The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-22
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Oct. 20, 1897.
NiI\DRLOCALS

afternoon at O'Clock.
The j. G. Bell family have re
turned to their winter home at Con
Owingo.
Sautelle's circus will exhibit il
Rising Sun this afternoon and
evening.
i. M. Hunt is fitting up Thomas
Kinks residence in town with steam
heating apparatus.
The w. G. T. U. will meet in the
east class room on Thursday, Oct
2 tn Il $50 O'Clock.
A gov eminent pension was grant
ed Mrs. Hannah d. Wilson, OF
Elkton, and James whitley, OF
Leeds, on Monday.
The list Executive of Cecil county
w. &. Il. Z. will meet at Calvert
y. church on Wednesday, Oct.
9. D., i 10 O'Clock.
Ebenezer Epworth League was
entertained at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Clifford, near Prin-
cipio, Oh Friday evening.
Friends Firstday School at Brick
Meeting House has discontinued for
the winter. The Bible class will
continue its meetings as usual.
Weekly prayer meetings of Zion
Presbyterian church have COM
menced and will be held on Wednes-
day evenings through the winter.
Susquehanna paper mill is run
ming but about one-third of its ma
chinery. The dam is in bad con-
dition and probably orders are also
lacking.
Owing to the prevalence of scar
let fever the trustees have closed
Oak Grove School at Mechanics
Valley. At North East the disease
has greatly abated.
The engagement is announced of
e. Pusey Passmore, cashier of the
Avondale National Bank and for
merly of Rising Sun, to Miss Emily
Pussy Shelmire of Avondale.
w. S. Evans, trustee, sold on
Tuesday at the court house the
farm containing 100 acres, near
Pennington, belonging to the estate
of James Cameron, deceased, for
$4450.
Prominet Elkton business men
are contemplating the organization
of a new building and loan associa-
ton. 1t is said that over one
thousand shares of stock have been
pledged.
The regular October meeting of
the Cecil Farmers Club will be
held at Mr.. Ellis L. Duyckincll's
near Calvert, on Wednesday the
27th inst, instead of the Goth inst,
rs heretofore advertised.
The new engine and machinery
for Havre de Grace shirt factory is
being put in place and the factory
will be ready to run the first of
November. Two hundred hands,
mostly girls, will be employed.
The Willing Workers of the Port
Herman Sunday school will hold a
poultry, oyster aud fish supper in
the hall at that place on the eve
nings of Oct. 26, 81 and %. Pro
ceeds for the benefit of the school.
All are invited.
Marion E. Rose, of Bay View,
has received the appointment of
railway postal clerk. His run will
he over the Pennsylvania railroad
between New York and Washing
ton. He passed the Civil Service
examination last spring.
A coIored man was arrested Tues
day night at Perryville, by the
local officers for larceny of $75 and
a gold watch from John Dobson, a
farmer residing on the Philadelphia
pike, Baltimore county. He was
returned to the Baltimore county
authorities.
The forest trees are being rapidly
Invested of their leaves, which
strew the ground telling of winters
rapid approach, and as sign OF
good times the trust coal companies
are putting up the price of coal,
and the gamblers in farm products
are putting down the price of wheat.
The excitement over the Eighth
district gold mines is having run
away from home. The people of
the neighborhood have not lost
their head over the matter. OPP
lions on several tracts are reported.
Options on chrome lands in the
same section were taken fifty years
ago.
Miss May Rodney, principal of
the Friends Normal Institute, will
give a Recital Monday evening,
Oct. 25th, at s O'Clock, at the home
of Mr.. Edwin Haines. The Loyal
Temperance Legion of the MethO-
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