The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-02-24
COlJ NTY NEWS,
Friday, Feb. "a 1889.
NtI>.ORLOCALS

pension of IS per month.
The Young Ladies' Home Mis-
sion will hold q sociable at the
home of Mrs. u. T. Reynolds this
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Seedlings,
of Port Deposit, celebrated Their
gold wedding anniversary last
Monday.
The postponed wedding of John
III. Kimhle and Miss Mary S.
Haines is announced for next
Wednesday.
Mrs. w. Scott Price, whose hus-
band died on the 10th inst, is
dangerously i'll with pneumonia at
her home near Elkton.
Mrs. S. p. Ryan is the represen-
tatiye of Garfield Woman's Relief
Corps of Rising Sun at the annual
convention held in Baltimore this
week.
There is an old proverb that a
blanket of snow is the poor mans
fertilizer, hence good grain crops
should be the rule next summer
and fall.
The engagement of Henry III.
Brady, Jr., son of II. III. Brady, of
Chesapeake City, to Miss Clara b.
Simpson, of New Jersey, has been
announced.
The Jr. O. U. A. M. Sick and
Death Benefit Association of Mary
land and District Of Columbia met
in Denton, Coroline county, last
Wednesday.
Miss Clare Tombstone, of Port
Deposit, who has been conducting
a kindergarten school in AleXan-
dria, Va, has been compelled to
close her school and return to her
home on account of the prevalence
of smallpox in that city.
John A. Hartenstine, who lately
removed from this town to Parkton,
has joined the gun club at that
place. AT a shoot held on Wednes-
day he won the first four events,
breaking 10 out of 20 targets, and
tiel for first place in the sixth
event.
The following named pupils of
Oak Grove public school were not
absent one day during the term
ending January 81, 1899: Turner
Pierce, Mabel Pierce, Curtis Reyn-
olds, Sarah Harnish, Carrie Har-
nish, Florence Barrett and Lille
Barrett.
During the fore part of last week
considerable preparation was made
by the Knickerbocker Ice Co., to
begin gathering ice at Perryville
the first Of this week, but owing to
the unfavorable turn the weather
took, all hope of getting a crop was
abandoned and on Saturday night
the Company shipped a carload OF
horses back to Baltimore that had
been sent up to assist in the work.
A meeting of the stockholders of
Cecil County Agricultural Society
assembled in the Office of the com
pany at Elkton, but on account of
the condition of the roads but few
farmers were in attendance, and
there not being stock enough voted
to make quorum, the meeting
after a recess till 2 O'Clock p. m.
adjourned to meet on Tuesday,
April 4.
DR.. G. G. Sill removed port ion
of his household goods last Satur-
day from Rising Sun to Towson
where he has position as veter-
mary on a stock farm. His family
will join him in the course of few
weeks. DIR. Sill also took with him
in the car fine sorrel horse which
the proprietor of the farm had pur-
chased from Yachariah Leonard, to
make up a match team. The pro-
prietor makes a speciality of sup
plying finely matched teams to city
customers.
The soldiers in camp at Augusta,
Ga, were snow bound by the biz.
zard last week. Being snow bound
in Georgia is a thing almost incred
ible, but nevertheless it is true.
Some of the boys were in the city
on leave and were unable to get
back to camp.
Tuesday morning of the blizzard
the tent occupied by the cook OF
Company Il, of Elkton, shortly be
fore reveille caught fire and was
destroyed. One of the inmates had
a narrow escape.
The Irish Historical Society Of
Maryland is recent organization
effected in Baltimore for the pur
pose, principally, of making in
quiries into the career of the Irish
race in the State, and of recording
and publishing such data as may
be secured. 1t is believed by the
promoters of the society that con
siderable interesting data his
torical character, relative to the
lives and work of Irishmen an6