The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-11-22
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Nov. % 1901.
MINORLOCALS

granary and wagon house on his
farm, near West Nottingham.
The annual session of the Della
ware Conference, colored, will be
held at Salisbury. Md, April 8.
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. %, will
be observed as a legal holiday by
the National Bank of Rising Sun
Mrs. Elizabeth Larue, of Port
Deposit has been granted an orig
inal Widows pension of IS per
month.
The annual banquet of the Ad,
vance Club will be held this even
ing at home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
NJ. Pogue.
s. Z. Clayton has rented the shop
on the j. E. Haines property, East
Main street, and will shortly COM
mence blacksmithing there.
The David p. Cameron farm,
containing 95 acres and situated
near Principle, was sold last week
to Miss Ellen Cameron for 50, 800.
The Women's Auxiliary Mission
airy Society of the Diocese of Eas-
ton met in Trinity Church Elkton,
on Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week.
Cecil J. McNamee and G. j.
Pierce, of Rowlandville, have en-
gagged to crop the farms of A. L..
Duyckinck & Co. the coming
season.
All friends of the Free Kinder
garteh will please bring their con-
tributions to the home of Mrs.
Gertrude Pogue On or before No.
vember 25th.
VIM. Brown is building large
ice house on his property adjoining
town, with the intention of supply
ing families with much needed
article next summer.
March 10 has been decided upon
as the date for holding the Will
mington Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference, at Crisfield, Md. Bishop
Isaac W. Joyce will preside.
The chicken and waffle supper
recently given by the ladies of St.
Thomas church, in Newark, was a
record breaker in point of receipts,
the sum of $1O0.55 being realized.
The minutes and history of the
Brick Meeting House Bicentennial
will be published in book form and
issued to subscribers about the first
of February. The edition will be
limited to about 800 copies.
The barn and straw stacks on
the farm of George W. Bright was
destroyed by fire on the 10th inst,
The fire is thought to have been Of
incendiary Origin. The farm is sit
uated near Newark. The loss was
So, 900.
Theo. Garvin received fine wild
turkey yesterday by express, from
Virginia, for his Thanksgiving din
ner. The bird was shipped by his
son Harry, who is employed at
millwrighting $40 miles from no,
where" as he describes it, in
the Old Dominion.
The first entertainment of the
course to be given in Rising Sun
hall this winter was given on
Wednesday evening 1t was the
picture comedy, "Too Rich to
Marry" presented by the author,
Edward Owings Towne, and was
greeted with a crowded house.
The citizens of Colora and vicin-
ity are circulating petition asking
for a new road through the land
of DIR. r. r. Crothers and Elwood
Balderson, the said road to con-
meet with the roads south and east
of the town the object being to avoid
Colora hill, which is too steep for
heavy hauling.
West Nottingham academy gave
the f. N. I. boys points on football
Wednesday afternoon, at West Not
tingham, the score being A to 0.
The Tome Institute football team
won its seventh consecutive victory
on Friday last by defeating the
Delaware College scrub team by the
score of 26 to 0, at Port Deposit.
Joseph Coudon, Democrat, who
was defeated for the House of Del
egates at the recent election by Josh
ua Clayton, Republican, by 81 votes,
is being strongly urged to contest
Clayton's election. 1t is alleged
that most OF the votes thrown out
in Cecil county were Democratic.
In the fourth district 40 democratic
votes were lost to the entire ticket
by errors in marking the comp
troller.
The Maryland Bankers Associa-
ton held its sixth convention in
Baltimore last week. VIM. II. War
bruton, of Elkton, was elected a
vice president of the association
and delivered an address before
the convention on Wednesday.