The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-02-22
Friday, Feb. %. 1901.
MI ~,ORLOCALS
Washington's Birthday.

Washington's Birthday.
Lent began on Wednesday; East.
er Sunday will be April z.
VIM. Gillespie, of Principle, had
young horse to die last Wednes-
day.
A22OOlb. steer was butchered last
week by H. G. DeValinger, of Mid
dletown, Del.
Miss Minneola Brown and Alfred
Churchman, of Calvert, were mar.
ried on February 20.
Rev. Frank Mack, of Fremont,
will preach in Rising Sun M. E.
church next Sunday morning.
The opening of a new road from
the White Oak and Zion road to
Greenhurst is again being agitated.
Adam B.. Keen has sold his
finely bred pointer pup "Vick" to
w. r. Fieles, of Christiana, for $25.
At the public sale of a carload of
horses in Rising Sun last Friday
nineteen head aggregated $2l1O, an
average of Sill per head.
While Thomas Burns, of North
East, was cutting wood the ak
caught in aclothesl ne and rebound
ing cut deep cash in his face and
nose.
The Perryville ice houses have
been filled by the American Ice
Co. with 10000 tons of ice. The
work of filling the houses at Havre
de Grace was commenced Friday.
The County Commissioners will
meet at their Office in Elkton on
February 26, 81 and % between
the hours of 10 and O'Clock, to
hear appeals and correct assess
m ents.
J. Lawrence Mccormick, a Har-
ford county dairyman and farmer,
has made an assignment, due to the
failure of the United Milk Pro
ducers' Association, whose notes he
had Endorsed.
A shooting match was held at
Charlestown yesterday. Among
the prizes offered was live canvas
back duck which had been cap
tured uninjured and given to the
Charlestown gun club.
The public school at North East,
which was closed last Friday owing
to the epidemic of measles and
scarlet rash, has again been opened
by order of DIR. Howard Bratton,
secretary of the Cecil county Board
of Health.
The Woodlawn Y will hold a
ssGeorge and Martha Washington
reception" at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Cullen this evening.
Refreshments will be sold and the
proceeds devoted to the HOpewell
church carpet fund.
A patriotic entertainment will be
held at the Mt. Pleasant M. e.
church this, Friday, evening at Z
O'Clock. Prominent speakers will
be in attendance and many bene-
fetal organizations will take part
in the exercises. Everybody in
vited.
An entertainment consisting of
dialogues, tableaux, music, &C.,
will be given in Butler school
house, Friday evening, March l.,
by the friends of Ebenezer M. E.
church. Admission zoe. Proceeds
for church improvement fund. If
stormy, next fair evening.
Henry J. Briscoe has filed objec.
tions to the confirmation of the
trustees sale of the Briscoe farm,
held Dec. s. The objections are
that the price was "grossly mad
equate" and that the place was not
properly advertised. A. l.. Duyck-
inck was the purchaser, for $l3, 900.
Miss Sallie Carter, of Cherry
Hill, while on her way home from
church Sunday, was run into by a
team driven by George Ward. She
was knocked down and both wheels
passed over her body, injuring her
severely. She was carried to her
home and is still confined to her
bed.
The will of Mary Ann Pluck,
which now becomes operative since
the death of her husband, Stephen
Pluck, last week, who had a life
estate, names DR.. G. NJ. Ellis Of
Elkton, as executor and devises hel
property, real and personal to hel
three grand daughters, Laura E
Clark, Mary Clark and Elizabeth
Clark, of Delaware.
The remains of James Sewel
Ford were brought from Church
Hill, Queen Anne's county, to st
Stephens cemetery, Cecil county
for burial. He was a member o
the we'll known Ford family Of
lower Cecil county. His father
the late Stephen H. Ford, at on