The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-11-04
MINORLOCALS

in evidence as usual on HallOWe en-,
The post Office at Bay View has
been made a money order office.
And now it is platinum that is
concealed in the serpentine rock in
the ridge"
A government pension of IS pei
month has been granted Robert. II.
Wilson, of Woodlawn.
The w. G. T. U. will meet in the
lecture room of the church on
Thursday, Nov. 10, at 2:3O o'clock.
The supper given by the Daugh-
tiers of Liberty in the Town Hall on
Saturday evening Melted about $15
to the order.
The City Council of Elkton have
force of men at work building the
new sewerage system in the east
end of Elkton.
Walker B. Wales of Oxford, who
is we'll known in this section, has
opened a branch music store in
Pocomoke City.
Loyal Legion will meet Saturday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. A large
attendance is desired, as election of
officers will be held.
Mrs. Mary L. Boulder, of Back
Creek Neck, fell at her home, on
Monday, and fractured her thigh.
She is seventy years of age.
Edward Hackett, colored, is in
Jail at Elkton for breaking the neck
of COW belonging to George T.
Satterfeld of the First district.
On Sunday evening, Nov. 6,
Rev. DIR. Morris will speak on "The
Responsibilities of Citizenship" in
the M. Il. church in this place. All
are cordially invited to attend.
A game of foot ball between West
Nottingham Academy and West
Grove will be played at West Not
tingham tomorrow afternoon. Game
called at $50; admission, 10 cents.
Jennie, the eight year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. hilary,
of Elk Neck, died suddenly Satur.
day night of diphtheria. The in
terment was on Sunday in Harris
M. E. cemetery.
The Grand Jury at West Chester
this week found true bill against
Sam'l. Mcdowell, the Quay lieu
tenant of Oxford, who was charged
with forgery in causing two negros
to he liberated from West Chester
Jail.
At meeting of the N N N Club
held at the home OF Miss Poca
Reed, of Bay View, last week for
the purpose of reorganization, Miss
Clara Burns was elected President.
The first social will be held at the
home of Miss Annie Simcoe.
Edar Shippers, aged about twelve
years, a grandson of VIM. II. Edar,
of Elkton, while on visit to his
uncle, Fred Edar, at Edar Staten,
on the line of the B. & 0. railroad,
fell from hay wagon upon which
he was riding and broke his arm
near the elbow.
Mrs. VIM. 7. Moore, the wife of
the jockey who was killed at the
Dover, Del, fair recently, has lost
her reason and been taken to a
Philadelphia sanitarium. She
witnessed the fatal accident and
was seized with hysteria from
which she never recovered.
The mill of the Elk Mill Com.
pany, at Baldwins, known as the
lower Baldwin MILL" has been
leased to Messrs. Scott Deibert,
Jacob Wilson and Alfred Kershaw,
of Elkton, who will at once reopen
weaving mill of sixty looms. The
mill has been closed about six
years.
The employees in-the fitting room
at the shoe factory have been work
ing overtime at nights this week
This department is short of hands
requiring extra time from those EN-
ployed to keep the force dOwr
stairs up to their full capacity
through the day. The present out
put is about $50 pairs week.
The report of the Chief Engineer
having in charge the resurvey the
head of the Chesapeake Bay says
cat Havre de Grace the channe
below the town has again become
shallow, and the shoal near Watson
Island, which was once removed
has formed again. 1t will require
$4,000 annually for dredging"
A report was started in Newark
Delaware, that one of the Celestia
laundrymen was a leper, which
created a sensation in the town
Health officer DR.. Butler made al
investigation and pronounced tn
report false. A brother China
man, who was jealous of his riva
washee, washee, started the report