The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-04-25
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, April % 1902.
MLNORLOCALS

May Day will be celebrated at
Carpenters Point On Saturday,
May 3.
The warm wave this week en-
cOuraged fruit trees to put forth
their blossoms.
John A. Morgan has been COM
missioned second lieutenant of Com
pany E, First Maryland Regiment,
of Elkton.
A fire broke out near North
East on the Elk Neck side, on April
IS, and burned over hundreds of
acres of woodland.
A good crop of Strawberries is
promised, according to reports from
the upper counties of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland.
The warehouse and cannery, near
Colora, owned by Logan Bros, has
been purchased by Mrs. r. l..
Christie for $4,000.
Adam B. Keen has received
from Illinois a finely bred pointer,
Kent. She is two years old, en-
titled to registry and well trained.
The North East High School and
West Nottingham Academy base
ball teams will play on the Academy
grounds on Saturday, May 10.
Arthur Bryde, of Principle, has
been appointed, by the County
Commissioners, road supervisor
for the Seventh election district.
Fire broke out Friday afternoon
on the third floor of Odd Fellow s
Hall, Elkton, but was extinguished
before it gained much Roadway.
Daniel Davis, son of John Davis
of Baldwin, died at the Insane
Asylum, Cherry Hill, on Wednes-
day, of last week, aged 81 years.
The Oxford Agricultural Society
has distributed catalogues for the
Spring Fair to be held on the
grounds f the Society in that town
on June 4, 5, and 6.
The Great Council, Improved
Order of Red Men held it's sixty
seventh annual session in the
Opera House, at Elkton, on We'd
nesday and Thursday of this week.
An Aid Society has been formed
by the ladies of Mt. Pleasant M. Z.
church with thirty members. Mrs.
Willett was elected president of the
society and Mrs. Jas. Buchanan
treasurer.
Jos. T. Riale is erecting two
story frame addition to his cream
cry, near town, preparatory to in
stalling additional cream watts,
made necessary by an increase of
business.
Ernest Walker, a Port Deposit
lad, fell from High street into the
terraced back yard of DR.. S. G.
Fisher, in that town one day last
week and sustained a fracture of
of his left arm.
Benjamin Briscoe represented
Excelsior Lodge, I. o. o. F., of
Rising Sun, at the annual meeting
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
which held its sessions in Baltimore
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day of this week.
The work of examining the dis
puted ballots cast at the recent
election has been started in Elk
ton. The work when completed
will be submitted to the Judges of
the Circuit court who will decide
whether or not recount shall be
had.
Rev. w. W. Shaw, pastor of the
Port Deposit Presbyterian church,
whose relations with the church
were dissolved at the sixty fourth
stated meeting of the New Castle
Presbytery, held last week, will
preach his farewell sermon on Sun
day, May IL.
The signal tower at Perryville
was set on fire Tuesday afternoon
by spark from a passing engine,
and the roof of the building burned
off before the flames were extin-
guished by the railroad employees,
Train service was delayed for half
an hour as consequence of the
fire.
Frank Poplar, of Perryville, was
fined $500 and cost last week for
drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct, and in default of payment
was committed to Elkton jail.
While intoxicated he acted dis
orderly about the station at Perry
vile and kicked the panels Of a
door through.
Mark Founders, who has clerked
in Rising Sun Pharmacy for the
past three years, has secured a
position with Geo. 7. Williams,
druggist, of Burlington, n. j., and
will leave Rising Sun in week or