The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-29

Co-utby'
The Principle Forge shut down
last Friday for repairs to the
hammer.
The weather of last week and for
part of this has been fine for the
cut-worm.
The peach basket factories are
working full time. They are lead
ing the industries of the country at
present.
Next Wednesday Oxford Spring
Fair will open. A great silver
debate is one of the drawing cards
of the fair.
The army worm has appeared in
the lower counties of the Peninsula,
and is doing serious damage to both
corn and wheat.
A strawberry and ice cream
festival will be held at Colora, on
Friday and Saturday evenings,
June 5, and 6, under the auspices
of Colora Council, Jr. 0. q. A. M.
The spirits of the managers of
the Local Preachers Camp near
North East are exalted. Thirty
tents have been engaged already
and the meeting day is two months
off.
An employee of the Elkton Stock
Farm was badly bitten by a horse.
The vicious animal seized the mans
arm and shook it like a dog. The
services Of a physician were neces-
sary.
A baby show at Middletown,
Del, is advertised to come off June
4th, next Thursday. Babies from
both Delaware and Maryland will
be on exhibition. If the mothers
were all made judges every baby
would be prize winner.
To-day is the closing day of the
summer term of the public schools
of the county. The weary teachers
and pupils will have a long holiday
till September. The only draw
back to the enjoyment is that the
pay stops with the schools.
Jos. T. Riale has been missing
several bushels of oats from his bin
on two or three occasions lately.
He hopes the party who needs grain
so badly will furnish the sack for
the next lot, as the ones he has Cor
had) were borrowed and he must
make the loss good.
A vocal and instrumental enter
tainment will be held at lakewood
this evening, under the auspices of
Susquehanna Council, Jr. o. U. A.
M. Mr.. James S. Goldie, humorist,
assisted by Mr.. John J. Gibson, the
Misses Burkihs and Colora Band,
will entertain the audience. Ad-
mission, Is and 25c.
West Nottingham Academy and
Tome Institute mines crossed bats
for the first time this season at
West Nottingham, last Saturday
afternoon. The score was: Noting
ham, "a; Tome, Is.
The second game of the series be-
tween the clubs will be played to-
morrow afternoon at Port Deposit
The farm owned by the late
Alfred Filter, situated between the
Elk and Bohemia rivers, near Town
Point, was sold at public sale on
Thursday to John j. Ryan for
$500. The farm contains ia
acres, and the buildings alone cost
double the purchase price. Mr..
Ryan is from st. Louis, and came
to Elkton with his stable of running
horses. He likes the country and
expects to reside on his new pur-
chase. Democrat.
The roads throughout the county
are receiving their annual repairing.
Some of them are being made worse
by it. A number of roads have a
deep ditch ON either side and a
fange of green sward between ditch
and road to keep the water in the
road and ont of the ditch. The
supervisor" in place of cutting the
tlanges away and tumbling them in
the ditch, scoops the pulpy mud
from the bottom of the ditch and
throws it on the road to make dust
in dry and mud in wet weather.
An Elkton man was called upon
by several families, who are attend
ing the races now in progress at
Barksdale, to move a number of
articles and baggage from Elkton to
that place on Tuesday, and no in
considerable part of the load were
the pets, which included, a deer,
three monkeys, a parrot and two
dogs. On the way up the monkeys
got somewhat unruly and the
parrot flew away but was gotten
back without any profanity on its
part. 1t is religious parrot
Wing.
That parrot is the hope of Elkton,
the only religious being connected
with the race "industry."
Silver & Evans notified the