The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-05-02
NTY NEWS.
Friday, May 2 1902.
MINOR LOCALS

Mrs. A. e. Reynolds on Thursday,
May Sth, at 2:30 o'clock.
The music of the cicada or seven.
teen year locusts will be heard in
this section during the present
month.
An Odd Fellows encampment is
to be organized in Ellzton composed
of members of all the Odd Fellows
lodges in Cecil county.
VIM. II. Caldwell, of Rowland
vile, and Jas. 7. Coale, of Pleas
ant Hill, have been granted govern
ment pensions of $l2 per month.
The Board of Liquor Licence
Commissioners for Cecil county met
at Elkton on Thursday to hear OBJ
jections to the granting of liquor
licenses.
Young Friends Association will
meet Sabbath afternoon in town
hall. E. r. Burlington will give
his second talk on the growth and
development of religious thought.
The public schools of the county
will be closed for the summer on
May 23rd. The High Schools
will be kept open week longer as
the teachers are paid fixed saleries.
Earnest Startling, a negro lad of
Elkton, while stealing a ride on a
train from that town to Newark
on Thursday evening of last week,
fell from the car and had both arms
broken.
G. w. Bowman has been appoint
ed postmaster at Theodore to sue
coed S. T. Hardness, resigned.
Mr.. Bowman recently purchased
Mr.. Harkness' store property at
Theodore.
County Treasurer William T.
Fryer has placed in the hands of
Sheriff w. T. McAllister for col
lection, State and county taxes for
the year 1901 to the amount of
about $4,000.
Clerk of the Court John G.
Williams has received the commits
sions from Governor Smith of the
Magistrates, Notaries Public, Elec-
ton Supervisors, etc., recently ap-
pointed for Cecil county.
The Cecil County High School
Alumni Association, of Elkton, has
elected Charles N. Tull president,
Miss Emma Lewis vice president,
Miss Reba III. Miller secretary, and
Miss Eva S. Dean treasurer.
President Little, of the Maryland
Methodist Protestant Conference,
has made change in the circuit in
Cecil county. Rev. A. A. Harri-
man has been succeeded by Rev.
A. Ell. Hess, of Westminster, at
Bay View.
The f. N. 1. base ball team
opened the season at West Noting
ham on Thursday afternoon of last
week, with the Academy boys, and
were taken into camp by them, the
score being West Nottingham, II;
F. N. l., 8.
Alta meeting of the pupils of Miss
Mary F. Gillespie's music class,
held at the home of Miss Alma
Keilholtz on Thursday evening of
last week the topics discussed were
the lives and works of Mozart and
Mendelssohn.
The old rolling mill at Rowland
vile, which has been refitted by
Logan Bros, will shortly be put in
operation manufacturing roofing
paper. The plant will be lighted
by electricity and run night and
day, giving employment to about
20 hands.
In our notice of Adam B. Keen's
finely bred pointer, Kent, last week,
we stated she was entitled to regis
try. Mr.. Keen states that his ca.
nine is not only entitled to registry
but is registered, and he has in his
possession the papers, properly en-
uOrSeu, TO snow Tor 1t.
The Tome Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church at Port Deposit,
of which Rev. A. S. Mowbray is
pastor, and which has been improv-
ed and handsome $4,000 pipe
organ installed, was officially open
ed Sunday, Bishop Cyrus d. Foss,
of Philadelphia, preaching the
morning sermon.
While unloading a car of drain
tile at A. L. Duychincll & Co.
warehouse on Wednesday, the
workmen discovered a small rattle
snake, about eighteen inches in
length, which showed fight and was
promptly killed. 1t is supposed
the reptile got into the car when it
was being loaded in Ohio.
Miss Margaret Shaw of West
Nottingham, in company with
lady friend, drove to Rising Sun
last Friday and left their team
standing in front of Bunington's
without hitching. The pony took