The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-12-12

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VIM. j. Richardson is lying
critically ill of pneumonia at his
home near town.
The engagement of Miss Bertha
Metzger of Port Deposit, to Mr..
Wise, of Harrisonville, Va, has
been announced.
The engagement of Mr.. John J.
} Abrahams, of Port Deposit, to Miss
Mary S. Taylor is announced, the
ceremony to take place in January.
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Mrs. Evelyn Tome
to DR.. France, formerly instructor
in chemistry at the Tome Institute,
to take place in the near future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haines Brown, of
Lyles, Lancaster county, have issu-
ed invitations for the marriage of
their daughter, Clara Belle, to Lin
dley King, on Wednesday, Deem
Der 18th.
Miss Sara Wilson, daughter OF
j. P. Wilson, and Robt. Nesbitt,
formerly of Colora, were married
at the home of the BRIDES brother,
in Washington, on Wednesday,
Dec. 10. They will reside in Ban
gor, Me.
Miss Maude Moon, daughter of
Mrs. V. Moon of Balto., was mar
ried at her home in that city on
Wednesday, Dec. Sd, to Richard Il.
Collins, of Elk Neck, Cecil county,
Rev. Robert COPELAND rector of
Ascension Protestant Episcopal
Church officiating.
There is a hitch in the Newark
electric railway project, the COM
pany having failed to file a bond of
$5, 900 for the faithful performance
of its obligations under the fran
chise recently granted.
Rev. G. w. Prettyman, of
Brandywine M. Z. Church, Will
mington, Del, has accepted the
call of the congregation of Elkton
M. E. church, subject to the deci-
sion of the presiding bishop.
Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson, has been invited to be pre-
sent at the 10th annual meeting of
the Peninsula Horticultural Society,
to be held at Delaware College,
Newark, on Jan. 6, Z and s.
The damage case of Goth VS.. the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore Railroad, removed from
Cecil county, to Kent county Cir
cult court, has been continued to
the April term of that court.
AS a result of the numerous rob.
berries which have recently been
committed in Havre de Grace and
vicinity a Protective Association
has been organized in that town
and. night Waterman employed.
Mrs. Elizabath Kellogg was
awarded 800 damages in the Har-
ford county Circuit Court last
week, in her case against the coun-
ty commissioners for opening a
public road through her property,
in that county, without her consent.
During the progress of the bazar
and supper in the Elkton M. E..
church last week, some person
caused much annoyance by sprink-
ling cayenne pepper on the floor.
A reward of 800 was offered for
formation that would lead to the
arrest of the guilty party.
Pennsylvania capitalists have OBJ
tanned water rights on White Clay
creek, and will erect near Tweed's
mill north of Newark, powerhouse
which will furnish electric light
for Avondale and Kennett Square.
Contract has been made for 1900
poles on which the wires will be
strung.
Jas. 81. Harlow, of Pittsburg,
who is interested in the electrical
development of the Susquehanna,
and has been an extensive pur-
chaser of land along the river
during the past year, last week
purchased of Grace Shure a small
tract of land near Shure's Landing,
in Hartford county, for 5000.
Farmers in the Bohemia Manor
section of Cecil county have recent
ly been the victims of several raids
by bold thieves. Besides chickens
stolen one farmer lost six pigs
which were killed and dressed by
the raiders before being carried
away, another farmer is minus a
sheep which was also dressed be-
fore being taken from the premises.
Poultry raisers say white and
black clutch is appearing now and
carrying off many fowls. The Pc
culiarity is that the poultry is gen
orally attacked in the night time
and all within reach disappear.
Oxford Press.
One of the most successful RENE.
dies for this peculiarly fatal disease
(e\ iS after the fowls are housad RI