The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-06-24
Tuesday was the longest and hottest

mas uODe large UuSlucSS Ou dcCOuuI
of the Conventions.
The North East w. CT. U. is arrang-
ing for Demorest Silver Medal Con-
test to be given ut an early date.
The managers of Happy Valley, near
Port Deposit, have made provision for
persons who may desire to tent there.
Bass fishing is good on the Susque-
hanna river. Both black and striped
bass are being caught in large quaint
ties.
Prof. J. G. Conner, principal of West
Nottingham Academy and wife are
spending their vacation at Ocean
Grove.
Miss Martha Biddle has peen elected
principal of the Perryville public
school. This is one of the best schools
in the county.
The non jury term of the Cecil County
Circuit Court was held Monday, Judge
Stump presiding. No business Of public
importance was transacted.
The restoration of the old scale of
wages to the workers in the bar mill
of the Mccullough Iron Co., North
East, took effect on Monday.
William 3. Burlin, an old citizen OF
Port Deposit, died on Friday last of
paralysis in his 18th year. His funeral
took place on Sunday; interment at
West Nottingham Cemetery.
The Elkton Electric Light Com.
pany organized on Monday evening,
enough persons having announced
their willingness to receive their light
from electricity after the sun goes
down.
The capital stock of the company is
$25, 600. The officers and directors are:
VIM. T. Warburton, president; Charles
R. Max well, secretary; Robert c. Lewis,
treasurer; Charles H. Smith, Charles e..
Wells. Charles J. Rudolph and George
McQuilken. 1t is proposed to furnish
electric light for Elkton and other
towns if desired.
Harvest is upon US and some fields
of wheat are about ready for the
reaper. Grass is not 80 well advanced
and the crop but medium and good
deal weedy. Carlton Kimble has
a fine field of Alsike clover and
timothy. These two grasses ripen
together and make an excellent hay
crop. Oar farmers stick to the old
red clover and complain that alsike
doesn't last. The red doesn't even
make one crop.
The farmers about Haines' station,
Lancaster Co. Pa, have set out 20
acres of tomatoes, the produce of
which E. M. Haines of Pleasant
Grove will put up in cans made of
the far famed Mckinley tin which is
said to possess superior qualities as
a fruit and vegetable preserver. Mr..
Haines recommends setting the
tomato plants at an incline of say 45
degrees in place of the usual vertical
method and covering the stems all but
little mite of the top. The plants
grow more thriftily and produce
more abundantly than when set out
in the ordina ry manner. Tomato
growers ought to remember this.
The Pennington and Oxford clubs
played game on Saturday last, at
Oxford, which resulted in a victory
for the Pennington club by a score
of 8 to 0. Game was called at the
end of the seventh inning on account
of Oxford being tired. The score by
innings:
Pennington 2O32 OO2-9
Oxford 5000 0 90
| Summary. Base hits-Farming.
ton, IL Oxford, 2. Two.base hits
Devon, Mayberry. Double plays
Dare and Kirk; Martindale, ;Strick
land and McClung; Mccormick and
Strickland. Batteries-Riale and
May berry; Showalter and Flaherty.
Struck out-by Riale, 10; by Sho-
walter, S. Umpires-Devon and
Caldwell.
Frank Weldon, son of W. T. Wei.
don of Colora neighborhood finds
himself hero for taking the part of
a strange young lady who has wan,
dered away from the wolvarine state
of Michigan to the enterprising city
of Atlanta, Ca. where Weldon is
employed as railroad reporter on the
Atlanta Constitution. A despatch
to the New York World from Atlanta
tells the story:
A Miss Bertha Pierson, OF Detroit,
Michigan, had accepted position
in the Empire State Bank, of Atlanta,
of which Mr.. j. r. Tolleson is presi.
dent. Shortly after assuming her
duties Miss Pierson complained of
the indignities to which she was
subjected by the president of the
bank. The lady was among strangers,
and Mr.. Weldon hearing of it, cham
pioned her cause and called upon
Tolleson at the bank and told him
that he must treat the lady in a res.
pectable manner. Tolleson ordered
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