The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-05-02

LIZ dffeStS uuFlnS tne pdSU year
at the county seat.
Miss Dora Morgan has been ap-
pointed by Governor Smith Notary
Public for Aberdeen, Hartford
county.
! Elkton's public drinking foun-
tain has been placed in position on
North street, in that town, opposite
the Count House.
The Griffith property, in Oxford,
adjoining that of the Farmers
National Bank, has been purchased
by j. d. Burn of that town, for
So, 800.
V. M. Torbert, of Elkton, will
install dynamo for the generation
of electricity for lighting the Wing
office and also the Opera House in
that town.
The latest trolley talk for the
lower end of Cecil county is the ex-
tention of line from Middletown,
Del, to Warwick and Chesapeake
City. The rails have not been laid
yet!
The North East town commits
sioners have placed a contract for
$4,000 paving brick with Eddy
stone, Pa, parties at 1876 per
thousand, and will lay new side
walks in their town with them.
Miss Ella l.. Garrison, of Chesa-
peake City, this county, has been
missing from her home since Mon
day evening last, and being in i'll
health and very Respondent it is
feared she may have drowned
herself.
A traction engine broke through
one of the small bridges near Leeds
on Monday morning and while little
damage was done it required con-
siderable hard work to get the
engine onto the road and in run
ming order again.
The Maryland County Shoot for
amateurs will be held at Prospect
Park, Baltimore, on May 81, % and
%, under the management of j. Mo-
well Hawkins. A number of Cecil
county shots will participate in
several of the events.
Ella May Jones and Frank Alex
ander, both colored, were married
at the home of the groom near
Rising Sun on Wednesday evening
April 30th, by the pastor of Trinity
A. NJ. e. church. About forty
guests were present to witness the
ceremony.
William N. Boggs, the Dover,
Del, bank defaulter who was sen
fenced on May 10, 1899, to five
years imprisonment in the New
Jersey State Penitentiary, was re-
leased on Friday last from that
institution, President Roosevelt
having committed his sentence.
Among the recent charters issued
under the laws of the State of
Delaware is one to the American
Packing Association organized in
Wilmington, which controls 1873
fruit and vegetable packing estab
lishments in Delaware, Maryland
and New Jersey. The concern is
capitalized under the sum of
So, 100000.
VIM. Davidson, of Hopewell
Cotton Works, had narrow es-
cape from drowning last Saturday
night. While returning from Ok
ford during the storm of that eve
ming he drove off the bridge near
Hopewell and but for timely assis-
lance of neighbor would likely
have persisted. AS it was crate
of pups in the wagon found a.
watery grave.
The sum of $4,000 has been
offered by VIM. P. Bancroft, of
of Wilmington, to Delaware College
for its removal from Newark to
Wilmington. The proposal is
made on condition that 1915, 900 be
raised by public contribution, so as
to provide the college with adequate
buildings. A majority of the
trustees of the college are opposed
to its removal
The following are the recently
elected officers of Hopewell NJ. E.
Sunday school: Superintendent, c.
S. Abrahams; assistant superinten-
dent, Miss M. o. Jackson; secre-
tary, Mrs. r. G. Terry; treasurer,
Miss Anna Kirk; Librarian, Miss
Annie Smithson; assistant librar-
ian, Eddie Brown; organist, Miss
Cornelia Abrahams; assistant organ
list, Miss Virginia Moore.
Rev. E. P. Perry, pastor of the
Methodist Protestant Church at
Leeds, Cecil county, was overcome
while fighting fire on Thursday of
last week. He was burning rubbish
on his place and the fire got beyond
control, spreading rapidly to an
adjoining tract of woodland. In
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