The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-14

SedSon ldSI Erludy evening.
Brick Meeting House Friends
First-day School organized last
Sunday for the summer.
III. Linn Worthington while fish.
ing in Hunters mill dam last Wed.
nesday caught carp weighing %
pounds.
Hon. J. S. Willis, ex-member OF
Congress from Delaware, will
deliver the grafton at Calvert Oh
Memorial Day.
The fish commissioner deposited
ten hundred thousand young shad
in both the Gunpowder and Bush
rivers last week.
The Standard Oil Company has
purchased ground at Havre dc
Grace whereon they will erect two
oil tanks of 10000 gallons capacity.
Sylmar w. G. T. U. will hold a
literary and musical entertainment
in the church tomorrow evening,
May 18th, at s o'clock. Silver
offering.
A Young Friends Association
was formed at West Nottingham
("Little Brick'') on First day, i'm
mediately after the close of the
weekly conference.
The high wind of Monday after
noon blew over a brick chimney on
the roof of the Episcopal Church at
Andora, damaging the building to
the extent of about SIS.
Miss Sallie NJ. Reyburn died at
her home near West Nottingham
on the 7th inst, after a lingering
illness of several months. Her
funeral occurred ON Monday.
Pilling & Wright will operate the
Denny machine shops at Newark
which have been idle for some time.
George Casho has bought the shops
of the Casio Machine Company at
Newark.
This portion of Cecil county was
visited by a severe windstorm Mon
day afternoon, which did consider
able damage to property. Joseph
Reeds barn, near Bay View, was
blown down.
Armstrong Stove Co., Perryville,
are improving the foundry by build
ing story on the warehouse.
That, believed by many to be a
mythical parsonage, prosperity,
appears to have paid our Perryyille
friends a visit.
Allen Ramsey, farmer living
near Zion, was arrested Tuesday
by deputy sheriff McAllister. He
is charged with habitually beating
and misusing his wife. A hearing
was held before Justice Groves o.
Elkton and was fined $40 and costs
The store building and dwelling
house at Conowingo owned by
Theodore Taylor and occupied by
W. A. Raglan as drug store, was
sold at mortgages sale at thu
Court House ON Tuesday. Jacol
Tome purchased the property fol
5000.
The treasurer's report of receipts
and disbursement of the taxes of thu
borough of Elkton shows that fol
the fiscal year ending April 80
1897, $9,562.31 was collected an(
$9,124.O5 disbursed, leaving +;
balance in the treasurers hands o
$43S.16.
The Octoraro M. E. Church All
Society will hold municipal socia
and spelling bee on Wednesda.
evening, May 10 in the church
Should the weather be unfavorabl
the following evening. A premium
will be given to each of the tw
best spoilers. Doors open at 1880
admission 10c. Proceeds for benefi
of church.
The twenty fourth annual con
vention of the Maryland Stat
Temperance League held thre
days meeting in Baltimore thi
week ON Tuesday, Wednesday AM
Thursday. All the churches
temperance associations, Sunda
schools and other church aid socie
ties, law and order leagues etc., etc
were invited to send delegates.
Mr.. William ID. Bye, a farme
who resided in the Fourth distric
this county, died Wednesday nigh
9th inst. of pneumonia, in the BIT
year of his age. A widow an
three children survive him. MI
Bye was son of the late Willial
T. Bye, and a brother of Samuel c
Bye, secretary of the Farmers an
Mechanics Fire Insurance Company
A pair of photographers accom-
panied by pair of women, hay
been working the picture swindI
quite successfully in Chestertowl
Kent county. 1t is the old game
An enlarged picture, payment {
part payment in advance when tt
small likeness is produced for il
Tho hnorJinn hoYrs