The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-14
COU NTY N EWS.
Friday, June Ia 1901.
MI.>.OR LOCALS

FESTIVAL amounted to $4Z.5O.
The hotel at Fair Hill, Fourth
district, has been reopened.
The Advance Club and the F. N.
l. will picnic at Riverview Park
today.
The Susquehanna Steamboat Co.
is building freight house at Port
Deposit.
Cows brought from 1886 to 1854 at
VIM. r. Smiths sale in Rising Sun
on Monday.
j. f. Eliason has been reappoint-
Ell fourth class postmaster at Mt.
Pleasant Del.
The June meeting of Cecil Farm
ers' Club will be held at J. p.
Wilson's on the 10Th.
The Chesapeake City people are
soliciting contributions for the
Jacksonville, Fla, sufferers.
The Sth District has been invad-
ed for poplar to supply material for
pulp at the Susquehanni paper
mills.
The Port Deposit M. E. Sunday
school will run an excursion to
Colchester, on the steamer Susque-
hanna, on Friday, Juue %.
The employees of the Elkton
pulp mills and also those of the
Deibert boat yards have received Il
10 per cent increase of wages.
The population of Baltimore City,
according to the State census is
515,57S, an increase of 1921 over
the Federal census of last year.
Jos. S. Pogue & Son have pur-
chased of Abner Carter for $4,000,
the Job Haines property, at pres
ent occupied by E. FL. Reynolds.
The Maryland Telephone and
Telegraph Co., of Baltimore, is
securing rights of way in several
towns of Cecil county to erect its
line.
Next Sunday, June Is, will be
Children's Day at Mt. Pleasant M.
Il. church. Children's services
will be held both morning and
evening.
The recital recently given at
Hopewell Cotton Works by Misses
Ella r. Haines, Mary S. Ryan and
Louie Wells will be repeated on
June IS.
Several freight cars loaded with
strawberries were derailed at
Townsend, Del, on Saturday night
and berries scattered in every
direction.
The Aid Society of Rowlandville
M. P. Church will hold a festival
in the basement of the church on
Friday and Saturday evenings,
June IA and Is.
The report of j. Harvey Groves,
the newly elected town treasurer of
Elkton, shows a balance on hand in
the treasury for municipal pur-
poses of $464.72.
Mollie Cooper, aged years,
daughter of Penrose Cooper of
Charlestown, was badly burned on
Thursday morning of last week by
her clothing catching fire from
coal oil stove.
An open meeting of the Bacon
ian Literary Society of the F. N. I.
will be held Friday, June 81, at 2
p. m., in the school room. Those
interested in the school are cor,
daily invited to attend.
A young son of Matthew Russell
of Bay View, had an experience
with torpedo last week which he
will remember. He was cutting it
with an axe when it exploded
taking off part of a finger.
The commencement exercises of
Washington College, Chestertown,
will be held on Wednesday, June
10. Frank G. Kirk, of this town,
is member of the graduating class
in the College Department.
The property of the Barksdale
Racing Association, consisting of 33
acres of land and improvements,
was sold at Sheriff's tax sale on
Thursday of last week, to John T.
Wilson, of Elkton, for $525.
The Children's Day services in
Rising Sun M. L. church last Sun
day evening were unusually inter-
esting and the little ones acquitted |
themselves like star performers.
The church was filled to over
flowing.
A musicale will be given in Ris-
ing Sun hall by Miss Mary F. Gil
lespie's pupils on Wednesday
evening, June 10. Tickets on sale
at Eli T. Reynolds drug store.
General admission, zoe; reserved
seats, SOC. Proceeds for benefit of
music library fund.
A colored association OF Elkton is
preparing to hold a public debate