The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-09-04
COU NTY NEWS
FRIDAY, Sept. 4, 1903.
MINOR

OpNh'
The public schools Of the county
open on Monday.
T. N. Hall, of Zion, owns freak
in the live stock line, it being a
calf born without tail
Miss Helen Stephenson, of Port
Deposit, has been appointed prin-
cipal of Rock Run public school,
Hartford county.
The outlook for reed bird shoot
ing is said to be good this year.
The season will open Saturday, the
9Th of September.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
social will be held at the home of
Miss Alice Clifford, near Farming
ton, this (Friday) evening.
The w. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Z. p. Haines on Thursday,
September 10, at 2:30 O'Clock.
The National Bank of Rising
Sun will observe Monday, Sept. z,
as Labor Day, a legal holiday.
The rummage sale held by the
ladies of st. Andrews Episcopal
church, near Fair Hill, last week,
Melted S47.
The Trainer farm of 176 acres, in
the Ninth district, was purchased
on Tuesday at asSignee's sale, by
the Tyson Mining Co., for 2,400.
Clarence Taylor, of Port Deposit,
caught a German carp, with hook
and line last week, which measured
8 feet in length and weighed % Tbs.
The MIDLAND acknowledges the
receipt of handsome bouquet of
chrysanthemum lowered asters
from Mrs. III. A. Atkinson. They
are beauties.
A meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Y. p. S. G. e. of
Cecil county, will be held in the
Elkton Presbyterian Church today,
September 4th.
Miss Emma E. Wilson, who has
conducted a millinery business in
this town for some years, has dis
posed of the same to Miss Mamie
Mccoy, of Delta.
Young Friends Association will
meet next Sabbath afternoon in
town hall. +. r. Burlington will
continue the talk on "Conscious,
ness and the Comforter"
A decree was passed in the Cir
cult Court for Cecil county, in
Equity, on August 3rd, granting
Laura r. Mercy an absolute di-
yorce from William B. Mercy.
A box car on the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington rail
road, at Elkton, loaded with mer-
chandise, was robbed of goods
amounting to about 500 one night
last week.
An effort is to be made to have
the next Legislature transfer Cecil
county's share of the public i'm
provement fund to the local treas
ury to be used for permanent road
work in the county.
John II. Armstrong claims $500
damages from the county, alleging
the new bridge at North East,
which takes the place of the old
one, is trespassing to that extent
upon his water power rights in the
creek.
The ladies and friends of Zion
M. L. Church will hold a festival
and bazaar on the church lawn
Tuesday evening, Sept. s. Ice
cream, cake and CONNECTIONS. Pro
ceeds for cemetery fence. If
stormy next clear evening.
The Oxford Times, published
semi-weekly at Oxford. Pa, has
been purchased by VIM. t. Dantz,
publisher of the West Grove indie
pendent, and will be consolidated
with that paper and issued from
the Independent Office after Sept. 10.
During the electrical storm which
passed over Cecil county the fore
part of last week, one of the freaks
bolt of lightning played was to
strike wire fence on the farm OF
Joseph Coudon, near Perryville,
and, running along it, shatter
thirty posts.
The operators at both ends OF
the P, B. & W. railroad bridge
between Perryville and Havre de
Grace, have been placed on an
eight hour service, the three opera.
tors at each tower taking theil
turns, the periods being from s a.
m. to 4 p. m; 4 to II p. M, and L.
to S a. NJ.
A. Parran Belts, of Baltimore
has been engaged as manager Of
DIR. l.. r. Kinks drug store and
assumed charge this week. Mr.
Belts comes highly recommended
and is unusually well qualified fol
the position, being a graduate Of
the Maryland College of Pharmacy