The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-04
MINOR LOCALS
The Glorious Fourth /!

started from OXfOrQ July l..
No rural delivery mail today
carriers are helping Uncle Sam
celebrate.
The farmers are not estimating
their hay by the ton but by the
acre, so many acres to the ton.
The W. G. 7. U. will meet with
Mrs. n. G. Brown on Thursday
afternoon, 10th inst, at $50
O'Clock.
The Bibb stove foundery, at Port
Deposit, has been compelled to
close down on account of the scar
city of coal.
John J. Williams, a small fruit
raiser of the First district, shipped
over 900 quarts of gooseberries to
market last week.
The trustees of the West Noting
ham Academy have awarded a
free scholarship to Miss Mary
Glacken, of Rising Sun.
Star Council, o. U. A. NJ, of
Principle Furnace, will hold a
festival at that place on the eve
nings of July 4th and 9TH.
Jacob Lynch, of Theodore, recent
ly lost colt by the animal falling
in a disused well and drowning
before it could be gotten out,
Saturday, July 5, having been
proclaimed legal holiday by Gov.
Smith, it will be observed by the
National Bank of Rising Sun.
The Jr. Epworth League will
hold a festival on VIM. M. Pogue's
lawn, on Wednesday evening next.
Proceeds for memorial window.
Roman Tammany, a former
teacher in the public schools of Cecil
county,, has been elected prinpcia
the of Newark, Del, public
schools.
The Epworth Reading Course
will hold its next regular semi
monthly meeting at the home of
Mrs. N. G. Brown on Friday eve-
ming, July IL.
The Young Ladies Home Mission
Circle will hold their monthly
social at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John L. Stephens, near town, this
(Friday) evening.
The recent heavy rains caused
the sides of the deep pit at J. NJ i.
Walkers spar quarry, near Sylmar,
to cave in, precipitating several
hundred tons of earth and rock into
the excavation.
At special session of the
Orphans Court, on Tuesday, the
bond for $4,000 of County
Treasurer-el elect William Fl. Holm,
who assumes charge of his Office on
Monday next, was approved.
Drs. William Osler, W. F. Hines
and Lillian Welsh, all of Baltimore,
have been named by Gov. Smith
to constitute the Tuberculosis Com
mission, authorized by the last
session of the Maryland Legislature.
The Rising Sun base ball team
will cross bats with the Mochicans,
at Kenneth Square, this afternoon,
The team will go to Baldwin's
Banks on Saturday for the first OF
a series of games for the champion
ship of the county.
A Parlor Meeting will be held al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Haines, by the w. G. 7. u,
on the evening of Wednesday, July
16, at o'clock. An interesting
musical and literary program will
be given. Silver offering at the
door.
BY the breaking of a large carboy
of sulphuric acid, which they were
lifting, Frank Kirk and Sherman
Clayton were severely burned anG
had their clothing ruined. Lewis
Kirk, who was standing near, also
had his shoes and clothing damag
ed by the acid. The accident oc
Cured in the rear of DIR. Kinks
drug store onETuesday, and is at
tributed to the splashing of thu
acid in the carboy as it was being
lifted from a box.
William f. Pitt, of New London
Pa, in September, 1889, sold t,
Henry Rigdon, of Aberdeen, ba,
horse of much promise for $500
with the stipulation that should
the animal at any time make
record of 2.15 or better he was t
receive an additional 800 from tn,
purchaser. On Thursday, Jun
10th, the horse, now known a
"Eagle Prince" turned the tract
at Belmont in 2.143, and on tn
Monday following Mr.. Pitt receiv
ed check from the present owne
for 800.
A farmer living not THOUSAND
miles from Rising Sun bought
new binder and had it set up an,
ready to start this week. Whe
his wheat was ready to cut he too
tha Machine into tho 6old no1 oo,o,