The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-11-28
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Nov. 2s, 1902.
MINORLOCALS

VIM. G. Armstrong has sold the
Raub Hotel in Quarryville to w.
M. Eshleman of Buck, for $13, 800.
Rev. E. E. MADEIRA, of New
York, has been been called to st.
James Episcopal church, Port De-
posit.
The damask works of Melville
Gambrill, at Havre de Grace, are
to be enlarged, as the business is
growing rapidly.
Eugene Haines. has during the
past week shipped several carloads
of poplar wood from his farm to
the pulp mill in Elkton.
Mrs. Helen d. Hartford, state
supt. Oregon W. G. T. u, will
speak in Rising Sun M. E. church,
Thursday evening, Dec. 4.
While cutting wood at his home,
Port Deposit, Wednesday evening,
Robert Glover, colored, dropped
dead from heart trouble.
The Tome Institute football team
met defeat on the gridiron at An
napolis last Saturday in a game
with the plebe midshipmen. Score
10 to 0.
John Keilholtz, assistant at the
railroad station, is quite i'll with
typhoid and his place is being
filled by Ira Cochran of New
London.
The granite portion of the Pres
byterian Church in Port Deposit
is about finished and if good
weather is prolonged it will not be
long before this handsome edifice
is finished.
S. T. Ford, humorist and imper-
senator, will give an entertainment
in Mt. Pleasant M. E. church on
Saturday evening, Doth inst. Ad-
mission 25c.
A Government engineer visited
Elkton on Monday for the purpose
of inspecting the Elk river channel,
for the dredging of which contract
was recently awarded.
The Cecil County Medical Society
held a meeting in Elkton Wednes-
day After they adjourned the
members were entertained at lunch
by DIR. Howard Bratton.
The canning house at lakewood,
which was operated by G. A. An
drews, of Hartford county, has been
leased for next year to William Nc
Cam, of the same county.
The case of DIR. James G. Nc
Kenzie VS.. the trustees of the Tome
Institute, removed from Cecil to
Kent county, will be called for trial
at Chestertown on Monday next.
Mark Founders who has been
employed as clerk in Eli T. Rey-
nolds' drug store, has taken the
position of book keeper in the Ma
tional Bank of Rising Sun and en-
tered upon his new duties on
Monday.
"The Methods and Form of Farm
Accounts" with illustrations and
explanations, will be presented by
Prof. Stevenson, of Tome Institute,
before the Cecil County Farmers
Institute this winter.
Rev. A. F. Hess will deliver a
lecture in Bethel M. P. church on
Sunday evening, Nov. 80. Subject
"Woman AS We See Her." Ad-
mission, 10c and zoe; proceeds for
benefit of the church.
J. Duke Downs, of Denton, Md,
has been appointed examiner of
State banking institutions, to sue
coed Col. William E. Griffith, who
was both national and State bank
examiner until recently.
Boyd & Harnish, of Chestnut
Level, have moved their sawmill in
to the woods on the farm of T.. 81.
Reynolds, north of town, where
they will cut the heavy timber
into lumber, railroad ties, etc.
Rev. G. W. Prettyman, D. D.,
pastor of Brandywine church, has
been invited to become pastor OF
Elkton M. e. church next confer.
ence year, to succeed Rev. r. K.
Stevenson, wholhas accepted an in
vitation to become pastor of Scott
church.
The Baldwin Manufacturing
Company, which has been operat-
ing the plants of the Elk Mills
Company, at Banks, this county,
has contracted for a large textile
mill at that place, and work has
begun. The new mill will be 5Ox
80 feet, two stories and of stone.
The residents of the Ninth dis.
trict, in the vicinity of Calvert and
Zion, have petitioned for a free
rural mail delivery route, to start