The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-08-24

The School Commissioners will
! be in session on next Tuesday,
Aug. 2Sth.
Ten arrests for selling the ardent
and misbehayior at WOodlown
were reported Sunday.
Henry A. Brake of ElktOn, who
left home on Monday, August 9th,
has not yet been heard from.
The annual Farmers Institute
will be held at Black Barren
Springs, Tuesday and Wednesday,
Sept. 4 and 5.
Hess Jenkins, who is employed
in A. B. Keen's blacksmith shop,
had one of his fingers severely
mashed last Wednesday while work
ing under heavy wagon.
Colora Council, Jr. o. U. A. M,
will have a parade and first annual
demonstration at Colora ON We'd
nesday, Sept. II. Several Organiza-
lions will participate in the parade.
Particulars later.
Fifty-seven passengers left Rising
Sun station yesterday morning on
the Colchester excursion, seventeen
from Colora, seventeen from Syl-
mar, twentysix from Nottingham
and 900 fnop, nvfnpJ
Joseph S. Pogue & Son sold a
number of carriages new and old
and some twenty sets of harness on
Saturday at their last closing out
sale. For the fall and winter trade
they propose charging their bust
ness.
B. p. Nichols, one of the dele
gates from West Nottingham
Friends Conference to the Chappa-
qua convention, gave very inter
esting account of the trip, at West
Nottingham Meeting House last
Sunday morning.
A very heavy thunder storm
passed over Woodlawn camp last
Sunday evening about 9 O'Clock
and reached Rising Sun a half hour
later. The rain fell in copious
showers accompanied by heavy
peels of thunder.
The average daily shipments of
coal over the Port Deposit branch
amounts to about 1880 tons, of
which the larger amount is trans
ferred at Perryville and shipped by
water to Baltimore, Norfolk and
other points South.
The Tome Institute Library at
Port Deposit will open with about
1 800 volumes, 1000 of which will
be reference books and works on
history and travel. The remaining
500 will include works of a lighter
character, suited to home reading.
Work has been commenced upon
the Episcopal Church at Andora,
Mr.. Alfred Canaan, contractor.
The church will be of stone from
quarries in the neighborhood and
will cost about $4,000. 1t is erected
as a memorial to the late Rev.
Robert Goldsborough.
The Elkton and Middletown r.
r. has selected the route it is re-
ported, which startingnear the tower
west of Elkton station crosses town
directly west of the Episcopal
church and near the county bridge
which spans the creek near the
Scott Fertilizer works.
George Harris (colored) of Row
landville claims he will be 100
years old next October and that his
mother who is living in Hartford
county is III. Twenty years may
be safely deducted from that story.
The century African is becoming
one of the colored fashion plates.
A man giving the name of Palmer
drove into Cecilton recently with a
horse and road cart, and sold the
rig for $25. On Wednesday of
last week a gentleman from Penn
sylvania arrived, claimed the team
was stolen from him and recovered
it. Any person who buys horse
and cart for S25 runs the risk of
losing them.
The public schools will open for
business Sept. Sd, which will be
next Monday week.
The Port Deposit public school
will open with one teacher and il
scholars enough are present will be
continued. Owing to the opening
of the Tome Institute, however, it
is not thought probable that the
public school can be continued.
There was a large crowd in at
tendance at WOodlawn camp last
Sunday, and a good many got a
severe ducking on their way home
in the heavy thunder storm that
came up about 9 O'clock in the