The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-08-30
Mr.. McNally has moved from the
Hogg farm to RowIandville.

III Linn Worthington has been
appointed special agent Of the New
England Mutual Life Insurance
Co., of Boston.
Martha Washington Council, No.
5, Daughters of Liberty, will hold
an ice cream and fruit festival at
Calvert on Thursday evening,
September 5.
/ The shooting season for rail and
reed birds opens in Cecil county on
Sept. 5. The birds have made
their appearance in the marshes
and fine sport is anticipated by the
gunners.
A special excursion has been ar
ranged to start from Oxford for
Buffalo on Sept. IL. Roundtrip
tickets, good for seven days, will
be sold for $40. A twelve hours
through run is promised.
AT a meeting of the Belair and
Havre de Grace Railway and Power
Co., held in Baltimore last week,
it was decided to commence work
on the road Immediately. The road
is 153 miles in length and will con-
meet the two towns.
A horse, carriage end harness
were stolen last week from the sta
BILE of Frank Widdoes, a mail car
rier living at Newark. The horse
was found wandering along the road
next day, but the vehicle and har-
ness were not recovered.
Theodore Bye, of Lewisville, lost
a number of hogs by the recent
heavy flood which passed over that
section. The porkers were pastur-
ing in the meadow bordering a
stream and were washed away.
Mr.. Bye estimates his loss at $500.
The Orphans Court has APP
pointed Harry T. Moore and Robert
G. Thackery administrators of the
estate of Capt. John Moore, of
Baltimore, who recently died in
Elkton. The estate is composed of
personal property and is estimated
at S., 900.
At the bazaar held at Harmony
Chapel, near Liberty Grove, last
week, the parlor suit was awarded
to Mrs. Carrie Montgomery, of Lib
erty Grove; the set of harness to
Cecil Shelter, of Mt. Pleasant, and
the writing desk to Miss Ella Nor
rison, of New Valley.
The general manager of the B.
& 0. denies the recent report that
the bridge across the Susquehanna
is to be rebuilt, stating that repairs
of an ordinary nature only are to
be made. The structure is capable
of carrying 100000 tons and has
never been taxed beyond 100000
tons.
Our little sister state of Delaware
leads all her big brothers and sisters
at the Buffalo Exposition in the
fruit exhibit. AT present it is with
peaches and earlier in the season
superintendent Van Dioman, of the
Exposition represented to the State
Board of Agriculture that the Della
ware exhibit of strawberries, dur
ling the height of that season was
the finest on the grounds.
| During one of the heavy thunder
storms last week the large stone and
frame barn of George Wood, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, on his farm
at Wawa, was struck by lightning
and totally destroyed, together with
all its contents. The building was
completely filed with hay and
grain. The bolt ran down inside
the barn and under the NOW full
of wheat. The loss is estimated at
f $40, 900.
I The Chester County Good Tenn
plar's Convention or District Lodge,
j No. IL, of Pennsylvania, was held
in the town hall at Landenburg, on
Saturday, August IT. Minnehaha
Lodge at Chrome had fourteen
members present, and as they
, added eighteen to the roll during
the last three months, were awarded
the prize banner for increase Of
membership. Elwood Nichols was
elected and installed as District
Counselor.
4 The Riverview Pleasure Club, o.
Elkton, has been organized with
) the following officers Samuel J.
Keys, president I; D. Warren Will
son, vice-president; n. Frank
,, Witworth, treasurer, and Ricketts,
, Nelson, secretary executive conf
mittee, Frank McChesney, S. j
|, Keys and Elmore Diebert.
The club has erected small
cabin on the farm of Peter OFT
! lying along the Elk river, about
three miles from Elkton.
Prof. G. Harold Powell, horticul
turist of the Delaware College Elk
pertinent Station at Newark, ha1
: resigned his position at that insti
! tuition and accepted position il
: the Pathological Bureau at Wash
! linofOn n n H{s raa;onok;o,, 4.