The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-12-21
MINaORLOCALS

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A four-inch ice harvest has re.
suited from the drop in the
mercury.
The Susquebanna river filled
with ice on Friday night and is
closed to navigation.
The sheet mill of the Mccullough
Iron Company, at North East, will
resume operation on Monday.
Secure your seats for the orator
ial and musical entertainment in
Rising Sun hall Christmas night
The public schools will close for
the holidays this afternoon, and re-
open Wednesday, January 2, 1901.
The w. G. T. U. will hold a
Parlor meeting on New Years eve.
Further announcement will be
given.
The cantata "Santa Claus on
Time" will he given by the pupils
Of Harris school, Saturday evening,
December %.
Our stores are gay in holiday
attire and clerks are kept on the
run filling orders for Santa Claus
and his little friends.
The ladies of Bay View M. p.
church will give poultry supper
in Mechanics Hall, Bay View, this
evening. Supper, 25c.
The trustees of Hopewell Gem
etery Association have appointed
r. G.. Terry superintendent of the
grounds, vice r. +. Rowland,
resigned.
The Sunday school will hold
their annual Christmas entertain
ment on Monday evening, Dec. "a,
at 7:30 O'Clock. Everybody invit-
ed. Admission, 10c.
Mrs. Grizzella Tucker, of Perry
vile, slipped and fell in her yard
on Saturday last, breaking her
thigh near the hip joint. Mrs.
Tucker is so years of age.
The Havre de Grace Electric
Railroad Company, of Hartford Co.,
has executed mortgage for $25, 900
to 81. III. Haines and John II. Reck-
ford, trustees, to secure bonds.
The Morton farm in the First
district, containing 1872 acres of
land, with Improvements, was pur-
chased by f. Ambrose Price at
public sale on Tuesday for 50, AS.
Charley Gilbert and a playmate
collided while at play in the North
East public school yard, young Gil
bert falling in such a manner as to
sustain the fracture of a leg below
the knee.
Owing to the legal holidays,
Christmas and New Years days,
the directors of the National Bank
of Rising Sun will meet Monday,
Dec. "a, 1900, and Wednesday,
Jan. 2, 1901.
Services will be held in the M.
E. church of this town on Christ
mas morning at o'clock. The bell
will ring at $50 o'clock to remind
you, so do not think it an alarm of
fire when you hear it.
Mrs. John 81. Terry hung some
clothing near the stove to dry one
day last week, and lett the room
for short time. In her absence
the children upset the clothing
against the stove and when she re-
turned the room was filled with
smoke and one of the children
nearly suffocated.
The trustees of Elkton M. E.
church contemplate making extern
sive improvements to the church
building. A successor to Rev.
Thos. E. Terry, who has resigned
as pastor, has not been chosen yet.
The salary of the pastor has not
been reduced from 81, 900 to 5000,
as has been published.
A new freight schedule has boon
adopted by the Baltimore Central.
The carload rate from Rising Sun
to Philadelphia was formerly 6
cents per 100 lbs. and it is now 8
cents. When consulting the city
grain and hay market prices the
farmer should bear this in mind
when figuring on his crop.
The Rising Sun public school
Christmas entertainment will be
held this afternoon. The program
will consist of recitations, Gales
themes, singing, etc. Old Kris will
send a deputy to distribute the
presents from the tree and the
pupils are trying to find out who
he is to be, so they can make love
to him beforehand.
The distillery in the Eighth dist,
near Rock Springs, was burned
down on last Friday night. The
fire is believed to have been of in
cendiary origin, but the Prohibi-
tionists are not charged with the
act further than good will towards
the fire. The enterprise proved
not to be a profitable one. Cecil