The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-07
Friday, Dune z 1901,
MIt4DR LOCALS
was sc Lincoln Day"

The Home Mission will be enter
tanned this evening by the Misses
Worthington.
Rumsey Smithson, of Port De
post, has bought the Rock Run
Roller Mills for $4,000.
Rising Sun public school picnic
was held at Riverview Park, on
the Susquehanna, Tuesday.
Next Sunday will be Children's
Day. Services will be held in Ris
ing Sun M. E. church in the
evening.
E. r. Burlington has awarded the
contract fol his new brick house to
Fred G. Wilson, who will COM
mence work at once.
A colored man employed on the
bridge work at Leslie station on the
B. & O. railroad, was badly injured
by fall on Monday.
Senator McComas is endeavoring
to have the government cons truct a
piece of model road in Kent county
as an object lesson of good road
ways.
The farm of the late John T. Lee,
in Elk Neck, containg 1871 acres,
was sold Tuesday to Mrs. Evelyn
Cochran, of Millington, Md, for
$4,000.
The Twentieth Century Commit
tee of the Elkton Presbyterian
Church, has made q payment of
$1,000 on the mortgage against the
Manse.
The farmers in the vicinity of
lion Hill are greatly annoyed by
foxes Ross McMullen has lost
over one hundred young chickens
by them.
The salaries of Rev. L. E. Poole,
of Chesapeake City, and Rev. 0.
W. Devonish, of Cherry Hill NJ. E.
Church, have been increased to
500 per year.
A government pension of SIS per
month has been granted Joseph H.
Gregg, of Rising Sun, and one of
IS per month granted Mrs. Mary l.
Moore, of Elkton.
The Woodlawn Young Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will
hold a festival at Hopewell, Tues
day, June IL. II stormy, next
evening. Come out and help us.
The quarterly meeting of the
Cecil County Medical Society will
be held in Perryville on June II at
2:30 p. m. DR.. J. Fl. Jenness will
contribute paper to the meeting.
During thunder storm on
Wednesday morning of last week,
the dwelling house of G. Ross Biles,
near Blue Ball, was struck and
considerably damaged by lightning.
The Democratic State Central
Committee has decided to hold the
State Convention in Baltimore on
August 1. The Republican State
Convention will be held in the same
city August 6.
Henry M. Mccullough, ESQ.,, of
Elkton, has purchased of John S.
Writ, for $4,000, his farm in Elk
Neck. The property adjoins the
"Oldfelds Point" farm owned by
Mr.. Mccullough.
Thieves made a raid Monday
night on the line of the Diamond
State Telephone Company on the
road between ElktOn and Newark,
and more than mile of copper
wire was carried away.
The unofficial census of Port De-
post just taken by the State, gives
population of 1868, an increase of
1852 over the government census
and 135 more than the number re-
ported by the town council early in
the spring.
John Banks, of Chesapeake City,
has been elected temporary secre-
tary and treasurer of the Cherry
Hill, Elkton & Chesapeake City
Electric Railway Company, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
ton of Ambrose Higgins, of Phila.
Col. Philip II. Ellis, of the
Twentyfourth U. S. Infantry, is
visiting his brother, DR.. Chas. NJ.
Ellis, in Elkton. Colonel Ellis has
servel in two wars-the Civil and
Spanish American. He has been
more than 80 years in the army
and will soon apply to be retired.
Miss Mary F. Gillespie's class
will give musicale in Rising Sun
hall on Wednesday evening, June
10. Admission, zoe; reserved
seats, SOC. Tickets on sale at Eli
Il. Reynolds. Proceeds for benefit
of pupils music library. If stormy
on this date the musicale will be
repeated the following evening.
Willie Clark, 12-year-old son of
William Clark, living on the farm
of Chas. w. Shippers, near Elder
station, met with a serious accident
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