The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-09-23
NEWS.
Friday, Sept. 23. 1892.
MINOR LOCALS

A pronlDltlon meeting anu pOle
raising will interest the people at
Chrome to morrow.
On Wednesday evening next the
Zion ladies will hold festival and
oyster supper in the M. E. Church.
Twenty.eight members of Garfield
Post G. A. R., Rising Sun attended
tie grand re union at Washington
this week.
The Second Tuesday of next
August has been named for the next
meeting of Woodlawn camp meeting
by the association.
Ryan & Sons of our borough have
recently finished building tobacco
house for j. j. Pencil of Little
Britain, Lancaster county.
The semi.annual meeting of the
local preachers of Wilmington Con-
ference will be held at North East
the third waek in November.
Elk County Treasurer Charles E.
Moore has sold and hauled TO the
railroad station at Colora 1926 tons
of prime hay, this seasons crop.
A new postoffice has been estab.
lished at Providence. Cecil county,
Md. with Fred G Strickland. post.
master The new Office will be sup
piled by special mail service from
Fair Hill.
LEWIS Jones. the Is wear old son
of A. J. Jones, of Little Britain, Lam
caster county, broke both bones in
his right forearm last Thursday. He
fell off porch in attempting to turn
hand spring.
The Lancaster, Oxford and South
ern Terminal Railroad is completed
from Childs station to Marley Mills,
freight being carried to the latter
mill. 1t is reported that the survey
of the road from Providence to
Oxford will be commenced next
month.
John T. Faddis who resided near
Sylmar, died on Thursday last aged
"A. He was buried at Rosebank
cemetery on last Monday. He was a
member of Minnehaha Lodge of
Good Templars which order attended
the funeral and conducted the
services.
William Long, colored, of Oxford,
Pa, was before Justice A. j Scott of
Elkton on Saturday week last
charged with drawing a razor on
Chas. Crawford. Long was fined
$25 90 and costs of 1888. This
razor carrying by vicious colored
people will have to be catalogued
with concealed deadly weapons.
Governor Brown has appointed
State School tax commission to re.
port to the next Legislature on a
METER method for the distribution of
the State school fund. The gentle
men selected arc Mr.. John t. Morris
of Baltimore, Mr.. Robert Shriver of
Allegheny, Mr.. George M. Upshu- of
Worcester, and Mr. C. C. Magruder
of Prince George county.
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Woodiawn camp.
meeting association. held In the
Methodist Episcopal Church Port
Deposit, the following trustees were
elected for the ensuing year: Enoch
Mccullough, James G. Crothers, w.
W. Carter, Theo. j. Vanneman and
G. S. Abrahams Enoch Mccullough
was reelected president, C. S.
Abrahams, secretary and treasurer.
The following additional board of
managers were appointed John w.
Mccullough, F. NJ. Rawlings, S. j..
Reyes, H. H. Kirk, John I. Rutter
and Eli S. Seminar.
The contract for constructing the
plant of the Ekton Electric Light
and Power Company has been
awarded to the Pennsylvania
General Electric Company OF Phla-
delphia, at bid of $11.s1s.75. The
Thomson Houston system will be
used. The work is to be commenced
at once. The buildings are to be
placed on the lot of the Enterprise
Machine Works at the corner of
West High and Bridge streets.
Billy Falls the old time bonitice
of Elkton, known to every body in
the county suffered a psralytic stroke
on Thursday of last week.
4 Democratic Club was organized
in the Office OF John Partridge Esq,
on Thursday evening OF last week
DR.. r. G. Mackall was elected pres.
G. G. Crothers, WI. Holten and W.
A. Mitchell, vice-presideuts; Daniel
Bratton, secretary George r. Ash,
cor. secretary; and John NJ. Tucker,
treasurer.
Now please tell us what this "club''
proposes TO do? Will it assemble
weekly to talk tin and tariff, two
stale old chestputs, that no person
has enough OF Jobs patience to listen
to?
Col. Enoch Noyes published chal
lenge in last weeks Elkton party
papers proposing joint discussion Of
the parties asking the votes of the
people for their candidates, but was in.
formed by one of the leaders that such
discussion was not deemed advisable