The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-01-03
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Jan. 1902.
MiiH Or LOCAIS

A target shoot will be held or
The Rising Sun club grounds or
the Sth.
The w. G. T. U will meet with
Mrs. Edwin Reynolds on Thursday
Jan. 9th, at $50 o'clock.
A series of protracted meetings
will begin at Rising Sun M. E.
church on Sunday evening next
Ward Brown has been awarded
the contract for grading for the new
siding at A. l.. Duyckinck & Co. Is
warehouse.
The Laurel, Del, shirt and over.
all factory was destroyed by fire
on Tuesday morning of last week
Loss about $40, 600.
Geo. r. Grason has leased the
Maryland House to w. j. Adams
of Unicorn, Pa, who will take
possession April LIST.
Young Friends Association meets
in the town hall next Sabbath after
noon. All who are interested in
religious culture are invited.
The tribe of Red Men at Oak
wood held smoker and handed
around the pipe Of peace in their
wigwam on New Years night.
The German American Vaude-
vile Goa "patent medicine"
shows billed for a two weeks
run in Rising Sun, commencing
this evening.
The Mackinson farm, in the
Fourth district, near Cherry Hill,
containing 80 acres, has been sold
at private sale to Samuel Houston,
of the Fourth district.
Sheriff McAllister on Monday
took Albert Fisher, colored, to the
House of Correction where he will
spend a winter vacation of three
months for the larceny of ducks.
John M. Thomas, of Philadelphia,
executor under the will of the late
Mary S. Bayard, ON Tuesday dis
tributed in the Orphans Court for
Cecil county, $13,5S4.11 among the
heirs.
Miss Virginia Clendenin, 12-year-
old daughter of Frank Clendenin,
of Colora, was caught in the ma
chinery at the mill of Clendenin &
Brother on Friday, breaking her
right arm.
While carrying her small grand
child Mrs. John Reed, of Chesa-
peake City, fell down flight of
steps, one day last week, but other
than some bad bruises, neither were
seriously hurt.
The members of Martha Wash
ington Council No. s., ID. of L., of
Calvert, rendered a birthday sur
prise to their newly elected treas
urer, Mrs. Mary A. White, on
Wednesday evening.
On Christmas night some I'M
known parties entered the sheep
fold of Charles J. Bayard, of North
East, butchered sheep and carried
away the dressed carcass, leaving
the hide and head for the owner.
A large rock on the hillside above
the railroad track, near Bald Friar,
was loosened by the rain and fell
on the Columbia q Port Deposit
tracks Saturday night. The OBJ
stacle was removed by a heavy
charge of dynamite.
The History of Hartford county,
by w. w. Preston, a member of
the Hartford bar, has been issued.
1t is volume of nearly 400 pages,
neatly printed and illustrated,
and contains many legends and
calends of much local interest.
Comptroller j. w. Herring made
the quarterly distribution of public
school tax to the white and colOred
schools in several counties of the
State and the city of Baltimore on
January 1. Cecil county will re-
ceive $3,076.36 for white schools,
and 690.72 for colored schools.
AT the meeting of the Peninsu-
la Horticultural Society, to be held
at Berlin, Md, on Jan. 8, 8 and 10,
among the subjects to be discussed
which will interest farmers and
fruit growers will be crimson clover,
cow peas, potatoes, tomatoes, APP
pies, pears, plums, grapes and
other small fruits.
Fire in the dwelling of William
Smith, of Oxford, on Christmas
eve did considerable damage but
was extinguished before it had as
sumed large proportions. The fire
started on the second floor in a
bureau drawer, it is supposed from
piece of burnt match dropped un'
noticed.
A family of Italians consisting Of
the husband, wife and three small
. children arrived in Avondale or
Monday evening by train. In at
tempting to walk across the rail