The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-09-05
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Sept. 5, 1902.
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opened on Monday, LIST inst.
The W. @. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. S. Taylor Reynolds on Thurs
day, 18th inst, at 2:30 o'clock.
The festival held by the members
of Rowlandville M. p. church, or
Saturday evening last, netted them
about 500.
The ladies of Mt. Pleasant M
e. Church will hold a fair and
festival on the church lawn Sept
18th and 10Th.
Jos. D. SINNERS, of near Wood
lawn, had one Of his feet badly
mashed last week, by large stone
falling upon it.
Four dwelling houses in Elkton
belonging to Michael L. Realey
were sold on Tuesday, at trustees
sale, to John Frazer, for $17O0.
The September meeting of the
Cecil Farmers club will be held al
the home of M. G. Reeder on next
Wednesday, 10th inst.
The Young Ladies' Home Mis-
sion circle will hold its monthly
social at the home of Mrs. III. H
Reynolds, near town, this evening
r. T. Howard of Zion, who was
recently appointed to the free
scholarship at Charlotte Hall, st.
Mary's county has resigned the
same.
Owing to General Conference at
Asbury Park, Young Friends
Association of Rising Sun will not
meet until the first Sabbath in next
month.
Miss Flora B. Ash, of Elkton,
received first prize in the art de-
partment at the Colchester Fair,
held last week, for painting on
channels.
Armstrong, Squier & Co., are
building a new dam at North East,
near the covered bridge which
crosses the creek at the northern
end of the town.
Donald Lamdin, of Perryville,
purchased the Levi Hasson farm,
near Woodlawn, at public sale last
Monday. The farm contains 80
acres and was sold for $3675.
George Pierce, of near Octoraro,
discovered a nest of ten copperhead
snakes in his barnyard a few days
ago, and made short work of them.
Two of the snakes were over three
feet long.
Typhoid fever is causing consid-
cradle alarm to the citizens of
Avondale. There are now nine
cases in that borough, all of which
have developed with a few weeks
of each other.
William Freeman, of Elkton,
and Miss Laura May Houk, OF
Newport, Del, were married at
the Methodist Parsonage Wednes-
day evening, Aug. 81, by Rev. r.
X. Stephenson.
We are in receipt from Mr.. H.
FL. Haines of an illustrated booklet
of picturesque Kineo," one OF
Natures beauty spots on Moose
head lake, in Maine, where Mr..
and Mrs. Haines are spending a
few weeks.
Mrs. Eva Best, of Kinks Mills,
suffered broken arm as the re-
suit of a driving accident last week.
Her team was in collision with a
heavy farm wagon and she was
thrown from her buggy with the
result mentioned.
jeremiah Boulder, of Trainer,
was struck and instantly killed by
a northbound express on the p,
W. &. B. railroad in Wilmington,
on Friday evening last. The un.
fortunate man was a former resi-
dent of Cecil county.
Friends quarterly meeting was
held at Brick Meeting House, Cal,
vert, on Friday last, and was large.
ly attended. Among the speakers
of the occasion were Enoch Han.
mum, of West Chester, Edwin Buf
fington, of this town, and Mary H
Way of Oxford.
The public schools of the county
open Monday morning, September
s. Miss M. Emma Haines is prin
cipal of Rising Sun public school
and Miss Lidie Stewart assistant
Parents are notified that all chill
dren must be vaccinated and are
requested to have them enrolled OF
opening day.
The State Board of Education
placed on the pension roll las
week, .thirty-seven persons whC
have taught school in the State fol
twenty-five years. Miss Martha
Biddle and S. J. Tammany, former
teachers in Cecil county, are among
the pensioners. Each of those OF
the roll will receive 5000 year.
By the explosion of a boiler il
the canning hOuSe of AmbrO