The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-05-13
Friday, May LIB. 1892.
MINOR LOCALS

hIs ". W. w iioOu VI Oio'uS Jun
las large contract of house build
ing at Perryville.
The Democratic primaries are to
be held tomorrow. Fair weather
generally predicted with local Cleye-
land squalls.
To morrow the Teachers Associa.
ton will meet at Port Deposit and
an interesting program is prepared
for the occasion.
Farmers have finished corn plant.
ing and are going to blowing the
roads next week and planting them
with loose stones.
Dr.. H. H. Mitchell of Elkton, who
has had an operation performed in
Johns Hopkins hospital where he
has been for several weeks is reported
as being on the road to recovery.
James T. Graham, Clerk of the
Circuit Court paid a visit to the
eighth district a fortnight since and
administered the official oath to
Thos. II. Moore register and T.
Herbert Cummings, Justice of the
Peace.
The annual town election for the
borough of Rising Sun was held on
Monday last. Twelve votes were
cast and the old boald unanimously
elected. W W. Carter, VIM. Brown,
DR.. G. S. Dare, Theodore Gavin, f.
r. Burlington.
Mr.. Towsand Pool, who recently
sold his property at Frenchtown,
has moved into Elkton. Mr.. Pool is
one of the old reliable republican
party standbys and has been a
member of the county committee for
a number of years.
At a meeting of the board of
managers of the Woodlawn Camp
Meeting, held at Woodlawn, May 18th
Rev. James E. Rryan, of Rising Sun,
was unanimously elected to take
charge of Woodlawn Camp. which
will be inaugurated August 9.
Magistrate John Conrey, aged
sixty seven years, a we'll known
citizen of Chesapeake City. dropped
dead 10 the street at that place while
talking to some friends Saturday.
He was brother of Thomas Conrey,
of the same place. Previous to his
death he had been epjoving his usua.
good health.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Halnes re-
turned from their bridal excursion
on Sunday evening and Gideon's
band of unmusical musicians honored
them on Monday evening with a
serenade. The WI gar crowd were
encouraged by present of some
pieces of coin to buy treat and
went their way.
Rosebank Cemetery is to be en-
larged by the purchase of two acres
of adjoining land from Mr.. VIM
Underwood. Possession of the ad-
dition will be given the trustees
July Goth, The lots of the cemetery
have all been taken and the proposed
addition has become necessary to
meet future demands.
Mr.. John Dabler is drilling another
we'll in Rising Sun. The latter is
for Charles Kirscht who has purchas-
ed half of the brick block on Main
street where John Mahan now lives.
which he proposes to build an
addition TO and establish a shoe
store and manufacture goods in that
line on an extensive scale.
The weather on Tuesday night
and Wednesday was employed in the
manufacture of an extensive rain
which farmers would have gladly
exchanged for sunshine had they
been invested with the power to
order such changes. 1t looks like
we were going to have repetetion of
the several former wet seasons.
John R Walter, son of James
Walter, farmer residing near Elk
ton, was accidentally and perhaps
fatally scalded at the pulp mill. He
was employed as foreman, and while
standing in the rear of the boiler in
the act of turning on the water, an
oveFheated feed water tube exploded.
The hot water and steam poured on
his breast and arms.
A granite monument weighing ten
tons and ten feet in height has been
set up in West Nottingham Presby-
teFian Cemetery To commemorate
the Hammersmith family. The
monument was made in Oxford. The
inscriptions record the deaths of j no.
Hammersmith, aged 81 years; his
sister Elizabeth, aged IS years, and
father and mother, Peter and Maria
HamGersmith, who died in 1850 and
lS4s, each aged rs years.
The negro murderer, Stout who
was convicted in the Hartford county
court of killing George Ditmore near
Chesapeake City was brought from
Belair last week by the Hartford
Sheriff and delivered to Sheriff Nc
kinney who will have him To hang
Mr. Constable is going to take the
csse to the Court of Appeals on some
technical law point the only resul. OF
which will be to prolong the esse