The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-01-31

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DIR. T. B. Moore attended the
meeting of the State Dental Asso-
citation, in Baltimore, on Thursday
The Friday Evening Club was
pleasantly entertained by Miss
Eleanor Jenness on the evening OF
/ the 24tn.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. B. Silver
and son Bartle, of Havre de Grace,
are the guests this week of DR..
Geo. S. Dare and family.
Daniel +. Keen, of lakewood,
while saving wood with a circular
saw last Friday, got his hand
caught and had two fingers badly
cnt.
The will of the late Theodore E.
Hayes has been filed for probate in
the Kent county Orphans Court.
The estate is estimated to be worth
100000. His widow, Annie T.
Hayes, is sole legatee under the
will.
The river at Port Deposit has
been threatening since Wednesday
night, when it rose to the Presby-
terrain church steps at Rock Run.
Several times yesterday. it rose
above the railroad and a gorge is
feared at any time.
Mrs. Mary w. Stroup, former
matron of Delaware College, New
ark, died at the home of her SON
in-law Harry L. Hollingsworth, in
Christiania hundred, Del, on Jan.
81. The deceased was the widow
of the late Eugene Stroup.
Edward Stevenson, whose neck
was broken by his being crushed
in cave in at the Hockessin, Del,
kaolin quarries, on Jan. B, is still
alive at the Delaware Hospital,
Wilmington, and it is thought he
has chance of recovery.
Captain Walter II. Gordon, a
former military instructor at
Delaware College, Newark, has
been appointed a member of the
board of officers which is to meet
at Fort d. A. Russell, Wyoming,
to examine officers as to their fitness
for promotion.
The heirs of the late Clerk of the
Circuit Court, James T. Graham,
have sued to recover $4,000, the
amount of two insurance policies
collected by @. G. Caldwell on
policies transferred by Mr.. Graham
short time previous to his death.
The heirs allege undue influence.
Mr.. George Wilson, of Easton,
Md, proprietor of the Touring
mill DIT that place since his fathers
death few days ago, in looking
over papers slowed away by his
father in an old desk in the mill,
came across a bank book, which,
upon examination, showed a credit
of S., 400.
While Thomas M. gilbert, of
Wilmington, was riding in a Darby
trolley car, in Wilmington, Satur,
day evening, he was jostled by a
stranger, who knocked off his hat,
and, after picking it up, Culbert
discovered that the stranger had
snatched diamond stud, valued at
$400, from his shirt front.
Perryville lodged last week John
Nahodil and Jaroslay Fugar, the
two newspaper reporters from
Austria, who are on pedestrian
tour of the world. The journalists
left Brennan on March IL, 1901.
Their object is to view all countries
and observe the conditions prevail.
ing in the various nations visited.
The Delaware Ledger, Newark,
says: "The talk of shad fishing
already has began, and shad fisher
men of New Castle will meet in a
short time for the purpose of laying
plans for seasons work. The row
boats are being done away with.
These boats are being converted
into naptha launches. Old fisher
men are anticipating an unusually
early season.
The term of postmaster Jesse
West, of North East, expires next
month, aad there is a general
scramble of applicants who are
hoping the lightning will strike
them. Mr.. West is DESTROYS of re.
appointment and has the support
of the G. A. r., being an old
soldier, while theyoung republican.
ism of the town is booming j. Edw
Davis for the position.
After an all-day service on Sun
day, February 16, the congregation
of the Perryville Methodist Episco
pal church will unite in the burn
ing of the remaining mortgage o.
81, 900 on the church, which has
been liquidated. The church was
built several years ago at a cosl
of about $1,000. Rev. w. +
Greenfield who was formerly
, located at Mt. Pleasant, near Colora
; is the pastor of the church, anG