The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-04-19
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, april 1901.
MiNDR LOCALS

A manual training department
will be established at the Elktor
High School in the fall.
jeremiah Yost, of Pennington
has been granted an original gov
eminent pension of IS per month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. H. Reynolds
entertained few friends at six
O'Clock dinner on last Saturday
evening.
The Oxford Milling Company has
been absorbed by the Eastern Mill.
ing & Export Co., which is another
name for the Flour Mill Trust.
Six Chester county cows were
killed this week by order of the
State Veterinary, who pronounced
them afflicted with hydrophobia.
Benz. Briscoe is attending the
state session of the |. o. 0. F. in
Baltimore this week, the represen-
tative of Excelsior Lodge, No. 81,
of this town.
DIR. Bratton, of the Board of
Health, says that 40 per cent of
the children of Cecil county, under
school age, have never been effec-
lively vaccinated.
The w. C. T U. will meet with
Mrs. Amy A. Reynolds on Thurs
day, April 25, at 2:30 O'Clock. If
stormy the Union will meet with
Mrs. N. G. Brown.
West Nottingham Academy base
ball team will play Chesapeake
City High School on Saturday,
April 20, at West Nottingham.
Game called at one O'Clock.
The Local Preacher Association
of the Wilmington M. e. Confer
ence, has issued a call for its semi
annual convention to be held in
Ebenezer M. E. church, May "a,
% and 26.
Workmen are busy this week
placing in position in the National
Bank of Rising Sun the improved
burglar and fireproof safe recently
purchased, and also pair of steel
doors for the vault.
The pupils of Centre school, near
Fair Hill, will give an entertain
ment consisting of dialogues, music
and tableau, on Friday evening,
April 26. Admission 15c; proceeds
for benefit of the school.
Laura M. Wenzler, of Singerly,
this county, was on Saturday grant
ed an absolute divorce from Jacob
Wenzler, alias Brown, on the
grounds of unfaithfulness, in Cir
cult Court No. 2, Baltimore.
Engine No 1872 on the P, W. &
B. railroad, while shifting cars at
Elkton Sunday morning, ran
through a ground switch and was
thrown down an embankment and
partially demolished. The engi-
neer saved himself by jumping.
The Maryland Conference of the
M. P. Church, held last week at
Easton, made the following appoint
ments for Cecil county Bay View,
Rev. B, F. Jester; Leeds, Rev. E.
P. Perry; Rowlandville, Rev. J. E.
Maloy; Warwick, Rev. J. McLane
Brown.
At VIM. l.. Murray's second
public sale of general purpose
horses, held in Rising Sun last
Monday, good prices were realized
but did not equal those of his sale
two weeks previous. Sixteen head
sold for SLIP, an average of Sl07,
ranging from $40 to $146.5O.
AT the annual stockholders meet
ing of the Mccullough Iron Co.,
held in North East April 8, the fol-
lowing directors were elected for
the ensuing year: Henry Whitley,
Henry Tatnall, Ell. III. Haines, Geo.
w. Mccullough, Huxley Harvey,
w. G. Whitley and Martin e.
Walker. The company has had a
prosperous year.
G. M. Childs, of Wilmington, was
in Rising Sun on Saturday. Mr..
Childs has recently purchased the
Swisher farm near Rowlandville,
and also the residence at that place
which he built some years ago,
where he will reside. William j.
Boyle will farm the place. Mr.
Childs will remain in business in
Wilmington with the Delaware
Hardware Company.
The granite slab which is to be
placed at Cooch's Bridge, ten miles
from Elkton, to mark where the
American flag was first unfurled in
battle will bear the following in.
scription
The Stars and Stripes were first unfured
in battle at this spot,
COOCH'S BRIDGE, DELAWARE,
September g. 1777.
Erected by the Patriotic Societies and
Citizens of the State of Delaware,
September 5, 1901.
Several DAYS ago William Crow.