The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-04-04
NTY NEWS
Friday, April A 1902.
MINOR


of the diocese of Easton will con
vene in Elkton June 3.
John Gordon, of Elkton, ha
been granted an increase of pension
from So to $40 per month.
The W. G. 7. U. will meet will
Mrs. Edwin Reynolds on Thursday
April 10th, at 2:30 O'Clock.
A maddog was killed in Calver
on Sunday. The animal came
from the neighborhood of Blue
Ball.
The Galena, Kent county, colored
population have formed an asso
citation for the purpose of burying
their dead.
The old Bay farm of $40 acres
near Havre de Grace, has beer
sold to Frederick Schnizlein, Of
New York, for $4,000.
The pipe organ of Tome Memorial
church has been removed and will
be replaced by new one which
will be run by water power.
Prof. William Kershaw, of Ger
mantown, Pa, has sold his farm,
near Banks, Cecil county. to J. L.
Stewart, of Delaware, for $1,000.
The trappers on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland report the musk
rat season, which closed on the 31st
of March, as being Improbable.
While handling revolver on
his farm near Elkton, on Sunday,
Herbert D. Litzenberg was shot in
head and seriously, if not fatally,
wounded.
Commencing with April 9th the
hour of Sunday school at the M.
E. church will be changed from
2:3O in the afternoon to 8 O'Clock in
the morning.
1t is reported that a compromise
is likely to be effected in the suits
of Professors Peck, Trnitt and Ran
dali against the Jacob Tome Insti-
tute for 800, 900 each.
L. Marshall Haines, mortgage
of Lee Garrigues Lightfoot, deceas
ed, sold at public sale last Friday
the farm of 1113 acres, near Calvert,
to S. G.. England, for $4050.
Young Friends Association will
be held next Sabbath in the Town
Hall. Il. r. Burlington will give
second talk on "Growth and De-
velopment of Religious Thought"
The warehouse of Keys & Miller,
at Elkton, has been considerably
damaged by a freight car crashing
through the end of the siding which
comes to an end against the building.
Out of list of 1O7 applicants
for the position L. w. Ashton, of
Cecil county, was chosen to super
intend the experimental farm at
Eagleville, Montgomery Co., Pa.
While at play with her older
sister Carrie Backof, aged seven
years, daughter of Joseph Backot
of near Elkton, had the index
finger of her right hand severed at
the second joint, one day last
week.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil
county last week, the suit of
Charles Gathers VS.. the P, w. &
b. railroad company for $4,000
damages, removed from Hartford to
Cecil county, was removed to Kent
county for trial.
Alexander M. Perry, until re-
Gently uperintendent of Cecil
Paper Mill, near town, has secured
a position with the Michigan
Paper Co., of Grand Rapids, Mich,
and left Rising Sun last week to
assume his new duties.
Holly Smith, a Tome Institute
boy, fell from horizontal bar and
broke his wrist, while practicing
in the gymnasium at Port Deposit
one day last week. This is the
second accident to have occurred at
the gym within two weeks.
A number of young men of Elk
ton have organized a Glee Club
with the following members: John
P. Evans, DR.. Stanley Steele,
Charles N. Tull, Lewis G. Spring
er, Henry Green, Daniel Terrell,
Carroll Edgar and Mr.. Zoebel.
The drawbridge over the Chesa-
peake and Delaware canal al
Chesapeake City, Cecil county, was
damaged Monday by a traction
engine. Traffic through the canal
was suspended on account of the
accident and a large number o.
boats were tied up at Chesapeake
City.
At a mass meeting held in Elk
ton Monday night the following
candidates were nominated to bt
voted for at the municipal election
of that town on April IA: Fol
mayor, George McQuilkin and A
M. Strickland; city councilmen
Alfred Davis, J. Frank WitwOrth