The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-12-13
Friday, Dec. 1S, 1889.
MINOR LOCALS

Announcement.
The Loyal Legion will meet Satur
day afternoon at 3 o'clock.
g. G. Sill has improved his drug
store by putting large show window
in the west side.
E. r. Buhington's notice in ref
erence to the tobacco trade will be
found in another column.
Next Monday the new Second
National Bank of Elkton will open
its doors for business.
A. j. Buckley and Benz Passmore,
the former from Concord Pa, and
the latter from Oxford, were home on
a visit this week.
DIR. G. W. Gillespie, admir-, will
sell at public auction on the prem
Uses, on Monday next the personal
property of Saml. E. Gillespie, decd
Reese Mahan, our mail carrier is
lying very i'll at his home in this
town. His stalwart sons supply his
place as mail carriers during his sick
ness.
Samuel Tyson has removed back
from Virginia TO his old stamping
ground in the 9th district, and other
of his Virginia neighbors, we learn
will follow.
The honor roll for the month of Nov,
West Nottingham Academy, is, Amos
E. Gillespie, first; Philip Childs, second;
Ira Makiver, third; and Walter H.
Jones, fourth.
The W. c. T. U. hopes to secure Rev.
Anna Shaw to speak in the NJ. E..
Church next Sunday evening. Def
mite announcements will be made later.
Look out for them.
Burglars entered the hardware
store of Geo. E. & M. E. Kirk, in
North East at an early hour on
Saturday morning, and stole goods
to the value of about sl25.
The chicken house of Barnes and
Hartenstine located in their lumber
yard is visited nightly by some "var-
ment" which carries off or leaves a
dead chicken on the premises.
Ex-Sheriff S. M. johnson remov-
ed his household goods on Monday
of last week to Leslie where he now
resides in the Louise recently built by
his son Mr.. Ohio N. johnson.
An entertainment will be held at
Octoraro M. K. Church, West Not
tingham, next Saturday evening,
December ID, for the benefit of the
church. Admission Is and zoe.
A musical and dramatic entertain.
ment will be given in Davis Hall,
Chrome, by Minnehaha Lodge of
Good Templars. next Saturday even.
ing. Admission 10 and Is cents.
The bond of the new sheriff is
$4,000. His bondsmen are Con-
ductor Slater of the P.W. & B R. R..
William j. Jones, DR.. Charles M
Ellis, Charles C. Crothers and Daniel
Bratton.
Mr.. Jacob Tome will not Go things
by halves. Having built large
town Hall for the people of Port
Deposit, he has furnished fine piano
for the Hall and is having wires put
in for electric lighting
Maxwell Gays barn near Port
Deposit was burned on Thursday
night, together with contents. In.
sured in the Farmers and Mechanics
Company of Cecil county. We have
not learned the amount of insurance
or loss.
Rev. James Conway. pastor of tue
Presbyterian Church at Port Deposit
will give lecture in the town Hall
on his trip to Scotland last summer.
"he lecture will prove a most enjoy
able entertainment, we venture to
predict.
Sheriff Boyd. On Saturday, between
Elkton and Iron Hill, arrested Rob-
ert Allen, colored. who, with a white
man named Dill, imprisoned for
murderous assault, escaped fro m the
Kent county Jail at Dover, Del, two
or three weeks ago.
The big hog season has arrived
but we hear little of the mammoth
porker tipiag the beam at 500 and
upward. 1T. Burkins harnessmake r
of Rising Sun, butchered two pigs
last week whose combined weigh:
was $50 pounds.
Geo. Whitaker is building a large
new furnace at his works at Principle
Furnace It's CAPACITY will he 115 tons