The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-08-01


Miss Eleanor Jenness will enter.
tain the Young Ladies' Carron
club tomorrow afternoon.
The Young Ladies' Home Mis-
sion Social will be held at the home
of the Misses Brown, near Sylmar,
this, Friday, evening.
John L. Haines, after an absence
in the West of thirty years, paid
his mother Mrs. Rebecca Haines,
near town, a visit this week.
Cards have been issued for the
marriage of Eva Nickle, daughter
of William l.. Nickle, deceased,
formerly of Cecil county, to Fred
erick w. Davis of Philadelphia,
August 6.
Cards have been issued for the
marriage of Miss Eleo Eames,
daughter of the late Capt. J. l..
Eames, near Colora, to Thomas
Williams of Deland, Florida, on
Thursday afternoon, August 18th,
at 3 o'clock.
An attempt was made by an un-
known incendiary, on Sunday morn
ing last, to burn the residence &C.
cupied by Mrs. Jennie Cutler and
her son Joseph Cutler, near Fern
glen, Lancaster county. The fire
was discovered by a neighbor who
gave the alarm and the flames were
extinguished before they had gain
ed much Roadway.
Capt. Andrew Woodall, of
Georgetown, the grain king of the
Eastern Shore, is having the wheat
crops on his 80 farms in Cecil and
Kent counties threshed, and from
present prospects the yield will
reach from 10000 to 100000
bushels, which is slightly smaller
than last season, when his crop ex-
ceeded 100000 bushels.
The Kennett News reports a
turkey gobbler belonging to far
mer of that neighborhood, which
recently developed a peculiar trait.
A guinea stole her nest and started
to set on AZ eggs; the gobbler found
her and driving her from the nest
took possession himself and finally
Matched out guineas but he made
such a mess of taking care of the
young ones that they all died.
The officials of the American
Packers Association, known among
Gamers of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland as the ''tomato trust"
are having $1,OOO,OOO mortgage
recorded in all the counties on the
Peninsula in which the trust has
been able to acquire canneries.
The association has gotten control
of number of the large canneries
in Maryland and Delaware, and
will attempt to control the market
the coming fail and winter.
A revised edition of "Timothy
and His Friends" has been issued
by the author, Mrs. Mary f.
Ireland, of Washington. Mrs. Ire
land is a sister of Reuben Haines,
Esq, of Elkton. The book is a
story of the life of Baltimore
newsboy who came from Liverpool
with Granny Eomonds when a
young child, and after life of
deprivation and hardship was final
ly restored to his patrimony,
"Oglivie's Pride"
Samuel J. Williams, of Mt. Yer
non, Chester county, has two old
clocks. One has brass works, runs
eight days and ia about so years
old. 1t measured off time in the
booming days in Hopewell when his
father, Samuel Williams, was a
blacksmith. Those were days of
cotton Irvine and duck. The other
clock, over 100 years old, has wood
en- works and runs "a hours. 1t
is good time keeper and once was
owned by Mrs. McIntire, grand
mother of Mrs. Williams.-Press.
Plof. T. ID. Bowers, who recently
resigned as principal of the Easton
High School, has been elected by
the trustees of the Havre de Grace
High School as principal of that
school for the ensuing year. His
appointment is subject to the ap-
proval of the School Commissioners
for Hartford county. Prof. G. T.
Wright was principal of the school
for several years, but recently re.
signed to become county school eX-
aminer. Prof. Bowers is well
known in this vicinity, being a
former principal Of the Friends
Normal Instistute.
George w. Walton, of Oxford,
Pa, who was a private of the
famous 9th Reg. Pennsylvania
Volunteer Inf. during the Civil
War, has received tardy recognition
of brave act. The government
has awarded him a medal of honor
for most distinguished gallantry In
an action near Petersburg, Vir-
ginia, August %, 1864.