The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-08-07
Friday, Aug. z. 1891.
MINOR LOCALS


Thomas Simonton of the Fourth dis
tlict has been granted pension.
Mr.. Alfred Kinks yield of wheat this
season was 48 bushels to the acre.
About fifty carrier pigeons from
Philadelphia were liberated at Elkton
oil Sunday last.
See adv of assignee's sale Of mortgag-
ed real estate, II. H. Haines, assignee,
in another column.
A festival will be held at Mt. Pleasant
M. E. Church tomorrow Saturday J
afternoon and evening.
The Maryland State Alliance
meets in Baltimore on August 18th.
Mr.. Noyes is the delegate from Cecil.
E. d. Jenkins reports his stallion.
Jos. Inkerman. having trotted mile
last week at Hagans Cross Roads in
2.40.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of fall term of Friends Normal
Institute in this issue.
Happy Valley is to be the picnic
ground this year for the Medical
Association of Lancaster county.
William Darling of North East had
his hand crushed and fingers ground
off by the cog wheels of a reaping
machine last week.
Mr.. G.. G.. Sill has sold out his
drug store to Mr.. Eli T. Reynolds.
Mr.. Reynolds has been clerking in
the store for several months.
The authorities of Elkton notify
tramps by public handbilIs that all
of that large family caught lettering
about town will be sent to the house of
Correction.
The M. E. Sunday school of this
place pin-nicked at Happy Valley on
Wednesday and the Presbyterian S.
S. of Rock Run on to-day at the same
place.
J. G. Hindman, auct., will Isell at his
residence tomorrow afternoon, stone
ware, vehicles, household goods, etc.
See ad. in another column.
The Republican primaries will be
held tomorrow, and independent self
poised delegates should be selected
for the convention or the meetings
might as we'll not be held.
Mr.. J. Montgomery Brown, who is
well known here and throuhout the
county, is prominently spoken of as
the Republican candidate for sheriff on
the ticket to be made next Tuesday,
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The venerable Robert Dawson now
in his Goth year, was seen on the
streets of Elkton last Monday STEP
ping as briskly and looking as hale
as many man of half his age
Whig.
The protracted wet weather has
greatly damaged the oats that was
not harvested before it set in. Several
of our forehanded farmers luckily got
their crops safely housed in time to
escape the damage.
The corner stone of the new Metho.
dist Episcopal Church at Sylmar will
be laid next Sabbath afternoon at
230,o'clock. Several addresses will
be delivered. The Rising Sun Choir
will furnish the music.
Burnt sugar not to be taxed.
Oxford offers to exempt the proposed
caramel factory from town tax for 10
years if hundred hands are kept in
its employ that length of time. That's
a pretty safe offer for-Oxford.
A horse belonging to Luke Goodyear,
near Elkton, while grazing, on Sunday
last, cut it tongue with blade of sword
grass, from which it bled to death in
short time. Every effort was made to
stop the flow of blood but without avail.
Large wells are being sunk by Mr.
Singerly for the use of his Elkton
pulp works at the end of the old
railroad embankment on the south
side of the creek, from which water
will be conveyed in pipes to the pulp
mill.
Roy G. Patton, year old son of E.
S. Patton, fell from the comb of A.
Brumfield's barn on last Friday after
noon and died within two hours from
the shock, no bones having been brok-
en-. Funeral was held Tuesday at
Little Britain.
sob, if I had only taken this
medicine earlier in life, what years of
suffering it would have saved me!r was
the touching exclamation of one who
had been cured of rheumatism by the
use of Ayers Sarsaparilla. Scores of
such cases are on record.
The stack yard of Dennis Mullin
narrowly escaped burning this week.
They were threshing with a steam
engine when spark set the straw on
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