The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-07-27
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, DULY ~. 1883.
MINOR LOCALS

CO. near Marshalton.
Terrepin are reported scarce and
high-they are always high.
Katy did and Katy didn't With
Katy comes the autumn days.
The new NJ. P. Church at Leeds
will be dedicated on Sunday August
5th.
The G. A. r. festival at Pleasant
Grove on Saturday night cleared
Sl25.
Peaches made their appearance in
town this week not very luscious
just yet.
Marley Paper Mills are nearly
ready to start up again with new
machinery.
a meeting of the woodlawn camp.
ing association was held on the
ground last Monday.
Blaine was expected to arrive in
New York yesterday where a great
ovation awaited him.
The oats crop-a large one in this
section of country-has been mostly
secured in good condition.
James A. Davis house on Will
sons Avenue has been sold to Mrs.
Annie M. Brown for 1925.
Georgia melons haYe been in mar
ket for some time we prefer the
Maryland and Jersey article.
The young ladies of Harmony
Church, Rowlandville, Md, will hold
harvest home and festival August
3 and 4,
The total eclipse of the moon
passed off last Sunday night very
satisfactorily. The moon sustained
no injury.
Miss Marguerite Foote of Phila., who
has been visiting her cousin Miss
Rhoda V. Wilson, returned home
last Saturday.
Miss Halle Haines is the happy
recipient of a handsome pony and
phaeton, a present from her papa
Mr., H. H. Haines.
A meeting will be held in Abrahams'
Hall, Port Deposit, August 1st at p.
m.:.f or the purpose of forming q Har-
rison and Morton Club.
Rigby's day in the calendar is the
18th of August, and then the dusky
damesels will ASSEMBLE at the old try.
sting ground in force.
Blackbcrries and huckleberries are
ripe. They constitute the rear guard
of the berry crop. Strawberries
headed the procession.
w. r. Warburton, Esq, as attorney,
has sold the farm of j, Frank Ford, in
Elk Neck, containing 76 acres, to Ris-
den Crossley for $4,000.
AT the meeting of Maryland Teach
ers' Association at Mountain Lake
Park last week. School Commissioner
f. S. Everist of this county was elected
vice president for the ensuing year.
A full line of Apple Parers, Tin
Fruit Cans, Porcelain Kettles, Agate
Iron Kettles for cooking fruit.
Haines & Kirk.
We are are indebted to Senator f. X
Wilson for handsome bound copies of
memorial addresses delivered in Con-
gress on the deaths of Hons. John
Arnot, Jr., and Abraham Dowdney.
Joseph Richardson who lad his
thigh bone broken by falling from a
stack last week, is doing very well.
DR.. Jenness is his attending physi.
clan.
The annual meeting of the Farm
er's &Machanics Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Co. will be held at Rose Bank
Hall, B. M. House tomorrow ct 2
p, m.
Harmony Castle Knights of the
Golden Eagle will hold "harvest
home" in Yerkes' orchard on Satur.
day evening, Aug. 4th. See posters
next week for particulars.
Messrs. G. G. Caldwell and E. Ora.
ham of Liberty Groye have contract
to build a telegraph line from Park.
ersville Chester CO. to Wilmington,
Del. The line will be Is miles long.
Miss Airline Constable, daughter
of Albert Constable since the death
of her sister has gone to Europe for
the benefit of her health. Elkton
seems to be earning bad name for
health.
MIR. Richard F. May arrived in In
diaaapolis, Ind, on his way East from
Bohemian, Montana, on the 18th and will
remain several days in that city, when
he will proceed to Maryland. He pro-
poses making Elkton his residence in
future.
The dog tax of Oxford has been
turned over to the library. Cecil
turns her dog tax over to the school
fund alter the dog-killed sheep are
paid for. The dog is becoming an
educator too.