The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-10-11
Friday, Oct. IL. 1901.
MINORLOCALS

tNN>~AON
about 100000 cans of tomatoes up
to the present time.
Miss Pearl Gorrell, of Conowingo,
has been appointed teacher of Will
son public school, Elk Neck.
Fifty five names were added to
the registration list in the Sixth
district during the October sittings.
The total receipts of the Oxford
fall fair were $291410; expenses,
$271O.S2, leaving a balance of
1908. %.
Burglars secured $50 worth of
silvelware from the home of Spen-
Ger Hall, at Blackbird, Del, one
night recently.
Report says that the J. Pierpont
Morgan George Gould syndicate
will erect coal piers at Lewes, DEL,
for shipping station to Europe.
DIR. John f. Brown, of Wood
lawn, has been appointed demon
strator in the dental department of
the University of Maryland,
Baltimore.
Any person wishing copy of
the Nottingham history and pro
ceedings of the Centennial will
please leave their name with E. r.
Burlington.
Presiding Elder Robert Watt
will preach in Rising Sun NJ. E.
church next Sunday morning at
1890 o'clock, and at Sylmar at
2:30 in the afternoon.
The Twentieth Century Com
mittee of the Elkton Presbyterian
church has made payment of
$1,000 on the mortgage covering
the church property this year.
The citizens of New Castle, Del,
will ask the next legislature of that
State to pass a bill authorizing
them to erect water works, to be
owned and operated by the town.
Rev. McElwee Ross, for four
years pastor of Oxford United Pres,
byterian Church, has accepted a
call at Newark, N. Y, and left for
his future field of labor last week.
The Tome Memorial nj. Il.
church, of Port Deposit will place
a new pipe organ in their church
shortly. 1t is a gift of the choir
and congregation and is to cost
$4,000.
Rev. w. F. Venables, rector of
the Church of the Good Shepherd,
Chesapeake City, preached his
farewell sermon on Sunday last,
having accepted a call to a church
in San Josa, Cal.
William Bloomer, of Bohemia
Manor, was riding a fractions horse
one day last week, when the animal
threw him against a gate post,
breaking one of his ribs and other
wise injuring him.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted for the twelfth annual con-
vention of the Cecil county Union
of Christian Endeavor, to be held
in the Presbyterian church at Elk
ton, on October %.
The Ladies Aid Society of Octo-
raro M. E. church will hold a
handkerchief social at the home of
Altman Ferguson on Friday even
ing, Oct. Is. Proceeds for the
benefit of the roofing fund.
DR.. j. T. Brown will sell farm
stock and implements at public
sale Oct. 81, on his farm near Prin-
cipio. He has recently moved to
Principle and opened drug store
in connection with his practice. .
The Fifth district Republicans
have organized at North East by
the election of DR.. T. A. Worrall,
president; G. A. M. Johnson, vice
president; DIR. r. G. Underwood,
secretary, and Fl. r. Wilson, treas.
Bethel M. P. church, near Bay
View, was reopened Sunday after,
noon with appropriate services,
after undergoing extensiveimprove
ments during the past summer.
The services were in charge of Rev.
B. F. Jester.
Deputy Sheriff Ward, of Dover,
heard a commotion among his
chickens one night last week.
Upon investigating the cause he
surprised woman chicken thief,
whom he caught after a chase and
committed to Jail.
While Thomas Perkins and his
son, of 'ar Laurel, Del, were cut
ting corn one day recently, the knife
slipped from the fathers hand and
struck the boy just below the ear,
intiicting terrible cash, which
though serious was not fatal.
Robert III. Wilson and Joseph
Mcdaniel, two of the largest peach
growers on the Peninsula, attribute
much of their success in the culture
of the luscious fruit to the use ol
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