The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-07-10
Friday, July 10. 1891.
MINOR LOCALS

More heavy rain this week and the
farmers are little nervous.
Jas. Gully has recently purchased
S. j. Caldwell's house at Conowingo.
The yield of wheat on the Singerly
st ok farm averaged "a bushels to the
acre.
A machine in Queen Anne's county
took fire while cutting wheat and was
burned up.
Rev. S. A. Gayley will preach in the
Friends Normal school house next
Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Whalen, wife of Patrick Whalen
died at her home in Port Deposit on
Saturday July 18th from general debility.
The members of the Fort Defiance
Bay Club of Conshohocken. Pa, are
spending several days on the Elk river.
Enoch Noyes had bag containing
a small sum of money stolen from
his milk wagon, on the Fourth, in
Port Deposit.
Heagy has the luscious watermillion !"
as we'll as the other summer fruits,
home and foreign.
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy
has been conferred on Rev. Isaac Il.
Wood of Zion by the University Of
Syracuse, N. Y.
In the 2.25 pacing race at Point
Breeze, Philadelphia, on Tuesday,
s,Sagwa," driven by r. T. G. Crouch,
took 4th money.
Eli Taylor of Elkton fell from a
load of hay on Tuesday, receiving
several severe bruises and cuts about
the face and shoulders.
At the Fall Fair of the Oxford Agri-
cultural Society, to be held September
%, "a and %, $1100 is offered in
premiums for trotting horses.
The Comptroller has made the
annual distribution of tile free school
funds and divided to the several
counties. Cecil's portion is 81 ,85059.
Two and half acres of land have
been purchased on the tip top of Red
Hill by the Elkton Water Works Co.,
on which the reservoir is to be built.
There will be a church camp at
Union Bethel A. NJ. E. Church.
Cecilton, Md, beginning Saturday,
July 25th, and ending Sunday night,
August 81.
VIM. NJ. Singerly has had buoyed
the channel of Elk river from the
wharves to the moath at his own
expense. But that is nothing for
Singerly to do.
Wheat is all in shock and some in
barn. Grass is late and the hay
harvest has been in full blast this
week The hay crop is of superior
quality but not large.
Do not forget the Worlds Day en-
tertainment to be given in james Nj. E.
Church Rising Sun on Saturday even
ing July 18th at s o'clock, under the
auspices of the w. G. T. U. Il
Henry Ellison, we'll known farmer
of Delaware, accidentally caught his
right hand in thrashing machine q
few days ago and three of his fingers
were amputated by DR.. G. M. Ellis.
A couple of sharps ran foot race on
the Fair grounds at Belair last week for
$3.50 side. After the race it was dis
covered that they were confederates
and the job had been put up on the
greenhorn sports.
Liberty Grove Sunday School held
a Childrens' Day on Sunday last
which constitutes an extra effort on
the part of the children, the Sunday
School being necessarily children's
day at every meeting.
Friend Saml. Passmore and wife
left town on Wednesday for their
annual summer visit among their
married childen in Pennsylvania and
other relatives. They expect to be
gone about three weeks.
The residence of Joseph E. Reynolds
of Port Deposit was entered by burglars
last Friday night and his pants and
vest stolen. The burglars only got Is
cents for their trouble. They left the
trousers in the alley and carried off the
vest.
Happy Valley was opened for
business on the 4th. The stone
quarries at Port Deposit are getting
down to business again, but that
Industrial School appears to have
dissolved like the unsnbstantial fabric
of dream.
That peerless CONNECTION, the prince
of all delicacies. ice cream in its various
fiavors always at Heagy's.
Frank Jackson, while driving from
Perryville in a dog cart, on Saturday
was struck at the Frenchtown cross