The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-08-13
COU NTY NEWS
Friday, Aug. 13, 1897.
MlNORLOCAIS

Rising Sun contributed II to the
excursion to Atlantic City yester-
day.
A church festival was held at
Leeds by the M. p. church on
Wednesday evening.
There are 200 foreigners employed
grading the change in the railroad
track at Bacon Hill.
The Rising Sun and Port Deposit
base ball clubs will play and Port
Deposit tomorrow afternoon.
Harry Corridor, poultry fan
cier of near Elkton, has been grant
ed patent upon an incubator.
Many oats fields have the crop
still on the ground, which will have
to be burned to make the field ready
for the pillow. Wet weather de-
stroyed a large portion of the crop.
Ioln w. Fetzer, general agent of
the Guarantee Building and Loan
Association of Baltimore, has been
spending several days this week in
Rising Sun trying to organize
branch here.
Richard G. Porter is dangerously
i'll st his home, near Cherry Hill,
from pneumonia, contracted while
fighting fire which broke out in
the public hall owned by him on
Wednesday of last week. o.
The annual meeting of the Cecil
Mutual Fire Insurance Company
was held last Saturday. The old
board of officers was elected, Jacob
Tome president. The losses last
year were light, being only two per
cent.
Saturday morning Sheriff Harvey
III. Mackey attached the large tug
w. S. Cahill, from Philada., while
in the Chesapeake & Delaware
canal at Chesapeake City for 81 ,666
debt at the instance of P. Dough
erty & Co., of Baltimore. The tug
was on the way to North Carolina.
Invitations have been issued for
the 4th annual mid summer dance,
in Cummings hall, Rising Sun,
Tuesday evening, Aug. 24th. The
committee in charge is H. L.
Worthington, Barclay Reynolds,
Jr., O. Il. Kimbell and Frank
Cherry.
Miss COVE May, of Elkton, has
been appointed to the scholarship
at Western Maryland College; Miss
Helen Lort, of Mechanics Valley,
to the State Normal School, Balti-
more, and Miss Bessie Cameron, of
Elkton, to the Maryland Institute,
at Baltimore.
John and Aquila Magraw who
were employed helping a Hartford
farmer near Havre de Grace to
thresh wheat, loaded up thirty
bushels after night and sold it in
1lavre de Grace. The enterprising
brothers were arrested and lodged
in jail in default of bail.
Although the number of tents at
Woodlawn camp was less this
year, the attendance ON Sunday
was fully as large as any Sunday
during recent years.
Rev. w. G. Rooms, pastor of
Rising Sun church last year,
preached at Woodlawn last
Wednesday.
The tax collector is coming and
will be at Rising Sun on the 25th
and Goth inst, Wedne day and
Thursday of that week; on Monday
and Tuesday, 23rd and oath, he
will be at Port Deposit, and at
Conowingo 9th and 2Sth. There
will be discount of per cent on
payments made in the month of
August.
A number of ministers in the
Wilmington NJ. e. Conference are
opposed to the Sunday services at
camp meetings and refuse to attend.
They claim that in this day of
many church the Sunday service at
camp meetings is unnecessary to
spread gospel to the people, but on
the lcontrary they think it takes
ministers from their pulpits, breaks
up congregations, in fact the day is
one of pleasure seeking and is Il
dissertation to the Sabbath, and
they will not countenance the evil
by their presence. If Sunday ser
vice is stopped camp meetings will
soon stop.
nosquitO Breeding.