The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-01-16
NEWS.
Friday, Jan. 16. 1903.
,MINORLOCALS

nights, attract large numbers oil
lovers of the sport to Hunters dam.
Thomas Weaver of lakewood,
butchered a Ia months old pork Ell
last week which weighed 54S lbs.
George Sutton, of Perryville, was
severely injured by the bursting
of his gun while hunting one day
last week.
Adam B. Keen reports having
shod rs horses the first three days
of this week, at his smith shop in
this town, which he thinks about
beats the record.
The American Ice Company,
which has storage houses at Perry
vile, Frenchtown and Havre de
Grace, has everything in readiness
for the ice harvest on the Sus-
quehanna.
The search for the body of En-
gineer Askew, who was hurled
from the cab of his engine into the
Big Elk creek, near Elkton, on the
3rd inst, has been abandoned for
the present.
The Cecil County Medical Society
will be addressed by DR.. John B..
Beaver, of Philadelphia, on the
subject of Appendicitis, at its meet
ing in Elkton on Thursday,
January %.
The Parker Concert Co. gave a
delightful entertainment in the
town hall last Monday evening and
Notwithstanding the extremely cold
weather well filled house greeted
the performers.
Defective fues caused slight fires
at school No. in Elk Neck, last
week, aud the colored school house
near Zion. Both fires were discov-
cred and extinguished before much
damaged was done.
The continued cold weather has
made the ice harvesters happy and
those in the neighborhood with ice
houses have filled them with a fine
crop, some of it between nine and
ten inches in thickness.
Jos. I. Riale, proprietor of Ris-
ing Sun creamery, paid his patrons
80 cents a pound for butter during
the month of December. This is
the high water mark for butter in
this section for several years past.
The Ladies Aid Society of Octo
raro M. E. church will hold Duck
Social at Eben Riley's near Octo-
raro P. o., on Thursday evening,
Jan. %. Everybody invited. If
stormy, will be held the following
evening.
The Sylmar correspondent of the
Oxford Press says a rumor that a
Cecil countain intends to open a
hotel at that place, on the Chester
county side of the town, is filling
the air of the village and neigh
bOrhood.
The Oxford Manufacturing Com
pany has sold the separator which
has been manufactured by them in
the past, to the World Cream Sepa-
rator Company of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, who will put the machine ON
the market in future.
The initial number of The Prob
lem, paper devoted to the inter-
est of the colored race, made its
appearance in Elkton last week.
Rev. Joseph Gwynn, Of the A.
U. M. p. church is the editor OF
this Journalistic venture.
Tuesday morning was the cold
est of the winter, thermometers in
the neighborhood registering as
low as 80 above zero. One Their
mometer, which had been hung in
an exposed position as an expert
ment went down to 80 above.
The railroad improvements in
progress on the P, B. & w. road
at and near Elkton include the in
stalling of interlocking switches
and automatic signals, erection of
new towers and the laying of a
third track south of the town.
The residence of A. W. Cochran,
near Sassafras, was totally destroy.
ed by fire on Sunday night. The
family narrowly escaped. Fire also
destroyed the residence of G. S.
Biddle, near Sassafras. Mr.. Coch
rams loss was $1,000, with $4,000
insurance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Reynolds
entertained the Rising Sun Euchre
club on Tuesday evening. Five
tables were played, Miss II. Marie
Kirk and DR.. T. B. Moore winning
the honors for the evening. The
next meeting will he held with
DR.. and Mrs. 7. B. Moore on the
9th instant.
A Farmers Institute will be
held in Rising Sun hall on Satur-
day, Jan. "a; at Zion, Monday,
Jan. 26, and at Cecilton, Tuesday,
Jan. ~. The meetings will be ad,