The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-09-13
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Sept. LIB 1901.
MINOR LOCALS


lawn, has five horses on the sick
list.
The dates for registration OF
voters are October 1 and s. Octo.
Der Is is revision day.
Miss Helen Eaton. of Warwick
has been appointed teacher in the
Odessa (Del.) Academy.
George Dean, of near Elkton, on
Tuesday purchased for 50, 100 the
224 acre farm of Mrs. Sarah e.
Ward, of Cherry Hill.
Oxford Fall Fair will be held
Sept. 25, 26, 81. An unusually
fiae display is promised this year.
See adv. in another column.
John Harvey has been moved
from section gang on the railroad
at this place, having been promot-
ed to boss of the Colora section.
The September meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club will be held at
the home of the president, A. j..
Kitchener, on Wednesday, 18th inst.
A negro founding, aged Is
months, died at John Turner's last
Saturday and was buried at West
Nottingham Friends buring ground
on Sunday.
At the reopening of Asbury M.
e. church, near Blythedale, the
sum of $40 was raised on the debt
of $500 against the church for re-
pairs and refurnishing.
A carp weighing 203 pounds and
measuring two feet, seven inches
from tip to tip and eleven inches
across, was caught in the Chesa-
peake Il Delaware canal last week.
Roman J. Tammany, formerly a
teacher in this county, and at one
time school examiner of Sussex
county, Del, has been appointed
government inspector of schools in
Porto Rico.
The work of dredging in the Elk
Creek has been completed. A
channel 40 feet wide with a depth
of s feet at low water, has been
made from Morgan shore to the
Elkton wharves.
Miss Sara Gilligan, daughter of
Capt. and Mrs. e. l.. Gilligan of
Oxford, has been appointed prin-
cipal of Lock Haven, Pa, Kinder
garten. The young lady is grad
nate of Tome Institute.
During a severe electrical storm
Tuesday night the summer resi-
dence of Capt. 7. S. Her, at Ches-
apeake City, was struck by light
ming and damaged. Captain Iller
and his family were more or less
shocked, but not injured.
Friends Normal Institute opened
on Monday under the principal
ship of Miss May Barton, with Miss
Maude Kirk a. sistant, Is pupils
being in attendance. At the pub
lie school there were 81 pupils.
Miss Emma Haines is principal,
and Miss Minnie Brickly assistant.
A free fight occurred at the col
ored camp meeting near st. Angus
tine, last Sunday. Pistols and
razors were freely used and one
negro was wounded. Deputy
McAllister with the assistance of
others rounded up several of the
rioters and lodged them in Elkton
Jail.
Samuel Stephenson, colored, has
been sentenced by Magistrate Gil
pin, of Elkton, to the House of Cor
rection for nine months, on the
charge of carrying concealed weap-
ons at st. Augustine camp meeting
on Sunday last. Garfield Hyson,
Oh the charge of selling liquor with
out license, was held for the grand
jury.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Leopold, of
Baltimore, while on an ''auto" trip
met with hard luck when near
Nottingham, Pa. The machine
suddenly became unruly and had
to be towed to Nottingham station
by mule power and shipped by rail
for repairs. The tourists were com.
PEELED to take a three mile .jaunt on
foot.
Linnie L. Body, two year old
child of VIM. Boyd of lakewood,
was found dead in bed on Monday
morning. About two months ago
the child fell from a wagon, alight-
ing on its head, but it had appar-
emily recovered and no alarming
symptoms were shown before its
death. lnterment was held at
Penn Hill on Wednesday.
Winter l.. Wilson, C. E., M. S.,
son of the late John T.. Wilson,
Esq, of Elkton, who for several
years has been an instructor in
Civil Engineering at Lehigh Uni
Versity, Bethlehem, Pa, has been
elected Professor of Civil Engineer
ing ut the Tulane University of
Louisiana, at New Orleans, and