The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-08-23
COU NTY N EWS.
Friday, Aug. %, 1901.
MINORLOCALS

Saml. Wentz property at Harris
vile.
An order of the Daughters O
Liberty is to be instituted at Ches
apeake City.
Hog cholera is depicting the pi.
pens of Kent county farmers to al
alarming extent.
Kent county farmers are exper
imenting with COW peas and Sojs
beans as fertilizers.
Thieves broke into Wilmer Bird;
spring house on Monday night ant
removed eight gallons of milk.
Henry S. White and Jas. NJ. Hol
den this week received car load
of artificial ice from the Avondale
plant.
A department of Manual Train.
ing is to be added 70 the Hayre dc
Grace High School at the beginning
of the school year.
Edward T. Taggart, of Elkton,
has rendered his resignation as Sec
ond Lieutenant of Co. Z, First
Maryland Regiment, of that town.
Mrs. George Bristow, of Phila.,
formerly Miss Eva Smith of Cecil
county, will institute divorce pro-
ceedings against her husband upon
the ground of cruelty.
Mrs. Mary A. Thompson who
was severely hurt by a fall some
time ago, fell again at her home
Thursday. Fortunately, this time
she only sustained a slight shaking
up.
The straw ricks on the farm of
DIR. G. M. Ellis, in Elk Neck, were
destroyed by fire on Thursday
morning of last week, spark from
the threshing engine being the
cause.
Rawlinsville Camp Meeting at
tracted several visitors from Rising
Sun on Sunday last. The heavy
dOwnpour Of rain, however, spoiled
the day and sent everyone home
early.
Marley Paper Mills, on the Lit.
tie Elk, near Elkton, have been re
fitted with the latest improved ma
chinery and resumed operations
this week. The capacity of the
mill has been greatly increased.
Sixty eight tickets were sold at
this station for the last Colchester
excursion on Thursday. Owing to
a wreck at Oxford, the train was
delayed and the boat did not leave
Perryville until after eleven O'Clock.
The Rising Sun telephone ex.
change, which is located in Rey-
nolds' Pharmacy, has been trans
ferred from the control of the Della
ware 4 Atlantic Co., to that of the
Diamond State Telephone Co.
While loading a wagon with
gravel from pit near Mechanics
Valley last week, the two sons of
of w. G. Bouchelle had a narrow
escape from being buried alive.
The bank cayed in and completely
severed the wagon, but the men
escaped injury.
Ralph Bush, aged II years, son
of Ellsworth Bush of Jarrettsville,
Hartford county, fell from load of
straw Monday afternoon and was
crushed to death. The rear wheels
of the wagon passed over his stom-
aoh crushing him so severely that
he died within an hour.
George Wilson and Frank John,
son, the two negroes who were
arrested at North East on the
charge of stealing bicycles of Saml.
Friedman, of Port Deposit, were
given a hearing before Magistrate
Gilpin of Elkton, and held under
$500 bail each for Court.
The Bpworth League of Tome
Memorial church, Port Deposit,
held a straw ride to Woodlawn
Camp last week. Tickets were sold
for seats on the tally-ho, the pro-
ceeds going into the Leagues
treasury. Thirty five of the Leag-
ners participated in the jolly event.
The dredging machine of the
Atlas Dredging Co., Baltimore, is
al work dredging the channel of
Elk creek. Work was begun near
Morgan's shore and will be pushed
towards the Elkton wharves. The
length of the excavating will be
about 2600 feet, the channel being
made 40 feet wide and eight feet
deep. The Scott Fertilizer Com
pany and the Radnor Pulp Com
pany, of Elkton, are having the
work done.
Early Thursday morning track
walker, Cecil Davis, discovered
lying along the tracks of the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Ralti-
more railroad near Elkton, the
mangled remains of a fairly well
dressed man. The head had been en-
n