The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-12-28

VIM. Wilson, B. s. O. brake
man, had his foot mashed last week
at Childs.
The Circuit Court adjourned on
Thursday night of last week until
after the holidays.
Harry G. Robertson had his
thumb caught and badly lacerated
in feed cutter last Saturday.
Mrs. Elnira Kirk, of lakewood,
has crab cactus containing $50
blooms, as pretty as Christmas
tree.
Nathan F. Lakeland has been
recommended for appointment as
postmaster at Principle by Con-
gresham Baker.
The p, w. s. B. baggage room
at Havre de Grace was broken into
one night last week and trunk
and satchel rifled.
Andrew Biddle, VIM. Hall, Geo.
Gamble and Philip Lynch, of North
East, have gone to Florida to spend
the winter fishing.
A cinematograph and phono-
graph entertainment will be given
in Hopewell M. E. church New
Years night. Admission, 25c.
Charles Anderson, of Calvert,
has sold the Hugh M. Cameron
farm of 40 acres, near Lombard,
to John G. Duncan of York county,
for $4,000.
Fellowship Lodge, X. of p, of
North East, will hold a social en-
tertainment, for members and in
vited guests, in G. A. r. hall New
Years night.
Mr.. Giles B. Palmer has accept
ed a professorship in ST Johns
College, Shanghai, China. Mr..
Palmer is a nephew of Rev. Giles
B. Cooke, of North East.
The W. G. T. U. will hold
Parlor Meeting at the home of
Edwin Haines on New Years eve,
at 8 o'clock. Silver offering at the
door. Refreshments will be served.
Gone where the woodbine twin
eth: The annual fair of the Della.
ware State Agricultural Society,
held near Dover, has suspended.
The property has been sold at pub.
lie sale.
The Chesapeake s. Delaware
Canal Company has sent the Sin
gerly Fire Co., of Elkton, a check
for expenses incurred at the pump
ing station fire at Chesapeake City
recently.
VIM. p. Chubbs, who has the
contract to furnish 10000 feet of
chestnut wainscoting for the Tome
Institute buildings, has purchased
a six-acre tract of woodland at
Kinks Mills, Pa.
The case of Chas. Holden, who was
awarded SO, 800 damages in his suit
against the Philadelphia & Balti-
more Central railroad company in
the Circuit Court last week, will be
carried to the Court of Appeals.
The inmates of the Cecil County
Aims House and Insane Asylum,
at Cherry Hill, were given a
Christmas treat on Monday by the
board of trustee who received
large donations from all parts of
the county.
Mrs. h. w. Haines. of Newark,
fell over telephone pole lying in
a street of that town and broke her
arm.
There are several of the same
kind of poles lying in a street of
Rising Sun.
Frank Bothal and VIM. Krauss,
both of Kinseyville, while driving
at Red Turkey last Sunday night
lost control of their horse and were
thrown from the buggy. The team
was badly wrecked, and Bothal's
leg broken by the fall.
One hundred and eighty six
acres of land in the Fifth district,
owned by the Maryland Clay Co.,
we're sold at attorneys sale on
Monday to Harry A. Parr, of Bal
timore, for $1,000. The property
is supposed to have large deposits
of clay on it and sold several years
ago for $4,000.
George Campbell, millionaire
wooden goods manufacturer OF
Philada., made an assignment last
week. He was the owner of the E.
P. Passmore farm, between Rising
Sun and Bay View, and sold it a
few days previous to his failure, to
James ID. Blackburn of Philada.
The place contains 300 acres and
was sold for $4,000.
The Cecil Wing has had its ear tG
the ground and heard that the syn
dictate which secured the option or
large number of acres o f land in
the Eighth district of this county,
some time ago, for the purpose o.
mining for gold, will again start
mining for the precious metal, and