The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-10-25
The vet. U. will meet in the

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Harmony Castle on next Thursday
evening, Oct. 31st.
The annual convention of the
Chester Co. Equal Suffrage AssO.
will be held at Oxford tomorrow
morning and afternoon.
I Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Ada Belle Keilholtz and John
L. Stephens, both of Rising Sun,
Nov. eth, at six O'Clock, at the M.
Il. Church.
A photograph entertainment
will be given in Rising Sun Hall
on Thursday evening, Nov. 18th,
under the auspices of Crystal
Lodge, |. 0. G. T.
Elliott M. Swisher, who was
buried at West Nottingham on
Wednesday, was popular clerk in
the Rittenhouse store back in the
seventies, in this borough.
A Sylmar reporter says protract-
ed meeting has been in progress
there for one week, with no CONVEX
sions or seekers. Gathered them
all in last winter probably.
Special services will be held in
the church at lakewood on NOvem-
Der Sd at 2:3O and 1880 p. m. A
good program will be arranged and
the public are cordially invited.
25 cents for 70 pounds of corn in
the ear and but half a crop reported,
is making the farmers scratch their
heads and ask where that "return-
ing prosperity" has stopped, which
the old party papers told them
would be right along directly.
Robt. G. Kirk, son of Lewis J.
Kirk, will open up the old estab-
lished store stand at Kinks Mills,
Lancaster Co., Pa. This store did
an immense business about the close
of the war when Lewis j. Kirk was
proprietor, customers often waiting
for six hours to get their turn.
Complaint is made of the heavy
frosts damaging the fruit in Wash
ington county, this state. The
apples should have all been picked
before heavy frosts came. Apples
for keeping should be gathered by
hand from the trees in September,
barreled and left under the trees
till sharp freezing commences.
A poverty sociable was held by
the Elkton M. E. Church at the
home of Mr.. III. A. Lindsey, on
Tuesday evening, October 22d.
The hostess promised in advance
to make it one of the most enjoy
able of fetes. Poverty sociables
are very numerous in all parts of
the country but are not generally
very enjoyable.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. III. Haines have
left for southern Maryland ON their
usual semi-annual driving trip,
finding much enjoyment in this
manner of outing, which brings
health, appetite and pleasure, &C
companied with an independence
and close observation of the country
Tat is delightful. They went north
into the mountains of Penna. in
May last.
An intoxicated man was struck
by the cars on Friday morning at
Iron Hill. He was picked up and
taken to Elkton station. The fingers
of one hand were crushed and were
amputated by DIR. Ellis, the com
pany's surgeon at that place. He
had several wounds about the head
and was sent to the hospital at
Wilmington. He did not seem to
know how it had all happened.
The County Commissioners are
making very substantial improve
ment in the road from North East
to ElktOn, by covering iteightinches
deep with crushed stone and cover
ing with the fine stuff riddled out
from the broken stone.
The commissioners have two
breakers, one at Colora, and if the
work of stoning the worst sections
of roads most used is steadily pur-
sued, the roads throughout the
county where stone is convenient,
in few years, and without borrow
ing money or increasing taxes, will
all be macadamized. The work
put upon the roads in the old way
is wasted and money lost. There
has been enough money wasted in
the old way to have piked the roads
three times over.
Alfred Mcvey, Blue Ball, had "a
fine COW and bull to die a few days
ago of singular disease. They
were sick about an hour and died
suddenly. Local and State veteri-
narians have made thorough exam
nations of the animals and say they
are of the opinion that the germs of
the disease are carried into the
neighborhood by buzzards. 1t is
supposed this trouble caused the
death of the horses in our neighbor
hood. AS ''like as not" the "bell-
ed buzzard'' was in the plot to kill