The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-07-20
MIN.ORLOCALS

Sun Cornet Band is being agitated
The Pennington base ball clul
will hold a festival tomorrow eve
ming, on Brickley's lawn.
Sam'l. B. Grant, of Cherry Hill,
has been appointed q Justice of the
Peace for the Third district.
There is a young ladies' club in
Port Deposit which is known by
by the euphonious name Of
"Solise. "
The School Commissioners on
Monday inspected the school
houses in the Fourth, Fifth and
Ninth districts.
I'll. Linn Worthington caught a
four-pound bass at York Furnace
on the Susquehanna while fishing
one day last week.
Sarah Hickey, colored, of Elkton,
has been committed to the House
of Correction for one year for being
habitually disorderly.
The Pennington club and a
picked team from Rising Sun will
play a game of base ball at Farm
ington tomorrow afternoon.
The wheat and oats crop of Cecil
are fairly good. Some fields of
wheat were badly cut by the fly.
The hay crop is under an average.
A number of young men from
West Chester are encamped at
Fred's Landing, near lakewood,
spending the time fishing and
cunning.
VIM. s. Evans sold on Tuesday
the "Swaney" farm in the Fourth
district, to Geo. A. Steele, of Elk
ton, for 3d. 800. The farm contains
80 acres. -
The festival held at Pilot on
Friday and Saturday evenings last,
for the benefit of lakewood M. p.
church, was largely attended and
a good sum realized.
Plans are being prepared by W.
TT. Elder for the Trustees of the
Elkton M. E. church, who contem-
plate number of Improvements to
the church property.
1t is reported that Richard
Bryan, of the Cosden farm in Kent
county, realized so bushels CT
wheat per acre. Such a yield is
possible but not probable.
Mrs. S. J. Morrison has a night
blooming cereus which came out in
bloom last Sunday night. The
plant contained two blooms which
presented a lovely appearance.
Sixty-five dollars were taken in
at the festival last week for the ben
eft of Mt. Pleasant church. 4
boy visiting the grounds next
morning after the festival found
$1.1O.
Frank Sheppard, with his son
Harold, spent Wednesday at the
mouth of the Octoraro and returned
60 Rising Sun in the evening with
some fine rock fish, one measuring
over two feet.
Patrick Mcdonald, gate watch
man at Perryman, was killed by
an express train on Saturday, while
preventing team from being driv-
en- across the track in front of the
approaching train.
A new wire cable has been put
across the river at Conowingo by
the Susquehanna Paper Company,
replacing the old one. Several
persons were drowned while at
tempting to repair the old cable.
The two-masted sixty-ton schoon-
er Annie Marsh, Capt. George
Bramble, bound for Baltimore with
a cargo of 800 bushels of wheat,
sunk between Fort Carroll and
Hawkins Point on Thursday after
noon of last week. The crew were
rescued by a passing tug.
Messrs. Barclay Reynolds and
Evans Ewing, of the Pioneer Ten
mis- Club, visited Oxford Saturday
afternoon last and played Messrs.
w. r. McCommon and Humphrey
Kendall, of the club of that town,
on the Y. M. G. A. court, being
defeated after playing four sets.
The score was 10, 6-1, 6-1, & 4.
The James F. Powers Foundry
Co., of Elkton, has had prepared
plans for the new building to be
erected on the lot recently pur-
chased, adjoining the p, w. & B.
railroad tracks. The building.will
be one-story brick, $50 feet by 40
feet, with all modern appliances fol
conducting the foundry business.
1t is reported the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has purchased
the Pennsylvania and Tidewater
Canal, running from Wrightsville
to Havre de Grace. The purchase
includes the immense dam, a mile
and a quarter long, which spans the
Susquehanna at Wrightsuille, Pa,
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