The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

Hon Jacob Tome has been elected
one of the directors of the Maryland
School for the Blind, Baltimore.
Mrs. J. A. Crowl of East Not
tingham, Pa, sustained fractured
hip by fall on the ice last week.
D. w. News narrowly escaped
losing a finger while feeding a fod-
der cutter at John Meredeths',
Second district.
There were 10 interments in
Rosebank cemetery during the year
1897, and four in the Friends
burying ground.
The annual meeting of Conowingo
Bridge Company was held on Mon
day in the ancient village with the
cnphonious Indian name.
The Mizpah Club met at Miss
Maud Thompson's, near Farming
ton, last Saturday evening and re-
organized for the winter.
The recent cold snap enabled all
who have icehouses in this neigh
borhood to fill them with fine, clear
ice from Hunters mill pond.
John S. Writ, a member of the
Cecil delegation in the Legislature,
is confined to his home in Elkton
by a severe attack of quinsy.
The Cooperative Savings and
Loan Association of Baltimore has
established branch associations at
Chesapeake City and Elkton.
Jerry O'Brien one of the oldest
engineers of the P. w. & B. rail
road, fell dead on his engine near
Newark, DEL, Friday morning.
A damp snow about three inches
in depth fell on Sunday night and
was melted on Monday and Tues
day by the warm rain that followed.
The Armstrong Stove Foundry
Company has received an order
from Ireland for range; a remind
er from friends in the old country.
The Court of Appeals last week
affirmed the judgment of the lower
court in the case of VIM. J. Smith
vs.. the P, w. & B. Railroad Co.
Thomas Cain, near Lombard,
broke his leg by fall on L. o. &
S. railroad one night last week
while returning from Oxford skat-
ing park.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
will hold a pie social at the home
of Mrs. Nellie Wagner on next
Wednesday evening, commencing
at s O'Clock sharp.
Mrs. e. r. Haines has sold the
Hendrickson farm of 1874 acres,
near Rising Sun, to John S. Cullen
of near West Grove, Pa, who will
move to it in the spriug.
During December G. Conner
handled over 10000 lbs. of milk at
the Rising Sun creamery, for which
he paid sos per cwt., or % cents
per pound for butter fat.
VIM. NJ. Pogue has purchased
from S. J. Pierce the tract of land
known as the "Job farm" one mile
east of Rising Sun, containing IS
acres. Mr.. Pogue will commence
to improve it at once and expects
to move to it March %.
The old Board of Directors of the
Farmers National Bank of Oxford
reelected on Tuesday: d. M. Tay-
lor, H. A. Menough, J. d. Smith,
A. K. Bradley, L. B. Kirk, Crom-
we'll Blackburn, DIR. E. Heston, J.
ID. Nelson and Henry Cope.
The price paid for December
milk at Hambleton's creamery,
Zion, was at the rate of % cents
per pound for the butter it con-
tanned, one cent higher than the
corresponding month a year ago
and three cents lower than in '96.
The Rev. Lafayette Marks, D..
D., the we'll know pastor of Han
over Presbyterian Church, Will
mington, died suddenly in the jew
elry store Samuel II. Baynard, that
city, on Wednesday afternoon, Jan.
9th. Paralysis of the heart was
the cause. He was sixty five years
of age.
For the third time within a
month burglars attempted to enter
the clothing store OF Marks Lieber-
man, of Elkton. Mr.. Lieberman
was watching the store from within
and saw a white man and colored
man trying to tear the wire netting
from a side window. The men
were frightened away.
Ex-Sheriff w. 7. Boulder, OF
Elkton, while looking over a pack
age of old papers, found a well pre-
served likeness of DIR. B. J. Bing
DR.. Bing was an Elkton dentist
thirty years ago and an original
character. He went to Paris and
succeeded in acquiring a very
lucrative practice. He was q
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