The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-12-24


spending the past week with friends
in Baltimore.
Miss Henrietta Riale spent sew
eral days this week with hel
brother in Baltimore.
Miss May Rodney, principal o
the f. N. l., is spending the holi
days with her parents at Bloomall
Pa.
The wedding of Miss Mollit
Thomas Drennen, to A. Douglass
McConachi, of Baltimore, was sol
emnized at Elkton on Wednesday
National Lodge No. 81, 1. o. O.
F., of ElktOn, celebrated their fifth
anniversary on Tuesday evening
by banquet at the Opera House.
A number of visiting lodges were
present.
Samuel S. Fowler, of Port De
post, has received for the third
time the sum of $50 offered by the
Pennsylvania railroad for the best
section of track on the Frederick
division.
George Poist's residence, between
Battle Swamp and Port Deposit,
was entered by burglars on last
Friday night and robbed of about
S.. 90 in cash. None of the house
hold effects were disturbed.
Work Oh the shoe factory has
progressed rapidly during the past
week, a large force of carpenters
being at work under charge of G..
w. Wilson. The frame work is
completed, ready for roofing.
Amos r. Browns house, near
Sylmar, caught fire last Sunday, in
the attic, from a defective fue.
The neignbors responded promptly
to the alarm and the flames were
eXtinguished before much damage
had been done.
A stir in the political circles of
Elkton has been caused by the
announcement that Clerk of the
Court John G. Williams has decided
not to appoint Harvey H. Mackey,
who several weeks ago was selected
as deputy by Mr.. Williams.
Clayton Elliason, of near Chesa-
apeake City, was attacked by
vicious bull and thrown to the
ground. After being knocked
down three times, Mr.. Elliason
managed to gef up-a tree and thus
saved himself from probably being
killed.
Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Watson,
wife of Robert Watson of Chesa-
peake City, died at her home in
that town Monday morning after
an illness of several years of con-
sumption.
Mrs. Jane E. Gathers, relict of
John Gathers, died at the home of
her daughter, Miss Annie Cathersat
Zion, on Sunday, Dec. 10Th, in the
10Th year of her age. Interment
at Zion Presbyterian cemetery,
December 23rd.
The hay barracks on the prop
erty of Thomas Thompson, near
Pleasant Hill, Cecil county, were
destroyed by fire Saturday, togeth-
er with contents, including hay and
straw. The fire is said to have
been caused by children playing
with matches.
William I. Warburton, Reuben
Haines, John S. Writ and Chief
Judge Pearce took part in the me-
mortal meeting of the court at Elk
ton upon the death of the late
Senator Chas. C. Crothers. Mr..
Warburton's address was pro.
nounced as an Grafton of great
pathos and eloquence.
Winter L. Wilson, eldest son of
Mrs. Hannah Wilson, near Elkton,
who for two years has been located
in Gautamala, as Government en-
gineer of that country, has accepted
position as instructor of Civil En-
gineering at Lehigh University at
Bethlehem, Pa. Mr.. Wilson will
return to this country about the
first of the. year. He graduated
from Lehigh in 1888.
The State Teachers Association
is endeavoring to secure the estab-
lishment of free public library
for each county of the State.
Let us whisper one little secret
to the Association. First secure
book readers. The great daily,
commercial, corporation, sensation
papers, with trashy gossip at a cent
per day, have destroyed book read
ers. Not one person in a hundred
among the rising generation reads
a book.
Mrs. H. J. Sheppard and daugh-
ter, Miss Marion, left Rising Sun
for New York last Saturday, where
they have rented a fiat and intend
living until next June. Miss Mar
ion will pursue her musical studies
during their stay, and Mr.. Shep-