The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-29
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, Sept. 20. 1898.
MINORLOCALS

last Friday for trip to the World
Fair
John T. White, of lakewood, lief
on Tuesday morning last for thu
Worlds Fair.
Mrs. Anna l.. Haines of Princes
Anne has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. A
L. Duyckinck.
VIM. Pogue left town this morning
for western trip which will Include
the Worlds Fair.
Miss Mary Bechtel of West Noting
ham is attending Wilson College al
Chambersburg, Pa.
Miss Ethel Hartenstine has accepted
the position of assistant P. M. in the
Rising Sun post office.
Jerome Brumfie,d, Rising Suns sta
ton agent, is viewing the sights at the
Worlds Fair this week.
The September sitting of the register
of voters for the sixth district shows 20
new names and deceased.
Senator PETER of Kansas made a
speech at the Oxford Fair on Wednes.
day on the issues of the day.
Basil r. Brown and family moved
from their summer residence at Rising
Sun on Monday to Philadelphia.
All state and county tax paid at
the National Bank of Rising Sun this
week is subject TO discount of four
per cent.
A gang of telephone men came
through town yesterday morning
stringing six additional wires on the
long distant telephone poles.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
will holda sociable at the home OF
Miss Lizzie Stephens near Rising Sun
next Friday evening, Oct. 9th.
Joseph Phillips, of Wilmington. and
Miss Phoebe Devonshlre, of Port De-
post were married in Port Deposit on
Tuesday evening last week, by Rev
Harvey Ewing.
A new survey has been made of the
town and some property thought to be
on the out side has been brought with
in the corporation limits, notably the
two warehouses.
Lloyd Roberts moved his household
goods from Port Deposit into the house
on Pearl Straet, which he recently
rented from J S. Pogue. and will open
a restaurant next month.
Mrs. J. NJ. Campbell of Oxford, and
sister, Miss Florence Stephenson, were
the guests of Mrs. Lizzie Brown at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. J. Sheppard, last Tuesday.
Miss Sue Mackey, daughter of ex-
Sheriff Robert Mackey is attending the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
State Conversion at Annapolis as a
delegate from Moore's Chapel union.
Oxford Fair was held this week :,
opening on Tuesday. The Association
made it public that gambling would
be prohibited. The Association seems
to be making step on the path of
reform.
A council of the Junior Order of
United American Merchants has been
established at lakewood. Their meet
ing room is in the old church which
has been purchased and will be used as
public hall.
Rev. Elm Kirk occupied the pull pit
of the Rising Sun NJ. E. Church last
Sunday mourning. The pastor Rev. J.
E. Bryan has been sick but expects to
be able to assume his church duties on
next Sabbath.
The Loyal Temperance Legion will
hold its session in the basement of the
M. E. Church at o'clock on Saturday
the 30th. A full attendance is request.
ed as we wish to elect officers for the
year.
BY order of the Supt.,
MARY l.. BROWN.
A number of people in Oxford were
made sick recently by drinking cider
that was taken to town in tin vessels
So much of the cheap tin now is coated
with lead that it is exceedingly danger
Gus to put acids in tin vessels. There is
nothing too mean now adays for co m
petitors in business to resort to in order
to make cheap goods.
It. w. Bye of Lewisville missed a
couple of pigs from his pen when he
went in the morning to feed them. He
at the same time saw u pair of stock.
ings lying on the ground. He took
the hose to store in Newark and the
storekeeper recognized the goods as the
articles recently sold to man living
in the place. Mr.. Bye soon found the
man and told him he had a pair o.
stockings he wanted to trade for pail
of pigs. The man made the trade
Immediately.
The funeral of Anna A. Reynold;
wife of s. J. Reynolds held on last
Sunday at West Nottingham Friends
burying ground was largely attended
A special train was run from Oxford il
the morning bringing a number O.
persons to Rising Sun who attended
the funeral. The speakers were VIM
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