The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-07-10
Miss Edith Addison of Phila., is

the guest of Miss Gertrude Dare.
Miss Lille Alrich of Elkton is
visiting G. G. Hopkins and family.
Miss Gertrude Roberts of Woods
town, N. j., is visiting the Misses
Reynolds.
+. X. Brown of BALTIC. spent the
18th with his brother, VIM. Brown,
in Rising Sun.
Mrs. Della Sadtler and children
of BALTIC. are the guests of Miss
Lizzie Briscoe.-
Miss Mabel Showalter of Oxford
was the guest of Misses Hanna and
Carrie Kirk this week.
Mrs. Nellie Wagner and Miss
Rhoda Wilson are visiting friends
in Washington this week.
Miss Angelina Egan is attending
the Christian FndeavOr convention
at Washington this week.
Misses Hanna and Carrie Kirk
entertained a number of friends on
last Tuesday evening, in honor of
their guest Miss Mabel Showalter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Breckenridge
and Miss Nellie Kellow of Brooklyn,
Misses Sallie and Marion Kellow
of BALTIC. are visiting Jos. S. Pogue
and family.
Herbert Maris of Newtown, Pa,
spent Wednesday last with Fl. Linn
Worthington. He rode to Rising
Sun on his wheel and is en- route
for Washington.
Miss Mary Conner was elected
delegate to represent Rising Sun
Epworth League at the annual con-
vention to be held at Ocean Grove
July 1920. Rev. W. G. Rooms
and wife will also attend.
The County Commissioners have
allowed the requisition of the School
Commissioners for funds to build
new school houses at Cherry Hill,
Zion and Rising Sun, and the build
ings will be erected, the cost being
covered by the increase i'll tax levy.
The Stevenson Wrench Manufac
turing Company was organized at
North East on Wednesday evening
last by the election of the following
directors: w. 7. Hammond, Geo.
w. Cosden, I. J. Abrams, j. S.
Simcoe, James Mallen, G. II. Squier
and George B. Stephenson. A
meeting of the directors will be held
soon and will proceed with fitting
out the building on the hill formerly
known as the old Bank Mission
Church.
William H. Allen, colored,. who
claims to hail from Port Deposit,
was committed for court last week
by Justice Nice, of Highlandtown,
charged with the larceny of gold
watch and chain valued at $40, and
a revolver worth 81 so, the property
of Thomas Braxton, colored, who
works on the B. & o. r. r., near
Bayview Junction. The articles
were in an employees cal at the
junction and Allen was seen in the
car. The valuables were found on
him.
The Young Mems Republican
Club of the Seventh Election Dist.
met ON June Doth at the usual place
of meeting and elected the following
officers: Richard S. Brown, Presi
dent; VIM. j. Brown, Vice presi
dent; James Hill, Treasurer; VIM.
E. Cornish, Secretary; James ii.
Randall, Asst. Secy.; J. II. Mitchell,
Jr., Cor. Secy.
It's nip and tuck between the1
Sun and Port. Henry M. McCul-
Tough, Esq, of Elkton is also call
ing the clans to assemble and form
a "club'' for the Sd dist.
A petition is being circulated
asking the County Commissioners
to erect bridge over the Little Elk
creek on the road leading from the
Blue Ball road past the Elkton
Stock Farm to the Brick Meeting
House road.
A fisherman who supplied some
of the public institutions of the
county with fish says there is not
money enough in the treasury to
pay his bill. And the board is
being petitioned to build another
iron bridge and three new school
houses, besides the bonded High
School house; and wheat SO cents
bushel and goldbug clubs organic
ing to make it still lower.