The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-10-04
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, Oct. A. 1895.
MINORLOCALS

section OF the county SOuIn OF
ElktOn.
After the long dry, hot spell, the
rain and cold breezes have put in
their appearance.
The engagement of Joseph Pugh
of Port Deposit, to Miss Janvier, of
Philadelphia, is announced.
DR.. J. III. lamar of Elkton is at
tending the meeting of the National
Health Association at Denver, Col +.
The Rising Sun w. c. 7. U. will
meet in the east class room of the
church on Thursday, Oct. 10th, at
2.3O o'clock.
Miss Emma j. AbrahSms has
been chosen organist at the M. E..
Church of Port Deposit vice Miss
Lulu V. Gerry resigned.
Rev. E. p. Roberts of Odessa,
Del, will preach at Rising Sun
next Sunday morning and evening,
and at Sylmar in the afternoon.
Miss e. A. Garvin and sister of
Rising Sun have opened a millinery
establishment at Rowlandviile.
See their adv. in another column.
John Meyers while blowing
turned up two old coins, one being
a United States copper cent dated
1898 the other an English coin
dated 1929.
Elias Renno has purchased %
acres of woodleave on the Ham
mersmith farm from VIM. Grason
and moved his saw mill to the
tract this week.
The Bell Hill, Hiram Mccullough
property overlooking ElktOn has
been sold to Rev. j. ID. Carey of
Wilmington for $1,000, by c. G.
Crothers, trustee.
Miss Lulu Gerry of Port Deposit
and Rev. H. A. G. Westerfeld, of
Chesapeake City, will be married in
the Tome M. E. Church on Wednes-
day next, October 9th.
Something very remarkable hap
pened last week on one of those
snperheated days. A mule was
sunstruck while blowing in a field
on DIR. Ellis farm near Elkton and
died. At least coup de soleil was
charged as the cause. We doubt
it however.
The eighth annual reunion of
Shows Maryland Battery Associa-
ton will be held in Snow Post
Room, Pleasant Grove, Lancaster
county, Pa, on October 9Th, to-
morrow.
These old soldier reunions are be-
coming rather sad gatherings. At
every meeting some of the old boys
are missing.
The Epworth League of Zion NJ.
4. Church will hold peanut hunt
in DIR. Gifford's store room ON
Friday (this) evening, Oct. 4th.
Ice cream and cake for sale. All
are invited.
"Who's got the button" and
"Little johnny Inkball," old time
plays, would be nice amusement to
revive for the benefit of the
churches.
Rising Sun crushed Oxford in the
game of ball ON the home grounds
Saturday. The visitors took the
lead in the first inning by good
hitting, helped by errors on the
part of the home team, but were
passed in the third when Makiver
was sized up and pounded all over
the field thereafter. Riale pitched
a good game for his team and led
in the slaughter of Makiver at the
bat. The score:
R RsIns Sun g 10 9 s g g S S-5s
Hits-Oxford, 10; Rising Sun, %. Errors-Oxford
10; Rising Sun, 6. Observation-Disclosures and Fla
herty; Riale and Dare and Devon
Mr.. G. L. Milligan, one of Balti
more's most expert sign writers, is
making a tour of the country paint
ing with artistic taste, signs for the
Lister Standard Fertilizers, for
which Messrs. Pogue & Hartenstine
of Rising Sun, are agents. He has
been busily engaged, for the past
week, decorating barns, fences,
rocks, etc., in this vicinity with
Pure Bone Fertilizer signs. Besides
being a master of his trade he is a
most rapid letterer. The mammoth
sign he flashed on the warehouse
of Messrs. Pogue & Hartenstine is
the largest in this section of the
country. The neat and artistic sign
that now graces the front of the
MIDLAND JOURNAL Office is pres
ent from Mr.. Milligan.
Last Sunday Lewis r. Kirk OF
Malvern, accompanied by a party
of friends, rode to Rising Sun on
their wheels. The distance is 43
miles and some of the party found
it "hard road to trabble,' being
completely tagged when they
arrived here. A number of Rising
Sun young men, hearing the party
was on the way, became afflicted
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