The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-21
COU NTY NEWS
Friday, Dune Fl 1901.
Ml&DK LOCALS
he longest day in the year.

An addition is being erected t.
the flour mill of Jethro johnson
Co., at Bay View.
The Day Basket Works, at North
East, has turned out to date 1000
dozen pea baskets.
The State Teachers Institute
will be held July 1,3 at Blue Noun
tain House, Washington county.
Treasurer of School Commission
ers, George Biddle, will send checks
for salaries to teachers ON Tuesday
next.
James Holland, of Elkton, has
been lodged in Elkton Jail on the
charge of selling intoxicating
liquors.
Alfred Kirk has picked about
1900 boxes of fine strawberries from
his patch this season, and the crop
is not yet done.
A strawberry and ice cream fes-
tival will be held in Mechanics
Hall, lakewood, this evening and
tomorrow evening.
The Elkton pulp mills are now
running day and night to their full
capacity. The new filter plant has
been put in operation.
Mrs. w. T. Harriott, of Chesa-
peake City, fell down the steps in
her back yard Monday morning,
dislocating her knee cap.
Diphtheria has made its appear
ance in Port Deposit and rigid
measures are being taken to pre-
vert the spread of the disease.
While putting the bride on a
horse Sunday afternoon, William
Arrants of Elk Neck, had the little
finger of his left hand bitten off.
Cecil county will receive, under
the quarterly distribution of public
school tax, $4lO5.94 for white
schools and $690.72 for colored
schools.
Diebert's boat yard, at Elk
Landing, has received a contract
from the Southern Transportation
Company of Philadelphia, to build
two large barges.
The heirs of the late John T.
BOwden on Monday transferred by
deed to John L. Burkins the lot on
North Queen street in consideration
of the sum of $500.
A government pension of So per
month has been granted George M.
ID. Racine, of Elkton. The pension
of George Shippers has been in
creased to $40 per month.
Dr. John S. Fulton, secretary of
the State Board of Health, made an
official visit to Port Deposit on
Monday and reports the sanitary
condition of the town bad.
Twenty five glass insulators on
the Diamond State Telephone Com
pany's lines, between Providence
and Lewisville, Pa, were destroyed
by some miscreant Monday.
A horse belonging to Jas. Abrams
of Bay View, fell over the bridge
way of the barn one day last week.
The animal was badly bruised and
shaft broken from the wagon.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Cook,
of Appleton, broke loose and ran
from that village nearly to Zion, on
Tuesday, before it became exhaust
ed. The vehicle was completely
demoli shed.
E. d. Jenkins, of Pennington,
lost his stallion this week. The
animal had been driven on Monday
and did not seem sick, but was
found dead in the stable on Tues
day morning.
The excursions from Baltimore,
on the steamer Susquehanna to
Port Deposit and Betterton, began
on Saturday last and will be
run regularly on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays.
James Bradfeld, of Perryvil!e,
has brought suit against Thomas
Gardner, of the same town, for $1OO
damages for the killing of a dog.
The case will be heard before JUS
tice Groves, in Elkton, next week
A. L. Crothers, Esq, of Elkton,
has been retained by the trustees
of Jacob Tome Institute as counsel
in the suits of DR.. Mckenzie. Prots.
Randall, Truitt and Peck, now
pending against the Institute fol-
damages.
The non;jury term of Circuit
Court for Cecil county convened il
Elkton Monday morning, and after
being in session about three hours
all the business was transacted and
the court adjourned until Septem
Der. Judge VIM. r. Martin pre-
sided, Judge Stump being absen
on account of illness.
The address to the graduating
class of Jacob Tome Institute, OF
June 25th, will be delivered by