The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20

w ihhSiNa ~ Ivy OIL, VI HlltQcl
phia, visited his parents Mr.. anC
Mrs. Samuel P. Ryan this week.
Miss Emily Duyckinck has beer
spending the week in Princess
Anne, Md, visiting her aunt, Mrs
Anna Haines.
Mrs. A. B. Kay and daughter
Miss Charlotte Kay, of North
Adams, Mass, are visiting friends
in the neighborhood.
Ernest Richards, of Philada.
visited his cousin, H. F. Richards,
this week and spent Thursday gun
ming on the Octoraro hills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Manahan
of Calvert, have issued invitations
for the marriage of their daughter,
Miss Leete E., to Mr.. Robert r.
Hilaman, of Chrome, on Dec. 8, at
II o'clock, noon.
The Young Friends Association
of this town was represented at the
General Conference of Associations,
which met in Wilmington on Nov.
IA, by Mrs. Edwin M. Hunt and
Miss L. Janette Reynolds.
The Home Mission was very
pleasantly entertained on Friday
evening last by Mrs. Nellie Wagner.
Following the literary program,
charades and "panic" proved inter
esting features to those present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis J. Jamison
of Oak Hill have issued invitations
for the marriage of their daughter,
Miss Mary Belle, to Mr.. Willet
Lynwood Boyd of Nottingham.
The cemetery will take place
Thanksgiving Day at 1 o'clock.
The will of John G. Senderling,
a brother of Gabriel Senderling. of
Blake, this county, has been pro.
bated in the Orphans Court. of
Philada. The estate is valued at
800, 900. Mr.. Senderling was a
bachelor and resided in Philada.
A prisoner escaped from Lancas,
ter Jail one night last week by
squeezing through an Sx1S,inch
opening in his cell window, after
rubbing himself thoroughly with
soap. Once outside his cell, he
climbed the lightning rod to the
the roof and up the wall by rain
spout and then reached the ground
by rope he had put together.
In the suit of Charles w. Baker.
Gamer, of Aberdeen, VS.. Lawrence
Hartnett, tomato grower, tried at
Dover, Del, the jury gave a YER
dict for Baker for six cents and
costs. Hartnett contracted to fur
nish the product of five acres of to-
matoes to Baker at a stipulated
price, but refused to do so when he
could dispose of them to better
advantage elsewhere.
Sheriff William T. McAllister
made narrow escape from being
perhaps seriously burned while
pouring coal-oil in stove at the
Elkton Jail, last Wednesday
morning. When the fluid struck
a live coal it instantly burst into
flame which struck the sheriff in
the face. He luckily escaped with
only his eye brows and hair being
badly scorched.-Democrat.
Henry B. Vinson while operat-
ing corn hqsking machine on his
farm near Dover, Del, last week,
met with serious accident which
may prove fatal. His right hand
was drawn into the machine, then
his right arm, his shoulder and
part of his side were ground by
the sharp knives. Although the
engines were stopped at once and
the wheels reversed, it was nearly
an hour before the unfortunate
man could be extricated, and in
that time he had suffered serious
loss of blood. 1t was not until the
machine was taken apart that the
victim could be liberated.
The elections having passed off
in way satisfactory to corporate
interests, and the political horizon
apparently showing the green lights
of safety, the Pennsylvania Rail
road company have issued orders
to all contractors to go ahead with
the work of grading and building
the new line through that section,
reports the Quarryville Sun. So
far as can be found out about the
same limit has been put on the
amount of work to be done in a
month, as heretofore, about $25, 900
worth. Men and materials are ar
irving in goodly numbers, and ma
chinery is being overhauled and
taken out of its winter quarters.