Middletown transcript., 1901-01-19
MARYLAND NEWS

burned to the ground several weeks ago
will be rebuilt in the spring.
The pacer Netty Osmond, with record
of ZIG, has been purchased by Edward
W. Taylor of Elkton for $3.50.
A trolley line is being projected from
Chestertown to Colchester, the leading
Maryland pleasure resort along the
Chesapeake Bay.
National Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Elkton
will celebrate its eighth anniversary on
February 1st. The grand officers o. Mary
land will be present.
The most successful revival services for
several years past are now in progress in
Tome NJ. E. Church, under the leadership
of Rev. A. S. Mowbray.
G. H. johnson, teller in the Second
National Bank of Elkton, has been ap-
pointed cashier of the Aberdeen National
Bank in Hartford county, Md.
The County Commissioner for Cecil
county has appointed David R. Barrett
constable of the Seventh district, with |
headquarters at Port Deposit
up to Saturday night Clerk of the Kent
County Court James T. Dixon had issued
S16 oyster longing licenses. The total
number issued last year was 757.
The Diamond State Telephone Co. will
soon have rival company on the PENN
sula. A company called the Maryland &
Delaware Telephone Co. has already been
chartered. .... Z
James H. Gale, the Kent county farmer {
who won the gold medal at Paris for
Indian corn, is receiving offers of 50 per :
Oushel for all he has, which is about 80 I
bushels.
The Diamond State Telephone Co. has
purchased the three Independent tele-
'hone lines between Hepbron Station,
till Pond and Betterton. These lines d
we're built in 1899. n
1t is now estimated that the creditors W
f Isaac Robinson & Co. who owned oi
canneries on the Eastern shore W
f Maryland and Delaware, will receive
bout go cents on the dollar. IN
Cards have been issued for the wedding as
Miss Ella Whitworth of Elkton to to
amuel G. Coursey, prominent young 20
ewspaper man of Centreville, in Elkton,
n Wednesday, January 23d. M
1t is understood that the Farmers and ''n
.erchants' Steamboat Co. of Kent " '"
,,,t,, ,,b;oL uooo,41,. aoo;1od l. "a pu
~ dis
'operty, will be reorganized and the nm-' -
lsiness again resumed in earl spring. 49, ~
iA'ii VI 'iie younger Popuia'lon ol ing
has been arrested and fined :
a resnlt of their over-zealous observa- od
IN Of the Christmas festivities. The 70
izeEs of the town are at loggerheads Ac
er the matter, some being with the oro
uthful celebrators. 1on
man in Western Maryland killed mil
mself because girl he loved refused to son
airy him. With world full of beauti-
and lovable girls it seems superlative
ly for man to put himself out of the
rid because one girl refuses him her A
vor. But love makes fools of lots of bef
ople. pre-
o.
The suit of sister vs.. brother-Mrs. Qua
gusta Walter of Kennett Square III
linst Joseph R. Brown of Cecil III
lnty-which has been on trial in the eye
cult Court for Cecil county, for the sra'
session of farm which they both uig'
imed, was decided Saturday night, app
zen the jury in the case brought in ing
dict for Mrs. Walter. es'l
of
rhe hardest fought municipal election wb,
II held in Lewes took place last Satur. has
' and resulted in the selection of Dr. Tb;
nes 7. Thompson as Mayor, William svr
Manning, Charles V. Jones, George Z. fror
,kers and DR.. H. R. Burton as Council foot
n; D. W. Brereton, treasurer; William that
Chambers, assessor, and Governor two
nell, Walter Sparklin and Thomas . 80
Ingram, auditors. Mayor Thompson, nov,
D has already served one year in the r.,
l'i0i'' '0@'-' w - ~ ''-> ''-' VI - they
last