The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED
Trailing arbutus is in bloom.

Trailing arbutus is in bloom.
The spring term of the public
schools closes today, Friday.
The citizens of Perryville are
agitating the erection OF a gas plant
in .that.town.
Snow furries on Wednesday and
snow enough Thursday morning to
whiten the ground.
The National Bank Of Elkton will
discontinue it's messenger service to
North East after April 81.
A new steam saw mill is being
installed at the mill of Jethro
johnson & Co., near Bay View.
Chalmer G. Reynolds has opened
restaurant and ice cream parlor
in the Kirk drug store building.
Wires are being strung from Elk
ton to North East by the Maryland
Telephone Company for their new
line.
John j. Hartnett, of Elkton, has
been reappointed Court stenog-
rapher for the second judicial
circuit.
George S. Fox sustained a badly
sprained arm on Tuesday evening
by fall from ladder at his home
on Cherry street.
The annual meeting of the Mary
land State Teachers Association
will be held at Ocean City, Md,
July 13, IA and 15.
Chas. L. Moore shipped from
this station to the city market, on
Friday morning last, forty head of
the finest of fat steers.
1t is expected Port Deposit will
fill the vacancy in the Cecil county
base ball league, occasioned by the
withdrawal of Providence.
Howard Brown has moved his
saw. mill to the woods of j. q.
Crothers, near Calvert, where tim
ber is being cut for barn frame.
A. M. Church, student of Jacob
Tome Institute, Port Deposit, died
at his home in Minneapolis, Minn.,
on the 9th inst, of typhoid fever.
John w. Major, young bust
ness man Of Elkton, has applied
for a DIVORCE from his wife,
Josephine S. Major, who abandoned
him in 1900.
The star mail route between
North East and Calvert was discon-
tinued last week. Thos. R. Davis
has been carrier on the route for a
number of years.
The portable saw mill of Edward
Strahorn & Son has been set up on
the Otley tract of woodland, near
Fair Hill, and is converting the
timber into lumber.
The ladies auxiliary committee
of the Union Hospital Of Cecil
County will hold an entertainment
May "a and 20, for the benefit OF
the Hospital fund.
Rev. William L. Steckel will
occupy the pulpit of West Noting
ham Presbyterian Church at IL a.
M; also in the evening at 1880,
next Sunday, April 18th,
The County Commissioners
have ordered that all travel
over Back Creek mill dam, in the
Second district, shall be stopped
until further notice as the bridge
is considered unsafe.
The stone dwelling on the Henry
B. Cordes property, near North
East, was destroyed by fire on
Wedn esday. The tenant, Cecil F.
Lilly. was absent at the time. The
fire is supposed to have been caused
by defective fiue.
AS a token of their esteem OF
Senator Henry M. McCul-
Tough, of Elkton, the leader of the
minority party in the Senate, he was
presented with a silver pitcher at
the close of the session of the Legis-
lature, by his republican col
leagues.
The following averages have been
received by three of the five appli
cants for the rural delivery route
at present held by FL. S. White,
who has rendered his resignation;
VIM. A. Reeder, $3.50; Hughes
Keilholtz, II; s. J. Morrison, 1880.
Notice of appointment has not yet
been received.