Middletown transcript., 1901-03-02
MY MARYLAND

WHllam 1. Gllee, a ieaQing Herchali
OF Elkton, is seriously i'll at his home OF
North street.
The first herring this year has beer
caught in Maryland waters by Captsir
James Coleman.
At meeting of the citizens of the
town of Howard Saturday night it wa:
decided to build town hall.
| A new altar, costing about 5000, has
been placed in st. Thomas Protestant
Episcopal Church, at Hancock.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church
at Massey's, will be dedicated on Sunday,
March Sd, with appropriate services.
Miss Jane Torbert, sister of Major
Henry R. Torbert, is dangerously i'll at
her home, on East Main street, Elkton.
The preliminary survey for the new
trolley road. from Chestertown to Rock
Hall and COLCHESTER will begin this week.
Mrs. William Foard, living near Mas
sey's who was bitten some time ago by
her pet cat, has gone to Baltimore for
| treatment
The February meeting OF the Womsn's
Christian Temperance Union of Wor-
cester county, was held in Pocomoke
City Monday.
The public school at Masseys was re-
opened Monday after being closed for
over week on account of the epidemic
of scarlet fever.
The Diamond State Telephone Co., has
extended their lines to Chestertown and
the first message outside of the town was
sent Saturday night.
John G. Smith, of Queen Anne's
county, has a milch COW that has adopted
two pigs to raise, allowing the shoats to
take her milk regularly.
McCaull r. Blackson, formerly of Kent
county, has been appointed chief clerk
in the Office of the Old Bay Line Steam
ship Co., at Hampton, Va.
A number of the leading ladies of
Centreville have organized an improve
ment association and elected Mrs. James
A. Mitchell as president.
Mrs. Hannah Moore, wife of William
H. Moore, prominent citizen of Colora,
Cecil county, died at her home, aged 50
years. Her funeral took place Tuesday.
The Chestertown strawboard mill was
compelled to shut down for several days
the past week, owing to so many of the
employees being sick with the grip.
The fine farm belonging to the Lyle
estate, situated at Welsh Point, along the |
Elk River, has been purchased at pri-
vate sale by DR.. E. H. Byers, of Phila-
delphia.
The annual fair under the auspices of |
the Talbot County Fair Association, will |
be held this year at Easton on Tuesday, |
Wednesday and Thursday, September "a,
25, and 26.
Andrew Toulson has had peculiar
and fatal disease to break out among his
hogs on his farm, in Kent county. Up
to the present time he has lost over a
dozen fine hogs.
The members of the faculty of the
Maryland Agricultural College were en-
tertained Saturday night at stag East
ern Shore dinner by Prof. Thomas Hum
phreys Spence at his home.
The work of filling the ice houses along
the Susquehanna river belonging to the
American Ice Company is now completed.
1t is estimated that the company has
stored over $4,000 tons of ice.
A timber agent has purchased from
Mrs. Rebecca Earhart walnut tree $50
years old on her farm, near Myerstown,
for $155. The tree is about four feet in
diameter at the trunk. The logs will be
shipped to Germany.
There are three surviving members of
Mosby's famous Confederate cavalrymen
residing in this State who, it is said, will
receive $4,000 each by the will of their
comrade, Baron Won Massow, who re-
Gently died in Germany, leaving an estate
valued at about 100000.
John E. Wilson, who was first lieuten-
ant in Company E. First Maryland Reg
iment of Elkton, during the Spanish
American war, is organizing company '
of militia at Centreville. Mr.. Wilson is {
an Elkton boy, but during the past year
has been postmaster at Centreville. ic
The will of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Pugh, Of
Port Deposit, mother of Joseph E. Pugh,
'f Philadelphia, who died on Monday,
February 4th, was admitted to probate
n the Orphans Court for Cecil county at =
Elkton Saturday evening. The estate,
which is valued at about 500, 1000, is left u