The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-20
VIM. Brown has been doing rush.


vesting machinery of the Walter A
Wood manufacture.
DR.. Chas. Nj. Ellis, Adam r. Ma
graw and John w. Falls have been
appointed by, Gov. Jackson as the
board of supervisors of election fol
Cecil county; under the new ballot
law now in force in this county, they
appoint the judges, clerks and other
officers Of elections.
Mr.. Jacob Dunlap, on the farm oil
j. T. Richards, near Porter's
Bridge, who has been for FIVE months
past confined to the house with
Bfight's disease, superinduced by
by the "Grip," We are glad to learn is
this week able to make his appear.
ance among his friends again.
CLAIMS, clans, headquarters for the
biyalve at Heagy's.
There is talk of another Eastern
Shore railroad, or rather there is
another talk of an Eastern Shore
railroad. A meeting was held il
Easton recently. at which the subject
was discussed of railroad from
Choptank river, through Queen
Anne's, Kent and Cecil counties.
At the commencement exercises of
the Wilmington Commercial College,
held on Thursday evening of last
week, j. A. Hartenstine and T. j
Wilson, Jr,, Of Rising Sun, recei> ed
diplomas in the commercial depart.
ment, and j. N. Davis and VIM. II
May, Of Elkton, diplomas in the
short hand and type writing depart
mept.
Mrs. Chas. Smith of Jimes, Ohio,
writes: I have used every remedy for
! sick headache I could hear of for the
past fifteen years, but Carter's Little
Liver Pills did me more good than all
the rest.
At their meeting on last Wednes-
day the County Commissioners
agreed to contribute $500 to repair
the road from Saml. j. Browns to
Sylmar, provided the same amount
was contributed by the citizens Of
that neighborhood. They also made
special appropriation of 800 to
the citizens of Perryville to be used
in repairing the streets of the town
At a meeting of the Trustees Of
the Elkton Academy held last Friday
Mr.. George a. Steele was elected
principal for the next academic year
Col. l. D. Davis was elected trustee
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Hon. Alexander Evans.
Messrs. W. j. Jones and George A.
Blake and DR.. r. G. Mackall were
appointed a committee to give notice
of and hold q competitive examina-
ton to fill four vacancies in the free
scholarships.
Farmers are moving their grass
this week-as the Yankees say hay
ing.-The hay crop will be first class
this season both in quality and
quantity, but it is being cut rather
green. Timothy before the seed is
in the dough state, which is when
the blossoms begin to fall, does not
make the best hay. Wheat will be
ripe in about a week. Oats are back
ward and the crop is injured from
some cause. Probably by too much
wet, cloudy weather in its early
growth.
Heagy has clans, ice cream,
bananas, oranges and full line of
candies. You pay your money and
take your choice.
An object lesson of vested rights
may be seen on North Street, Elkton
adjoining the ramshackle called an
engine house. That shanty was
there "before the wab.' We don't
know how far back its origin dates
but so strongly is that old shanty
fortified by the superstition for old
things and the gives of the law for
ancient rights that all the power OF
the town and county authorities has
never been strong enough to remove
it. When the day of taxing land
values, called by its advocates,
"single tax" enters in such old
moss.back impostors will "get up
and dust" to the limbo of forgotten
things.
Two sections of the Brick Meeting
House anu Rising Sun road have
been stoned and the job will be finish.
ed as far as the present appropria-