The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-15
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED.
Mud everywhere.
Moving day approaching.

Frank G. Conrey, formerly OF
Chesapeake City, was admitted to|
the Philadelphia Bar on Monday.
Radnor Richards, of Earleville,
killed two wild geese and captured
another one alive one night rec
emily.
Miss Ethel Reynolds has accept
ed position as operator at the Cecil
Farmers telephone exchange In
this town.
Railroad detective W. T. Jones
last week arrested and lodged in
Elkton Jail two men charged with
breaking into freight cars at Perry
vile.
Jacob Jenkins has been appoint
ed Bailiff of the town, and will
assume his new duties on March
25th, succeeding G. T. Snyder,
resigned.
The Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal, which has been closed for
two months for repairs to the lock
gates, was reopened for traffic on
Saturday.
The Ford store house, a large
two story building is being fitted
up in North East for a shirt fac
tory, to be opearted by Wise'Bros.,
of Baltimore.
The upsetting of a lamp in the
home of Mrs. James Clark, at Elk
ton, one night recently caused a
fire which did damage to the extent
of $25 before it was extinguished
The March meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club will be held at the
home of John P. Wilson, near
town, on Thursday, 21st inst, in
stead of Wednesday,, goth, as
announced.
The 5.year old daughter of
Phounie Anderston, of near Belair,
while playing around the kitchen
fire, was so badly burned on Satur,
day afternoon that she died several
hours afterward.
The first of series of meeting
for men and boys was held in the
Opera House, in Elkton, Sunday
afternoon. Rev. De Witt Benham,
Ph. D., of Baltimore, delivered an
interesting address.
Miss Ida Kimble, of Lewisville,
has been teaching Pleasant Mead
ows public school, near town. in
the absence Of Miss Julia Brokaw
who has been confined to her home
by an attack of tOnsilitis.
A freight train passed Elkton
last week, made up of eight car
loads of lettuce, three of straw
berries, one of grape fruit and one
of celery on its way from the South
to New York and other points.
Receivers have been appointed
in Baltimore, for the assets in
Maryland of the Deland Mining and
Milling Co., a Delaware corporation
engaged in the manufacture of ta.c
powder, whose plant is located at
Bald Friar, just above Conowingo,
this county.
Mr.. A. B. Walnlsley, formerly
of Cecil county, who has been
associated with the New York and
Ontario Despatch Railroad, has
been appointed Assistant General
Manager of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, with headquarters at
South Bethlehem, Pa.
Frank Campbell, formerly of
Sylmar, was given a hearing on
Saturday, charged with the larceny
of a robe and rubber blanket from
J. Hayes Turner, one night IN Oc-
tober last, while the latter's team
was hitched at the Octoraro Hotel,
Oxford. He was held in 5000 bail
for appearance at West Chester
Court.
The old chestnut tree, which
stands on the bank near the rail-
road station, was set on fire one
evening last week by sparks from
a passing locomotive lodging in the
decayed fork, about fifteen feel
from the ground, and burned fur
iously, famed by the strong wind,
the flying sparks endangering the
nearby warehouse and station
buildings. 1t required several
hours work with extinguishers
and ladders before the flames were
extinguished.