The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-10-31
Mlr>.ORLOCALS

Over $50 was realized by the
supper given by the Leeds M. P.
church recently.
Tomorrow is the first day of gun
ming season for cartridges and rab-
bits in Cecil county.
Election Day, Nov. 4, 1902, be-
ing a legal holiday, it will be so OBJ.
served by the Banks of the county
Lizzie A. Harvey, of North
East, was granted this week a
government pension of $12 per
month.
Deputy Clerk II. S. Cameron has
been busy at Charlestown and
Perryville this week issuing duck.
ing licenses to gunners.
The S. P. Ryan property, at the
conjunction of Walnut and Cherry
streets, has been purchased by DR..
T. B. Moore, for $4,000.
Tome Institute won its third con-
secutive game of football on Satur-
day from Millersville State Normal
School q to 0, at Port Deposit.
The Jr. o. u. A. M, of Oxford,
will raise the stars and stripes over
Barnsley High School this after.
noon, with appropriate ceremonies.
Horses stolen last week from the
stables of Jas. Lindall and r. B.
Merritt, of the Second district, were
recovered but the thief was not
prosecuted.
AS the results of bad cut with
a Ratchet about week previous,
Harrison Green, of near Atglen,
aged ID years, died on the Dist
inst, from lockjaw.
Chas. Fl. .Demond, of North
East, purchased at public sale the
dwelling house in that town sold
by T. NJ. Gilbart, of Wilmington.
The price paid was ST., 700.
Wayne Reynolds reports the
'jumbo" corn crop of this district.
From IA acres he raised 1470
bushels of shelled corn, an average
of 1O5 bushels per acre. Next!
A concert will be given in
Port Deposit hall on the evening
of November 5, by Messrs. Harry
B. Quincy, tenor; Chas. F. Krae-
mer, violinist, and George 7. Will
liams, pianist.
Robert, the eight-year-old son of
Robert Berger, farmer, near Elk
ton, fell from the windmill at his
home Saturday evening, breaking
his collarbone and injuring his
head severely.
Great preparations are being
made by the gunners in Cecil and
Hartford counties for the coming
ducking season on the Susquehanna
Flats, which opens next Monday,
November 3rd.
While assisting at her mothers
moving last week Mrs. Chas. w.
Fox, of Richardsmere, fell from the
back door of the house and sustain
ed injuries which have confined
her to her bed ever since.
Pickpockets relieved William l..
Kennedy, of Phoenixville, demo.
cratic candidate for the Legislature
from Chester county, Pa, of his
pocketbook containing about $500
in checks, notes and cash, during
an electioneering visit to Oxford
last week.
The first and only democratic
mass meeting held in this town
during this campaign was that OF
Thursday evening in the Town
Hall, which was largely attended
and addressed by Messrs. Archi-
bald Taylor, Thos. G.. Weeks and
S. S. Field.
While helping to load a heavy
iron shaft on a cart at the ElktOn
foundry Wednesday morning, w.
p. Dean of that town was serious
ly injured. The horse attached to
the cart started and the shaft
caught Mr.. Dean, cutting one OF
the arteries in his legs.
Rev. James j. McKenna, who
succeeded Rev. p. P. Arnd as pas
tor of st. Theresa's Catholic
Church, Port Deposit, about one
year ago, has been transferred tO
st. Paul's, Wilmington, Del, as
assistant to Bishop Monaghan.
He will be succeeded at Port De-
post by Rev. Miles McManus, Of
Scranton, Pa.
The forgemen at the Principle
Furnace Iron Mills, Cecil county,
have returned to work after hav-
ing been out on strike for a week
The grievance was an attempt on
the part of the company to add
thirty pounds more, per ton, to the
blooms for waste. The old schedule
was agreed upon and the strikers
resumed work.
The will of Henry j. Pensel, Of
the Second district, has been ad
mitted to probate in the Orphans
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