The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-11-29
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Dogs got among the sheep of j.
T. Reed, Bay View farmer, on
Monday and killed one of them.
A new inter locking block signal
system is being installed on the p,
w. & B. division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad.
Miss Elizabeth Smithson, of Mt.
Pleasant, has been appointed to the
position of matron at the Delaware
College, Newark.
The State Board of Agriculture
will hold a Farmers Institute at
Oxford on Wednesday and Thurs
day, December 4 and 5.
The Aaron Hurf farm, on Elk
river, containing 307 acres, has
been purchased by Heulings Lip,
pincott, of Philadelphia, for $4,000.
Major Mckinley Council, Daugh-
tiers of Liberty, which was institu-
ted at North East in September,
has grown to a membership of forty.
The livery business at North
East, lately conducted by Chas.
r. Shippers, is being carried on by
Sylvester Preston, of Hartford Co..
While unhitching a horse VIM.
Baker, of Sassafras, was seriously
and perhaps fatally injured, on
Tuesday, by being kicked by the
animal.
AL Fisher, COL, was committed to
Jail on Friday on the charge of
shooting two tame ducks belonging
to Abe Green, colored, of near
West Nottingham.
Carriers straw board mill, near
Elkton, is being equipped with i'm
proved machinery. In place of
being dried by the sun as hereto
fore the product will be machine
dried.
The public school at Lewes, DEL,
has been closed on account of the
presence of case of diphtheria.
The building will undergo a thor
ough fumigation before being re-
opened.
Jacob Tome Institute defeated
Penn. State Normal School at Mil
lersville Saturday afternoon, at foot.
ball, by II to 0. The game closed
Tones season, the Institute boys
having played eight games, win
ming them all.
While crossing a foot bridge at
her brothers., George Ricketts, near
Elkton, on Sunday, Miss Mary Rick
etts of that town slipped and fell
fracturing her thigh. Owing to
her advanced years the injury is
considered a serious one.
Homard Terry, of Mt. Pleasant,
recently met with painful acct
dent. By the breaking of a front
wheel of his buggy he was thrown
to the ground, receiving bad cut
on the head and a strained shout
der. The buggy and harness were
badly damaged in the mixup.
Oxford Council, Jr. o. U. A. M,
has lost six members by death
during 1901, making a drain of the
Chester county F. B. A. of $3.50
each. There have been nine deaths
in the f. B. A. since the annual
meeting in May, out of $500 mem.
bers, while Oxford with 200 mem
bers has had four of them.
While at work on the tow path
of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal last week, at Summit
Bridge, Charles Fox was buried
by cavern of the bank, and but
for prompt assistance would have
been crushed. He was rescued
from his perilous position badly
bruised but not seriously hurt.
Chas. Baker, of Collamer, Ches-
ter county, met with peculiar ac-
cident one evening last week. He
fell through trap door at his barn,
and in endeavOring to catch himself
grasped corn shelter dragging the
machine with him. The shelter
landed on top of him, rendering
him unconscious and severely but
not seriously injuring him.
Rev. p. P. Arnd preached his
farewell sermons at Port Deposit
and st. Agnes Chapel, Rising Sun,
on Sunday, and will be succeeded
by Rev. Jas. J. McKenna in these
two charges. Father Arnd has been
transferred to Elkton.
Father Arnd was presented a
purse by his congregation on Sun
day, on the occasion of his farewell
sermon.
The first post and pillory punish
ment under the new law of Della
ware, was administered at the New
Castle county workhouse; at Green
bank, in that state, on Saturday.
Convicted of burglary Richard
: COverdale and Walter Thomas were
given one hour in the pillory and
20 lashes each. In addition they
were sentenced to one years i'm