The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-09-28
COU lNTY IN EWS.
Friday, Sept. IS, 1900.
MINORLOCAIS

at EIktcn had reached $l45.50 last
week.
Pennington was defeated at Elk
ten on Saturday afternoon last, by
the ball team of that town, 16 to 10.
James Rice, of Baltimore, was
killed by train at the Old Bay
Crossing, Havre de Grace, on
Wednesday.
Six hundred pupils entered the
Tome Institute, at Port Deposit,
Wednesday morning, at the opening
of the school year.
The canneries at Colora, Liberty
Grove and Rowlandville expect to
close this week. The season has
not been profitable one.
cold Folks Day. services will
be held in Rising Sun M. Il. church
next Sunday morning, under the
auspices of the Epworth League.
During thunder gust Wedncs-
day night lightning struck James
Yerkes' barn at Lombard and the
barn and contents were consumed.
The MIDLAND received this week
some fine peaches of a Seeding va
riety from Maurice G. Reeder, the
champion fruit grower Of this
section.
A Republican club was organized
at Calvert, Ninth district, on Satur-
day evening last, with A. B. Cam
eron, chairman, and L. d. Carhart,
secretary.
Howard II. Reynolds and J. G.
Hindman went to Hancock, Wash
ington county, this week and re-
turned yesterday with a shipment
of Virginia cattle.
The Junior Epworth League held
q festival at the Parsonage, on
Wednesday evening last, at which
the sum of $17 was realized for the
India Famine Fund.
1t is reported that the parties
who purchased the Mccullough
Iron Company's Rowlandville prop
erty intend erecting plant for the
manufacture of street sweepers.
A successful abee hunt" was in
dulged in by number of Rising
Sun boys last Monday night. Sew
eral boys in town wouldn't touch
honey now if it were placed before
them.
The announcement Of the mar
riage of Mr.. Carlton Kimble and
Miss Mary A. Brown, at Atlantic
City, Sept. II, is contradicted by
the parties most interested, who
ought to know.
The railroad station at Havre de
Grace and a freight car were broken
into last week and some table cloths
and stockings stolen. Two colored
men were arrested on the charge Of
vagrancy and fined $6.
Some of the large rocks in the
Susquehanna river opposite Havre
de Grace, which endanger naviga-
tion, are to be removed and govern
ment engineers are making prelim-
mary surveys Tor the work.
The Young Mems Republican
Club of Rising Sun was organized
on Thursday evening of last week.
No old fogies need apply. Pres,
T. G. Wilson; sec., H. L. Worth
ington; treas, j. e. Brnm6eld.
e. III. Worthington & Son of this
town have secured the contract for
carpeting the newly remodeled
Hopewell M. Z. church. The
church requires ITO yards of carpet,
which will be laid within two
weeks. This is the second large
carpet contract Worthington & Son
have secured this summer, and
they were brought into competition
with Baltimore dealers on the
Hopewell contract.
The will of Capt. John I. Jones,
late of Elkton, was admitted to
probate in the registers Office on
Tuesday. The testator deyises to
his widow the interest arising from
his estate during her life, and at
her death the principal is to be
divided equally between his two
sons, Edward r. Jones, of Balti-
more, and Malvern Jones, of Elk
ton. Edward r. Jones is named as
executor.
The Rowlandyille property of
the Mccullough Iron Company has
been sold to the United States Man
ufacturing Company for $l6,5O0.
A short time before the works were
closed the dam was rebuilt at a cost
of $4,000. The dam is one of the
most substantial on the creek or in
the county. The property was sold
by Joseph Roman to the McCul-
Tough company for $4,000, which
greatly enlarged and improved the
works by building new mills. There
is a considerable tract of excellent
farm land and several dwellings IL
addition to the mill site.
The Lamdin Jones Mfg. Co. o.