The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-05-24
COU NTY NEWS
Friday, May "a 1901.
MlN!ORLOCAIS

Oxford Spring Fair will be held
June 5, 6, and Z. See adv. in an
other column.
Children's Day services will be
held iG the various churches in this
section on Sunday, June 8.
Mary E. Mccullough, of Pilot,
has been granted an original gov
eminent pension of IS per month.
Garfield Post will attend services
in body at Rising Sun M. E.
church Sunday morning, May 26.
The Commencement exercises of
Rising Sun public school will be
held in the Town Hall next Friday
afternoon.
DIR. Howard Bratton, of Elkton,
delivered an address before the
Maryland Public Health Associa-
ton, in Baltimore, on Wednesday.
j. S. Chapman, of this town, has
been appointed agent for the New
York Life Insurance Co. and is now
ready to talk INSURANCE at rock
bottom rates.
The buildings and water right of
the Susquehanna Paper Company
have been sold to the electric com
pany. The machinery, will be re
moved to Virginia.
At VIM. L. Murray's third sale
of Bedford county horses in Rising
Sun on ednesday, pr.ces ranged
from $50 to $l47. Fifteen head
averaged about 800.
The teacher and pupils of Zion
public school will hold a strawberry
and ice cream festival on the school
grounds Tuesday evening. May 2S.
Proceeds for school purposes. If
stormy, the next clear evening.
The season of the strawberry and
ice cream festival is here and the
church ladies are getting in their
work. The gospel of the straw
berry, the very best berry ever
created, is powerfully persuasive
force.
The Harvester Band of Zion
Presbyterian Church will hold
strawberry and ice cream festival
on the lawn of the church at Zion,
on Wednesday evening, June 5. If
stormy that date the festival will
be held the following evening.
The Trustees of the Poor and In.
sane have asked for an appropria-
ton of $4,000, for the fiscal year
beginning July L. The proceeds of
the farm, which is in high state
of cultivation, also 60 toward the
support of the poor and insane.
The tug Stella, which will be
used by the American Ice Company
to tow barges loaded with ice from
the large houses along the Susque-
hanna to Baltimore and other
points, will have her smokestack
hinged so she can pass under the
Pennsylvania railroad bridge at
Havre de Grace.
The commission named by Gov
ernor Smith to select a site for the
summer encampment of the Mary.
land National Guard recommended
Queenstown, Queen Anne's county,
and the Governor has named July
13 to 20 as the days for the en-
campment. Company E, of Elkton,
will join the camp.
The forty first semi-annual meet
ing of the Local Preachers and
Exhorters' Association of the Will
mington Conference will convene in
the Ebenezer M. e. church, Pleas
ant Hill, Mill Greek Hundred,
Del, May "a, 25 and 26. The
curators are John H. Simms, Rev.
w. T. Hammond and Charles A.
Foster.
w. Smith Campbell, plaintiff,
and Job Sidwell, defendant, occu-
pied the attention of West Chester
court last week. The suit was
brought to recover damages for
alleged malicious prosecution, the
plaintiff being charged by the de-
PENDANT with larceny as bailee.
The jury returned a verdict of 5000
for Campbell.
The story that certain capitalists
have secured control of the Sus-
quehanna water power for devel-
oping electricity is old news. The
syndicate is ready to finance the
work when the engineers have
demonstrated the undoubted value,
extent of power and the cost. 1t
will require four years to erect the
dams and complete necessary pre-
liminary work.
The Morrison sisters, near Lib
erty Grove, were again on the war.
path last week and had warrants
issued for Mary j. and Margaret
Morrison by Magistrate Taylor oil
Rising Sun. The warrants were
directed to the Sheriff and made
returnable before Magistrate Groves
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