The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-02-01
Tomorrow is .'Ground Hog Day. Z

den for Cecil county.
a mad dog was killed in Elkton
on Wednesday. One was also kill
ed at Lombard on Tuesday.
The fountain Hotel, at Como
wingo, has been sold to j. Bostic,
who will open it in the spring.
Fred @. Numbers has been APP
pointed postmaster at Massey,
Kent county, vice F. ]. Devnish,
resigned.
Hiram Mills, Of Warwick, and
Ernest Vancourt, of Bay View,
have been committed to the Cecil
County Almshouse.
Harry E. Giles, son of VIM. T.
Giles of Elkton, has been reappoint-
ed to a position in Government
printing Office at Washington.
The Jos. T. Kirk property, near
Rising Sun, consisting of acre Of
land and dwelling, was sold at
trustees sale on Tuesday, to J. F.
Shea, for $3.50.
| During the heavy wind Monday
afternoon the top was blown off of
a box car while crossing the Sus-
quehanna river, on the B. & O..
bridge at Frenchtown.
Philip Gordon, a colored inmate
|of the Cecil County Almshouse,
died in that institution last week
from the infirmities of old age, he
being 80 year old. He was farm
hand in the Elk Neck section of
the county for fifty years.
The family of Oliver Charshe, Of
Perryville, is much afflicted. Mr..
Charshe has just recovered from an
ATTACK Of typhoid fever, three Of
his children have the humps, one
the pneumonia, and his wife is
confined to her bed with blood
poisoning.
The B. & O. railroad company is
filling in with. earth around the
steel trestlework which spans the
deep gorge of North East creek,
near Leslie. The work will re-
Equire several months as the earth
lis obtained from Foy's Hill, four
miles distant.
The remains of Ernest Ell. Rob-
erson, who died in Manila hospital
Dec. 81, 1892. arrived in Rising.
Sun last Friday evening. Funeral.
services were held at the home of
his father, w. T. B. r. Robertson,
on Monday, and interment made in
Brookview cemetery.
Secure your tickets for the Inn
perial Hand Bell Ringers in Rising
Sun hall on Friday evening, Feb. s.
Besides carrillon of Ito bells the
performers are experts on the man
dolin, either, banjo and harp, and
are unexcelled in either capacity.
Tickets on sale at E. T. Reynolds
drug store.
The fishermen Of the ELK, North
East, Sassafras and Bohemia rivers
do not favor the changes Of the
fishing laws, as proposed by the
executive committee of Ihe Mary
land State Game and Fish Asso
citation. The Cecil county fisher
men claim the proposed changes, if
passed by the Legislature, would
be disastrous to them.
The annual meeting of stock
holders and directors of the Cecil
Fire Brick Co., of North East, was
held on Friday, Jan. %. The af
fairs of the Company were shown
to be in a gratifying condition.
The following officers were elected ::
Prest., Joseph Condor, of Henry;
secretary, treasurer and general
manager, Wilson L. Coudon.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of o.
toraro M. E. Church, will hold an
oyster and chicken supper at the
home Of VIM. Dinsmore, on the
read leading from McKinsey mill
to the Cecil County paper mill, on
the evening of Feb. 10th. If the
weather should be uufavorable it
will be held the first fair evening.
You had better come and par
take of the delicious supper that
the ladies of Octoraro will prepare.
Other refreshments will also be
served. f. MACK.