The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-23
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Short Paragraphs Of Events in the County
During the Past Week.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NOTED

Miss Jane Maxwell. Of Philadelphia,
was visitor at the home Of DR.. and Mrs.
G. S. Dare this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Baer, Of Oxford,
were the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. +,
Reynolds during the week
Barclay Reynolds, of Wayne. Pa, spent
Washington's birthday at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Amanda Reynolds, near
town
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Alice and daugh-
ter, of Middletown, Del. who have been
spending the past three months in New
bern, N. c.. were guests Of Rising Sun
relatives during. the week.
Among the list of passengers published
in the Baltimore papers. as sailing
Wednesday on the Merchants and
Miners steamship Somerset, for Jackson
willie. Fla, were the names Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil E. Ewing, of this town.
A lack Of working capital has caused
the closing of the doors Of the Oxford
Cap Factory.
Her clothing catching fire from the
stove, Mabel. fve-year-old daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boyd Of Aberdeen.
died from her burns.
! When the foot of horse caught in his
blacksmith apron, William Ayres of
Hickory Hill. was thrown down and
ltrampled, his leg being broken ia two
places.
| Failing from tree he was thinning,
Locke Warpole, aged 42 years, we'll
known resident of Newark, Del. was al
most instantly killed on Thursday Of
| last week.
Fire of an unknown origin last week at
Fort dupont, Delaware City. destroyed
the quartermaster's stable. Ten horses
land eleven mules were burned to death,
involving a loss Of $4,000.
Charley Mitchell" the fast tlotting
horse. formerly owned by Mr.. Morgan
Mitchell, of near Aberdeen. was sold in
New York last week to C. X. 6 Billings
for 81, 500. and will be retired from the
track. Mr.. Mitchell sold him for $4,000
last year.
The Snider Preserve Co.. which opera
ted canning plant in Newark, Del, last
summer. has decided not to permanently
locate there. The company had intended
building plant in Newark. The money
collected to purchase land for the plant,
has been returned by T. F. Armstrong,
who had charge of the affair.
The board Of trustees of poor and in.
sane for Cecil county. in session on Friday
made the following appointments for the
Iyear: James Hartnett, overseer, and Mrs
Mary Hartnett, matron of the county
home; E. Kirk Cameron, superintendent
and Mrs. May Cameron, matron of the
Insane Asylum; DR.. P. B Housekeeper
of North East. physician to the asylum
Or. W. T. Morrison. physician to the
county home.
Sheriff J. Myron Miller and States At
Albert Constable were summoned te
Cecilton Friday morning, to arrest VIM
Thompson, colored. aged about 40 years
charged with having killed William
Brown. aged about IS years. also colored.
The shooting took. place early that morn
ing on the road leading from Frederick
town to Cecilton. A negro dance was in
progress at the time. Both men were
drunk. Thompson made no effort te
escape and when placed under arrest
alleged that the shooting was accidental
Benjamin Garvin has purchased the
/ John Stephen Hanna estate, near Rock
Spring.
/ The los acre farm of Quinby Smith,
near Kemblesville. has been sold to Sam
uel T. Sheppard, of New London.
Mrs. Belle Mahan. has sold her resi-
dence in Nottingham to the Melrath
sisters of West Nottingham township.
The John E. Hurford farm Of TN
acres. near Calvert, was sold on Tuesday
at the Court House door. Elkton at trus-
tees sale to Clifford England for $3.50.
Judge Adkins has signed an order for
the opening of the ballot boxes in the
Sixth and Ninth districts and the Second
precinct of the Third district in the cleo
ton contest Of Richard X. Barnes VS.. ].
Myron Miller for the Office of sheriff. The
order is simply for the opening of the
boxes and the making of copies of dis
pnted ballots under the direction Of the
clerk of the coult. Whether a recount
win Be ordered win depend upon the facts
sained BY this examination.