The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-08-27
DR.. Harry E. Kelsey of Baltic,
was the guest of Evans Ewing this

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ton, is visiting her aunt, Miss
Lizzie Briscoe.
Miss Mabel Reynolds of Media,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Amy
Reynolds of Harrisville.
III. III. Haines was in attendance
at the Republican State convention
at Ocean City this week.
Jacob E. Kirk and family OF
Dover, are visiting relatives in and
near Rising Sun this week.
Miss Francina Plat and Miss
Ella Moore of Delta, were the guests
of the latter's brother this week.
Miss Carrie Coates of Centre
burgh, O., is visiting friends and
relatives in and near Rising Sun.
Mrs. William Clifford and daugh-
ter of Pennington, are visiting rel
ative in Philadelphia and Bucks
county, Pa.
William W. Ferguson and Miss
Ida P. McGarvey, both of Oxford,
Pa, were married on Wednesday
last, Aug. 25th, by Rev. S. j. Nor
ris, at the NJ. e. parsonage, Rising
Sun.
A number of residents from about
Pennington and Principle are
spending the season at Ocean Grove.
Tomorrow this section will contrib
ute another party as sojourners to
this noted resort. Among the party
are Messrs. Daniel Hawk, James
Abrahams, Mrs. Amy Smith, the
Misses Kirk, Miss Beulah Mccall
and Miss Brickley.
ga goldenrod tea will be held at
Daniel Harvey's woods Wednesday
evening, Sept. LIST, for the benefit
of Childs Council, No. SO, Jr. o.
| U. A. M. The tea will be in charge
of the ladies'"
OF course the ''tea" will be in
charge of the ladies and the brew
ing will be of the pure China leaf,
not goldenrod.
Wheat after having been tossed
up in the pits by the "bulls" con-
siderably above dollar took a
short turn on Tuesday and fell s
cents. The bulls began to "unload"
their wind wheat; but the scarcity
of real wheat will put up the price.
At the warehouse of A. L. Duyck-
inck & Co. on Thursday wheat was
80 cents.
The large new building at Sin
gerly's paper mills, Providence,
used for finishing rooms, warehouse,
etc., are completed and work is now
being carried on in them. There
are now employed at the mills over
200 men and about 40 girls. Three
car loads of paper were shipped on
Saturday. 1t requires over 1000
horse power, day and night, to
drive the machinery.
The sportsmen Of New York and
Brooklyn are catching quite num-
Der of Rock fish and black bass at
Octoraro, Bald Friar and Elites
Eddy on the Susquehanna with the
red salt worm. At Hoboken, N. j.,
one boat caught 80 rock in one day
with j. N. Mccullough of Port De-
posit as guide.-Perryville Record
Our anglers will be in search of
the new bait in future.
Friday afternoon two negroes
whose identity is unknown entered
the shack of the Italian laborers
employed on the railroad work east
of Elkton. Several valises were
carried out into the woods and
ransacked, the thieves getting
away with three watches and sew
eral articles of clothing. There is
no clue to lead to their detection
News.
If no clue how is it known the
thieves were negroes?
, A meeting of the stockholders OF
the Stevenson Wrench Co., North
, East, was called for Wednesday,
Aug. 25th, to finally close out the
affairs of the company.
This, we take it, means the en-
terprise has fallen through. There
) is little chance for small enterprises
: under the English gold standard.
: 1t is to be hoped this fact will get
2 through the skull of those who
have to depend on small enterprises
or join the wage slavery army.
: Wednesday next, September LIST,
. the schools will open for the fall
and winter term. The scholars will
have become pretty rusty during
e their long vacation and will require
f Il week or two to get rid of the rust
r and the mental machinery bright
ened up. Miss Emma Haines will
have charge of Rising Sun public
school. Miss Maud Thompson will
: teach at the new school house which
e now occupies the site of the colo
t stone" school house, which wa;
r built back in the 18th century. II
s is now called pheasant Meadows