The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-19

meet in the lecture room of the church
on Thursday. Jan. 25th at 2 80 p. m.
The names of petitioners for liquor
license for Oxford were posted about
that town last Friday night which
caused lots of town talk.
The town lot CHANGED off by the Elk.
ton Fire Company on Saturday night
was won by Reuben Dunbar and the
gold watch by George r. Ash.
The Farmers Institute at Oxford,
under the auspices of the State Board
of Agriculture, was held in the town
hall last Tuesday and Wednesday.
The B. & o. will make new survey
! for the EIkton and Southern Railroad
running through Chesapeake and Cecil
ton. The first route is too far East to
be of practical benefit to these places.
W. g. Armstrong of Oxford is filling
his house with artificial ice. It looks
very much like some of our Rising Sun
houses will have to be filled in like
manner or remain empty.
Delegate Woolley has introduced in
the House bill to appropriate the $751;
900 remaining in the treasury of the
Eastern Shore railroad fund, to the
Elkton and Southern r. r. Company
Marion Gilmore of Pleasant Grove,
Pa. and Ruth Ann Carter, sister-in-
law of Barclay Reynolds, with whom
she has resided, were married before
the Mayor of Phila. yesterday. Thurs
day, Jan. 18th.
j. G. Hindman. auctioneer, sold on
Wednesday last the farm of Elm
Gatchel containing 81 acres situate
miles east of Rising Sun for $3.50, Jno.
Keilholtz purchaser. There were two
mortgages on the farm which in the
aggregate amounted to more than the
property sold for.
Sheriff Boyd has placed Nathaniel
Willets in Elkton Jail. charged with
forgery. WiIlets was recently employ
ed by Chas. 81. Ayers and it is said,
forged his name on two different
checks, $25 and $2O4O-and left the
county. The forgery was discovered
last week. Willets was arrested at
Eastville, Va.
J.E. O'Conner, of Oswego, N. Y,
and Miss Kate Morrison, of Port De-
posit, were married in the Catholic
Church on Tuesday morning at 8
O'Clock. They left at ten o'clock for
Oswego. Miss Morrison wss assistant
teacher in the Principle public school.
Mr.. F. s. Everist, president of the
school board was of the company who
witnessed the ceremony.
Don forget the entertaining lecture
on elocution of Miss Myrtle E. Furman
of Swarthmore College at the Friends
Normal this evening. She will give
Rotations from popular authors to H.
lustrate the charm of e'ocution.
Nothing is more entertaining than
fine elocution. We would like to hear
an elocutionist who could render Poe's
Raven perfectly. We don't think any
one has yet appeared who can do it.
The Woman's Auxiliary Kelley
League of Oxford hereby wish to in
form the parties that have been trying
to persuade cured men back to their
cups that their names are known and
in case of any cured men renewing
their former habits it will require the
tempters to have ironclad proof that
they were not the cause, Or soon prison
bars will be the place behind which
they will find themselves.-By order of
the League.
AS long as the state sells them license
they will risk the ''bars," both prison
and saloon.
Charles Daniels and Walter Allen,
colored, were arrested in Elkton.
charged with disorderly conduct.
They we're fined So and costs Daniels
was also charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons aud threatening to
shoot. For this second charge he
was held in 500 hail for a hearing.
That concealed weapon" law is a
"funny" law. 1t lie next thing to
impossible to carry weapons without
concealing them That law needs
amending by striking out conceal
ed.'
Another mysterious fire was started
in Elkton on Sunday night in the
kitchen of the Howard House, the
largest hotel in Elkton. The electric
lamps were taken off in the lower
story and gum coat thrown on the
kitchen range which had caused the
smoke and smell that led to the dis.
covery of the fire. A gum coat hang,
ing in the hall was slit down the
back.
The officers and citizens were on
the alert. and about three O'Clock
Deputy Sheriffs Boyd and Mackey
arrested Charles Ernest, on suspicion
of having been concerned iu the
attempt to fire the building. He has
a barber shop in one of the rooms of
the basement, and had been seen
around the building about the time
the fire was discovered. He was
lodged in Jail. and on Monday had
hearing before Justice p. H. Cleayer.