The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
Christmas is next Monday.

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has been fined $96 for exposing fo
sale in Philadelphia COW that tn,
inspector declared to be suffering
with smallpox.
There is a report current that tht
textile works at Havre de Grace
are to be enlarged by couple o
new buildings. The works al
present cover an area of four acres
A stack of fodder in the heart O
Eikton caught fire one night last
week but by the exertions Of the
fire company the blaze was pre-
vented from communicating with
buildings in close proximity.
On account of the discharge OIL
the spokesman for the employees Of
the Textile Works at Havre dc
Grace, who asked for an increase OF
wages, ten of the operators left and
secured employment elsewhere.
An assignment has been made by
John j. Durham, a Hartford county
Gamer. His pack this season was
$4,000 case of tomatoes, the output
of Is canneries. The assets are
1874 ,266. S3, liabilities 46,682.72.
The steamer Susquehanna made
her last trip of the season from
Port Deposit to Baltimore on Thurs
day of last week. The company
will, however, run steamer over
the route Wednesday and Friday.
Miss Marion Clark, of Cecilton,
led the Junior Glass of the Western
Maryland College, at the term just
closed. The honor for second place
was a tie between Miss Covington
May, of Elkton, and Miss Harris,
of North Carolina.
When your slumbers are dis
turbed by the church bell early
next Monday morning, do not jump
/ up in alarm, thinking a fire has
broken out but just roll over and
get up and go to the. early
Christmas services.
Timanus j. Wilson, son of Thos.
j. Wilson, near Rising Sun, has
recently been elected End vice
president of the Nor Tonawanda
IN. W board of trade. Mr.. Viii
son is engaged in the wholesale
lumber business at that place.
Addresses were made by DR.. T.
A. Worrall, Webster White and
w. J. Smith at the flag raising at
White Oak school, Calvert, last
Friday afte noon. Banner Council,
o. q. A. M, conducted the cere-
mond. Miss Lillian Harnett is
teacher of the school.
Chestertown, Kent county, exper-
fenced two earthquake shocks last
week, one on Thursday and a slight
er shock on the following day. The
vibration was clearly defined
throughout Kent county.
1t has since been ascertained
that the vibrations were caused by
the testing of 12-inch gun at
Fort Carroll.
Chief Engineer Wilson, U. S. A.,
has submitted the following report
to Congress, regarding Elk river:
Elk river, Maryland, the dredging
of a channel 100 feet wide and 8
feet deep, from below Cedar Point
to the bridge at Elkton. This
channel was made between 1878
and 1898, but has shoaled up and
to restore it will cost $16, 665, and
necessitate the removal of 101, 900
cubic yards of material. The annual
expense of maintaining the chan
mel is estimated at $500. U. S.
Agent w. f. Smith made the es-
Inmates and recommendations.
Dredging the mud out of the
upper end of Elk river every few
years is an expensive business. 1t
would be much less costly and EN-
brace all the advantages to build a
public warehouse and wharf at
Oldfield Po;.t, where>vessels could
always have deep water, load and
unload and tow freight in flats to
and from the wharves in Elkton.
The distance is only eight miles.
A girl who worked in the Elkton
shirt factory has been sent to a
hospital, victim of over work.
Her task was to hem thirty-three
and one third dozen (400) shirts for
81 90. Her efforts to accomplish the
job in a day and earn enough to
decently board and clothe herself
were too much for flesh and blood
and she broke down under the over
work. When the operators of the
machines, by experience, are able
to increase the amount of work in
a GWEN time, and by acquired skill
increase their wage, the wages are
shaved down little to correspond
which the increase in skill of the
operator, but transyersely.
Every person who reads the
daily papers has been struck with
the constant song of unexampled
prosperity" they sing. This
hymn of prosperity goes on steadily
and unyarying in its monotony as
the murmur of a brook. $780,