The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04
COUNTY NEWS,
Friday, Aug. 4, 1898.
MINOR LOCALS


See adv. of A. H. Tyson and w. j
McDougal in this issue.
The Cecil Star is ~ years old and will
soon begin to cultivate mustache.
John M, McClenahan of Port Deposit
is reported seriously ill at Atlantic
City.
The thanks of the MIDLAND are due
Mr.. Jos. w. Reynolds for a box of fine
peaches.
The rumor that the Eikton pulp
works contemplate shutting down is
incorrect.
Mt. Pleasant Sunday school is going
to Happy Valley to spend the day pic
nicing on Tuesday next.
Thos. Kirk and family are the only
representatives of Rising Sun among
the tenters at Woodlawn this year.
Rev. &. c. Adams of Smyrna, Del,
filed the pulpit at West Nottingham
Presbyterian church last Sunday and
will also preach next Sunday.
George Clifford of Zion who suffered
sunstroke i'll the harvest field, is still
compelled to keep within doors from
its effects.
$50 was received by the Liberty
Grove Union Sunday school as the
result of their festival held on Friday
and Saturday evening last.
Emily, young daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Duyekinck, had the misfor-
tune to fall from the steps of her fathers
warehouse one day last week and frac-
ture bone in her left arm.
A young, gay and happy party from
Oxford drove through our streets last
Saturday evening. They drove leisurely
and fingered on the way. They knew
how to get the most enjoyment out OF
the ride.
Four thick volumes of type written
pages, cap size, were made of the evid-
ence in the Garter will case. The
lawyers c. G. Crothers and Constable
argued the case before the Orphans
Court on Tuesday.
Last Friday Absalom McVey of Zion
held his SD birth day party. Five sons
and three daughters and their children,
together with neighbors and other
friends gathered about the patriarch to
break bread and rejoice with him.
Mrs. Alice Shippers and Miss Frances
Thayer, president and vice, president of
the Colora Y have been named by the
association delegates to the state con-
vention of the w. c. T. U. which will
meet at Annapolis the last week in
September.
Pogue's lumber wagon had small
runaway on Wednesday. The lumber
was spilled on South Queen street, and
it was quite miraculous the way the
runaways passed among the carriages
hitched about Odd Fellows Hall with
out touching one of them.
The bailiff of Elkton gathered in II
tramps on Saturday and compelled
them to rest from their labors on Sun
day. They were released on Monday
all the better from having been hos
pitably entertained. Indications are
that many times eleven will present
themselves for arrest next winter.
Tho Of To
Used at public sale was offered on Satur.
day last on the premises in the several
parcels as advertised. There were bids
on some of the property, but none came
up to the low valuation the owner had
placed on the several parcels and no
sales were effected. Auctioneer Hind
man called faithfully but bidders didn't
show up.
Every season has its curiosities; last
winter it was the ice bug destroying
the ice, while now the wood peck ers are
playing havoc with the Canadian
spruce telephone poles which were
erected in this section few years ago
The company has force at work re
placing the damaged poles with chest
nut and oak ones, as they offer more
resistance to the fiicker's drill than thu
soft cedar.
The festival held by the Band las
Friday and Saturday evenings PROVED
to be very pleasant affair with moth
ing to mar the occasion. The open all
concert was much enjoyed and every
thing sold brought good prices; cakes
and boxes OF cigars, of which large
quantity we're sold, brought dolla
each, although some of the purchaser
thought they were being sacrificed fol
sc. The gross receipts were about $3.50
Hannah G. Brown, wife of Levi X
Brown, of Goshen, Lancaster county
died at her residence on the Goth ult.
after an illness of two months, in tn
18th year of her age. The deceased wa
the sister of w. w. Moore and her dealt
leaves MIR. Moore the only remaining
member of the family which numbere
six daughters and one son. They wer
all worthy and most estimable people
types of the old English Quaker stocf
AS empire builders none better ever pu
foot oh American soil. They leave
generation of children and grand chile
rem who for precept and example nee