The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-03-08
COU NTY NEWS
Frida v, March 8 1901.
MINORLOCALS

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wheat.
Seven tickets were sold at Rising
Sun station for the Inauguration
last Monday.
The proposed trolley line from
West Chester to Oxford is again
being agitated.
On the night of the Goth oil
March the sun enters the sign OF
Aries and Spring begins.
Benton Alexander, of Whining
ton, has bought the general store of
James Ewing, at Blake, for $1,000.
Wake Richey has sold his house
and lot in the village of Pilottown
to Mrs. Priscilla Brown of that
place.
The Diamond State Telephone
Co. contemplates laying a cable
across the Chesapeake Bay, from
Love Point to Baltimore.
The annual meeting of the Cecil
County Medical Society will he held
in Elkton on April 10. Officers
will be elected for the ensuing year.
The real estate of the late Hiram
Shallcross, situated in North East,
was sold on Saturday to IT. w.
Shallcross and John Dunlap for
$4,000.
A large freight barge with a
capacity of 800 tons, built for
Dempsey Sons & Co., of Philada.,
was launched at the Dibert boat
yards, Elk Landing, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Howard,
of Zion, have issued invitations to
the marriage of their daughter, Ida
Bell, to Edward Fl. Seth, on
Thursday evening, March IA, at
eight O'Clock.
James G. Smith, a Kent county
farmer, recently noticed myster
ious falling off of the milk of one of
his cows, and on investigation dis
covered she had adopted couple
of pigs to raise.
Mr.. Ross Smith, of Zion, acct
dentally stepped off his porch and
fell one day last week. He had an
open knife in his hand at the time
and the blade penetrated his wrist,
severing an artery.
Corporal Aron Grosh, Co. B, 9th
Regt., U. S. ", is on his way home
from the Philippines, having left
Manila on Feb. 10. The Corporal
is Cecil county boy, being "a son
of Warren r. Grosh, of near Elkton.
VIM. d. Phillips, track walker
on the B. & o. railroad, was struck
at Leslie Station on Monday by
west-bound train and seriously and
perhaps fatally injured. His arm
was broken and head terribly cut.
He was removed to Wilmington
hospital for treatment.
The very latest trolley talk is
that upon the completion of the
line between Chesapeake City and
Elkton the road will push on to
Iron Hill and will there connect
with the line out of Wilmington,
which will pass through the towns
of Newport, Stanton and Newark.
The artesian well that is being
drilled on the Fair grounds for the
Elkton Ice Company, had reached
depth of one hundred feet last
week. At a depth of ninety feet
pine knot was brought to the sur
face. A good problem for EIkton
High School geological class to
speculate on.
The entertainment given in But.
Ter school house, near Pennington,
on Friday evening last, was very
successful, 81 90 being cleared by
the venture. The entertainment
will be repeated this evening in
Bay View hall. Admission, zoe.
Proceeds for the benefit of Ebenezer
church improvement fund.
A musical and literary entertain
ment was held in Oak Grove school
house last Wednesday evening and
drew a full house. The program
was highly entertaining and con-
sisted of musical selections by the
Rising Sun Glee Club, solos, recita-
tions and club swinging and elected
frequent encores. The proceeds,
amounting to about rs. so, will be
devoted to the school library fund.
Sneak thieves piled their voca-
ton in the vicinity of Cooch's
Bridge last week. On Tuesday
night they visited Delaware Clark IS
but were scared away by the dogs.
They then went to Thomas Dayett's
and removed sash from kitchen
window, entered, built fire and
prepared themselves a meal, OF
which the partook, but did not
carry anything away with them OF
any great value. The next night
they repeated this performance at
Thomas Wright's.-News.
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