The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-09-30
NTY NEWS
Friday, Sept. 30, 1898.
MlNORLOCALS

the Eighth district have harvested
as much as 400 bushels to the acre
An order of Red Men is to bt
instituted at lakewood. The name
of the aboriginal tribe was Con
owing0s.
Revival services at Rosebank M
e. church, Calvert, are in progress,
large audiences being in attendance
each evening.
The Sioux Medicine company re-
turned to Rising Sun this week and
are giving nightly shows in Bris.
GOES meadow.
Custer Kemp Brown, of Co. B,
Fifth Md. Rgt., has been on the
sick llist at home in Colora. DIR.
r. r. Crothers is his physician.
Thieves entered the residence of
Frank Armstrong, at North East,
one morning last week and stole
$l7 in money and few articles.
The report that the Susquehanna
Paper Mills, near Conowingo, had
increased the wages of it's en-
ployees 10 per cent is incorrect.
Rev. William Fitz- Simon, pastor
of Zion and Rock Presbyterian
churches, this county, was natur-
allied on Wednesday of last week.
While handling a revolver at his
home in Elk Neck Jack Fowler,
aged Is years, son of Oscar Fowler,
was accidentally shot through the
left hand.
North East Lodge, I. o. o. F.,
and Excelsior Lodge of Rising Sun
will attend services at Ebenezer M.
E. church on Sunday, October I'd.
at 2:3O p. IN.
The latest agony was a golden
rod tea at Port Herman for the
benefit of the Sunday school. 1t
would be good idea to revive the
old time sassafraS tea.
Arthur, son of Amos Boyd of
Perryville, on Sunday fell from a
scaffolding round building being
erected in that town and was sever
ly injured about the head and body.
On Wednesday of last week
Captain Daley, of Chesapeake
City, was stricken with paralysis
while on the street in Baltimore
and taken to the Maryland
Hospital.
lakewood Council, Jr. o. U. A.
M, will attend services in a body
at Bethesda church next Sunday
afternoon, at 3 o'clock. A special
sermon will be delivered by Rev.
w. E. Greenfield.
A severe hail storm passed over
Cecilton and that section of the
county last Monday. The storm
was very heavy in the lower part
of Hartford county also, destroying
large quantities of tomatoes.
Rumor is again present in the
Eighth district with her thousand
tongues. This time she tells that
gold mining, building mills and
getting machinery in position is at
hand. The season is getting late
for such work.
The Friends Philanthopic Com
mittee have arranged for two tenn
perance meetings, the first one to
be held at West Nottingham
Friends meeting house Sabbath
afternoon, 9th inst, to be addressed
by John J. Cornell.
George Stradley, civilian, and
Charles Welsh and Edward O'Neill
of the First Delaware Regiment,
have been sentenced to three
months in Jail tor assaulting Con.
cetto Distefani, an italian girl, on
the road near Townsend, DEL, in
August last.
The Young Ladies' Home Mis-
sion will meet at the home of Miss
Mabel Reynolds tomorrow after
noon at 3 O'Clock to reorganize and
make arrangements for holding a
sociable early in October. All
members are urgently requested to
be present.
w. P. Reynolds has a contract
to take out 1000 tons of spar for
Marshall Tweed, of Newark, Del,
during the fall and winter. An
engine will be used to pump the
water from the quarry at Sylma.
A car load of the spar will be ship
ped every day until the contract is
filled.
We are occasionally in receipt of
communications without the writ
er's name attached and do not pub
lish them on that account. "Dewey
Jones" sends us one this week from
Principle. If "Dewey" will send
his or her name we will gladly pub
lish the communication and with
hold the writer's name.
The Martic Electric Power Com
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