The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-04-16

bargain in shoes in this issue. Read his ad
The Presbytery of New Castle met al
Zion Wednesday and Thursday of thi:
week.
William Grason has purchased of A. S
Davis his house OH Wilson Avenue, this
town.
Farmers in the lower districts are busy
planting corn, and some have finished this
work.
The Mizpah club will meet at the home
of Miss Laura Mcdowell near Principle
this evening.
Easter services will be held in the Ris-
ing Sun M. E. church on Sunday morn
ing at 10 80.
Loyal Temperance Legion will meet in
lecture room of the church tomorrow
afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
The April meeting ofthe Cecil Farmers
Club was held on Wednesday, April IA,
at Mr.. James H. Maxwell's near Farming
ton.
Too many dishes on one table i'll Buff
ington's furniture store caused a break
down and about $40 worth persisted in the
wreck.
Holmes c. l.. S. c. met with Mrs.
Emma P. Haines last Wednesday even
ing. The next meeting will be on April
rs, at the home of Mrs. N. c. Brown.
Attention is directed to the adv. of Geo.
Balderston in this issue. Read it and
avail yourselves of the protection and
reciprocity offered and be benefited
thereby.
Has Rising Sun special prize-fght
ordinance, or do the commissioners think
that the Corbett-Fitz. mill at the station
last Sunday morning was an unavoidable
accident?
Cecil Council, No. 2I, o. U. A. NJ, of
Rising Sun will present a flag to Pleasant
Meadows school, formerly the Old Stone
school, on Friday, April goth. Arrange
ments are being made for appropriate
ceremonies for the occasion.
Geo. w. Wackerman of Ricetown, Pa,
dropped dead at Haines station on the
Columbia & Port Deposit R. R., while
waiting for a train last Tuesday afternoon.
The body was taken to Columbia and the
deceased relatives i'll Bucks county were
notified.
Ebenezer Sabbath school was reorgan-
lied last Sunday and the following officers
elected: Pres, VIM. McNamee; treas,
Mabel Brickley; supt., Daniel Hawk;
organist, Eva Brickley; librarians, c.
Della Kirk, Mary L. Hawk, Clinton
Logan and James Lakeland.
1t is rumored, according to a dispatch
in the Philadelphia Record, that new
railroad will soon be built from Childs'
station on the B. & O. to Lanson's station,
on the Baltimore and Delaware Bay rail
road branch of the Central railroad of
New Jersey.
The building of new railroads is little
else than "rumor. "
A literary entertainment was held at
Butler school by the pupils on last Tues
day evening Miss Eleanor Nesbitt, the
teacher, had drilled the little ones until
they attained a degree Of proficiency
which was very pleasing to the large
number present to witness the entertain
ment. The net proceeds, which amounted
to $I2, will be expended on library.
Notices are being sent out by the
County Commissioners to these holding
mortgages on property in Cecil county.
This has been made necessary by the
recent act of assembly imposing tax on
mortgages. Holders of mortgages will do
we'll to attend promptly to this matter,
and to notify the Commissioners at once
of any corrections that should be made.
Quite number of law cases have been
heard by Squire Taylor recently, two be-
ing cases of tenants holding over. S. M.
McCardell VS.. ex-Squire Eames and Lloyd
Balderston VS.. Barclay E. Riley. In the
former case the tenant discretently moved
out and the landlord is in possession of
his properly once more, i'll the latter case
the tenant who is full of fight and law
still holds the fort but the seige is pro-
crossing and capitulation must soon
occur, 1t is said Among other interesting
cases was that of Mcdowell VS.. Phillips
on plea of debt, the defendent being
backed by W. Smith Campbell, an emf
nent Chester county magistrate.