The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-05-03
COUNTY NEWS.
Friday, May 3. 1895.
MINOR LOCALS

ing j. Wilson Squier for States
Attorney.
Clarence l.. Cole of Perryville,
has sold his property in Perryville
to James I. Graham, Clerk of the
court.
The Rising Sun W. c. T. U. will
meet in the lecture room of the
church on Thursday, May 9th at
2.30 p. m.
We wonder what spite the Wing
has at Mr.. Malster that it is damn
ing his political prospects by full
some praise.
Mrs. Hart is dangerously i'll from
IA stroke of paralysis at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. VIM. Bines, at
Frenchtown.
Parker Hopkins of Port Deposit
dropped dead last week of heart
disease while tying his cravat. He
was y years old.
Recently, Mrs. Walters of Sing
erly while walking on the railroad
was seized by a white man she met.
She broke away from him and ran
for home.
Elliott Graham of Conowingo has
thecontract for furnishing telegraph
poles to renew the line running
through Calvert to Port Deposit
where it crosses the river.
The Northeastern District Con-
vention of the Maryland Christian
Endeavor Union will be held in the
Presbyterian church at Aberdeen
on May 9th and 10th.
The trial of Price for the murder
of Miss Dean a school girl IA years
old, while on her way to school,
March 26, was commenced at
Denton, Caroline county on Tues
day.
w. 7. Warburton, Esq, has pur
chased from the heirs of John
Gaitside, deceased, the property
know as Crock Valley Factory"
on Big North East creek, at the
foot of Gilpin's Falls.
J. B. Conner living on one of the
farms of Mr.. Wesley in the I'd dist.
this county died very suddenly last
Sunday, aged about so years. Mr.
Connor was in Elkton on Friday
apparently in perfect health.
The Cecil county w. G. 7. q.
has engaged the services of Miss
Stewart, "Y." organizer, in the
county for the week beginning May
18th. Unions desiring her services
will please correspond with Mrs.
Amy A. Reynolds.
Two weeks of beautiful spring
weather was succeeded by a cold
easterly storm on Saturday which
continued far into the present week
which will delay gardening and
corn planting, very little of either
having been done yet.
Miss Betsy Lowe of Rock Springs,
died on Friday morning April 26th
in the 93d year of her age. Her
funeral was held on Monday.
Services in Rock Springs Baptist
church, interment in the grave
yard adjacent to the church.
Rev. H. w. Ewing of Port De.
post will deliver his popular lecture
on "Humbugs,' in the church at
Mt. Pleasant, near Colora, We'd
nesday evening, May Sth at eight
O'Clock, under the auspices of the
Epworth League. Admission 15c.
Cards are out for the marriage OF
Miss Mamie E., daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas M. Tyson, OF
Mechanics Valley, and VIM. X.
Blake, postmaster at that place, on
Thursday afternoon, May 9th. The
latter is son offs. Kennard Blake
of Singerly.
Garfield Women's Relief Corps
and Garfield Post, G. A. R., design
holding an ice cream, strawberry
and fruit festival Friday and Satur-
day evenings, May 18th and 18th,
afternoon and evening, at Rising
Sun, in Cummings Repository
All invited.
Herring have been abundant but
the catch of shad is small. If al
fish pots were taken out of the
Susquehanna shad would be more
plentiful. Young shad are the
tenderest fish that swim and if they
run into fish pot they perish
The removal of a single scale is sale
to be death to the young fish.
A Junior Art Circle has beer
formed by the small children from
3 to 10 years Of age with the objec
of raising money to erect a chimney
on new church at Perryyille
Three meetings are held every
month and business is transacted
in the usual way. What devices
the churches are driven to, or g
TO, wise and otherwise.
The National Bank of ElktOn ha