The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-12-25
Friday, Dec. rs 1903.
MINORLOCALS
Merry Christmas to all.

Turner, on Cherry street, is being
reprinted.
Governor Smith has declared
December 26, which falls on Satur
day, a legal holiday.
The usual watch meeting services
will be held in Rising Sun M. E.
church New Years eve.
Myron Miller, of Woodlawn, shot
brown crow, a few days ago.
These birds are very rare.
A cantata will be given in Hope.
we'll M. E. church on Christmas
night. Admission, 10 cents.
New Years Day being legal
holiday it will be so observed by
the National Bank of Rising Sun.
The w. G. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. E. P. Haines on Thursday
afternoon, 31st inst, at 2:30 o'clock
The Christmas exercises of Rose
bank M. E. Sunday school, Cal
vert, will be held Saturday evening,
Dec. 26.
William Wilson suffered the loss
by fire, a few days ago, of a small
barn and several large stacks of
fodder, on his farm on Bohemia
Manor.
A government wrecking ma
chine is at work taking up all the
sunken piling, logs and wrecks be-
tween Turkey Point and Chesa-
peake City.
DR.. A. w. Harris, Director of
Tome Institute, has been nominal
ed for the presidency of Boston
University, but it is believed he
will decline.
The primary department of West
Nottingham Presbyterian Sunday
school will give a cantata in the
chapel on Tuesday evening, Decem.
Der 26. Doors open at 1880. Adj
mission, 10 cents. All are invited.
J. Granville Richards has sold a
sixtyfoo strip from his farm adj
joining the Octoraro to the Penn
sylvania parties who are acquiring
rights along that stream. The
price received was $500 and the
check came in time for Christmas
gift.
Services will be held in the M.
E. church on Christmas morning,
at 500 o'clock. Late sleepers
should not be alarmed at the ring
ing of the bell at $50 o'clk., as It
will not be an alarm of fire but a
summons to the Christmas tide
worship.
National Lodge of Odd Fellows,
of, Elkton, has been presented with
handsomely framed and engross-
ed resolution of thanks by Jeffer-
son Lodge, of Wilmington, for the
splendid work of the degree team
on the occasion of recent visit to
Wilmington.
Right of way for the new Della
ware Suburban Railway from Will
mington to Newark has been OBJ
tanned, and the work of construc-
ton will begin in the spring. 1t
is proposed to extend the line to
ElktOn and thence to CheSaDeake
City-some time.
r. @. Hopkins has resigned as
vice president and cashier of the
National Bank of Port Deposit, to
take effect Jan. 1, 1904. Press of
business at the Citizens National
Bank of Havre de Grace, of which
Mr.. Hopkins is president, is the
cause of the resignation.
Rev. DR.. Alpheus s. Mowbray,
pastor of Tome Memorial M. E..
church, Port Deposit, is said to be
the almost unanimous choice of the
pastors and laymen of the Will
mington District to succeed Rev.
DR.. Robert Watt, whose time limit
expires in March next, as presid-
ing elder of the district.
Excitement was caused Saturday
evening by an alarm of fire at Tome
Institute Inn, Port Deposit. Flames
were discovered between the cell
ing of the dining room and the
second floor, which were extin-
guished before they gained head
way. The blaze is thought to have
been caused by electric light wires.
A fund is being raised by the
congregation of West Nottingham
Presbyterian church for the cree
ton of tablet in the edifce, to
the memory of the late Rev. S. A.
Gayley, who for 81 years filled
that pulpit. A handsome memoir
ial window is also to be placed in
the church in commemoration OF
the Rev. Mr.. Gayley, by his sons.
Albert Constable, Esq, of Elkton
was one of the counsel for the
plaintiff in the suit of Mary Eta
Spear vs.. the p, B. & w. Railroad
Company, before the Superior
Court of Delaware, at Wilmington
last week, the suit being for
damages for the death of her hnS