The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-25
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DSiHS tAtACu oooue ~ ehuO tOWh.
Get a piece of smoked glass ready
10 view the eclipse next Monday
morning.
Children's Day will be observed
Sunday, June 10, by Rising Sun M.
L. Sunday school.
Co. +, of Elkton, is fitting up an
armory and drill hall in the Gilpin
building in that town.
The government pension of Abra-
ham Green, OF Colora, has been in
creased to s12 per month.
Il. III. Worthington & Son have
contracted 10 lay the new carpet in
the NJ. Il. church of this place.
Allen Jacque:te, Of near Elkton,
Lad his arm broken last week by
being crowded in a stall by horse.
The new wharf at Fredericktown
has been completed and steamers
are making regular stops at that
point.
Cecil Council, o. U. A. NJ, of
this town, will hold a strawberry
aud ice cream festival on Saturday
evening, June 3.
The Eighth District Literary
Social met with Mrs. Marjorie
Brown, near Richardsmere, on Fri
day evening last.
Howard II. Reynolds shot loon
on Hunters dam last week. The
loon is a great diver but not
favOrite dish with epieures.
The contract for furnishing the
bricks for the new station, now in
course of erection at PerryviIle. has
been awardad to the EIktOn brick
yard.
The little daughter Of James M.
Tosh, Of near Colora, fell while
playing, and sustained fractured
collar bone, ON Wednesday Of last
week.
A musicale will be given by a.
portion OF Miss Mary II. GilIespie's
class in West Nottingham chapel,
on Thursday evening, May 81, at
s o'clock. Admission, l5c.
An ice cream and strawberry fes-
tival will be held on the Lawn Mt
Ebenezer NJ. K. Church, Saturday,
June Q. Proceeds for the benefit
of church and Sunday school,.
A pie social was held at Olney
Ferguson's, near Cecil paper mill,
Thursday evening Of last week,
which was voted a great success.
A pie social couldn't well be other
wise.
One evening last week a sneak
thief appropriated for his own re-
freshment q freezer Of ice cream
which was sitting on the back
porch Of Mrs. X. T. G. Ch0ueh's
residence, Elkton.
M. Il. Kirk, hardware merchant
of this town, fell from a box on a
pile Of pillow points last Monday
and received a severe injury on the
hip. He Is still confined TO the
house from the painful b. uise.
The pupiIsof Colora public school
will hold a strawoerry and ice
cream festival ON the school grounds
on Tuesday evening, May ~. Pro
ceeds are to purchase a bel for the
school. Ifstormy, the next evening
The trial Of William Black, col.
ored, charged with assaulting Miss
Jessie Bradford, Of Aberdeen, has
been removed from Hartford Circuit
Court to Baltimore, where the pris-
oner has been confined 10 Jail since
his arrest.
The News says a number Of farm.
ers in that section (Elkton) are
planting broom corn. The crop
has been a failure throughout the
country the last two years aud
broom corn Is In demand az a very
high price.
The County Commissioners Of
Cecil and Kent counties are con
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY Of rebuild
Jog the bridge which spans the
Sassafras river at Frelericktown
rs the structure Is an old one and
In need Of repair.
Ground has been broken for
Chesapeake Inn, the first Of the
new buildings Of the Tome Insii
tute. The Inn is located on the
heights above the town, one hun
dred yards north Of Cedar avenue.
j. T. Hindman il doing the en-.
gineer work.
The following Board OF Managers
of Brookview cemetery was elected
at the meeting Monday evening !:
w. /. b. II. Robertson, n. j. vii
son, HI. III. Haines, w. Louis
Ryan, w. j. McDongal, w. ~.
POgue, Thomas Kirk. Eli T. Reyn.
Odds and DIR. Il. b. Moore.
Another negro assault was CON
mitted Tuesday in the Second dis
trict; this time the victim il a col.
Ored girl named Gibson. John
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