The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-12-14
MINOR LOCALS

full of orders and is kept busy.
The Christmas number of the
Oxford Press is a red letter number.
Lawrence Kirscht of this town is
lying quite sick with an attack of
pneumonia.
The Sage bank swindler case has
been removed from Hartford to
to Baltimore county for trial.
Maryland State Grange held its
annual session in Baltimore this
week on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
A Christmas entertainment will
be held in the hall at Pilot Town
Sunday school, Friday evening,
December Dist
Levi Lester, who killed Sandy
Richardson at Aberdeen on July 4th
last, was convicted of murder in
the second degree at Bel Air last
week.
The engineers for the ConOwingo
electric light company have in
creased their force and expect to
finish the preliminary work by
Christmas.
Be sure and attend the T. N. /.
entertainment in the Town Hall
thisevening. The program promises
to be very interesting one. Ad-
mission zoe.
The services which have been
held in Zion Presbyterian Church
have received so much encourage
ment that it was determined to con-
tinue them this week.
Miss Idle J. Wright, who has
been engaged in Mrs. Buckeyes
millinery store in Rising Sun for
some time, has opened millinery
establishment in Port Deposit.
Cecil Grange meets tomorrow.
Members should attend and hear
the report from the state grange.
There is also local business of i'm
portance which should have prompt
attention.
The Orphans Court was in
session on Thursday last week,
letters of administration on the
estate of James A. Davis, deceased,
were granted to Anthony S. Davis
and James G. Davis, sons of said
deceased. Several orders in other
estates were also passed.
Susquehanna Council, No. p, Jr.
o. u. A. M. is preparing to build
hall. At the close of an enthusiast
tic meeting on Dec. Sth, Bro. j. J.
Bennett, Oakwood's popular
merchant, surprised the members
by emptying peck of apples on
the floor and then what a scramble
followed!
Rising Sun foot ball club is
getting on bravely-broken nose,
fractured shoulder, abdominal
injury, doctors consult, abscess
symptoms, operation in sight.
Senator Crothers should introduce
bill next session cataloguing the
game with prize fights with penal
ties the same.
The stockholders of the Kent
County Telephone Company have
determined to sell the plant. There
are about sixty five miles of line
which has been operated for several
years.
This reminds us that Cecil county
has had telephone company for
several years, but we don't hear
much of it.
Absolute divorces, a vinculo
matrimonii, have been granted 7.
Robert Manlove from Clara Manlove
of Cecilton; and Charles Jacob
Hemsley, of Elk Neck, from Martha
Hemsley, of Havre de Grace,
(colored). Joshua p. McCay was
the attorney for the plaintiffs.
Wingate Post No. &C, A. R.,
North East, on Wednesday night,
Dec. 5, elected as officers for the
ensuing year: George T. Hill, Com
mander; James Laird, Senior Vice;
James Smith, Junior Vice; E. I. B.
Day, Quartermaster; Harry Wild
smith, Surgeon; Samuel Reeder,
Chaplain; Henry Cordes, 0. d.;
Delegates to State Encampment, e.
7. B. Day, p: Reedy.
North East Lodge No. 80, l. O..
o. F., elected as officers for ensuing
term on Thursday night, Dec. 6,
the following: III. M. Pearson, N.
g.; S. S. Boyd, V. g.: w. H.
Abrahams, r. S.; E. J. Campbell,
P. S.; J. r. K, Maffit, Treasurer;
George Harrison, Chaplain; j, l..
Moore, P. G.; Representative to
Grand Lodge, J. L. Moore; Trustees,
J. L. Moore, j. w. Falls, Thomas
M. Tyson,
Trinity Church, New York, has
the worst lot of tenement houses in
that city. The church receives
half q million, squeezed out of these
miserable, half starved tenants.
This is gold bug religion for you
with a yenpeance! The devil