The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-07-07
MIN!ORLOCAIS

The drouth was broken and the
dust laid by a refreshing gust
which passed over town on Wednes
day afternoon.
The tax rate of Kent county fol-
1899 will be IS cents on the 800
This, with the State tax, will make
the total rate 1.123.
West Grove was visited by q
severe hail storm on Wednesday OF
last week. Lightning also struck
one of the houses in town.
The interior of the post office is
being stripped of wall paper pre-
paratory to receiving a coat of paint
upon the walls and ceiling.
The w. G. II. U. will meet in the
lecture room on Thursday, July ID,
at 2:3O O'Clock, to make arrange
ments for our annual meeting.
Northbound train No. 81, which
has lately been scheduled to reach
Rising Sun at 1928 p. m, has been
changed again and now reaches
here at $40.
Bishop Monaghan, of Whining
ton, reports there will be several
changes among the Catholic clergy
men in this diocese, which will be
announced soon.
w. P. Reynolds, who is operat-
ing the spar pits for the Tweed
estate, has received orders for 2OOO
tons more spar. He is now loading
three cars per week.
Home Council, O. U. A. M, will
hold a festival at Principle on
Thursday and Friday, July 20 and
81. Special features will be cake
walk and pic eating contest.
The recording of the B. & o.
railroad mortgage has been com
pleted at the Clerks Office, in Elk
ton. 1t occupied about three weeks
and took day and half to check
over the work.
Two kegs of beer were stolen
from Grason's ice house last Satur-
day night and transported to the
"Ridge" where they were tapped
the following day in the solitude of
the scrub pines.
Stephen Woodrow, of Conowingo,
veteran of the late war, recently
found $50 in IL hay loft, and the
next day received check from the
government for 800 back pay and
pension of SIS d month.
Where was the bailiff? A
drunken fellow from the "Ridge"
tramped all over the town Tuesday
night swearing and yelling as only
q crazy drunk can swear, insulting
persons he CHANGED to meet.
Captain Andrew Woodall, OF
Georgetown, Md, has purchased
the Reybold farm, in Sassafras
Neck. Capt. Woodall now owns
over 3, 800 acres of farm land, and
this makes his twenty fifth farm.
VIM. NJ. Pogue has sold his fine
young pacing horse "Morton" tC
VIM. g. Baker of Perryville
"Morton" is one of the fastest
young horses in the county, having
pulled a road cart half mile in
LOS.
Eugene Gaunce, who for many
years has been head salesman in
the general dry goods store of the
late Robert g. Lewis of Elkton, has
purchased the store, etc., from the
estate. The price is said to have
been $1,000.
State Senator A. L. Crothers has
been appointed counsel for the p.
w. & B. railroad company and the
other branches of the Pennsylvania
Company for Cecil county. The
position was held by the late G. c.
Crothers at the time of his death
What is supposed to be one o.
the famous "kissing bugs" is i'm
paled on pin at DR.. Kinks drug
store. The bug "kissed" a 4th o
July visitor to Rising Sun and wa'
caught in the act and killed. Tit
kiss caused a slight swelling of thu
lips of the victim.
Wheat harvest closed and thu
crop was mostly in the barn o
stack the early part of the presen
week. The quality of grain is goo(
but the average in quantity il
small, some fields being very good
but much loss was suffered by win
ter killing and the fly.
VIM. Z. Warburton, one of tn
trustees appointed by the court t.
sell the mills of the Singerly Pull
and Paper Company, at Elkton AM
Providence, reports that deal vii
likely be closed in day or two TO
the sale of the mills. 1t is the in
tention of the prospective purchase
to actively operate both the pull
and paper mills.
The stockholders of the ElktOn
Middletown Railroad held meet
ing in Elkton on Wednesday an