The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-07-27
Friday, July ~. 1900.
MINDRLOCALS

MINOR EQUALS
FL. J. Effing has equipped his
barber shop with gasoline lights.
B. D. Murdaugh, of Oxford, is
constructing a gasoline automobile.
An asphalt pavement is to be
laid in front of the court house at
Elkton.
Charles Kennard, of Mt. Pleas
ant, has been placed in the Asylum
at Cherry Hill.
Twenty-six tickets were sold at
Rising Sun station for the Tolches
ter excursion yesterday.
Harry Warren. of Bank, sustain
ed q fracture of the shoulder last
week by being thrown from a horse.
At H. Fl. Reynolds & Co.'s pub
lie sale of stock last Monday II
cows brought from $27 to $44.25.
The armory of Company E,
Maryland National Guards, of
Elkton, has been enlarged and
improved.
Colored camp is in progress in
s. j. Reynolds woods near town.
Services are held each evening and
on Sundays.
The annual meeting of the
Farmers and Mechanics Fire In
surance Company will be held
at Zion on Saturday.
The 22O-acre farm of the late
Robt. III. Steel, near Appleton, was
offered at trustees sale in Elkton
and withdrawn at a bid of $12, 900.
Levi G. Lammey, of Elkton, has
been granted government pension
of $40 per month and Japhut 9.
Taylor, of Port Deposit, one of IS
per month.
The G. E. Society of West Not
tingham Presbyterian church will
go on an excursion to Colchester by
the steamer Susquehanna, on Fri
day, Aug. 8.
A large number of Poles have
been transported to Chestertown,
to work in the canneries, the col
Ored hands employed having
proved worthless.
The Maryland Bar Association
met in annual session at Cumber-
land this week. Cecil county was
represented by Hon. John S. Writ
and Geo. A. Blake, of Elkton.
Andrew Woodall, who is one of
the largest landowners in Cecil and
Kent counties, will, it is reported,
have over LOO, 900 bushels of wheat
from his farms in the two counties.
Tho managers of the local preach
ers' camp meeting at Leslie, which
will commence on August Is, are
having the grounds put in shape
for the many tenters who are ex-
pected this year.
Major Z. 81. Shook, superinten-
dent of the government postal card
factory at Piedmont, recently ship
ped six cars containing 1000, 900
cards, worth $240, 900, one-sixth of
them going to Philadelphia.
Harry Taylor, postmaster and
storekeeper at Octoraro, has ten.
dered his resignation and contem-
plates moving to Elkton, where he
will reopen the green grocery stand
formerly kept by Henry Bell.
Next Tuesday, July 31st, Wood
lawn camp meeting will commence.
The families from Rising Sun who
will tent on the grounds are Rev.
H. A. G.. Westerfeld, Thomas
Kirk, w. X. Terry and VIM. NJ.
Pogue.
Cecil county's share Of $3.50, 900
appropriation for the purchase of
text books for the public schools of
the State, is $2,93S.6S for white
schools, and $571.13 for colored
schools. The. amount is payable
August J..
Hattie Walton, the 7-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Isola Walton, of
Iron Hill, fell into a well at her
home on Saturday, but escaped
serious injury. The well was fifteen
feet deep and contained about four
feet of water, but the child was
promptly rescued from her peril
GUS position.
Some boys wading in Warm
Spring Run, at Hancock Station,
found an English sovereign in the
water, and further up the run the
muzzle of an old cannon. Since
1853 there has been a legend that
Rraddock Dried cannon full of
English gold near the mouth of
Warm Spring Run.
( While returning from services
at Chesapeake City on Sunday,
Rev: w. A. Coale, who was ac-
companied by Mrs. Emma Wills,
of Earleville, drove off the end of a
bridge. Mrs. Wills was thrown
from the buggy into the stream but
escaped serious injury. The