The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-05-23

month has been issued to Gustin
Foster, of Elkton.
George r. Ash, Of Elkton, has
been appointed State Auditor, by
the Board of Public Works.
DR.. Thomas A. Worrall, of North
East, will deliver the Memorial
day address at Coatesville, Pa.
Governor Smith has appointed
Isaiah Biddle, of North East, Mag
istrate for the Fifth Election
/ District.
Frank e. Davis, a Baltimore
architect, is preparing plans for the
new M. e. church to be erected at
North East.
The salary of Carroll Edgar, in
structor in manual training at the
Cecil County High School, Elkton,
has been increased.
There are los applications in the
New Castle County, Del, Court
for liquor licenses, and ten of the
applicants are women.
The residence of the late Miss
Martha J. Nichols, in Elkton, was
purchased at public sale last week
by Fred n. LETTER for 1880.
George Alfred Townsend will be
one of the speakers at the annual
meeting of the Friends of Old
Drawers Church, Del, to be held
Sunday, June L.
The work of tearing down the
North East M. Z. church will be
commenced on Monday to make
room for the new church to be
erected on the site.
Captain q. T. Cooling, of Chesa-
peake City, has been appointed
District Deputy Grand Master by
the Grand Master of the Maryland
Lodge of Odd Fellows.
New Castle, Del, has an Anti pro
family Club and members caught
violating the rules by the use of OBJ
scene, vulgar or profane language
are subjected to fine.
The annual convention of the
diocese of Easton, which includes
all Protestant Episcopal churches
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
will convene in Trinity p. f.
church, Elkton, on June 3.
Michael Kelley, of Hockessin,
Del, took a nap on the railroad
track one night last week and as a
result had both legs cut off by a
train. He was taken to a Whining
ton hospital but died soon after
reaching the institution.
Reynolds CHM, of Warwick, was
severely bitten on the leg by a
vicious boar last week. He was in
a pasture field where there was a
herd of hogs when attacked, and
made his escape from more serious
injuries by climbing a tree.
The vacancy in the pastorate of
Scott Methodist Episcopal Church
at Wilmington, caused by the
death of the Rev. Walter E. Avery,
is to be filled for the rest of the con
ference year by the Rev. John
France, now of Eastlake Church.
All of the striking students at
Delaware College Newark, returned
to their studies on Monday and were
cordially received by the faculty.
The students have petitioned the
faculty for a reduction of the time
of suspension of the six young men
charged with hazing.
George M. johnson, of the Mid
die Spesutia Island, Hartford Co.,
was killed on Saturday by falling
from his two-horse farm wagon,
which he was driving home from
Aberdeen. Three of the unfortu-
nate mans ribs were broken by the
fall, and one of them penetrating his
lungs causing death. He leaves a
widow and two small children.
Secretary Rufus d. Rowland, of
Elkton, of the Board of Trustees of
the National Orphans Home,
Junior Order Uuited American
Mechanics, at Tiffin, O., reports
that the Orphans Home Associa-
ton of Alleganey County, Pa, has
made arrangements to donate a
building for an industrial school to
be run in connection with the home
at Tiffin.
The first of the damage suits
against Baltimore drug house for
alleged blindness caused by drink
ing jamaica ginger, was called in
the Superior Court of Baltimore
last week. The suits aggregate
S115, 900, among the plaintiffs being
DIR. George A. Brehm, of near
Colora, for $4,000 damages and
the heirs of James Henry Duncan,
of Cecil county, for $4,000
damages.
The dwelling of Wesley Tyson,
at Bay View, had narrow escape