The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-02-19
Boston Ideals Friday, eoth.

Mechanics are going TO hoist flag over
Port Deposit school house on the 22d.
There are several cases of scarlet fever
in Cherry Hill, and as consequence
the public school has been closed for an
Iindednite period.
George Millikin, town bailitf of Cecil
ton, while carelessly handling a re-
volver on Monday, shot himself
through the hand.
Theodore j. Abrams was elected
manager of the Green Hill Fire Brick
Company of North East, at recent
meeting of the stockholders.
Telegraph operators along the Mary
land Division of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
have had their salaries increased SIS per
month.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Duyckinck gave
pleasant O'Clock tea last Friday to
number of friends and later in the
evening attended the Ariel concert with
their guests.
Mrs. L. M. Haines gave five clock
tea on Thursday last week at her resi-
dence on East Main street Elkton, to
Miss Florence Biddle of California who
is visiting friends in Elkton.
Rev. Father Bradford, of st. Patrick g
Church, Wilmington, will probably be
appointed to the passionate of the Port
Deposit Catholic Church, made vacant
by the removal of J. D. Carey to Elkton.
The twenty-fourth annual session of
the Grand Lodge of Maryland Knights
of Pythias was held in Baltimore last
week. Mr.. Adam Peoples of Port De-
post was elected Grand Vice Chancel-
lor.
The next meeting of the ". G. T. u,
of Rising Sun will be in the interest Of
sSocial Purity" All members make
a special effort to be present and bring
a friend along on Thursday, February
25th in N. E. Church at 2:3O o'clock.
| The pupils of Rock Academy will
hold their annual entertainment in the
Church on Thursday evening, Feb. %,
consisting of Rotations, dialogues,
music, speeches by the principal and
directors. If stormy the first clear
night. Admission % and Is cents.
Frisby Evans well known colored
individual Of Elkton, died at his home
on High street Monday morning last Of
heart disease, in his 8Sth year. Frisby
was born a slave to jeremiah Cosden,
cashier of the old Elkton Bank, and
was one of twenty sons, and had four
sisters.
A solemn pontifical requium mass
was celebrated in the Elkton Catholic
Church on Thursday. 11th inst, for the
the first time in its history, commence
rative of its late pastor the Rev. Father
Murphy. Bishop Curtis conducted the
service assisted by the priests of the
diocease.
Last Tuesday evening q party of
young people from Pennington made
tup straw load and came up to Haines'
pond to enjoy the skating. The ice
didn't break with them but the wagon
did; nevertheless they had an immense
time and are warm in their praise of
their gallant captain, VIM. Kirk.
Honey is not alone delicious, but it's
a useful, concentrated food. Its effects
I no q fNnio IN n,Sroaro,,o snofa ~ oao n 40
marked. In cold weather it does much
to keep the system warm and in COM
Portable working condition. If the
masses knew more, practically, of the
value of honey for food, it would be in
greater demand, to the exclusion of
oleomargarine.-Medical Journal
A fine article of comb and extracted
product of Rising Sun apiary is sold by
Worthington & Robertson.
Professional burglars visited Elkton
on Wednesday night of last week and
blew open the safe of the Scott Fertilizer
Company in which they secured S64. 40
ALEC small sum in one of the desk
drawers.
The office of Mr.. Singerly was visited
and of pair pistols and an overcoat
taken. There was no safe in this office
! The Office of Keys & Miller al their
lumber yard west of the depot was
broken open and the safe blown open.
but only handful of pennies rewarded
the cracksmen for their work. The
knobs of the safes were broken off by q
sledge hammer and powder blown into
the lock. The safes were shattered and
much damaged by the explosions,
Especially the Scott's Fertilizers Com
pany's safe, and the glass in the win
dows OF the Office of Keys & Miller was
shattered by the concussion. A kit of
burglars tools was left at the latter
place part of which was a sedge
. hammer which proved to have been
borrowed from Dunbar Morgan's black
smith shop. The explosion of the lum-
| Der yard safe was heard by the telegraph
: operator in the tower short distance
from the scene of the explosion at IL
minutes past o'clock but approaching
: trains prevented the operator making
an investigation.
The young people ofZion. together
with the Loyal Temperance Legion