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

Peaches are selling for % cents a
basket in Elkton.
The Cecil Farmers' Club will
meet Sept. IL at the home Of M. G,
Reeder.
The w. G. 7. U. will meet with
Mrs. E. P. Haines on Thursday
Sept. Ii, at 2:30 o'clock.
The new buildings now in course
of erection by the Tome Institute
trustees will cost 800, 900.
The government pension of John
III. johnson, of Calvert, has been
increased to 1874 per month.
Eight hundred car loads OF
peaches were shipped over the
Delaware Railroad in one day last
week.
The automobile constructed at
the Oxford Machine Works was
given a successful trial run last
week.
Newcastle, Del, and Delaware
City have been connected by an
electric railway which was opened
last week.
Thomas Fields, of Leslie, and j..
III. Wilmington, of Hopewell, have
been granted government pensions
of $6 per month.
The Young Ladies' Home Mission
social will be held at the home Of
Miss Alice Clifford, near Farming
ton, this evening.
The Rock Springs distillery has
been closed after running few
weeks. It Twas found the outlay
exceeded the output.
The Orphans Court, County
Commissioners and School Com.
missioners will be in regular session
at Elkton next Tuesday.
The dwelling Of Henry Roser on
the farm of his father, Matthew
Roser, near Hockessin, Del, was
destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The annual " Harvest Home,n at
West Nottingham on Thursday of
last week, was largely attended
and pleasant time enjoyed by all.
The male members Of Rising Sun
M. e. church will meet on Satur-
day evening for the purpose of Or
ganizing a Brotherhood of the M.
II. Church.
A w. G. I. u. parlor meeting
was held at the home of S. Taylor
Reynolds last Monday evening.
The receipts of the silver offering
amounted to about $40.
Frank G.. Fell, who has been
farming Jos. III. Lincoln's place for
some years past, will remove next
spring to Hartford county, where
he will take charge of a large dairy
and canning farm.
The Orphans Court has rendered
a decision in regard to the payment
of the costs in the contested Nau-
dain will case. By this decision
the estate must pay the costs in the
lower court and Mr.. Naudain the
costs in the Court of Appnals.
The latest fish story is shark
has been seen by Philadelphia fish
ermen in the Susquehanna, oppo-
site the mouth of the Octoraro.
One account says the man eater
was three feet long; another story
makes the fish nine feet in length.
Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Caldwell, of
Perryville, recently celebrated the
sixty-second anniversary of their
wedding. They are the parents of
& children, 80 grandchildren and
% great-grandchildren. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Caldwell are in their SD
year.
While on his way to Elkton
Tuesday, Postmaster Coleman of
Chesapeake City, discovered he had
lost his bank book which contained
$l75 in currency. After driving
back short distance he found the
book lying in the road with con-
tents intact.
Matthew Russell has leased to
William Their, of Baltimore, the
right to dig kaolin on his farm
near North East. A half interest
in the lease has been transferred to
Geo. J. Muller. A similar right
has been leased by the same parties
from John s. Russell.
The law prohibiting the shooting
of rail and reedbirds expired on
Wednesday and many gunners
spent the day upon the marshes.
Among those from Elkton were
Ben May and John Clay, Jr., who
carried off the honors for singh
boat with a bag of so railbirds, /
king rail and ~ reedbirds. The
birds this season are in very fine
condition.
Howard Spence, young son of
James Spence of the Fourth dis
trict, was bitten on the hand Fri