The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-10-05

Mr. H. A. Bailey and wife of Bristol
Pa, are visiting their cousin, Jas. d. Head
ley, near Rising Sun.
Carpenters are putting down a new
platform and box window in the office
at Rising Sun station.
The postal clerks have received orders
to move and live along the route with
which they are connected.
! Arthur Harlan who attended school at
West Nottingham Academy fell from a
tree and broke one ofts;s arms.
The Rising Sun w. c. T. U. will meet
in the lecture room of the church on
Thursday, Oct. 18th, at ?. 80 clock.
Tomorrow is the appointed wedding
day for the marriage of Miss Virginia
Ransom of Port Deposit to Mr.. Charles F.
Spottswood of Norfolk, Va.
The annual fall meeting of Presbytery
was held at New Castle, Del, this week, a
number of ministers and elders of this
county attended the conference.
Mrs. Nellie Wagner and Miss H. Jennie
Reynolds attended the Epworth League
convention at Centerville this week as
delegates from the Rising Sun League.
A party of ladies and gentlemen of Zion
went fishing in Elk river on Monday.
They had lots of fun didn't fall overheard,
didn't get wet and didn't catch many fish.
The following young ladies from Not
tingham neighborhood are attending
Wilson College: Miss Jennie Mccullough,
Miss Mary Bechtel and Miss Rosa Cald-
well.
Mr. VIM. L. Mearns has presented the
Zion Presbyterian congregation with a
new 700 pound bell which is to be hung
i'll the tower which is being built to the
church.
Silver & Company closed up business
on Wednesday at Rising Sun cannery and
the hands left for Baltimore the next day.
The pack was 1000 cases of tomatoes aud
5000 of corn
Robert c. Thackery, Esq, attorney, on
Monday sold the Scarborough Mill, at
Mechanics Valley, consisting of IS acres
of land and the mill property to Alfred
A. Kirk for $500
Mr.. Howell Cummings, wife and
daughter, of Ashburn, Pa, Miss Mary
Hood of Elwyn, Pa, and Miss Grace Hood
of Springfield, Pa, are the guests of H. C..
Cummings and family.
w. S. Evans, by Hosea R. Smith auc-
tioneer, on Tuesday sold the Cecil c..
Biddle farm, situated near Chesapeake
City and containing 1856 acres of land to
George H. Spear for $1,000.
VIM. w. Bryan, who has lately been
employed in the Rising Sun Bank, left
home for Baltimore last Monday, where
he will enter upon medical course at
Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. and Mrs. w. f. Overholt, of Ba1ti-
more, paid their Rising Sun friends a
visit this week. Mr.. Overholt was for a
number of years principal of the Friends
Normal Institute, but is now pharmacist
in Baltimore
The rema ms of Miss Jennie Blackburn
were brought from Wilmington on Tues
day and inferred at Hopewel1 cemetery.
She was the daughter of James and Mar
ion Blackburn, who formerly resided at
Rowlandville.
Lots of complaints are being made
about the roads. Loose stones appear to
be the greatest objection. They will
never be better under the present slip
shod system or want of system but will
continue to cost the tax payers lots OF
money.
Thirty-two new names and removals by
certificate were added to the 9th district
register at the October sitting and thirteen
at the September sitting. To-day is set
apart for striking from the list but not for
adding names to it. Yesterday was the
last day for entering on the register.
W. 7. Mcclure of Rising Sun, postal
clerk, has been laid off several DAYS with
wounded toe. He had the nail crushed
or torn off while employed in the car.
He will report for duty on Monday.
During his enforced lay-off an engine
collided with the postal car in which his
crew were working, while passing the
stock yards at Phila., demolished the car
and perhaps fatally injured the clerk in
charge.
Horse stealing appears to have been re-
duced to a science. The Kennett Id
rance says
A three year old colt and an older horse
were stolen from Edwin Golding's pasture
at Hockessin, Del, on Wednesday night
of last week and the owner has failed to
obtain any clue to the thief. Philip
Chandler, neighbor, has heard no It'd
ings of his stolen horse, and of the eight
or ten horses recently stolen from the
neighborhood of Newark not one has been
recovered.
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