The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-01-23
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Jan. 23 1908.
MINiORLOCALS

reported in the town of Port
Deposit.
The Oxford Hall Association has
declared a semi annual dividend
of three per cent.
The W. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Edwin Haines on Thursday,
Jan. Goth, at 2:30 O'Clock.
The Gerry farm, near New Val
ley, in the Sixth district, was pur-
chased on Saturday by Thomas S.
Gerry for 81 900.
DR.. Howard Bratton, of Elkton,
has been elected a member of the
executive committee of the State
Board of Health.
The public school at Hopewell,
Chester county, has not been open
ed since the Holidays on account
of the illness of the principal.
County health officer, DR.. How
ard Bratton, reports the total num-
Der of deaths in Cecil County
in 1902 at 1873. which is a decrease
of thirty from those of 1901.
Samuel Scotch, of North East,
met with peculiar accident last
week. While trimming trees his
axe struck a limb and rebounded
with such force as to break his arm.
The entertainment given by Prof.
Ford in Mt. Pleasant M. E. church
on Saturday evening last, was well
attended and the church realized
about ten dollars as its share of the
proceeds.
The engine of the northbound
passenger train, due at this station
at 7:16 a. M, jumped the track at
Perryville Wednesday morning,
causing delay of an hour in its
arrival here.
Fred A. Alexander, of Oxford,
who is a pheasant fancier, contem-
plates raising the birds on an eX-
tensive scale on his recently pur-
chased farm, near Nottingham,
Chester county.
Welcome Conclave, Independent
Order of Heptasophs, has paid to
the widow and two daughters of
the late Israel Gunkel, of War
wick, $1,000 death benefits on the
life of the deceased.
W. A. Mitchell and H. NJ. Nc
Cullough, trustees of the late DR..
III. III. Mitchell, have sold the Big
Elk Flour Mills, in Elkton, to
Davis & Vinsinger, the present
occupants, for $10,25O.
William r. Nelson, while cross
ing North street in Elkton, Satur
day night, was knocked down and
run over by a team driven by
reckless driver, and suffered the
fracture of his right leg.
During an alteration in the
store of Newton Nickle, at Row
landville, on Saturday, the proprie
tor put Thos. S. Gerry hors de
combat with an axe handle, Gerry
threatening him with a knife.
The kitchen of the farm house of
Glenn Wilson, near Oxford, was
damaged by fire one evening last
week, but fortunately the blaze was
discovered and extinguished before
bod ,,,noI, I, ao Il u,oy
Sixteen young Goldfish, which
measured about twelve inches in
length, were caught last week in
Chester river, near Love Point.
They are said to be the first speci-
mems of this fish ever seen in those
waters.
The Quarryville Hotel and the
old Cross Keys hotel property in
the town of Quarryville, Pa, were
sold last week by w. C. Armstrong
to Albert H. Fritz for $4,000.
The hotel will in future be con-
Quoted by Mr.. Fritz.
The literary and musical enter
tainment given by the pupils of
Oak Grove school, on the 14th
inst, was success in every re-
spect. About ten dollars was the
sum realized, which will be devot-
ed to library purposes.
The public school of this town
has grown to such proportions as
to require two assistants to the prin-
cipal, and the second one has been
appointed in the person of Miss
Ruth Brown, of Sylmar. Ninty-
two pupils are enrolled at the
school.
Joseph Simpson, colored, was
arrested last week at Glasgow, DEL,
and at a hearing in Wilmington
confessed to seven burglaries, COM
mitted in Wilmington, Newport,
New Castle and Glasgow. In de-
fault of bail the prisoner was COM
mitted to Jail in Wilmington.
Master of Hounds, Stephen
Krauss, had fox hunt on Satur-
day with VIM. j. Adams pack,
and after short run holed and
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