The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-02-25
NTY NEWS.
Friday, Feb. 25 1898.
ML>.ORLOCALS

4HC OOuuty >OOlHHllSSlOHVAo navy
been in session this week correcting
the assessment books.
The N. N. N. club meets at the
home of Miss Maud Leedom, Bay
View, this evening.
James Davis an aged inmate Of
the Almshouse, died at that insti
tuition on Friday morning last.
VIM. G. Henderson has sold a
tract of So acres of land near APP
pleton to James A. Crockett, fol
$4,000.
Sheriff ConoIy on Monday attach
ed the tug w. III. Cahill at Chesa-
peae City for 81, 666, at the suit OF
P. Dougherty Company, of BALTIC.
county.
The contract for the bridge over
Basin Run, near Rowlandville, has
been awarded to the West Virginia
Bridge Company for $349 by the
County Commissioners.
The Jug breaking and lecture tc
have been held at Wesley Chapel
last week was postponed on account
of the weather, and will be held
some time next month.
TIE five-act drama "Esmeralda"
will be given in the Town Hall on
Friday evening, March IL, by Ris-
ing talent, for the benefit of the
Woman's Relief Corps.
Home Council, o. U. A. NJ, of
Principle, will give an "all-star
comedy" entertainment in Prin-
cipio hall on Thursday evening,
March 3rd. Admission, 20 cents.
An entertainment will be given
by the pupils of Washington school
near Zion, on Friday evening,
March 4, consisting of dialogues,
dramas, monologues, Rotations,
music, etc.
Julian Hemsley, colored, of Elk
Neck, was sent to the House of Cor
rection for a year by Magistrate
Groves, of Elkton, charged with
being a vagrant and dangerous
character.
The Friends, from their Quarterly
Meeting which assembled at the
Brick Meeting House on last Sixth
day, memoralized the legislature
not to interfere with the Local
Option Law of this county.
William Tagert, contractor
residing ON his farm near Locust
Point, has been awarded the con-
tract for the brickwork of 1872
houses at Overlook, Pa. The work
will require the laying of 5000, 900
bricks.
The body of John A. Kay, which
was recovered from the wreck of
the battleship Maine at Havana
last week, was buried in the Gem
etery there along with the others
recovered. 1t was impossible for
his family to recover the body in
order to give him interment at
home, which was a source of much
grief to them and sympathizing
friends.
w. G. Armstrong, of Oxford, on
Tuesday sold at private sale to T..
u. Harper of Russelville, the Ok
ford Hotel property and fixtures
for $4,000. Mr.. Harper's fine
farm of 80 acres and stock were
put in the deal at $4,000. He
will take possession April 1. Mr..
Harper some years ago was pro-
prietor of the Octoraro Hotel,
Oxford.
The unknown white man found
on the Elk river shore last week
has been identified as William H.
Adams, of Montgomery, Pa.
Adams was washed from ferry
boat at Montgomery on the Goth OF
November last while ferrying some
passengers across the Susquehanna
river, and his body was carried by
the current over 200 miles. He
leaves a widow and three children.
Elmer Reese, who drives Homard
Terry's butcher wagon, when on
the road between Pilot Town and
ConOwingo, met with an accident
The coupling pin came out and the
horses left him on double quick
with tongue and front wheels. The
team ran to ConowingO where il
collided with a tree near Wood
rows hotel. A wheel was broken
and one of the horses knocked
down and severely stunned by the
shock.
The pupils of Rowlandville schoo'
celebrated Washington's birthday
with appropriate exercises on Feb
21st. The room was tastefully
decorated with flags. In spite Of
the rain, the room was well filled
with pupils and friends, and those
who faced the Indictment weather
were amply repaid with the excel
lent literary program which was
given in honor of the "Father Of
his Country"