The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-22
MlNDRLOCALS

Anderson had their pockets picked
at Oxford Fair.
The brick walls of the new sta
ton building at Perryville are al
most completed.
The land donated by VIM. II.
Elder for puolic park at Elkton is
being improved.
Still Pond, small village Of
Kent county, has recently erected
an electric light plant.
The w. Q. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. John Keilholtz on Thursday.
June 2S, at 2:30 O'Clock.
The salary of the postmaster al
Rising Sun has been decreased from
81, 300 to 81, 100 per year.
The strawberry crop this year
has been a rather short one, but
the berries were unusually fine.
A government pension of Sc per
month has been granted Joseph n
Woodrow, of West Nottingham.
The Court of Appeals has decid-
ed against a rehearing in the Nau-
dain will case, removed from Cecil
county.
The receipts of the Oxford Spring
Fair were $227S.9O; expenses,
1880. SO, leaving a balance Of
$44S.51.
Susan johnson, a young colored
woman of Aberdeen, committed
suicide on Monday afternoon by
shooting herself.
The B. & o. station at Akin was
broken into Sunday night but
nothing of value secured by the
burglars, except the clock.
The annual meet of the Maryland
Division of the League of Amer
lean Wheelmen will be held at
Hayre de Grace July 8, 4 and 5.
d. W. Evans, an employee at
the Dibert boatyards, was severely
injured on Tuesday by fall from
a barge in course of construction.
Thursday was the longest day OF
the year. The days will now begin
to shorten a minute or two each
day till the middle of December.
A new lot of paving stone has
been received at the station and is
being placed along East Main street
to replace the worn out board walk.
The quarterly distribution of the
school tax has been made by Comp
troller Herring. Cecil county white
schools receive $6,364.O6; colored,
$69O.72.
The recent rains have been OF
much benefit to gardens, corn,
tomato !plants, potatoes and tim
othy, but the wheat has sustained
much damage.
Inspector VIM. B. Smith, oil
Elkton, who was in Cuba investi-
eating the postal frauds, has been
compelled to return to his home
on account of i'll health.
Woodlawn Camp will commence
on Tuesday, July 81, and close
August 10. Local Preachers Camp
at Leslie will be held from the 18th
to the 2Sth Of August.
Subscriptions representing $780,
900 have been paid toward the
Elkton silk mill project and the
prospects for the whole amount
necessary are encouraging.
The spring operations at the Fish
Matching Station at the Battery,
below Hayre de Grace, resulted il
a total take of eggs for the season o.
1877 ,692, 900.
In commemoration of the Har,
ford County Declaration of indie
pendence the Revolutionary Asso-
citation of Hartford County has made
arrangements for an extensive
celebration at Bush on July A.
Mrs. Louise hopper, proprietor
of the Rising Sun bakery, has made
arrangements to run a delivery
wagon over the route formerly
served, on and after June %. The
wagon will be run on Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays.
The long spell of wet and cloudy
weather at this season of the ripen
ing wheat will be very injuriou:
to the crop, probably cutting i
short % per cent in this section o
country. The timothy will b.
thickened up and the hay crop in
creased, which will be in measur,
remuneration for the loss in tn,
wheat crop.
The three year old daughter 0
Mr.. and Mrs. John f. Davis, o
North East, had a narrow escap
from being killed Tuesday. TIL
little girl was sitting in her coacl
in the hallway of the house, whel
in some manner, it started, ran on
on the porch, down flight of step
to the curbing of the pavement
throwing the child out with con