The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-11-07
TY NEWS.
Friday, Nov. z. 1902.
MlNDRLOCALS

Henry Thomas, of Elkton, has
been granted an increase of pension
of $40 per month.
John w. Shippers, of North East,
was seriously injured last week by
a fall from load of fodder.
The District Lodge OF Good TEN
plars of Chester county, will meet
at Chrome on Saturday, 10Th.
Thirteen thousand cases of toma-
toes were packed at VIM. 7. Fry
er's Colora cannery this season.
A large pipe organ is to be placed
in the Assembly Hall of Memorial
Hall, at Tome Institute, in the near
future.
Jacob Biddle, of Elkton, was
shot in the foot and slightly injur-
ed while cunning with compaionn
on Tuesday.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Oc-
toraro M. E. church will hold an
oyster supper at the church on
Saturday evening, Nov. Is.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
has offered to furnish their EN-
ployees with anthracite coal from
their mines at wholesale prices.
The farm of the late Jesse M.
Spencer, at Kemblesville, Pa, con-
tanning 135 acres, was sold last
week to Jas. Harvard for $6, SIT so.
The house and lot at Port Her
man, belonging to Sarah A. Brown,
was sold at mortgages sale last
week to Clinton Purner for $500.
Charlie Reynolds, of Octoraro, is
reported to have shot a rabbit
Saturday which had white face
and a white ring around it's neck :.
On Saturday last the title of the
P, W. & B. railroad was officially
changed, when the new name,
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Wash
lngtOn, was adopted.
The Perryville Methodist Episco-
pal Church by an unanimous vote
of the quarterly conference, has
asked for the return of its Pastor,
Rev. W. E. Greenfield for the third
year.
A disease which is proving fatal
to many Chester county horses is
pulling veterinaries. The disease
resembles meningitis and the ami
mails invariably die few days after
being taken ill.
Robert Townsend and Thomas
Samsell have been placed under ar
rest at Marcus Hook, Pa, charged
with being implicated in the recent
horse theifs in the vicinity of War
wick, Cecil county.
J. W. Cochran, conductor of an
accommodation train between Per
ryville and Baltimore, fell from the
steps of his train at Gunpowder
station Friday but fortunately es-
capped serious injury.
Fire Sunday night partly des-
troyed the frame dwelling of Jacob
Erpenbeck, along the Elk river,
caused by an oil stove explosion.
Loss is estimated at 5000, partly
covered by insurance.
A large number of the young
folks of the town made merry on
Halloween by masking and dress
ing in grotesqne costumes, parad-
ing the streets and calling upon
their friends unannounced.
A regular meeting of the Young
Friends Association was held in
the town hall on Sunday afternoon
last. The program consisted prin-
cipally of reports of the conference
held in Asbury Park, N. j., this
summer, and of the Y. F. A. meet
ing held in Baltimore lasi month.
The Cecil Democrat, published at
Elkton, will change management
the first of the coming week, when
John s. Writ will succeed George
r. Ash as editor. The change of
management has practically al
ready been made, but Mr.. Ash will
remain with the paper.this week.
Elkton Council, No. %, Jr. o.
U. A. M, is in flourishing condi-
ton. Seven new members were
initiated into the mysteries of the
Order last week, and the member
ship roll shows 179 names. The
Council has but recently moved
into its handsome new lodge room
and is one of the most enterpris-
ing lodges of Mechanics in the
State.
The large freight barge Chesa-
peake, loaded with 200 cords of
poplar wood from Virginia and
consigned to Elkton Pulp Mills,
sprung leak in Elk river Monday
night, when about two miles from
Elkton, and despite the fact that
all her pumps were kept going one
half of her cargo had to be unload
ed on the river shore to prevent