The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-09-08
NTY NEWS
Friday, Sept. 8. 1899.
ML<ORLOCALS

"A DfduCll SOClelJ vi tHC NdllOud
Association for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals is being organ.
lied in Elkton.
An interesting meeting was held
in the Normal school building in
Rising Sun by the Young Friends
association last Sunday.
Sarah Boulder, a cOlored girl
aged four years, was drowned on
Monday by falling in small stream
near her home at Newark.
While picking grapes one day
last week Mrs. Ellwood B. Mckee,
of Newark, fell from a ladder and
sustained a fractured rib.
The Young Ladies Home Mis-
son will hold a sociable this even
ing at Mapel Lawn, the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Wilson.
Friends quarterly meeting at
Calvert on Friday last, was largely
attended by people from Cecil and
Hartford counties, Md, and Chester,
Lancaster and York counties, Pa.
James Pondeleon, of Singerly,
and Rosa Gallo, of near Elkton,
were married in the Elkton Cath
Ollie church on Sunday morninw, by
Father Campbell. The bride is but
sixteen.
Mrs. S. E. Mahan, dressmaker of
this town, has been working early
and late for the past week in order
to finish three handsome gowns for
the Bechtel-Rodney wedding last
Wednesday.
The MIDLAND Office was the
recipient this week of u basket of
luscious grapes from Mrs. Hattie
Atkinson. They were of three
varieties, Moor's Early, Concord
and Niagara.
A throng of city sportsmen came
to Elkton on Monday to be ready
to attack the rail and reed birds on
the marshes the next morning, or
on the first tide after the closed
season ended.
Miss Emma Wilson, milliner, has
gone 20 New York to spend a month
among the fall and winter styles of
millinery and expects to return
with full assortment of the latest
creations in ladies' headgear.
The team of John S. Writ, Esq,
while attached to a trap ran away
one evening last week in Elkton,
getting entangled in a barbed wire
fence and breaking the carriage
plOe, but fortunately doing no
further damage.
The controlling interest in the
Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic
railroad has been purchased by the
Pennsylvania railroad. The pur
chase includes the operation of the
Eastern Shore system and line of
steamers out of Baltimore.
The members of Ebenezer NJ. e.
church will hold a Lawn Fete on
the lawn, at the home of Harry
Logan, on Thursday evening, Sept.
IA. Refreshments served. If
stormy Thursday evening, will be
held the next fair evening. All
welcome.
An engineer on the United States
survey cutter Matchless, now en-
gagged in a resurvey of the Elk
river, met with a painful accident
on Sunday while fixing a bicycle.
One of his fingers got caught be-
tween the chain and the sprocket
wheel, cutting the end off.
The colored camp which is being
held lin the woods north of town
will be continued over another
Sunday. Rev. Anna Richardson, a
colored evangelist from Baltimore,
has been keeping up the interest of
the colored folks in the meetings
with her forcible dicourses.
The f. N. I. opened last Mon
day with % pupils in attendance,
Miss Helena DeCou, principal.
The public school will open next
Monday and in order that the
assistant be secured at the begin
ming of the term, parents are re-
quested to have their children en-
rolled as early as possible.
The Appeal says: DR.. Peter
Cooper, of Wilmington, brother of
DIR. j. w. Cooper of Elkton, writes
from Arizona, where he is sOjourn-
ing for his health, that no one dies
of disease in that country, but he
says there is a cemetery where he
is that has 10 peasons buried in it;
of these 13 were murdered and the
other were killed on the railroad
The Elkton fair managers are
making every effort to get up an
exhibit that will eclipse all former
fairs, but by the tone of the town
papers the prospect is not as salts,
factory as was anticipated. Liberal
cash premiums have been offered,
and So, 400 have been appropriated
for race purses. There is less than