The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-07-27

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| c., spent several days this week
with Mr.. G. Conner and family.
Miss Mary S. Ewing who has
been the guest Of her aunt, Miss
Lizzie Briscoe, for the past few
weeks returned to Boston on We'd
nesday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Conner enter
tanned number of friends on last
Tuesday evening in honor of their
guest, Mr.. Lee.
Miss Dora Webster and Miss Sarah
Passmore of Narberth, Pa, are the guests
of Miss Mabel Reynolds.
Miss Belle Patterson of Spruce Grove,
Pa, was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
Wayne Reynolds this week.
The dry, hot weather injured the
blackberry crop in this section of
country.
The dry weather brought schools
of young crabs into the Elk and
North East rivers.
The pear tree flea has made its
appearance i'll Kent county, said to
be one of the most destructive in
sects to the pear orchard.
Rev. Isaac Jewell met with his
old Pensioners of Rising Sun on
Sunday and preached to them in
the morning and evening.
Forty tents are pitched in Cop
sons Park, North East for the ac-
commodation of the local preachers
camp meeting. The meeting formal
ly opened on Tuesday.
The Board of County Commission
ers have concluded to have the
Scothman's creek bridge taken
down at once. The new bridge for
the creek is expected to be complet-
ed within sixty days.
A. L. Duyckinck & Co., soon
after their large coal shed was ready
to receive the black diamonds, and
before the building was completed,
several cars loaded with coal were
let on to it with rush, damaging
the structure considerably.
The horse and buggy stolen from
Fred Strickland, of Providence,
several weeksago by Gester Winker
to whom he had hired it, was re-
covered in Chester, Pa, on Satur-
day. The horse was in a bad con-
dition having been over driven and
neglected. The thief is still at
large.
The Reading Railroad Company
have been released by the United
States Court from their obligation
to keep the Susquehanna and Tide
water Canal in repair and lately
made their last payment to the
employees along the canal, notifying
themthat in the future they will
have to look to the Canal Company.
1t is thought the canal will never be
repaired.
The long dry hot spell was
broken last Saturday evening by a
moderate rain which was followed
up on Sunday by steady rain during
the whole of Sunday. The rain
fell very gradually but kept it up
all day. The long hot spells of our
summers are generally ended by a
violent storm of wind, electricity
and heavy precipitation of hail
or rain. The recent experience
was an agreeable exception to this
rule.
Mai. w. G. Purnell, of Elkton,
has been appointed secretary for
Cecil county of the Singletax Lea
que of Maryland. The object of
the League is to establish a branch
of the League in every county of
the state and through such organiza-
ton instruct the public in the
science of taxation a branch of
economic knowledge the public is
very much behind in. A better
choice could not have been made
that Maj. Purnell.
A party of commonwealers
marched through Elkton last Friday
under command of "Marshal" Carl
Browne, and camped at Gilpin's
bridge.
The marshal visited the town
during the day and talked of the
army's march to Wall Street, New
York, which they say, instead of
Washington, is the seat of the
Federal government.
There are good many other
people of the same opinion and more
are coming to that belief every day.
A meeting of the packers of
canned goods on the Maryland and
Delaware peninsula was held at
Dover last week.
An organization was formed
under the name of the Peninsula
Canned Goods Association.
The object of the association is
to foster friendly relations among
the packers and for corporation to
secure mutual advantage. A COM
mittee was appointed to wait on the