The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-04-05
CAUGHT BY THE WAYslDE.

Mrs. Margaret Dunn of Pilottown is guest of
friends and relatives in this vicinity
w. b. Cooney who recently acquired the Riale
creamery began operations last Wednesday.
william Grist of near Theodore has again re-
sumed carpentering after five weeks seige with
broken arm caused by too firm a grip upon an
axe handle.
Samuel Cummings ofPhiladelphia recently died
aud was buried in that city. Mr.. Cummings was
well known in this section. He is survived by
family, his wife being Miss Rebecca Mccullough
of Pleasant Grove William Cummings OF Port
Deposit is a brother.
Before a farmer delivers swine. sold by live
weight. he win hndit profitable to feed bushel
or so of coal This will aid digestion.
1t has been suggested that farmers who rent
farms on q money basis and where the land in
question is OF a rocky nature that they organize
Union compelling owners or agents to furnish the
pillow points.
The average hen-pecked husband celebrated
Easter with breakfast Of eggs.
Some housewives burn the egg shells It's more
profitable to throw them to the chickens. Hens
will not refuse to take what they give themselves.
People have found it more difficult to move into
society than they did to move into town.
Don't Us the farmer because a j he B.
He doesn't D X for the want of C.
Thirteen full moons last year and twelve this
with 90 full Saturday nights for many OF us.
A young man of this vicinity has received a
communication from his girl. who is now away
visiting from her home and circle of friends in
this Haven spot of Cecil county, stating that she
did not care for his company any further and that
she would shortly marry another. 1t has not
been stated whether the deserted holds
sufficient resentment in his heart to make a
porous plaster of the newcomer but the young
lady possibly might have used little forethought
and sent her letter to the belated one before the
ice melted in the dam, before our hardware mer
chants purchased their stock of ammunition and
firearms for the Fourth of July and popular
druggist laid in his stock of paris green for the
coming season. Don't bemoan your fate for ac-
cordlng to the Boston Dictionary there is no such
thing. it is simply displacement of allotment
You can buy an automobile for what it would cost
to keep wife and foot undertakers bills. Cheer
mp young man, buy kodak and then you can
gain point by taking her on the sly at trifing
expense
A few of our folks went Maying last Sunday and
succeeded in procuring number Of wild flowers.
Wayne Reynolds planted last Saturday few
early potatoes the sign of the flowers.
lie will have bed of posies of the potato perfume
Between the month of May and the first of June.
10 all We that thirst
For Cecils pump is dry.
Buried forever in the dust
Towards the dam thou must fly.
On shores of rock. at Hunters mill,
Thou canst stoop and dreamily cram
Thy tank to its utm ost FILL
For there's dippers in the dam.
Who is it. resides in Rising Sun.
knows most about the Kingdom Come?
Answer-The lamp lighter. He frequently
climbs Jocob's ladder.
The heifer that escaped from and whose back
was badly burned at the Kearney fire is doing
nicely and will recover.
man known in this section over month ago
solicited subscriptions for weekly paper and
those who subscribed have not heard anything in
regard to money or the paper. As he recently
ventured into business q collector of marketing
it may not be difficult for the suckers to observe
where their money went.
It was early last Monday morning. Amammoth
rooster. with quickly bobbiDg head. was looking
towards the ground and loudly calling the hens
One that was within sound of the call hastened to
the scene. expecting dainty. But on arriving
there she saw nothing The rooster gave a lus
trous crew and suddenly departed. He had given
the hen the frozen heart and she then remem bered
1t was the first of April. In the evening when Mrs
Joseph @. McMullen, Jr, went into the hen house
she discovered a cold storage egg.
It is said that foreigners are the choice laborers
in the dam operations on the susquehanna. the
Americans not so willing and not being able to
stand the strain.
car load of potatoes was shipped from Noting
ham the shippers paying the farmer but 40 cents.
The barn on the James Johnson arm in the
Barrens was recently destroyed by FIRE. caused by
the burning Of sedge grass In its vicinity. The
buildings have been vacant for some time and
were in a dilapidated condition. The house was
saved by hard work on the part of neighbors
The barn was about Soxa0 and far from wind
proof. Loss principally kindlins wood.
hot argument box broke loose In town last
Saturday night and one of prominent resi-
dents insisted that IL utterly impossible for IL
TO get cold or snow now that warm days had
come. In less than Sc hours IL showed and was
cold enough TO freeze April jokes. on the 2sd
day Of May, 1855 there was one foot OF snow In
Virginia, and on January the first 1890. fowers
were In bloom in the Middle States We hereby
nominate Benjamin Briseoe 10 the Office OF town
weather prophet subject to the decision OF the
voters In the next general election.
90.
Aims House Trustees.