The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-09-07

Hiss OUA lac Min 10 FASltiuS NlIot
BERTHE Aumet of Quarryville.
Miss Della Jenkins is spending q
few days with relatives in Philada
Ellis P. Passmore has been visit.
ing friends and relatives in Rising
Sun this week.
Bradley Smith, of Philada., spent
Sunday with his father and sister
on Cherry street.
The marriage OF Mr.. William P
litter and Miss Josephine e. Paul,
daughter of Michael Paul of Elkton,
took place on Wednesday evening.
Miss Emma Haines has resigned
her scholarship at the State Normal
School and Miss Bertha Morrison
of this town has received the ap.
pointment.
Mr.. Harry Hartenstine and Miss
Druie Devine, both of Theodore,
were married at Bay View Parson-
age on Wednesday night, Aug. 30,
by Rev. B. Il. Jester.
The young people of Elkton gave
a s'shirt waistu dance in the Hurn
building, in that town, Friday
night. Something like the dance
costume Tam O'Shantar witnessed
in Old Kirk Alloway.
Friday last was Friends quar-
terly meeting day at Calvert. Adj
dresses were made by Mary III.
Way, E. r. Burlington and others.
Dinner was served in the school
room to all who wished to partake
of it.
While cunning at Woodland
Beach last week Lee Orrell, of Mid .
dleton, Dell, met with a serious
accident. In raising the gun from
the bottom of the boat it was dis
charged, the load tearing off his
left hand at the wrist.
A number of farmers in the
neighborhood of Colora and in the
Eighth district will lose their entire
yield of tomatoes on account Of the
color of the vegetable. The crop
is Of the yellow variety which is
unfit for canning purposes.
The State Board Of Tax Appeals
has acted up the Cecil county cases
as follows
The Scott Fertilizer Company of
Cecil county, reduced to $8Sa share.
The Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany of Cecil county, continued.
Three Elkton ladies were among
the list of premium winners at the
Colchester Fair. Mrs. r. @. Thack-
cry won several first premiums for
embroidery in silk and drawn work
and first premium for a painting in
water colors. Mrs. Tabitha Jones
was awarded second prize for but
ton holes, and Miss Letitia Jones,
first prize for plain sewing by hand.
Robt. Taylor, young colored
man from near Liberty Grove, in a
fit of drunken jealousy shot Miss
Mary Jones, colored, in Port De
posit Wednesday evening. Mrs.
Scott, an aunt of the girl, ran in to
prevent the shooting and also re-
ceived a bullet from Taylor's re-
volver. Afterward Taylor put two
bullets in his own breast, dying in
a short time. At last accounts the
two women were lying critically i'll
with small chances of recovery.
A resnrvey of the famous Mason
and Dixon lime between Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland has COM
menced. The commissioners who
are doing the work of this third
location of the famous line are DR..
Henry S. Prittchett, superintend-
ent of the survey; DIR. VIM. Bull
lock Clark, of the Johns Hopkins
University and State Geologist of
Maryland, and Major Brown, Of
Harrisburg, Pa.
The line will be marked by gran
lite posts. The original surveyors,
Mason and Dixon, ran the line 244
miles when they were compelled to
stop by the Indians, who thought
the pale faces had gone far enough
into their country.
A public drinking fountain is
talked of at Elkton. There are
three drinking fountains in Elkton
for the accommodation of the pub
lie, but they all furnish only sire
water.n The latter one which is
being talked of is to be a cold
water fountain.
The County Commissioners have
also improvements to the Court
House yard in contemplation.
Seats arranged under the shade
trees about tie yard, for the con-
venience of Elkton's idle negroes,
would add TO the comfort of her
citizens, but as the colored brother
always votes the Republican ticket
it is doubtful If the present Demo
cratic board can be induced to make
such improvement.
Club rIeeting.
The Sixth District BRYAN Clnh