The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-25
NEWS.
Friday, Aug. %, 1898.
MINOR

Fifteen persons left Rising Sun
station on the excursion to Atlantic
City, Thursday morning.
Attention is called to the adv. of w.
w. Carter in this issue. offering fine
dwelling for sale on Cherry St.
The Elkton club will play at Ris-
inc Sun Tuesday. Riale and Dare
battery for home team.
The Damask Mills OF Gambrill &
Co, at Baldwin, have shut down.
Seventy hands are employed
The School Commissioner have
granted holiday of one day for the
children to attend the Fair. They
will be admitted free an the first day,
Tuesday.
William johnson, while Smelling
corn at Robert Cameron's, near Blue
Ball, had one Of his fingers badly
lacerated by being caught in the cogs
of the machine.
State and County iaXes now due can
be paid at the National Bank of Rising
Sun, Md, at any time, the same as to
the County Treasurer, and subject to
the same deduction for prompt pay
ment.
DR.. Bromwell, OF Port Deposit, has
been appointed by Governor Brown
as one of the delegates from Mary.
land to the Pan American Medical
Congress, which assemblies in Wash
ington early in September.
On Saturday last McClenahan &
Bro, closed their granite quarries.
This throws about 800 men out Of
employment. The firm could give
the workmen no idea as to when they
would begin operations again.
The lowest bid for lighting Bel
Air, Nd, with electricity has been
made by Hughes & Redby, of Baltic,
who agreed to furnish forty lights of
5O.candle power each for the sum of
$l6.25 per year for each light
J. D. Zehnder is lettering hand
somely polished Vermont granite
monument which is to be erected in H..
J. Sheppard's lot at Rosebank over the
grave of his son William. When finish
ed the shaft will present an imposing
appearance.
The County Commissioners on
Tuesday awarded the contract for
building the bridge over the Big Elk,
on the road from Cherry Hill to
Brewster's Mill, to the King Iron Co.,
of New York, for $3.50, that being
the lowest of two bids.
Mr.. Thos. Kirk has a mammoth
tom alto which was raised on his farm
in the eighth district by B. F. Riley
1t weighs I lbs. not quite as large as
tae one he exhibited at the farmers
meeting at Wood avn two years ago,
which tipped the beam at lib. IA OF.
William Dinwiddle, Of the United
States Bureau of Ethnology, was in
North East this week looking up
Indian relics and matters pertaining
thereto He located the sites of two
former Indian villages, one at
Turkey Point and the other at
Hances Point.
Mr.. Wilton Greenway, of Havre
de Grace, has instituted suit through
James j. Archer, his attorney,
against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company for injury to his trot-
ting horse Hokeland and the burning
of a lot of manure that was spread
on field near the company's track.
On Saturday morning the dead
body of man was found along side
the B. & o. tracks near Barksdale
station. Justice w. NJ. Proctor held
an inquest and the jury rendered the
verdict "killed by an east bound
train in a manner unknown to the
jury" He had nothing on him to
identify him.
The lease, engines, derricks, horses
tools and carts, the property of the
Port Deposit Granite Company, have
been sold to satisfy judgement OF
the Kenneth Square National Bank
$4,000, to G. S. Pyle for 81 300. A
small lot of stone which was attached
by the workmen for wages, will be
sold in two weeks.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will meet in the Lecture
room of the church at Rising Sun on
Thursday, Aug. 31st. All members
please be present as arrangements
must be made for our annual County
Convention, to be held in the NJ. f
Church, Rising Sun, on Wednesday
Sept. 18th, at 10 o'clock m.
The school commissioners of Ceci
county are about to re.establish thu
boundries of the county school dist
riots and intend to enforce the rul
requiring children to attend tn
school of the district in which thel
reside. There will be some delay il
opening several of the cClored school
owing to scarcity of teachers.
This section was visited by heav!
(and weleome) rain storm on Wednes
day night last which continued unit
morning. A high wind accompanie
it and wrought more or less damage t.
fruit and shade trees. The large tire