The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-08-14
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Aug. IA. 1903.
MINORLOCALS

position III the Office OF the railroad
station at Rising Sun.
Lincoln University is already lay
ing plans for the celebration of its
fiftieth anniversary next year.
J. Groome Steele has been ap.
pointed teller of the Chesapeake
City National Bank, succeeding R.
i. Morgan.
Twenty tickets were sold at Ris-
sing Sun station for the excursion
to Atlantic City Wednesday morn
ing, the train leaving here at 5.23
O'Clock.
Maynard Shippers, daughter of S.
T. Shippers, sustained fractured
leg on Wednesday by fall from
the platform of her fathers ware
house at North East.
William Clayton, one of the old
est residents of the Ninth district,
sustained severe injuries by fall
from the porch roof of his home
near Calvert recently.
The ladies of Calvert W. G. T.
U. will hold a festival at that
place on Thursday evening, Aug.
20. If stormy on above date festi-
val will be held following evening.
About $4,000 was netted by the
Sheriff's sale of lumber, shingles,
etc., levied on by the creditors Of
G. II. Messick, of Cecilton, who
skipped by the light of the
moOn.n
Evan Miller was arrested in Elk
ton Friday night, about midnight,
while trying to enter the residence
of William 7. Warburton, presi
dent of the Second National Bank
of Elkton.
An Italian laborer fell from a
derrick in the McClenahan quar-
ries, at Port Deposit, last week,
and sustained such serious injuries
that he was sent to q Baltimore
hospital for treatment.
Mrs. Jacob B. Cazier has been
elected president, and Miss Mary
A. Brown secretary of the recently
organized Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union at Glasgow. The
Union is in a fourishing condition
G. G. Caldwell has purchased Of
Misses Mary and Elizabeth Morri-
son II acres of land, near Rowland
vile, for $4,000. The Misses Nor
rison have in turn purchased a
house and lot near New Valley from
VIM. A. Boyd for 1000.
The Orphans Court on Tuesday,
passed a final order dismissing the
petition of DIR. S. P. Nickle relative
to the disputed account of Hannah
j. Nickle, eXecutrix of W. w.
Nickle, involving 81, 15O, alleged to
be due petitioner as heir of the
second wife of testatCr.
Chester A. Kirk, who for some
time has been employed by the
Illinois Leather Co., at Whining
ton, has been appointed super
intendent Of their plant at Newark,
N. j., and will enter upon his new
duties in few days. Mr.. Kirk
was formerly of near this place.
Myrtle NJ. Griffith, wife OF
Benjamin Griffith, committed sui
eide at her home at Chatham, Ches-
ter county, ON Friday last, by cut
ting her thrort with sharp knife.
Her mind had been affected fol
some time. She was % years OF
age, and leaves beside her hus'
band, two small children.
One of our young men lost his
watch between Rising Sun and
Woodlawn Camp grounds, or
Saturday evening last. Getting uI
early the next morning he drove
over the same route and had the
good fortune to find his timepiece
lying along the roadside, neal
Barnes cross roads, still ticking of
the minutes and having sustained
no damage.
The Western Union Telegraph
Co., which has refused to transmit
commercial service from any of the
towns along the Baltimore Contra
since its trouble with the Pennsyl
vania system, has reOpened offices
at West Grove, Kenneth Square
Swarthmore and Oxford.
Rising Sun is still without tele
graphic service, with no prospec
of an early establishment of thu
same.
While returning from Wood
lawn Camp on Sunday night DR.
John Dennis, of Perryville, wa
held up by two men, who demand
ed his money. Instead of complying
with the demand, the veterinary, be
ing a man of more grit than fear
alighted from his vehicle and pre-
pared to make good his claim OF
his valuables, whereupon tn
would-be highwaymen took to tn
woods.
Squire Taylor had case befor