The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-01-27

The net proceeds of the I'll Try
mission supper, held at Zion last
Friday, were 500.
Lent will begin on Wednesday,
February Is, and Easter Sunday
will fall on April 2.
1t is reported that Daniel Slack
will reopen several of the iron ore
mines at Iron Hill in the spring.
Jas. T. Shea has purchased of j.
A. Kirk a house and lot situated
between Rising Sun and Farm
ington.
Jacob Biddle, stable foreman at
the Pulp Mills, Elkton, is confined
to his house from injuries received
by severe fall last week.
The Hagan farm, containing 81
acres, near Elkton, was purchased
for 1915 by P. III. Cleaver, at
mortgagee's sale, on Tuesday.
Members of Harmony and Oxford
Castles, X. G. f., will attend in
stallation ceremonies at Fairview
Castle, Calvert, tomorrow evening.
VIM. p. Haines, merchant at
Pilottown, made an assignment last
week. DIR. r. D. Dodson, of Delta,
has been appointed trustee.
A. P. Shockley, Cryer of the
Court, is at the Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore undergoing an opera
tiou for a tubercular swelling on
his his face.
Mrs. Annie M. Thompson and
family, of Principle, will remove to
Rising Sun in the spring and take
the house at present occupied by
Chas. s. Pyle.
Mrs. Charles Deamon, of North
East, who was recently stricken
with paralysis, has been taken to
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
for treatment.
Burglars recently raided the post
Office at Middletown, DEL, and
blew open the safe with dynamite,
securing 1913 in money and $135
worth of stamps.
T. G. Breisch, President of the
Breisch Williams Company, pro-
prietors of the Oxford caramel
factory, has disposed of his interest
to the company and resigned.
Protracted meeting services are
in progress in Rising Sun M. E.
church this week, in charge of the
pastor, DR.. S. j. Morris, assisted
by Rev. A. ID. Mink of Oxford.
Chas. Reynolds of Wilmington,
son of Barclay Reynolds of this
town, is lying very i'll with cancer
of the stomach and but faint hopes
are entertained for his recovery.
William Taylor, formerly editor
of the Appeal, at Elkton, has filed
IL bill in the Circuit Court for a
divorce from his wife, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth III. Taylor. Abandonment is
alleged.
Thieves entered the hotel of
Archibald Bond at Conowingo, a
few nights ago, by forcing the front
doors of the building. Mr.. Bond
was awakened but the thieves
made their escape without plumber.
Miss Emma Wilson will open a
millinery store next to the post
Office in few weeks. Miss Wilson
is well equipped for the business,
having had charge of several large
millinery departments in the south
during the past few years.
The ice on the Susquehanna,
moved down by the warm rains,
has grounded on the flats below
Havre de Grace and that town is
threatened with an ice gorge. Port
Deposit bids fair to escape the
calamity of gorge next month.
The announcement in last week 8
issue of the death of Mrs. Clemson
Brown of Oxford was not correct.
Her sister, Hanua A. Griffith of
Calvert, writes us that Mrs. Brown
although well advanced in years
and in very poor health, is still
living.
Farmers, don't forget that next
Wednesday and Thursday are
Farmers Institute days at Rising
Sun, when Director Amoss with a
corps of scientific speakers will
make addresses on the science of
agriculture. The meetings will be
most interesting and instructive.
Three session will be held each
day. One in the forenoon and
afternoon each and one in the
evening.
Mary McVey has brought suit
against W. Henry Phillips and
Andrew P. Jones, all of West Not
tingham twp, Chester county, for
the larceny of COW which she
claims to have purchased at the
recent sheriff IS sale of the Phillips
property. The suit against Jones
is for receiving stolen property.