The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-08-01
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, August 1, 1902.
MINORLOCALS

over |OO was IedllZeu ny III
Union M. e. church, near Fremont
at their recent festival.
Nathan Briton has improved
his residence on Main street by the
erection of a front porch.
Mrs. w. r. Burlington and Mrs
Nellie Wagner had night blooming
cereus to bloom last week.
The Jacob Tome Institute will
build large steam laundry on the
heights above Port Deposit.
The Epworth League of Zion M
E. church realized about $25 by
their festival held last week.
The Cecil county Teachers In
stitute will be held in Elkton
beginning Monday, Oct. 9th.
The Oakryn Cornet Band netted
the sum of $50 by their festiva
held on Saturday evening last.
Quite a number of young people
from this vicinity were in attend
ance at Leslie camp on Sunday.
Miss Annie Jackson, of Wood
lawn, has been appointed principal
of Chestnut Grove public school.
The old wooden flume at the flour
mill of Jethro johnson & Co., al
Bay View, has been replaced by
an iron one.
Mrs. Charlotte M. Newell, of the
Jacob Tome Institute, has been ap.
pointed member of the Maryland
Library Commission.
Chas. H. Haines, former resi-
dent of this town, and Frank Eble
have formed co partnership and
purchased drug store in Hazleton.
The farm of Henry A. Wright,
containing 40 acres of land, neal
Iron Hill station, was purchased
last week by Edgar Hops for
$1,000.
Howard D. Jackson, Perryville's
crack shot, made a record at the
shoot in Baltimore on July II,
breaking 100 out of 1O2 targets
shot at.
According to the figures given
out by Comptroller of the State OF
Maryland, Cecil county has 1854
scholars in the registers of the pub
lie and private schools.
While cutting timber in A. l..
Duyckinck & Co.'s wood tract on
Pigeon Hill yesterday, the choppers
felled a tree in the wrong direction
and break in the telephone service
resulted.
Warrants were issued Monday
afternoon for the arrest of Louise
and Hannah Morrison, of Rowland
vile, charged with assaulting their
sisters Elizabeth and jeanette
Morrison.
C. G. Pusey, of Havre de Grace,
has received an order from the
Cramp Shipbuilding Company, OF
Philadelphia, for a number of life
boats for vessels being built at the
Cramp yards.
School Examiner Biddle, at Elk
ton on Tuesday conducted examina-
lions for free scholarships at West
ern Maryland College, Washington
College, Maryland Institute and
the State Normal School.
Prof. w. C. Stevenson, editor OF
the Jacob Tome Monthly, publish
ed by the Jacob Tome Institute,
has resigned and has been succeed
ed by Prof. Geo. Bancroft Fernald,
of the English Department.
William Harrigan and John
Magaw, of East Nottingham, Pa,
have been awarded $75 and 500
damages respectively for land con,
demned for a roadway to be
opened through their farms.
A colored man by the name o.
Lewis Gasby was killed at the
Walker Clay yards, Hockessin
Del, last week. Lightning struck
a derrick against which he was
leaning, killing him instantly.
Comptroller Herring last week
made the apportionment of the
State appropriation of $3.50, 900 fol
the purchase of school text book;
for the various counties of The
State. Cecil's share is: white
schools, $2,O36.64; colored, $60l. 2S
Mark Founders, who until re
Gently filled position in the drug
store of Eli T. Reynolds, and later
went to Burlington, N. j., where
he is similarly engaged, has secur
ed the appointment of principal o
New London, Chester county, High
School.
We have received from Director
III. J. Patterson, of the Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station
valuable maps of the soil survey
of Cecil, Kent, Calvert and st
Mary counties. The maps embrac'
comprehensive description of thu
phYsiographY. geology. climate