by George Biddle, president
for Cecil county.
An entertainment will be given
at Chapel school house, Friday
evening, Jan. II. If that evening
should prove stormy, the enter
tainment will be held the next
evening. General admission, 15c.
The proceeds are for the Hopewell
NJ. L. church Improvement fund.
Vaughn Harvey and Wilson
Biddle, of North East, who were
convieted.at he September term of
Court and sentenced to nine months
in Jail for assault on John Rogers
at Red Point fishing shore on May
Day last, have been pardoned by
Governor Lowndes and were re-
leased from custody on Wednesday.
The pardon was to preserve their
citizenship.
1t is reported that the McCul.
Tough Iron Company will shortly
put the rolling mills at Rowland
vile in operation. If this report
proves true it will require several
thousand dollars expenditure to put
the mills in running order. The
race is partially filled up, water
wheel rotten and the machinery
gone to rack. Almost a new outfit
Would be necessary before the
works could be started.