The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-10-07
MINORLOCALS

closed the September term on Sat
urday last.
On the county farm at Cherry
Hill 600 buchels of wheat and 300
bushels of oats were raised this
season.
The Young Ladies Home Mis-.
sion will hold a sociable at the
home of Mrs. Gertrude Pogue next
Monday evening.
Spring Lawn creamery, recently
the Contemporary, will commence
operations under the new manage
ment on Monday next.
Tick Ridge defeated Pennington
in an exciting game of ball, played
on the formers grounds Saturday
afternoon, by a score Of Z to 8.
Twenty-Five names were placed
on the register in the Sixth district
on Tuesday. Next Tuesday, 18th
inst, in the last day for registering
voters.
Charles Brown, of Calvert, is one
of the typhoid patients taken from
Camp Meade to the Jefferson Med
ical Hospital, Philadelphia, on
Monday.
The Maryland Agricultural Col
lege has issued bulletins on the San
Jose Scale and Hessian Fly which
should have more than usual inter
est for the farmers.
Barclay Reynolds is confined to
the house with a broken rib, caused
by horse kicking him in the side
while attempting to catch it in the
pasture last Monday morning.
Next Tuesday, the 18th, is the
last chance to register this year.
If your name is not on the list in
the district in which you reside
you will not be allowed to vote.
Deputy collector of Internal Rev
enue Jos. l.. Wells, of Elkton, has
been transferred from Wilmington
to Baltimore, taking the place of
deputy collector F. W. Baker,
resigned.
Postmaster Hindman wishes at
tention called to the fact that under
the new postal law all box rents
are due Oct. list and boxes cannot
be held for patrons later than the
10th inst.
Excelsior Lodge and North East
Lodge, I. o. o. F., attended church
at Ebenezer last Sunday afternoon.
About sixty Odd Fellows were in
attendance to listen to the sermon
by Rev. Mr.. Mowbray.
The Kay Monument association
will meet in the lecture room of the
church tomorrow evening at 1880
o'clock. All persons interested in
the movement and all the collectors
are requested to be present.
1t is officially announced that
the First Division, which embraces
the First Maryland, will be ordered
to Admission, Ala, about October
20, and from there to Cuba or
Porto Rico in the near future.
Mr.. George Sutton's young pear
orchard, near Perryville, was found
to be so polluted with the San Jose
scale that it was necessary to de-
stroy all of the trees. The scale
had been introduced from the
nursery.
Mrs. E. H. Worthington of this
town received a telegram last
Wednesday announcing the sudden
death of her sister, Miss Mariah
Miller of New Britain, Pa. Miss
Lulu Worlhington was visiting her
aunt at the time.
The youngest son of Frank L.
Peterson, of Providence, narrowly
escaped drowning on Saturday last
by falling into tub of water. His
five year old brother held him out
of the water by the dress until res.
cued by his mother.
Col. VIM. E. Griffith has been
appointed examiner of State banks
by State Treasurer Thos. J. Shry.
ock, under the law passed at the
last session of the Legislature. Col.
Griffith also holds the position OF
national bank examiner for Mary.
land.
AT the meeting of the Antietan
Battlefield Commission held in Bal
timore last week, a monument was
selected which is to mark the spot
where the Maryland troops were
engaged. Theo. j. Vanneman, O.
Port Deposit, is a member of the
commission.
A proclamation has been issued
by Governor Lowndes designating
Wednesday, Oct. 10, as Lafayette
Day. He recommends that thu
schools of the State, both public
private, devote a part of the day t.
exercises appropriate to the
occasion. I'D.
When are we to have Thomas
.IaffnrSOn daV in tho cchoOlcq TIL.