The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-08-30

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The Rising Sun Cornet Band will
furnish music at ElktOn Fair on
Thursday, September 18th.
Zachariah Leonard of Calvert
had fine mare to die last week of
lock jaw caused by nail in the
foot.
j. H. Harris will sell at public
sale at Colora, Sept. 2Sth, house
hold goods and other personal
property.
Jacob Bair, ST., has purchased
of Z. r. Hill a small farm of 244
acres, near Birmingham school
house, for $500.
The farmers institute and har-
vest home will be held at Black
Barren Springs Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept. 4th and 9th.
Miss Sarah Michigan, of the Sth,
district, was buried at st. Patrick's
Catholic Church near Grubb's
Corner, Tuesday of last week.
Our esteemed friend Aaron j.
Kitchener is in luck. His crop of
oats was 56 bushels to the acre
weighing 30 pounds per bushel.
The Young Ladies' Home Mis-
sion of Rising Sun church will hold
a monthly sociable at the home of
Miss Lizzie Stephens Friday even
ing, Sept. 9th.
The Friends hold quarterly
meeting at Brick Meeting House to-
day and on Saturday a First day
school union of all the schools be-
longing to Nottingham quarter.
The canning business in this end
of the county has suffered severely.
Only one cannery is running at
Rising Sun, and the canneries at
lakewood and Conowingo are both
idle.
Lewis Cooper while threshing
for Title Tosh received a severe
wound in the hand by the knife
of the band cutter missing the
band and penetrating COoper's
hand.
Jefferson Haines has purchased
from John Hunter his house and II
acres of land, situated near Rising
Sun. Mr.. Hunter will remove to
to his mill property. The price
paid was $500.
Immence crops of potatoes are
reported by our farmers. Mr..
George Mccullough had 500
bushels out of 2 acres, and other
patches are turning out even better,
but the price is nominal at 80 cents
and no buyers.
Samuel Johnson, a boy tramp
from Philadelphia, while boarding
a freight train at Perryville, was
thrown to the tracks and a bone in
his left arm broken. DIR. Stump
dressed the wound, and he started
on his way home.
The tenth annual convention of
Cecil County W. G. L. U. will con-
vene in Elkton M. E. church Fri
day, Sept. 9th, at 10 a. IN. The
evening meeting will be addressed
by the State President and a
National speaker.
The owners of the West Amwell
farm near Elkton are considering
the practicability of blowing up the
dam with dynamite and in this way
redeem the acres now covered with
water for pasture fields. The place
is used as dairy farm.
The small barn belonging to
James B. McClintock on his prop
erty on Philadelphia avenue, Perry
vile, was destroyed by fire on
Monday afternoon last. The loss
on building and contents will prob
ably amount to about 500.
Harvey X. Garvin and Walter
X. Terry will each shortly COM
mencee the erection of a residence,
the former on piece of ground
purchased from VIM. Brown, on
the western outskirts, and the
latter ON his lot adjoining G. Con
ner's home.
One day last week while Henry
Evans and a party of workmen
were repairing the abutments of the
bridge over Stone Run at McKin-
sey's mill they killed six copper
head snakes, all of which were
whoppeps, 1t wasn't good day
for snakes, either.
Quite number of the neighbOr-
ing farmers are in attendance at
the Grange picnic which is held
annually at Williams Grove, Pa.
These agricultural gatherings at
Williams Grove are becoming
more popular every year and the
exhibits of farm products, stock
and machinery are uneXcelled.
The attendance on "Grange Day"
last year was 5000.
The young people of Mt. Pleas