The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-04-08
NTY NEWS.
Friday, April 8 1898.
Mll~.ORLOCALS

Wilmer j. Falls has been ap
pointed notary public at NORTH
East.
Stephen Krauss caught an 81.
pound shad in the Susquehanns
near Port Deposit.
Last week a sturgeon was caught
near Milford, Del, that weighed
500 pounds, while the roe weighed
125 pounds.
Mrs. Clara ID. Abrahams has
been commissioned postmaster at
Woodlawn. There are no post.
mistresses in law.
A United States veterinary was
in Risiag Sun yesterday looking up
horses to purchase for the govern
ment for cavalry purposes.
The VIM. Fl. Lake farm of sixty
acres, in the Second district, was
S id to Frank Lake by trustee l..
Nj. Haines, on Monday, for 5000.
Judge Stump on Monday went to
Denton to be present at the term of
the Circuit Court for Caroline
county which convened this week
Walton Jenness, of North East,
has joined the U. S. Navy, enlist
ing at League Island, near Phila-
delphia, last week for five years.
term.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has approved the Third National
Bank of Philadelphia as a reserve
agent of the National Bank of Ris-
ing Sun.
Reuben Haines, ESQ.,, of the
Elkton bar, will deliver a lecture
on Pompeii at the Friends Normal
Institute Friday evening, April 20.
Admission, 10c.
Rev. T. B. Short will give hum
orous lecture on $50 Minutes Sun
shine" in the Jr. o. U. A. NJ. hall
at lakewood on the evening of April
II. ADMISSION, l0c.
On Saturday night last the boat
house of Jacob Myers, at Principle
Furnace, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at 500, partly
covered by insurance.
The remains of Sarah Krause
were inferred in the cemetery at
Mt. Pleasant on Thursday of last
week. The deceased was sister
of the late Thomas Kennard.
Thursday, March 81, was the last
day for the receipt of State and
county taxes by County Treasurer
Manly Drennen. All unpaid taxes
will new go into the hands of the
Sheriff for collection.
Rev. Ernest Greenfield, pastor
of Mt. Pleasant NJ. e. church who
was returned to the charge by
Conference, has as yet been unable
to obtain a house in the neighbor-
hood in which to reside the ensuing
year.
The Daughters of Liberty recent
ly organized here are very enthu-
siastic in their work and have an
interesting literary program each
meeting night. Several new men,
bers were initiated on last Wednes-
day evening.
Mrs. Sutton, mother of Geo. W.
Sutton, is lying at the point of death
at the home of her son near Perry
vile. Mrs. Sutton was stricken
with paralysis on Friday afternoon
last and has since been in a very
precarious condition.
Mr.. Cornelius S. Abrahams,
recently appointed School Commits
sioner, qualified as such last week.
The Board is now composed of Geo.
A. Blake, Elkton, president; Geo.
o. Carey, North East, and Cor
nelius S. Abrahams, Woodlawn.
Robert X. Rawlings, of Wood
lawn, has bought Is head of fine
Durham cattle from the stock farm
of w. 7. Warburton, near Bay
View. The cattle are in fine con-
dition weighing about 1900 each
and are to be shipped to Baltimore
for export.
Sixty eight men, mostly Italians
and Hungarians, employed on the
railroad work near North East,
struck last week for an increase Of
wages. The strike was of short
duration as sixty of the men soor
signifed their willingness to resume
work at the old figure, 'Sl.1O pei
day:
!" 49, The raising,Qf the. SHsquehanna
!. bridge on the R,sW. & B. railroad
i is about completed. All extra men
were layed off on Friday. The
floor of the bridge has been raised
% inches and new iron stringerE
put under it. Work has progressed
every day, including Sunday, since
January II.
The County Commissioners hav,
decided to return to the old system
of mending the public roads, tina