The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-09-19
COUNTY NEWS,
Friday, Sept. 10 1902.
MINORLOCALS


month has been issued to Araminta
Stout, of ElktOn.
A horse being driven by William
Stewart, of Zion, dropped dead in
the shafts one day last week.
The contract for building the new
bank at Chesapeake City has been
awarded to Levi o. Cameron, of
Elkton.
The W. G. T. U. will meet at
the home of Mrs. Edwin Haines on
Thursday afternoon, Sept. 25, at
2:30 o'clock.
Il. M. Hunt has sold his fine
farm of LAT acres, lying northeast
of town, to Abraham Kirk, of
Greenhurst, for $S0S5.
The Fall Exhibition of Oxford
Agricultural Society will be held
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
of next week, Sept. "a, % and 26.
A new dam is being constructed
at Ricketts, Touring mill, on the
Little Elk Creek, near Elkton.
The mill is one of the oldest in the
county.
William Mcclure, an employee
of the Cecil Paper Mill, had his
hand badly injured by its being
caught in the calenders one night
last week.
A number of city gunners hav
obtained nonresident gunners'
licenses, of Clerk Williams, under
the law passed by the recent session
of the Legislature.
John G. Marcus, of Elkton has
been granted a government pen
sion of $40 per month, and Sallie
E. Smith, of Port Deposit, a pen
sion of So monthly.
The Friends Normal Institute
opened on Monday with Miss
Laura Balderston, of Dolington, Pa,
as principal. Seventeen pupils are
curOIlcu DIT prcScuI.
School Examiner Biddle, of Cecil
county, delivered an address on
"The Study of United States His
tory" before the Teachers Insti-
tute of Somerset county, at Princess
Anne, on Tuesday.
Augustus Brumfield shot another
of his dogs on Tuesday which show
ed symptoms of rabies. 1t is
thought the animal was bitten
some weeks ago when one OF his
hounds ran amuck.
A small dwelling and three acres
of land, belonging to the late Jona-
than L. Groves, situated near
Harris Meeting House, was sold
last week at public sale to j.
Mark Groves for $3.50.
At the annual meeting of the
Woodlawn Camp meeting Associa-
ton held at Hopewell church on
Saturday, the old board of officers
was reelected with G. S. Abrahams,
of Woodlawn, secretary.
Grover G., the speedy PAGER
owned by G. R. Grason of this
town, has been entered for the
Highland Park races on Saturday,
the goth inst, and for the speed
trails at Oxford Fair next week.
The fall meeting of New Castle
Presbytery will be held at .Elkton,
on Tuesday evening, October 18th.
The meeting had been announced
to convene at the Rock church,
Cecil county, but has been changed
to Elkton.
s. J. Reynolds & Son filled their
large silo last week. 1t holds $50
tons and it took eleven acres of
very large corn to fill it. This
ensilage will be fed during the
winter to their fine herd of
HOlstein- Friesian cows.
An oil stove in the home of J. B..
Abrahams, Port Deposit, set fire to
the carpet of the room Saturday
afternoon, and but for the timely
discovery of the incipient blaze a
serious cOhagration might have en-,
sued. The damage was slight.
The military company recently
organized at Port Deposit will be
mustered into the First Regiment,
Maryland National Guard, with
the following officers: Charles
Buck, captain; E. B. Conner, first
lieutenant, and G.. Ross Hopkins,
second lieutenant.
The County Commissioners on
Thursday visited North East for
the purpose of examining the old
wooden brige which spans North
East creek at the northern end OF
the town. The citizens have ask
ed that the structure be replaced
by modern iron bridge.
The general store of E. A. Jack,
son, at Perryville, was broken into
one night last week and a number
of articles stolen. Sheriff McAllis.
ter made raid on a tramp's roost
the next day and corralled several
of the weary willies, whom he