The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-13
NTY NEWS.
Friday, May 13, 1898.
NIlI>sOR LOCALS

Garfield Post will attend Eben-
ezer church on Sunday, May 20.
William Asher, of Principle, has
been appointed station agent at
Principle.
Nearly three hundred school
trustees have been appointed by
the commissioners.
Mrs. Laura j. Wallace, of Cecil
ton, has been granted an original
widows pension of S. per month.
Cecil Council, o. U. A. M. will
hold a strawberry festival in Rising
Sun on Friday and Saturday, June
3 and 4.
Six thousand five hundred dol
lars were paid to workmen in the
quarries last week by McClenahan
& Brother.
EN-. Hunt erected windmill
for DR.. G. G. Sill this week to sup
ply water for the greenhouses on
his property.
The County Commissioners have
granted an increase of $50 to the
Rising Sun borough appropriation,
making it now 1915 annually.
Squire Taylor had religious
suit before him this week which
grew out of a contest between col
ored preachers at Mt. Hope church.
A large mastiff dog showing
symptoms of the rabies was killed
at Bay View last week. The ami
NAL belonged to Alfred B. Cameron
of Zion.
Rain on Saturday caused a post
ponement of the May party at Red
Point fishing shore until tomorrow,
by which time the seins may have
S'cut out.'
Capt John t. Kirwan has been
selected as master of the new
steamer Susqnehanna, of the Port
Deposit and Havre de Grace Steam
boat Company.
The Commencement exercises of
Jacob Tome Institute will be held
on Wednesday evening, June 15.
Bishop Vincent of Topeka, Kansas,
will deliver the address.
DR.. J. B. Slicer has secured a
setting of 10 English pheasant eggs
which he has placed under two
bantam hens, and hopes to have a
fine flock of these game birds in the
near future.
John A. Hartenstine has taken
charge of the sale of daily papers
in Rising Sun and has employed
Fred Mitchell as distributor. He
will also keep them on sale at r.
TT. Worthington & Sons.
At the twenty fifth annual ses-
sion of the Grand Castle of Mary
land, knights of the Golden Eagle,
held at Sparrow's Point last week,
it was decided to hold the next
annual session in Port Deposit.
4 resolution was unanimously
passed by North East Lodge, |. o.
o. f., TO keep in good standing all
members Of the lodge who are now
i'm the service of the government or
may hereafter enlist during the war
with Spain.
An entertainment will be held in
Franklin school house, near Farm
ington, Wednesday evening, May
Is, for the benefit of library. Doors
open at o'clock, exercises will
slegin at s O'Clock; admission 10
cents. If stormy will be held on
Thursday evening.
Flag poles are being put up call
around by patriotic shouters. The
Eighth district is particularly ex
pressive in this way. Conowingo
has flag pole up and lakewood,
her near neighbor, another. Sew
eral others have been raised at
central places in the county.
The gold mining company seem
to have large faith in their gold
bearing property of the Eighth
district and are extending their
purchases of land. j. ID. West,
acting for the syndicate, has pur-
chased the properties of Mrs.
Amelia Fulton and Mrs. Sarah
Dempsey, near lakewood. The
price paid was $500 for each
property.
The Baconian Literary Society of
the Friends Normal Institute at
Rising Sun will give an entertain
ment in the school building on
Thursday evening, May 10Th, at
s O'Clock. The program will con-
sist of recitations, music, tableauX
and farce. 1t is hoped that all
who are interested in the students
will be present. If very stormy the
entertainment will be repeated on
Saturday evening. Admission, Is
cents.
Norman Morrison found an old
English coin dated 1880 while