The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-05
COU NTY NEWS
Friday, Nov. 5, 1897.
MINORLOCALS


turkey eating day, commonly called
Thanksgiving.
Revival service will commence il
Rising Sun NJ. e. church next
Sunday evening.
The w. G. T. u. will meet in
the east class room on Thursday
Nov. 1lth, at 2:30 o'clock.
Machine tender Simon of Provi-
dence Mill, had his pockets picked
of thirty dollars last week.
r. H. Campbell Of Childs has
been appointed agent on the b. &
o. Railroad at Kiamensi, Del.
Linn, the young son of VIM. f.
Gillespie, fell on the flag pavement
last Monday and cut a bad cash in
his head.
John G. Hindman, Jr., fell from
the steps of his fathers hay loft
one day this week and bit his
tongue severely.
Several flying fish have been
taken in North East river recently
it is reported. The flying fish is
Il native of southern waters.
The stockholders of the Cecil
County Agricultural Society will
meet Tuesday next for the election
of officers, at ten O'Clock a. IN.
Miss Susie Carr and Miss Drucie
Adams of Conowingo, who are ex-
pert paper layers, have secured
positions at Providence paper mill
The shanty at Liberty Grove,
where Mr.. Silver lodged his Bohe-
mians during the canning season,
was burned down few nights ago.
One hundred and thirty five
ducks was the highest boat on
Monday, the opening day of the
shooting on the Susquehanna flats.
The cunning season opened on
Monday and the rabbit hunters
with their beagles were out in force
this week. 1t went hard with
bunny.
The "Hendrickson Homestead, :"
situated about two miles from Ris-
ing Sun and containing 1874 acres,
was offered at public sale yesterday.
1t was bid to S32 per acre and with
drawn.
Miss Anna Coudon of Akin will
hold IA chrysanthemum exhibition
from Nov. 9th to 18th, from to 5
p. m. daily. The plants and cut
flowers will also be for sale. Ad-
mission 10 cents.
On Thursday of last week d meet
ing in the interest of temperance
and kindergarten work was held at
the home of Mrs. Maria Harris,
near Woodlawn. About 80 ladies
were in attendance.
The publishers of the Biograph
ic ii Record of Hartford and Cecil
county people are suing several
persons who refuse to take the book,
alleging they were deceived by the
canvassers in the character of the
work.
A contract has been entered into
with Charles Reeder & Son, of Bal
timore, for the construction of a
steel hull steamer, to be completed
early in the spring, for the Port
Deposit and Havre de Grace Steam
boat Company.
Last Sunday evening the large
chandelier in the M. e. church
gave way while the sexton was
lighting the lamps. Fortunately
there was not much damage done,
and the evening services were held
in the lecture room.
d. w. McVey, residing near
Sylmar and one of our most success
full farmers, will visit his old home,
Morgon county, Ohio, in few days
on business for his mother. He
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more than fourteen years.
The very latest is that a Phila-
delphia syndicate is negotiating for
the purchase of the abandoned iron
mills at Rowlandyille, the object
being to put in stampers and other
m lchinery to extract the gold from
the ore of the new gold fields.
A girl dressed in mems clothing
was killed by a Pennsylvania rail
road train near Chester Thursday
afternoon Of last week She kept a
diary which told that she had a
mania for travelling as tramp on
freight trains about the country.
Five members of the family OF
William Dean, of New Castle, Del.
were made seriously i'll Sunday
night by eating poisoned bread in
which there was arsenic. How the
poison got in the flour or bread is
a mystery. The sufferers will all
recover.
An election was held in Tome
Institute ON Tuesday by the pupils
in due form of law, Australian bal
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