The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-10-04
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Oct. A, 1901.
MINiORLOCALS

greSs at Calvert NJ. E. church.
The pupils of White Oak public
school, Calvert, realized $1,000 by
tleir recent festival.
Granville w. Reynolds has lost
five horses from spinal meningitis
within the past few weeks.
Mt. Pleasant NJ. E. church, near
Colora, has purchased new organ,
the instrument being an unusually
fine one.
The Young Ladies Home Mis-
sion Social will be held at the home
of w. It. B. r. Robertson this
evening.
The Talbot county fair, which
was to have been held last week,
was declared off on account of the
lack of entries.
j. Will Perkins & Co., of Elkton,
have purchased the Simon store
property in the "Hollow," on Main
street, that town.
r. K. Rawlings, of Woodlawn,
found one of his horses dead in the
stable with broken neck one
morning this week.
The sum of $500 was realized
by the Junior League at their fes-
tival, held at the M. E. Parsonage
on Friday evening last.
A fine COW on the Hammersmith
farm, belonging to the Sarah E.
Grason estate, was struck and killed
by lightning on Sunday night.
John and James Christy, twins,
and well known citizens of Will
mington, celebrated their eighty
first birthday one day last week.
Joseph Coudon, Jr., of Perry
vile, has been made First Lieu
tenant and Adjutant of Company
A, at the Maryland Agricultural
College.
Joseph Schaffer, of Chesapeake
City, lost thumb one day last
week, by its coming in contact with
a circular saw which was working
full time.
William Drysdale, the author
and journalist who died at his home
in Crawford, N. j., Sept. 20, was a
pupil of Elkton Academy in his
boyhood.
The farm of B. H. Sapp, con-
tanning IS acres, on the Elk river,
has been purchased at private sale
by H. W. and George Rogers, of
Philadelphia.
Frank Cooper, colored, has been
lodged in Elkton Jail to await the
action of the December grand jury,
on the charge Of criminally assault
ing his step mother.
1t is reported that owing to the
many thefts of copper wire from its
telegraph line, the Central division
of the p, w. & B. railroad will
replace the wires with iron.
The true population of Kent
county, Md, is announced to be
1880, after great deal of census
taking in that county, both by
state and federal enumerators.
The Rising Sun M. Il. Sunday
school will meet at 2:30 p. m. next
Sunday, the time of meeting being
changed from morning to afternoon
during the fall and winter months.
Founders Day exercises were
celebrated at the Jacob Tome In
stitute, Port Deposit on Tuesday.
DR.. A. w. Harris, the new director
of the school made an appropriate
address.
The Republican primaries will be
held today, October 4. The County
Convention will meet tomorrow to
select delegates to the Judicial Con-
yention, which will assemble in
Elkton on October Z.
W. A. G. Hamell, Inspector of
Manual Training in Maryland,
visited the Cecil County High
School at Elkton, last week, and
pronounced that department of the
school most complete.
The Powers Foundry Company,
of Elkton, has broken ground for
a new modern one story building,
l50x40 feet, to be erected for their
business along the p, w. Il B.
railroad tracks, in that town.
At a congregational meeting of
the members of New London Pres
byterian church last week, it was
decided by vote of eighty five to
five not to accept the recent resig-
nation of their pastor, Rev. Chas.
r. Williamson.
Peter H. Cleaver, John Stump,
George o. Carey and John Banks
were elected delegates from Cecil
to the judicial convention, which
met in Denton on Thursday, for the
purpose of nominating a Judge to
succeed the late Judge Frederick
Stump.