The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-10-24
COUNTY NEWS.
MlNORLOCALS

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son on Wednesday morning.
A council of the Daughters of
Libery is being organized in
Elkton.
Henry Mcdowell, of Principle,
has been granted a government pen
sion of $S per month.
Sixty probationers were received
into full membership Sunday last
at Elkton M. E. church.
Andrew A. Wilson, of Ceciton,
has been granted government
pension of Sc per month.
J. J. McCrery has purchased of
John G. Campbell, of near Noting
ham, three acres of woodland for
$3.50.
A meeting for final organization
of a Camp of Sons of Veterans will
be held in G. A. r. Hall this
Saturday evening.
The property of John A. Barker,
containing % acres, near Rising
Sun, has been sold at private sale
to W. o. Fowler for $1625.
Protracted meetings will begin
at Mt. Pleasant M. E. church, near
Colora, on Sunday evening next, in
charge of Rev. Harry Mitchell.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
Circle will hold a Chrysanthemum
Tea in the lecture room of the M.
E. church on tie evening of Friday,
Nov. z
Chalmer G. Reynolds has opened
a news stand at DR.. Kinks Drug
Store where a complete line of
weekly and monthly magazines will
be found.
The supper held in the academy
building at Zion, on Thursday and
Friday of last week, was a sue
cessful venture, 800 being realized.
The proceeds were for the benefit
of the Zion Presbyterian Manse.
Among the articles sold at the
Klondike Social held by number
of young ladies Of Bay View,
in Mechanics hall at that place on
Saturday evening, was handker-
chief presented by Mrs. Roosevelt.
A vacant room in dwelling at
Lombard, formerly used as the post
office, has been rented by the
trustees of Wood Valley school,
which was recently burned, and
will be used for school purposes in
future.
Mrs. III. II. Reynolds, of near
Porter's Bridge, has 10 year old
cat which is champion mouser.
Besides numerous rats and mice
caught it added to its list last week,
two weasels, which it brought to
its mistress.
A republican meeting will be
held in the Town Hall, Port De-
post, on Friday evening, Oct.
81, which will be addressed by
Hon. Philips Lee Goldsborough,
Hon. Thomas Parran, Hon. Henry
M. Mccullough, and William j.
Smith, Esq.
At Barrett's Chapel, Frederick,
Del, on Sunday, Oct. 20, the one
hundred and twenty second ami
versary of the chapel will be cele-
brated by the Wilmington Metho-
dist Episcopal Conference. Bar
rett's Chapel is known as the
"Cradle of Methodism' in America.
Editor J. M. Post, of the Elkton
Appeal, was the defendant in a
suit for $50 damages brought by
VIM. Z. Warburton, Esq, of Elk
ton, for annoyance caused by the
fumes from a gas engine used in
the Appeal printing office. Magis-
trate Gilpin rendered verdict of
S5 damages for the plaintiff.
1HC SAOotlhS oCdSou lol PAL :
tridges and rabbits in Cecil county
opens Saturday, Nov. 1, and closes
Jan. 8. The season is longer in
Cecil than in her adjoining coun.
ties of Kent and Hartford. In the
former the season opens Nov. 1,
and closes Dec. "a, while in the
latter it does not open until Nov.
15 and closes on Dec. IA.
A series of Anti-license meetings
has been held this week in the
Sixth district and dates and places
of meeting have been arranged for
their continuation next week. The
meetings have all been well attend
ed and much interest manifested
in them, the people of the Dis
trict seeming thoroughly aroused
and determined to vote the license
measure down next month.
Edward Wheeler Parker, Stats.
tician of the United States Geologi
cal Survey who has been appoint
ed one of the coal strike arbitra