The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-10-21
MINORLOCALS


The amount of mortgage tax col
lected in the county is $SS3.33.
The chestnut crop this year is
the largest ever known in this part
of the country.
Thirty-six pupils fill Conowingo
public school and several are ex-
cluded for want of room.
The round-trip fare from Rising
Sun to Philada., during the Peace
Jubilee next week, will be $1.62.
A. H. Tyson, of Colora, who
rece.. enlisted in the Baltimore
police force, Tome on the sick
list.
The Elkton Stock Farm shipped
fifty horses to Morris Park last
week to be sold. They were all
thoroughbreds.
Do not forget Mr.. A. A. Adler
will be at Burlington & Sons to-
morrow, the 22nd, from 10 a. IN.
until $50 p. III.
Bayard Touchton, of Calvert,
killed a carrier pigeon on Saturday
bearing the letter A and No. 1882
on a silver band.
Miss Amy Reese. of Colora, fell
from porch at her home one day
last week and broke her right arm
near the shoulder.
The Western blizzard sent a
heavy gale to us on Tuesday. The
first sharp frost made it's appear
ance on Monday morning.
The flag raising at Conowingo
school was postponed last Friday
on account of rain and will be car
ried out today at 3 o'clock.
The Orphans Court was in Spec
ial session Tuesday and passed
orders in the settlement of the
estates of Jacob Tome and others.
On Sunday afternoon an unknown
white man assaulted Miss Helen
Ruth, who lives with her niece Mrs.
Calvin McCallister, near Newark.
The six year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Albanus w. Saxton of
Cherry Hill died of typhoid fever
Thursday, Oct. Ii, after a short
illness.
One of Elkton's grocers, Mr.. w.
G. Merry, has sold his store and
will go to Porto Rico to try his luck.
He will have to study hybrid
Spanish.
Great Sachem j. G. Littleton, of
the Great Council of Maryland,
Improved Order of Red Men, insti-
tuted a tribe of Red Men at Oak
wood on Wednesday.
Edward Grant, of Mechanics
Valley, an employee of the railroad
at Elkton, had his right hand badly
mashed and one finger cut off last
Wednesday by barrel of oil fall
ing on it.
The Cecil County Medical Society
held its monthly meeting in Elkton
on Thursday of last week. A paper
on blood diseases, their treatment,
etc., was read by DR.. Judson Do
land, of Pennsylvania.
Rising Sun Council, Daughters of
Liberty, will hold a chrysanthemum
supper in the Town Hall Saturday
evening, Oct. 20. Supper, 25c;
with oysters, Soc; for children
under II years, supper, 15c; with
oysters, 25c.
James Bones, of Conowingo, was
taken ill suddenly last week and
on examination was found to be
suffering from appendicitis, caused
by eating too many grapes. He
was taken to Lancaster where a
successful operation was performed.
The five small children of Mrs.
Elizabeth Scarborough, of Port
Deposit, have been taken to the
Harvey Watson Home, Baltimore.
Mrs. Scarborough was recently de-
serted by her husband and was
unable to properly provide for the
children.
OctoIaro M. E. church, which
has been undergoing repairs, will
be reopened on next Sunday, Oct.
%. Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, of
Kemblesville, will preach in the
morning at 10 o'clock, followed by
Rev. A. d. Mink, of Oxford, at 3
O'Clock p. M, and the pastor, Rev.
w. L. Cam, at O'Clock p. m. A
good time is expected. All are in
vited to come out.
Col. Bain's lecture in the town
hall last Wednesday evening was
but poorly attended. A ten-cent
medicine show seems to be better
drawing card than first class lee
ture. "uncle Sam and the Queen
Regent" was pronounced the best
of Col. Bain's many good lectures
delivered here, and the Golden
Eagles, under whose management
the lecture was given. lost consid