The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-21

perty In Port Deposit.
Mr.. Joseph Richards Porter's
Bridge mill, we learn is to be fitted
up with rollers and all the newest
improvements.
w. T. Mcclure & Bro. received
this week that long looked for in
voice of twelve new Crawford
bicycles. Now is your chance to
ride wheel home without further
delay.
While working in his truck patch
one day this week Frank Smedley
found a radish which is a curiosity,
being shaped like a human head,
with the eyes, nose and mouth
complete.
Miss Maria Egan died on Thurs
day, 18th inst, at the residence of
her niece, Miss Angelina Egan,
near Rising Sun, in the S5th year
of her age; interment at Hopewell
cemetery the following Monday.
The Fair offers as new premiums
this year one dollar for the best
sheaf each of wheat, rye, oats and
barley. An easy matter to make
first class sheaves by picking out a
handful of the best grain here and
there.
An Elkton boy sought a retired
place and went in the creek to
battle. A young bull full of curl
Osity came along where his clothes
were placed on the bank and after
a thorough examination carried the
pants home on his horns.
The fireman in banking the fires
in the Singerly Pulp works threw
wet ashes ON the fire sufficient to
confine the gas and steam, which
caused loud explosion that startled
the neighbors near the works out
of their midnight slumber.
A company from Columbia have
been in Port Deposit making con-
tracts to raise number of the
houses on the west side of Main
street, at the upper end of the
town, above ordinary ice gorges.
Jacob Tome and others are having
some of their tenement houses
raised.
Arrangements for holding the
local preachers camp meeting have
been completed by the association.
The camp will commence on the
10th and closing on 25th of July
next, in JohnsOn's woods, a short
distance above Leslie station and
about two miles from North East.
The grounds which are nicely
adapted for the purpose are being
put into proper condition and
regularly laid out.
The surviving partner, Mr.. A.
Davis, of the late firm of James A.
Davis & Son, sold at public auction
to close the partnership, all the
stock and fixtures in their lumber
yard at North East on Thursday
last week. The machinery and
equipment of the saw mill were sold
to firm who will remove them to
a point on the Susquhanna river
about two miles above Port Deposit,
intending to erect and operate a
mill and lumber yard there.
The prohibition party county
managers held a conference at North
East last week and decided to hold
a county convention at Elkton on
July %, nominate a full county
ticket and appointed delegates to
a convention to be held at Glyndon
Park, July 81 and August l when
and where a state ticket will be
nominated. The weak spot in the
party is they cannot muster votes
enough to elect any candidate, and
political party without votes can
exert no influence in public affairs.
The Cecil County Sunday School
Association, auxiliary to the Mary
land Sunday School Union, held
their annual convention in the M.
E. Church at North East last week
and appointed the following officers
for the ensuing year: President,
John w. Mccullough; vice-pres.,
H. H. Brady, Joseph Scarborough,
g. r. st. Clair and w. T. Weldon;
secretary and treasurer, Miss Helen
McCauley; executive committee
Isaiah Biddle, Henry Vinsinger and
J.C. Carhart. Some thirty delegates
were in attendance.
Rev. Harding, pastor of M. E.
Church at Charlestown, with his
wife and daughter were driving
into North East last week and came
under the stone culvert as traiI
passed over, that frightened the
horse which became unmanageablt
and ran up the bank at the sideOftht
road, Oyerturning the vehicle anC
throwing out the occupants. Rev
Harding was rendered unconscious
for a time by the fall, and though
no bones were broken received {
severe shock and is badly bruised
Mrs. Harding in falling struck he
head against stone and received
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