The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-05-10
COU MTY NEWS.
Friday, May 10. 1901.
MlNDk LOCALS
Town election next Monday.

There continues to be lots Of
trolley talk in Elkton and vicinity
but no work so far.
A government pension of SIS pei
month has been granted Lewis
Money, of Glasgow, Del.
Mrs. Geo. S. Mattingley, of Will
mington, spent several days this
week with Mrs. Mary q. Kirk and
family.
Woodlawn Campmeeting will
open on Tuesday, Aug. 6, and not
July 80 as announced in last week. Is
JOURNAL.
The ladies of the Elkton Presby-
terian Church propose holding Il
cake sale every Saturday afternoon,
from 2 to 4 o'clock.
Misses Rosa Caldwell of Liberty
Grove, and Anna Sherman OF
Luray, Va, were the guests of Miss
May Barton this week.
The Trustees of North East M.
E. Church have adopted plans for
extensive alterations and addition
to their church building.
Fred G. Wilson of this town is
filling temporary position as
draughtsman for the McClenahan
Bros. Co. at Port Deposit.
Samuel A. Hindman purchased
at mortgagee's sale on Saturday,
20 acres of land with improvements,
near Liberty Grove, for 81 300.
May Day at the fishing shores on
Saturday last, attracted a large
crowd. Leslie Band was at Red
Point and enlivened the occasion.
The FELTON, House hotel property,
in Elkton, has been purchased at
private sale for $3.50 by Delphos
Price, who conducts the hotel bus
mess there.
Memorial Day ceremonies, by
Garfield Post, No. Is, G. A. r., will
be held at Calvert this year. DR..
T. A. Worrall OF North East will be
orator of the day.
The Home Mission social was
held at the NJ. Z. parsonage ON
Friday evening last and an enjoy
able evening spent by the large
company present.
DIR. Delmar Smithers, George X.
Houck, Charles Schaffer, b. f.
Benson and George Peterson were
elected Town Commissioners of
Chesapeake City on Monday.
A necktie social will be held at
the home of VIM. j. SINNERS this,
Friday, evening by Ebenezer M. E.
Sunday school. Ice cream and
other refreshments will be for sale.
DR.. joan S. Byers, of Green's
burg, Pa, has purchased from the
Peerless Brick Company, of Phila.,
the Welsh Point Farm ON the Elk
river, this county, containing Az
acres, for $4,000.
The..Peninsula Democrat, A. w.
Lightborn, editor, has been started
at Easton, Md. The initial num-
Der was issued May 8, and is an
eight-page, bright, newsy paper.
The Democrat has been made the
official medium of the Maryland
Democratic Association.
The officers of Zion Presbyterian
Sunday school, organized Sun,
day, May 5, are: Superintendent,
Edwin Carhart; assistant, Wilmer
Fox; secretary and treasurer, Cecil
Mackey; librarians, Robert Trim
BILE and Mearns Moore; organist,
Miss Katharine Rutherford.
Sunday night about 10 o'clock as
John Simpson was returning to his
home at Iron Hill, he was assault
ed by gang of negroes and robbed
of his watch and chain. One of his
assailants was recognized as John
Hammond and was arrested and
lodged in Jail Monday afternoon.
Rev. 0. w. Devinish, of Cherry
Hill, proposes in place of Whining
ton M. E. Conference meeting in
towns which extend invitations to
the ministers, that it shall meet in
Wilmington, each minister paying
his own expenses, instead of shar-
ing the hospitality of their hosts,
as in the past. Each congregation
might make up conference
fund for the occasion.
There was an exciting contest al
the Sixth district primary on Satur
day afternoon, between Saml. M
McCardell on one side and Benz
Briscoe and VIM. M. Pogue on the
other, all contesting for the sheriff
atty race. The Briscoe- Pogut
ticket won by vote of $40 to 1872
In Elkton, the Third district pri
mary was holly contested, and the
minority party claim that $4,000
was spent in purchasing primary
votes. The tloaters and politica
merchandise will increase the price
at the fall election.