The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-11-11

Garfield Corps No. 81 w. II. c., will
meet Thursday, Nov. 18th at 80 p. m,
in Odd Fellows Hall, Rising Sun.
The first snow of the season COM
menced Wednesday at noon, though
we had sprinkle or two previously.
Rey. w. W. Goodman of Oxford
will preach in Rising Sun M. E.
Church next Sabbath at 1890 a. M.
Warren J. Haines, son Of L. M.
Haines of Elkton is in the honor
division of Freshman mathematics at
Princeton College.
A stockholders meeting of Cecil
County Agricultural Society will be
held at Elkton on Tuesday next, Nov.
10th at II O'Clock a. M.
The republicans had Rising Sun
Cornet Band out on Monday night to
make music for their meeting held at
Colora on that evening.
George Short was struck in the head
at Deiberts boat yard at Elkton, by a
caulker's hammer and knocked sense
less. 1t is feared his skull is fractured.
The blow was accidental, the hammer
missing the caulking tool.
The Elkton Cornet Band has been
re -organized under the leadership of
John M. Dunbar. Warren Grosh has
been made President, Joseph H. Sloan.
Secretary and H. Frank Witworth,
Treasurer.
Call No. l was made last week on
our subscribers to take notice to the
bill or receipt attached to their
names on each number of the paper.
This will serve as call No. 2. Don't
wait for No 8.
Monday night Marion Holton, one
of the employees of the Oxford
caramel factory had the ends shipped
off two of his fingers by getting them
under the knives Of machine.
Messrs. j. Swift & Bro. of Fulton
House, Lancaster county report
great crop of corn. One trial or
prize acre produced Ia bushels.
This acre was heavily MANFRED.
Elmer E. Brown husked 222 shocks
of corn in three days for Samuel
Montgomery, who farms Mrs. Ann
Gerry's farm near Lbery Grove.
The shocks contained 4S hills each.
Green goods circular letters are
again coming into this neighborhood
as thick as on a former occasion
some sucker or suckers must have
been caught by the tempting bait
tempting only to natural rogues
and ignorant fools. NJ one who
leeads newspaper would ever he
trapped by this unblushing rascally
proposition. If the "greenbacks"
these green goods rogues offer were
so we'll executed that the best ex-
perts of the treasury couldn't detect
the countefelt any one with sense
enough to 60 in out of shower
ought to know they would not sell
them for triae for good money. I'll
is useless to warm any one to let this
bogus money alone, because any gul
that would touch it never reads a
paper.
A stone cutter who is employed on
the Lancaster and Oxford r. R. that
is being built and who boarded in
the neighborhood of Harlan's mill
carried bottle of blind staggers
home with him from Elkton and had
nice time drinking it on Sunday
this happened ten days ego That
night the "man with the poker" got
after him and he jumped out of the
window and took to the woods. A
searching party folio we'd him but in
the darkness could not overtake him
The search was renewed the hext
morning and the man was found
lying in bunch of leaves in the
woods mile or so from his boarding
house, naked. He was gathered up
and cared for. The raDjams left him
and he will soon be ready for another
similar adventure.
James 7. Hardin, general manager
of the Kelley Institutes for Mary
land and District of Columbia;
Charles P. Utley, representing the
institute at HsgerstOwn and Oak
Crest. and DIR. W. c. Tilden were in
Elkton on Tuesday and Wednesday
of last week prospecting for loca
tion to establish q branch in this
county. The county has established
a number of factories to turn out the
goods in Elkton. And the kind
they make in that town 10 ''sll Vool
and yard wide" We should say
that Ekton would be a good location
for business. The Board of Trade
of the town ought to see to it that q
"planp' 10 established there and
exempt from clown tax for ten years."
The institution couldn't fail to do a
profitable business when raw material
is abundant.
Mysterious.