Middletown transcript., 1901-03-09
MY MARYLAND


! !" ard county will be held at Ellicott City
:. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
10 Singerly Fire Company of Elkton, is
70 making arrangements to celebrate its
i tenth anniversary the 1st of next month.
is Scarcity of oysters has caused an ad-
n vance in price, oysters selling at so cents
h and upwards bushel to bay boats on the
t bay.
e The ice in the Susquehanna River is
d beginning to break up and the citizens of
d Port Deposit fear another disastrous ice
n gorge.
The County Commissioners for Cecil
e county have completed the work of re-
\ visiting the assessment of personal pro-
j., perty in the county.
. The members of Galena Lodge, I. O. O.
, F., celebrated the fftieth anniversary of
| their lodge Tuesday. The celebration
= was followed by big banquet.
, The Maryland Conference of the
: United Brethren Church convened in
Myersville, on Thursday, with Bishop
Kephart presiding.
Miss Maude Hunt Brown, of Sylmar,
Cecil county, and Elwood A. Reynolds,
of near Oxford, Pa, were married We'd
nesday evening at the home of the brides
parents.
An effort is being made to get the City
Council of Elkton to buy horses for usc
on the streets of Elkton and also to be
used by the Singerly Fire Company to
haul the apparatus to fires.
Invitations to walk up to the recruit |
ing office and sign for a three years en-
gagement with Uncle Sam at SIG per
month and board and clothes, are now
open in every section of the country.
A largely signed petition by citizens of
the Fifth district of Cecil county will be
presented to the County Commissioners
at their meeting in Elkton next Tuesday
praying for new public road from
Charlestown to North East
Perry J. Smith, colored, was arrested
while attending church in the town of St.
Michaels Sunday evening on the charge
of robbing the clothing store of Captain &
Kline. Smith was wearing new suit of
clothes he had stolen when arrested.
Manager Williams, of the Washington
College baseball team, has about COM
pleted his schedule for the coming season.
The schedule includes games with some
OF the strongest teams in Maryland, Del
aware and Virginia.
Thomas W. Straughn, one of the best
known farmers on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland, died at his home near Ingleside
Monday evening, after short illness from
pneumonia, aged 50 years. His widow is
also dangerously ill with pneumonia.
1t is likely that the Judges of the Mary
land Court of Appeals will appoint J.
Frank Turner as Clerk of the Court to
succeed ]. Frank Ford, deceased, as he
has the strongest backing for the position.
There are about dozen applicants for
the position
The new Masonic Temple in Ellicott
City, built by Patmos Lodge, was dedi-
Gated Monday evening. Several of the
grand officers were present, including
Grand Master Thomas j. Shryock. The
temple is one of the handsomest in Mary
land outside of Baltimore. II
1t is believed that the stockholders of /
the Chester Building and Loan Associa-
ton, of Chestertown, which was recently 1
wrecked by the late secretary and treas i
urer, Harry Hickey, who committed t
suicide, will receive about so per cent. of i
their deposits. a
The weekly newspaper proprietors S
over the State are quite exercised over il
bill before congress which requires |
the affixing of cent stamp upon papers v
directed to any person in the same town e
where the paper is published. The pro- l
prletors think that this would practically v
prohibit the use of the mails. fl
The difference between cat and lie. o
as Mark Twain once put it, is that a cat 81
has nine lives. A lie you can't kill. once t.
given fair start, deny it, contradict it I
kick it, it will pop up in the most unex- Ia
pected OF places, causing pain, vexation ii
and often ruin to the brightest lives n
And yet, you do not hesitate to tell them m
or give your help in pushing them along "
Mrs. Mary Howard, widow Of the late Us
Colonel George B. Howard, of EIkton fo
died at her home, the Howard mansion
in West Elkton, Tuesday, after short ne
illness from pneumonia, aged about 7s in
years. She is survived by four children W
George r. Howard, Mrs. John T. Lee al
Mrs. Benjamin Wells, of Elkton. and ca
Mrs. William O. Gilmour, of Baltim more of
The diocese of Easton, which comprises le'
Ill the Protestant Episcopal churches in pr
jecll, Kent, Talbot and Caroline counties gu
S soon to lose three of its rectors who an
lave accepted calls to other dioceses as
The Rev. William W. Kemball, of Church re-
Hill, goes to Deer Creek; the Rev Ed up
yard Benedict, of Princess Anne. goes to gu
'Wansea, Mass; the Rev. George s. Fitz- ISL
'ugh' OF Denton, goes to Howard county. nil
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a remedy for Nasal Catarrh which is ad
rylng and exciting to the diseased mam- int
rane should not be used. What is lea
eeded is that which is cleansing, sooth- for
ng' protecting and healing. Such a pic
emedy is Ely's Cream Balm. Price so wo
ents at druggists or it will be mailed bv the
.ly Brothers, 56 Warren Street. New saf
,ork. The Balm when placed into the ash
ostrils, spreads over the membrane and not
absorbed. A cold in the head yanishes its
uickly. it.
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More B. & 0..:Improvemeuts the
Inc Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is gre
lttlng IN numerous long switches on its are
hlladelphia division, some of them two wo,
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