The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-10-23
COU NTY NEWS.
Friday, Oct. 23. 1908.
MINOR LOCALS

entertained by Jos. L. Grove o
Wednesday, Nov. 2S.
civilian t. Seth has been az
pointed Postmaster at Bank, vic
ID. L. Baldwin resigned.
j. NJ. Holden has installed
gasoline engine at his meat market
to furnish power for his sausag
cutter.
Presiding Elder Rev. Roher
Watt will preach at Sylmar NJ. Z
church on Sunday afternoon next
at 2:30 o'clock.
Don't forget the oyster and poul
try supper at Colora on Thursday
Oct. 20, by the Ladies Aid Societ.
OF Mt. Pleasant NJ. e. church.
The public schools of the count,
will be closed next week in orde
to permit the teachers to attend
the annual institute at Elkton.
The Amassa G.. Brown farm o
100 acres near Bay View, was sole
Tuesday at Trustees sale, to Fran
els L. Worthington, for $1,000.
An important meeting of thu
W. G. T. U. will be held at thu
home of Mrs. Jos. S. Pogue or
Thursday, Oct. 20, at 2:3O O'Clock
The body of Lyman Sharp, who
was drowned from his boat while
ducking during the storm of Fri
day, Oct. 8, in North East river
was found Sunday off Whitaker's
point.
The colored republicans of Porl
Deposit have organized Stevenson
A. Williams Club. Jas. Fl. John
son is president, and S. A. Tildor
secretary.
Miss M. Emma Haines, who re
Gently resigned as principal OF Ris-
ing Sun Grammar School, has open
ed a private school at her home on
S. Queen street.
Hon. Isidor Rayner, one of the
democratic aspirants for United
States Senatorial honors, will speak
in Elkton during the closing week
of the campaign.
Miss Betsey Carr, an aged lady
who makes her home with the
family of s. 7. Hindman, of Colora,
is in precarious condition from a
paralytic stroke suffered on Sunday
last. sy -
Susquehanna Tribe of Red Men,
of Colora, attended morning SER
vices at the NJ. E. church in town
on Sunday last, the pastor, Rev.
III. A. G. Westerfeld, delivering a
special sermon.
The Democratic mass meeting at
Rowlandville on the evening OF
Saturday, Oct. "a, will be address
ed by Col. William T. Kilgour,
Hon. R. f. Leach and Austin L.
Crothers, Esq. A brass band will
be in attendance.
Alphonso J. McNamee, admins.
traitor of Annie H. McNamee, de.
ceased, on Thursday, of last week,
sold at public sale the farm of AZ
acres in West Nottingham town.
ship, Chester county, to Paul S.
McNamee, for $1460.
Monday, the 10th inst, being
the anniversary of the burning oil
the Peggy Stewart, at Annapolis,
in 1874, and also the anniversary
of the surrender of CORVALLIS at
Yorktown, the day was com
memorated by the public schools Of
the county by appropriate ex-
ercises.
Rev. A. S. Mowbray, of Tome
Memorial M. E. church, will give
one of his interesting lectures or
his recent European travels in the
M. E. church of this town on Fri
day evening, Both inst, at 7:3C
O'Clock, under the auspices of the
Epworth League. A silver offer.
ing will be taken at the door.
The twenty-fourth annual Teach.
ers' Institute will be held at Elk.
ton, in Mechanics Hall, Oct. 26 te
%. The Institute will be under
the supervision and direction o.
State Superintendent M. Bates
Stephens and County Examiner
George Biddle, representing the
County School Board.
The cannery operated by Chas
B. Silver, in this town, has shut
down after a very light pack
amounting to about 1000 cases
1t was expected fully 10000 case:
would be put up at this cannery
during the season but owing to thu
short crop of tomatoes in this i'm
mediate neighborhood less thar
half pack was made.
Mrs. Fannie Weaver, aged 81
years, was perhaps fatally burned
Wednesday afternoon at the HON,
of her daughter, Mrs. William s
Moore, near Cherry Hill. She was
stirring apple butter, when he
clothing caught fire and in an in