The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-11
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, July Ill 1902.
MINORLOCAIS

lied at Port Deposit. The member
ship fee is five dollars.
Messrss. Coale & Nesbitt are
building a culvert over the north
branch of Basin run, near Colora
Miss Margaret T.. Rogers, o.
Lombard, has been appointed prin
cipal of Rosebank school, Calvert
Benjamin W. Buckley, Of Rising
Sun, has been granted an increase
of government pension to $40 pei
month.
Lightning killed a horse on the
farm of Henry Emery, near Elkton,
during the heavy storm, on Thurs
day of last week.
The Fourth passed off in Rising
Sun with plenty of noise and nc
mishaps. Two DRINKS were assess
ed by Squire Taylor.
A carrier pigeon was recently
caught at Colora which had on it a
brass ring marked V No. 1852, and
a silver ring marked No. 665.
The Usher's Union of North
East M. e. church realized $3.50
by their fair and festival held in
that town on July 4th and 9Th.
The farm of w. Fl. Lynch, near
Ebenezer church, was sold on
Tuesday at assignee's sale, to DR..
p. B. Housekeeper, of North East,
for $4,000.
The steam barge Charles Thomp-
son, which was badly damaged by
fire recently at Chesapeake City,
is being repaired at Deiberts' boat
yards, Elk Landing.
The taxable basis of the town of
Elkton is: Real estate 81, 169,5O5
personal property, 1926, 74O, max
ing a total of$1 1896, 245. The town
tax rate is As cents on the 500.
The Columbia & Port Deposit
railroad company has been petit
toned for better service between
Conowingo and Perryville, by its
Cecil and Hartford county patrons.
The ladies of West Nottingham
Presbyterian church will hold "A
lawn fete in the grove on Friday
evening, July IS. Proceeds for
benefit of the missionary society.
Rev. W. w. Shaw, for seven
years pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Port Deposit, has accept
ed a call to the Govanstown Pres
byterian Church, in Baltimore
county.
Elkton was without gas Sunday
and Monday rights, the result of
a broken water pipe flooding the
retorts.-News.
Where were all the politicians
lawyers?
Joseph Slack, Z year old son of
John Slack of Iron Hill, was badly
burned about the face on the
premature explosion of a large fire
cracker. 1t is feared the sight of
one eye is affected.
T. Herbert Cummings and Harry
Woodrow have purchased the wheat
crop, about thirty acres, and
tomato crop, of five acres, on the
property of the late Alpheus
Crothers, deceased, near Oak wood.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted by Baltimore parties for the
starting of a shirt factory at Chesa.
peake City as soon as sufficient help
can be secured. The establishment
will give employment to twenty
five hands.
The members of the Ebenezer
M. E. choir will hold "Conun-
drum Supper on Saturday eve,
ming, July 10Th, at A. L. Gifford's,
College Green, to which all are in
vited. If stormy, the following
Monday evening.
Rev. A. S. Mowbray, pastor of
the Tome Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church, Port Deposit,
has been invited by the official
board to return for another confer
ence year, and has been granted a
vacation of two months.
A lawn fete will be held at the
home of VIM. Clifford, "Cloverly,n
near Pennington, Thursday eve
ming, July II. Proceeds for the
benefit of the Rising Sun NJ. E.
church improvement fund Should
the evening prove unfavorable, the
fete will be held the following
evening.
Woodlawn camp grounds are
being enclosed by high wire fence,
and this year the charging of a
small fee for admission on Sundays
will be inaugurated, instead of TAX
ing up collections. Camp will open
on Thursday, Aug. Z, under charge
of Rev. R. w. Todd, of Hopewell
M. e. church, and continue over
two Sundays.
The local preachers and exhort-
ers camp at Leslie, Cecil county,
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