The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-08-17
MINORLOCALS

Inc standard Oll company II
erecting a storage tank in Port
Deposit.
The piers under the Conowingt
bridge are being painted and
repaired.
Last week was the champion hot
week, the mercury reaching 1O2 in
the shade.
Peach canneries are operating in
the First district this season for the
first time in many years.
The parties interested in the 10.
cation of a silk mill at Elkton have
decided to abandon the project.
Frank Shivery, of Elkton, has
enlisted in the First Reg, U. s..
Infantry, which has been ordered
to China.
Much valuable timber was de-
stroyed on Saturday by a fire
which swept over the woodland
near Childs.
The Trustees of the Jacob Tome
Institute have negotiated for the
plant of the Port Deposit Electric
Light Company.
A tennis match will be played
this afternoon, on the court of the
Pioneer club, between Rising Sun
and West Nottingham players.
The Local Preachers Camp
opened at Leslie on Wednesday,
and is the largest and best arrang-
ed camp ever held at that place.
The Orphans Court on Wednes-
day appointed Ernest A. Howard,
of Zion, to the scholarship at
Washington College, Chestertown.
Rev. J. d. G. Hanna, D. D., of
Wilmington, will preach in Rising
Sun M. E. church next Sunday
morning and at Mt. Pleasant in the
evening.
The long drought extending over
several weeks which parched this
section of country, was broken by a
fine rain in the early hours of
Thursday morning.
The meeting of the Cecil Farm
ers' Club will be held next Wednes-
day, 22nd inst, at the home of
Jas. II. Maxwell, a postponement
from last Wednesday.
Mrs. John Boyer, colored, Of
P ,rter's Bridge, died last Sunday
from the effects of eating too much
ice cream while at Rigby camp that
day. Her funeral was held on
Tuesday.
A pointer dog belonging to U.
G. Gillespie, of Conowingo, went
mad Sunday and bit a valuable st.
B .rnard owned by e. B. Mellow
ell. The pointer after biting sew
eral other dogs and a COW was kill
ed at Bald Friar.
Chas. N. Mitten, of the State
Board of Health, and DIR. Howard
Bratton. of the County Board, Wis
tied Providence on Wednesday to
investigate the causes of the large
number of typhoid fever cases in
that neighborhood.
At a meeting held on Saturday
evening last the Rising Sun Cornet
Band was reorganized by the cleo
tion of the following officers: Lead
or, Frank Roberts; president, Q. T.
Snyder; secretary, E. A. Reynolds;
treasurer, w. L. Ryan.
One of j. M. Sterrett's mules
was found dead in the pasture on
his farm near Rock Springs last
Saturday evening. AS the animal
seemed perfectly well a short time
before it is supposed the intense
heat was the cause of death.
The Rock Springs distillery COM
menced operations last week and is
now turning out "tangle- foot" by
the barrel. Two men and a gov
eminent inspector from Baltimore
constitute the necessary force for
the manufacture of the ardent.
Susquehanna Council, No. 70, Jr.
o. u. A. NJ, of lakewood, will hold
its annual woods-meeting on Aug.
%. Among the speakers for the
occasion will be Messrs. Henry M.
Mccullough, VIM. s. Evans, VIM.
j. Smith and Rufus ID. Rowland.
Miss Mary Kelley was burned to
death at her home in Port Deposit
on Wednesday of last week. She
had but recently been brought
home from an institution in Balti
more where she had been under.
going treatment for an impaired
mind.
G. P. Huntington, the great
Pacific railroad magnate, died sud-
denly on Tuesday, being stricken
with apoplexy. He leaves an es-
tate valued at $50, 100000. In &C.
cuInulating it he has wasted many
times as much of the peoples
substance.
Twenty one shares of stock of
the National Rank Of Nawarl, Dal'