The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-08
MlN.oRLOOALS

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Wednesday.
The stores are beginning to pre-
sent holiday appearance.
The Cecil paper mills are now
running Is hours per day.
James HI. Maxwell has construct
ed AN ice dam on his farm, near
Pennington.
The public schools of Newark
have been closed owing tothe prev
alence Of diphtheria.
A. c. Brown this week butchered
a hog for VIM. Richards of Octo-
raro, which weighed SIG lbs.
Winter has arrived little behind
schedule time. The mercury on
Thursday morning registered 160
above zero
Additional sidetracks are to be
laid at Stump's bridge, Perryville,
for which excavations are being
made by a steam shovel.
Minnehaha Lodge, /. o. G. T.,
of Chrome, will hold a "Ghost
Social" on Wednesday evening,
Dee. ID. Everybody cordially
invited.
There will be a partial eclipse of
the moon, visible in this section,
on December Is. The eclipse will
last from 6:45 to 1910 o'clock in
the evening.
Phosphate rock hasadvanced from
$3.50 ton to $3.50 ton within
the past few months. The farmers
will have that to pay, but their
wheat don't rise.
Farmers report fly in the wheat,
and the damage to next years crop
threatens to be great. Some fields
have the appearance of already
having been destroyed.
The case of Abraham w. Evans,
of Havre de Grace, against the p,
w. & B. railroad company for dam
ages has been removed from Har-
ford to Cecil county for trial.
Among the eleven candidates
who took the examination in Balti-
more last week for admission to the
Maryland Bar, was Joshua Clayton,
of Elkton, who passed successfully.
The 2-year old child of Nicoli
Michele, residing near Elkton, who
was severely scalded by falling into
a bucket of boiling water, died
Saturday evening from her injuries.
The Cecil Telephone Co. is push
ing the extension of its lines rapid
~ and expects to have connections
between Elkton and Rising Sun
and Elkton and Port Deposit by
the first Of the year.
The farm belonging to the late
Benjamin Silver, Jr., situated on
the public road leading from Har-
mony Church to Rock Run and con-
tanning 347 acres, was sold at public
sale last week at Bel Air, to Jos. L.
spencer, Tor $6, 6OO.
Thanksgiving at Tome Institute
assumed Il benevolent and char
liable feature, and many were made
thankful and happy on that occa-
sion who were not within the walls
ofthe Institute by donation sent to
the homes of the needy.
Harvey Croft, of Hopewell, was
in luck. He felled tree and in
reducing it to fire wood captured
two squirrels which had domiciled
in the hollow trunk. After cutting
further he discovered colony of
bees and secured a lot of fine honey.
man.
Mr.. v Iha1fa n Elder, af-11E54lRsss tsasaf,
has made donation to the library
of the Odd Fellows reading room of
that town of two dozen volumes,
including McCaulay's History of
England in five volumes, Scudder's
Commonwealth of Maryland, and
other standard works.
The stockholders of the several
Colchester companies have decided
to combine the Sassafras River,
Port Deposit, Colchester Steamboat
Co. and Colchester Beach Improve
ment Co. into one corporation, to
be known as the Colchester Beach
Improvement Co. Incorporation
papers will be granted by the Cir
cult Court for Kent county. The
capital stock of the new company
will be about $3.50, 900, all of which
is subscribed.
Charles Kennard of Liberty
Grove, who is subject TO spells of
dementia, rode into town on
Thanksgiving and noticed Mr.. II.
III. Haines team standing hitched
at the stable. He jumped into the
carriage and drove around town to
display his craftsmanship. After
some parley he was induced to
yaeate his seat. Several other
antics and his abuse of his relatives
after returning home caused his
removal to the asylum on the fol-
lowing day.