The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-08-20
NTY NEWS.
Friday, Aug. 20, 1897.
MiNORLOCALS

ing $1.15 per basket.
Farmers are pouring their whea
into the elevator at A. l.. Duyck
inck & Co.'s warehouse.
Eighty-fve tickets were sold al
Rising Sun station for the Tolches
ter excursion yesterday.
ON. Johnson, formerly ofLeslie
has opened a large warehouse al
Perryman, Hartford county.
Miss Belle Vanneman will teach
the Conowingo school the next tern
and Miss Emily B. Hanna the Oak
wood school.
Thieves entered the general store
of Theo. +. Armstrong, Newark
Sunday night and stole 500 worth
of shoes and clothing.
Between Elkton and Wilmington
Sunday night a hawk flew into the
headlight ola passenger locomotive
The bird was killed and glass
broken.
Walter T. Johnson of Theodore,
has received the contract to put a
Standard Dictionary in Liberty
Grove public school. Miss Belle
Nesbitt, teacher.
Edwin T. Alexander and Miss
Mary G. Burnett, both residing in
ElktOn, were married at Atlantic
City on Saturday evening, Aug. Z,
by Rev. w. H. White.
A car load of live chickens from
Georgia passed through Elkton on
Monday enroute to Philadelphia.
There were about sixteen hundred
fowls in the car.-Appeal.
Mr.. Jacob Tome of Port Deposit
has recently passed his S7th birth
day. He keeps steadily on the
move going his customary bushes:
rounds weekly and looking after
the INTEREST,"
The old Ricketts, mill, near Elk
ton, which was built in 1862, is
being torn down and is to be re-
placed by a new structure with all
the modern mprovements of the
Touring mill of the present day.
Both sides of Main street from
Center Square to Walnut street are
now side-tracked with blue stone
tagging. The town is looking up,
and providing a good solid walk for
Miss Prosperity when she makes
her appearance.
A. p. Shockley sold at mort
gagee's sale at the Court House
door, Elkton, on Thursday of last
week the farm of John B. Grason
containing thirtytwo acres, near
Rising Sun, to William Grason the
mortgage, for $4,000.
Harry, eleven-year old son Of
David Ash, of Elkton, had a narrow
escape from drowning on Sunday,
when he fell from the deck of a
watermelon boat near the bridge.
When he came to the surface for
the second time he was rescued by
a bystander.
The Cecil Star says: "We are in
formed that an opportunity is open
for the establishment of a shirt
factory in this town." North East. J
Not a few people not a thousand
miles from that town are wondering
where the "wherewith" is to come
from to buy the shirt.
The latest gold discovery is re.
ported at Rock Springs in the
Eighth district of this county, and
Mr.. Silas Lowe the fortunate owner
of the mine. In connection with
the report comes the information
that Mr.. Lowe has sold his farm fol
$4,000. The mine is probably 6
"pocket mine" and Mr.. Lowe holds
the pocket.
A meeting of the directors of the
Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance
Company was held on "Wednesday
morning of last week at the Office o
William Il. Warburton, the presi
dent of the company. This new
company has been writing insur
ance only since July 10th and ha.
already issued policies amounting
to upwards of 100000.
Alfred Smith, colored, of Zion
while returning from the woods
meeting near North East was strucl
by passenger train on the p. w
q B. railroad, one mile north o
that place. The horse which h,
was driving, which belonged t.
liveryman S. T. Shippers, was killed
and the buggy broken, but Smitl
escaped with slight injuries.
While a number of colored chill
dren were playing Friday in Elktol
a dispute arose between Samue
Anderson and William Smith, boy
about ID years of age, ending in
fight during which Anderson Gu
Smith quite severely with a knife
Anderson was given hearing be
fore magistrate Grol es and sen