The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-04-11
"REMINISCENCES OF RISING SUN.
BY E. HENRY HAtNES.
CONTINUED from last week. ]


Job and Ann Jackson, another
couple of the same religious belief,
lived and kept store In brick house,
still standing, on the north side OF
Main Street. Their business was
small in comparison with what is be-
| ing done by your merchants now and
Ii do not remember of them ever
needing the assistance of a hired
clerk. When anyone opened the
door. to enter, it struck bell sus-
pended from the ceiling, the ringing
of which notified those in the back
part of the house that customer
had come.
When Job came here and started
/ into business he was bachelor, but
soon courted and won the heart OF
his Annie, a Chester county teacher
of much intelligence, and it bec0m-
ing known, when Job was going away
to get married, he was Entrusted to
carry a letter to a person at the
Brick, which contained the informa-
tion of what was going ON and ask
ing the recipient to use his endea-
vors to raise large party to assist
in giving Job a rousing serenade
when he arrived at home with his
bride. Thus he was unwittingly
made to assist in the preparation for
the very thing he was most anxious
to avoid. When the newly married
couple arrived all was in readiness
for the grand demonstration and they
were treated ito calithumpian sere-
made the like of which was rarely Ii
ever known here before, and some
times hear DIT referred to even to this
day.
Job owned large brick house on
| the open lot along side of Bufflng-
toms furniture store, which was at
that time the best furnished and
most expensive house In the place
Here he established Friends girls
school, which only lasted q few ses-
sions, and was taught by young
woman, member of his society
Job was strictly and uncompromis-
ingly honest as he saw things, but
was regarded as rather penurious,
and like most of us desired to secure
a good bargain if his opposite in the
deal would agree. A story went the
rounds that he had agreed to board
his teacher for a certain sum, but
when they came to settle he tried to
charge her more on the ground that
she had eaten much more than he
expected. After a few years he sold
his property and moved back to his
native place in Chester county.
mind of being at Monthly Meeting
at the Little Brick, or West Not
tingham, when Job asked for GER
tificate Of removal for himself. wife
and minor son Milton, who was then
not much more than child, and in
latter life became prominent as an ed
ucatOr.
The brick house above mentioned
was built by BENJAMIN Reynolds, q
carpenter, who purchased the old
Friends Westinghouse at West Not
tingham after the present brick meet.
ing-house was bualt in 1911, and
moved it ON to a lot near his resi-.
dence, and for many years occupied
it for carpenter shop and stable
It is now claimed by some that this
old meeting house after several re.
mOvals now stands in the side yard
OF Henry Cummings. If it be true
that this is the meeting-house which
| the Friends of West nottingham
4 Jul dUOMt Il OV Ut Is IluCu JUG OlQ'
est house in Rising Sun and will soor
be two hundred years old.
The brick house after being SOLD
by Job Jackson had several tenants
some Of whom kept tavern, and was
finally burned.
/ A very prominent parsonage was
t DR.. Slater B. Stubbs. who had an ex
tensiye practice in the country fol
miles around and always rode OF
horseback and carried medicine ant
other equipment In leather saddle
bags thrown across the saddle or
which he rode. He was one o.
more times elected to the State Leg
Iislature and proved himself usefu
there as well as AZ dispensing pilll
land powders for the sick. He bull
the frame house now occupied b,
Alice and Sheppard and the large
/ farm house at the ton of what i.
known as St,,hha, hill now halong