The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-08-29
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, August 30, 1902.
MINOR LOCALS

The fall term of West Noting
ham Academy begins Monday
Sept. Sth.
The Democratic primaries will
be held Saturday, from two tC
seven o'clock.
Thirty three tickets were sold al
Rising Sun for the Atlantic City
excursion yesterday.
A Sunday school has been organ.
lied at Conowingo with j. II. Har-
low as superintendent.
Shows Maryland Battery will
hold its fifteenth annual reunion at
Perryville, on Saturday, October
4th.
While at play in the yard of her
home at Zitn, on Saturday, Anna
Rittenhouse fell and fractured her
arm.
The sum of $114 was Melted by
the recent festival held by the
members of Rock Presbyterian
church.
The Farmers Institute will be
held at Black Barren Springs on
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept.
10 and IL.
Chas. B. Silver's canneries at
Rising Sun and Liberty Grove
were started this week. The to-
mato crop is extra heavy but is
ripening very slowly.
Strychnine, owned by VIM. G.
West of Sylmar, won fresh laurels
at the Lancaster races, taking the
2:17 event in 2:2O, 2:1S3, 2:2O.
Monday, Sept. LIST, is Labor's
Holiday. Governor Smith has is
sued a proclamation calling atten
tion to it's observance as holiday.
V. M. Torbert, of Elkton, has
made application of the County
Commissioners for the exclusive
right of posting bills in Cecil county,
but the Commissioners have failed
to grant the privilege asked.
III. J. Efing is building a two
story addition to the rear of his
dwelling on Main street, which in
cludes kitchen 14x1S feet, and
bath room SX12 feet. S. P. Ryan
Il Son have charge of the work.
A small child of one of the
Bohemian workmen at the cannery,
near town, fell from hay rigging
Monday while at play with some
other children and sustained a
compound fracture of one of it's legs.
The order of Maccabees recently
instituted at Elkton under the
name of Calvert Tent, has changed
its name to Big Elk Tent, owing to
the name Calvert Tent having been
adopted by another tent of the
order in the State.
The rail bird season in Cecil
county will open Friday, Septem-
Der 5. The birds are reported as
appearing in numbers on the
marshes and as the wild oats crop
is large this year the prospects are
bright for some good shooting.
The public schools of the county
will reopen Monday, September
s. Examiner Biddle's report shows
Cecil county has 102 school houses
and al teachers, with an enroll.
ment of 4437 white pupils and 925
colored,-a total of 1862 pupils.
Miss Jennie McKeeyer of the
Octoraro Hotel, Oxford, sustained
a severe accident Friday afternoon.
Her hair caught in the pulley of
a revolving fan, driven by steam,
and was wound in so tightly that
a quantity was torn from the scalp.
The Cecil Wing voting contest
was won by Miss Ella G. Lynch,
teacher of the Shawnah school in
Elk Neck, and Miss Flora Marsh
bank, pupil of the Elkton High
School, and as a result the young
ladies are spending a week at At
lantic City.
The carriage in which Nelson
James, of Providence, was riding
was struck by train and demolish
ed, one morning last week, but
its occupant escaped uninjured
James was driving across the rail.
road track at Keys & Miller's ware
house, Elkton, when the accident
occurred.
Havre de Grace is to vote on the
question of a 100000 bond issue
for the construction of new water
works for the town. The present
water supply is drawn from the
Susquehanna river, and if the new
works are constructed the supply
will be drawn from the hills back
of the town. a distance of two miles.
The team of Thomas Sollars
while hitched at Duyckinck & Go. Is
warehouse, Tuesday morning, took
fright and broke away. The run.
Always came up Main street at q
rapid rate. When in front of DR..
Dare'S residence. the rear wheels