The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-10-18
COUN TY NEWS.
Friday, Oct. Is 1901.
MIN >RLOCALS

by the supper held by the ladies of
the West End Chapel, near Elkton.
A disease similar to hog cholera
is killing porkers in large numbers
in the neighborhood of Dover, Del.
A program is being arranged for
a big shoot on the Rising Sun Gun
Club grounds, on Thanksgiving
Day.
Work is progressing at the Klon
dixie diggings, near lakewood. The
pits are being cribbed to prevent
caving.
Jos. T. Riale is arranging to
erect a 35foot brick stack at his
creamery, to replace the present
shorter iron stack.
The Cecil County Sunday School
Convention will be held at Ches-
apeake City, on Saturday and Sun
day, October 26 and 81.
Zion and Rock Presbyterian
Churches will shortly extend call
to Rev. James L. MacLane, at pres
ent stationed in Chester, Pa.
A cable was laid across Chesa-
peake bay, last week, from Love
Point to Sandy Point, by the
Diamond State Telephone Co.
T. J. Wilson, agent for the heirs
of Ann L. Kirk, decd, will sell
real estate, in and near Rising Sun,
on Nov. See adv. in another
column.
Tickets for the course of enter
tainments to be given in Rising
Sun hall this fall and winter, will
be placed on sale at E. T. Reynolds
tomorrow.
VIM. J. SINNERS, executor of
VIM. Dorsey, decd, will sell farm
ing implements and household
goods at public sale, near Green
hurst, on Oct. 80.
On Saturday morning last John
Regain, farmer of that neighbor-
hood, fell on the stone steps of the
Elkton creamery and was badly
cut and bruised about the face and
forehead.
Rev. George Woolsey Hodge, of
Philadelphia, has purchased from
John M. Thomas, executor of the
will of Mary S. Bayard, ffty-seven
ground rents in Chesapeake City,
for $1S12.15.
Passmore & Gillespie, of Noting
ham, have rented of w. W. Car
ter his warehouse at Barnsley, and
will run it in connectsOn with their
warehouse business at Nottingham
and Sylmar.
Ten native African youths have
entered Lincoln University. A
number of them will be educated
for the ministry. Eight of the
youths are well versed in the
English language.
Twelve baskets of apples from an
orchard of fifteen acres, was the
crop gathered by Recorder of Deeds
Clark, of Glasgow, Del, this. Over
1000 baskets were gathered from
the same trees last year.
A number of fruit trees and
flower bushes in this section, which
usually bloom in the spring, are
having a fall Towering spell this
season. Miss M. Emma HaineS
has lilac bush which is now in
blossom.
Abutments are being built for a
bridge to span Conowingo creek,
on the road leading from lakewood
to Grubb's Corner. The structure
is to replace the one washed away
during one of the heavy floods this
summer.
H. Branch Patten has purchased
a building lot from A. L. Duyck-
inck & Co., fronting on East Main
street and Iadjoining.. the Jas. E.
Haines property. He contemplates
the erection of dwelling in the
near future.
The October registration for the
Sixth district resulted as follows:
New names added, 81; stricken off
deceased, Is; transferred, %;
removed, Al; total taken off, 81.
Total'number of registered voters
in the district, 1856.
The evening train, south, on the
Baltimore Central Division, ran
into two COWS which had strayed
upon the track at Barnsley, Tues
day, killing one and injuring the
other. The animals belonged to A.
r. Bowman of Barnsley.
On Wednesday afternoon of last
week, the barn, granary and sheds
on the Morrow farm, near Pencader
station, Del, were destroyed by
fire, together with contents, con-
sisting of 16 tons of hay, 400 bush
els of wheat, farming implements,
etc. The loss is partially covered
by insurance. The origin of the
fire is unknown. 1t was only by