The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-12-27
COU NTY NEWS
Friday, Dec. 27 1901.
MINiORLOCALS

was harvested this week from Hun
ter's dam, before the thaw.
The Home Mission social will be
held at the home of Misses Rhoda
and Emma Wilson this evening.
While skating on Friday of last
week Miss Maggie Burgin, of North
East, sustained a fractured arm by
a fall.
Chicken thieves raided the hen
roost of Hugh Thompson, of upper
Elk Neck last week and carried
off forty chickens.
The Bayard House, at Chesa-
peake City, was damaged by fire
one evening last week to the extent of
$50, by the explosion Of an oil
stove.
Thomas Shivery, of Elkton, has
been sentenced to six months in
the House of Correction, by Magis-
trate Groves, for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct.
Commissioner VIM. B. Davis has
filed an answer to the petition of
Geo. r. Spence, who asked for a
recount. He requests that the Pc
tition be dismissed with costs.
Augustus Howell, farmer of
near Charlestown, was relieved of
500 on Tuesday afternoon, by sew
eral of the "boys" while tuning up
for Christmas in the Elkton saloons.
The pupils of the F. N. 1. pre-
sented their principal, Miss May
T. Barton, with d handsomely
framed picture of Pharaoh's horses
at the close of school, for the holi-
days, on Friday.
S. P. Ryan & Son have been en-
gagged the past week in erecting a
belfry on West Nottingham Presby
terian church for the accommoda
ton of fine bell, the gift of
Jas. A. Gayley, of Pittsburg.
The recently organized First Dis
trict Detective Association of Cecil
county offers a reward of 500 for
the arrest and conviction of the
thief or thieves who recently enter
ed and robbed the store of E. S.
Short, at Cecilton.
DIR. r. r. Crothers announces
that he will be absent from home
four days each week during the
winter, having arranged to be in
attendance at John Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltic, where he will be
in touch with anything new in the
medical line.
A meeting of the Anti-Saloon
League will be held in Elkton to-
day for the purpose of framing Il
bill, if found necessary, to bring
local option before the voters next
fall. The call is for a mass meet
ing to be held in the M. e. church,
morning and afternoon.
Henry J. Briscoe was seized with
an attack of vertigo Monday eve
ming while standing on the porch.
He was taken in the house and par.
TALLY recovered within a short time.
Since then, however, he has been
confined to bed with pneumonia
and his condition is considered
somewhat serious.
The course of lectures by Rev.
Julian M. Buffum, under the aus
pieces of Minnehaha Lodge, at
Chrome, has been quite success.
Ten members were secured for the
Good Templars on Thursday eve
ming, and the Lodge has arranged
for the Jubilee, banquet and thirty
sixth anniversary celebration on
January 4th.
David Stirling, coiored, was cap,
tured Sunday night while raiding
the hen roost on the farm of David
Harvey, near Childs. Stirling has
been lodged in Elkton jail where
he will await trial, being thought
responsible for the wholesale raids
which have been made on the
poultry yards in the vicinity of
Childs recently.
A spelling bee was held at
Barnsley high school on last Thurs
day evening, with Miss Mabel Ped
rick and Eugene A. Reynolds as
opposing captains. The latter re-
ceived the first prize, a silver nap.
kin ring, and Miss Pedrick the
second prize, a solid silver paper
cutter. Hon. T. X. Stubs pre-
sented the prizes, with an appro.
pirate address.
Prof. Henry Tonkins, one of the
oldest, if not the oldest public
school teacher, in point of service,
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
has resigned as principal of Mil
lington, Kent county, public school
He has been teaching 43 years and
for the last 33 years has been con
nected with the MilliEgton school
Failing health Is the cause of hi'
resignation. Gilbert Q. Taylor, o
Queen Anne's county, will succeed
him.
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