The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-30
MINOR LOCALS

MINOR LOCALS
We have new bread store in the Sun
The cold wave was Thanksgiving day
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Bread for cents loaf in Rising Sun,
no one should go hungry.
William J. Reed of Bay View lost two
cows last week from hydrophobia.
Dr..iJ. H. Jenness spent Thanksgiving
with friends i'll Kent county.
Rev. J. E. Bryan filled the pulpit at
Claiborne, Md, last Sabbath morning.
John R. Sheppard of Phila. spent
Sunday with his parents in Rising Sun.
Timanus Wilson of Ward, Pa, spent
Thanksgiving at his home near Rising
Sun.
Mrs. Minor and son Claude of Baltic,
were the guests of her daughter, Mrs. Eli
r Reynolds, on Thanksgiving.
Messrs. Goodman and Vim. Bryan,
students at Johns Hopkins University,
spent Thanksgiving with their parents in
Rising Sun.
Six tons and 44S pounds of Thanks
giving poultry were shipped from Rising
Sun station this week.
A bay window is being built on the
front of Rising Sun station for the ac-
cofnmodation of the operator.
The Young Ladies Home Mission will
be entertained at the home of the Misses
Keilholtz Friday evening, Dec. 9TH.
Alexander Johnson, colored, carpenter,
aud a soldier of the late war, dropped
dead on the street in Port Deposit Tues
day.
December 2Ist is the date selected for
the presentation of "Uncle JOSH" the
drama being rehearsed by number Of
Rising Sun amateurs.
The Nichols farm of Io2 acres, situated
between Rising Sun and Fremont, was
sold at public sale on Tuesday last to
VIM. R. Smith for $2935.
It is nip and tuck between foot ball and
the trolley cars which can kill and MAIN
the most. The trolley generally kills the
innoeents while foot ball takes off the
The grange will hold its first December
meeting tomorrow. Members should
attend as important unfinished business
will be before it requiring the attention
of all.
Sage, the Bel Air bank robber who
broke Jail at that place Oct. 9TH, was
captured at Lansing, Mich, last Sunday
and is now lodged in Baltimore Jail 70,
safe keeping.
A special evangelistic mission will COM
mence in Zion Presbyterian Church or
Sunday evening next and will continue
two weeks. Service will commence eact
evening at half-past seven.
A party of eight sports from Rising Sur
spent Monday on the Susquehanna fat
duck shooting. 1t was rare sport ant
not hard on the ducks either as most o
them were left for next seasons cunning
The Local Meas mora1izes little OF
the Office OF sheriff of Chester county pay
ing so well, and reaches the conclusion
that the "office pays" out of the genera
distress of the community, which il
doubtless true.
The following pupils of Rising SUI
public school attended every day durin,
the fall term, ending Nov. IS: Florenc
Worthington, Melvin SILL Malvin Grason
Chalmer Reynolds and Eddie Efing
Lucy Gillespie and Marjary Effing wer
absent but one day during the term.
At meeting of the directors of tn
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltinor
railroad on Tuesday it was decided t
declare a semiannual dividend of 81 pc
cent, less the United States income tax c
2 per cent, upon the capital stock of tn
company out of the profits, and to pay il
cash on January 2, 1895.
Thanksgiving day was one of tn
brightest of the season, opening with tn
thermometer marking I9 above at
O'Clock and boar frost covered ever
thing out floors. Services atIMethodis
church in forenoon. About IL m. a
attack was made ON the turkeys all alon
the line. Some parts of the line were yer
thin.