The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-07-16
Miss Rhoda Wilson has been

rusticating at Atlantic City this
week.
Warren Haines of Elkton was the
guest of H. H. Haines and family
this week.
Miss Olive Macintosh of New
York is the guest of Mr.. 3. Ell.
Brown and family.
Mrs. Della Sadtler and daughters
of Baltimore have been visiting
Miss Lizzie Briscoe.
IA. Headly and aunt, Mrs. M.
J. Reynoldc, spent several days at
Atlantic City this week.
Mrs. Robt. McCurdy and chill
dren of Philadelphia, are visiting
Mr.. FL. H. Haines and family.
Walter r. Burlington has re-
turned to Atlantic City where he
has position at the Melos House.
Miss Mary Brumfeld of Turkey
Point is visiting her cousin, Miss
Mary Brumfeld, near Rising Sun.
Mrs. Mamie Minor of Baltimore,
and Mrs. Josie Marriott of Anne
Arundel county, are visiting Mrs.
Eli 7. Reynolds.
Mrs. w. P. Addison and daugh-
ter, Miss Edith, of Philada, are
visiting relatives at their old home
near Rising Sun.
Mr.. Geo. E. Coulson, a former
resident of this section, but now of
Steelton, Pa, visited friends in
Rising Sun this week.
Mr.. L. E. Buckley and family of
Concord, and Miss Jennie Buckley
of Allentown, Pa, are visiting their
parents ON South Queen st.
State Senator G. G. Crothers re-
turned to his home in Elkton from
Johns Hopkins Hospital, on Tues
day of last week. He is steadily
improving and recovering from the
effects of the severe operation
which he underwent at the
Hospital.
A number of accidents have oc
CURED this summer to persons fall
ing from cherry trees. The last
one noted was that of Miss Rhoda
Brown, of Pennington, while pick
ing cherries who fell about twenty
feet, her head striking the ground
and being severely cut on top. DR..
Slicer dressed the wound.
We were in error last week in
locating the 4th of July "cullud
bawl' in Wayne Reynolds woods.
The platform is erected in the woods
adjoining. The gatherings in Mr..
Reynolds woods are confined to
gospel meetings during the open-air
season, under the charge of the col
ored brethren of Mt. Hope.
Almost weekly public sales of
running horses take place at Elk
ton. The horsemen have given bills
of sale to Elkton people and being
unable to meet them the horses are
put up at public sale and sell for
less than common "plugs." Two
sold last week for 500 each. Such
horses are of little use except for
the race track gambling business.
Shocks were felt at Port Deposit
last week which shook stones and
rocks loose in the everlasting hills,
so brother Stengle of the Press says.
The disturbance was likely shocks
of conscience largely concentrated
in the printing Office on the point.
The frivolous games and waste of
time with croquet, tennis and other
sinful sports which the editor in
dulges in returned to plague him
and he imagined the mountains
tumbling down.
| Conscience doth make towards of us all"
During the heavy thunder storm
Wednesday afteroon of last week
the barn on the farm of Stephen
Pluck, about three miles from
Elkton, was struck by lightning
and completely destroyed.
The storm was very severe in the
middle district of the county. Part
of the roof of Marley paper mill
was blown off and other minor
damage done.
The long bought which had be
gun to tell on the pastures and corn
was broken last Monday when rain
came which visited the entire
drought parched region.
County Commissioner Dexter
Lee and Clerk John III. Terrell are
now engaged revising the mortgage
book preparatory to the collection
of taxes thereon according to the
provisions of new assessment law.
The mortgage debt resting on the
farms of the county is very heavy,
but the tax upon it will be COM
paratively small. Two hundred
new mortgages have been placed on
record since the assessment law was
enacted. $4,000 in mortgages in
this county have been assigned to
the Tome institute, which makes
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