The midland journal., 1901-07-26
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, DULY go 1901.
f,1InaORLOCALS

A colored peoples bush meetin,
is in progress at Mt. Zoar.
The Democrats of Kent county
will hold their primary meetings
July q.
The Hartford county Republican
primaries will be held Saturday
August 3.
Cottagers are leaving Slaughter
Beach, Del, in large numbers
owing to the mosquitoes.
The Blackstone farm, near Elk
ton. has been purchased by Garret
Oscar Oldis, of New Jersey.
Shawmuk Tribe is the name o.
the Lodge of Red Men instituted al
Chesapeake City last week, with
thirty members.
The annual meeting of the Farm
ers' & Mechanics Mutual Insur
ance Association will be held al
Calvert tomorrow.
The Jr. o. U. A. M. began theil
annual encampment at Oakwood
on Saturday, July 20, and will con.
tinue it until next Tuesday.
During an alteration at Better
ton, on Sunday, Jesse X. Jester, Of
Baltimore, was fatally stabbed by
his brother, William Jester.
DIR. Megary, a veterinary sur.
geon of Bel Air, was kicked in the
head and seriously hurt while exam
lining horse one day this week.
The sum of $500 was realized
from the festival held by the ladies
of Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church on
Friday and Saturday evenings OF
last week.
A broken wire shut off Elkton's
electricts one night last week, and
plunged the county seat in dark
ness, Notwithstanding her legal
luminaries.
The Diamond State Telephone
Co. is pushing the extension of its
line from Port Deposit, through
Rowlandville, Liberty Grove and
Colora to Rising Sun.
The Elkton fire company was
called out on Tuesday afternoon to
extinguish burning stack of hay,
in the yard of Jacob Wilson, on the
outskirts of the town.
The roof of one of the lumber
sheds of the Rowland Manufacture
ing Co., at Port Deposit, was blown
off during the heavy storm on
Thursday of last week.
In order to raise funds to buy
new cushions tor their church the
Willing Workers of Tome M. E.
Church, Port Deposit, have sales of
ice cream and cake on the parson-
age lawn every Tuesday and Fri
udy ChCHtnS'
The barn on the farm of Edward
Comfy, at Cooch's Bridge, was
struck by lightning and burned on
Friday afternoon, together with a
lot of farming implements and con-
siderable livestock. The loss was
about 81 800.
Contractor Patterson, of Blythe
dale, has begun the work of remod-
cling Delaware College, at Newark.
The plaster from the old building
is being utilized in constructing the
track for field sports, which will
encircle the rear campus.
1t will be necessary to elect a
new captain of Co. L, First Regi-
ment, of Elkton, to succeed Capt.
William A. Wright, who has been
elected a major of the regiment.
First Lieut.. George T. King, of Co.
E, mas resigned and his successor
is also to be named.
Norman w. Cameron, of Elkton.
was one of the 5S3 teachers who
sailed from San Francisco on a gov
ernment transport, Tuesday, for the
Philippine Islands. The teachers
are enlisted for term of three
years to instruct the Filipinos in
English branches, their salaries
ranging from $75 to $125 per month.
The Boys Brigade, of Lancaster,
Pa, detachment of the Seventh
Pennsylvania Regiment, number
ing twenty boys, which marched
through Cecil county last week, en-
route to Colchester and Baltimore
left the latter place by boat on
Monday for Port Deposit, marching
from there to Lancaster by easy
stages.
On July 20 the Comptroller made
the appOrtionment of the $15O,OO(
for the purchase of text books fol
the public schools in the severa
counties of the State and the city
of Baltimore. The money is pay
able August 1. Cecil county's
share is $2,923.04 for white school,
and $5S3.00 for colored-a total o
So, ,506.O4.
The Delaware State Board O
Agriculture has decided to make
an Investigation Of tha disaoS,