The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-03-04

our roads.
The March term Of the Circuit
Court will convene at Elkton on
Monday next.
The court house at Bel Air,
Hartford county, is to be enlarged
and remodeled at cost of $25, 900.
The new Methodist Episcopal
church at New London, Chester
county, will be ready for dedication
on March 13.
The Hammond store property
and dwelling, in North East, has
been purchased by Chas. j..
Bayard for $1,000.
Julian R. Vandegrift, son of Mr..
and Mrs. George M. Vandegrift, OF
near Elkton, has enlisted in the
United States Navy.
Two of the mules of the teams
used for hauling to and from the
Cecil Paper Mill, died last week
from some unknown cause.
The family of Richard Rothwell,
of upper Elk Neck, is afflicted with
scarlet fever, five of his children
suffering from the malady.
Charles D. Jamison, former
resident of Elkton but now OF Will
mington, has been granted a divorce
from his wife, Kate Jamison.
Ex-State Senator Austin L..
Crothers, of Elkton, is spoken of as
the next Democratic Congressional
candidate from the Eastern Shore.
Shad fishermen in Cecil, Har
ford and Kent counties are making
preparations for the opening of the
season in the upper Chesapeake.
Postmaster Hambleton received
his commission from President
Roosevelt this week, his term of
four years more dating from Feb.
Is, 1904.
The cost to the State for the six
teen days special service of the
National Guard for patrolling the
burned district of Baltimore
amounted to about $40, 900.
Geo. A. Blake, ESQ.,, of Elkton,
whose term as School Commission
er expired this year, has been re-
appointed for another term of six
years by Governor Warfeld.
The congregation Of Mt. Pleasant
M. f. church, near Colora, has
unanimously invited their pastor,
Rev. C. N. Jones, to return to that
charge for another Conference year.
All base ball clubs of Cecil
county interested in the organiza-
tion of a county league are request
ed to send two representatives to
Elkton on Saturday, March IL, to
meet at 1890 p. M.
The cantata given by the mem,
bers of the Jr. Epworth League OF
Mt. Pleasant M. E. church on
Wednesday evening of last week,
drew a good house, the receipts OF
the evening amounting to over S26.
At a meeting of the board OF
stewards OF Nj. Pleasant M. E.
church on Friday last, which was
presided over by Rev. Robt. Watt,
Presiding Elder of the Wilmington
District, the proposition to join
Mt. Pleasant and Hopewell circuits
was discussed but voted down.
The hyenas reported running at
large in the vicinity of Richards
mere, by the correspondent of GER
tain papers, are of the two-legged
variety, as the yarn is fiction from
the whole cloth, emanating from
the fertile imagination OF prac-
teal joker of that neighborhood.
DIR. Richardson, of Calvert, had
a narrow escape from a serious
accident last week. The body bolt
of the buggy broke, causing the
vehicle to pitch forward and throw
the occupant out. The Doctor was
rendered unconscious for time
and badly shaken up and bruised
but not severely injured.
Jos. T. Riale is installing at his
creamery near town a new 10 horse
power boiler and new churn with
a capacity of 900 pounds. Mr..
Riale has one of the best equip
ped and most up-to- date cream
cries in this section of the country
and finds a ready market for the
gilt-edge product turned out.