The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-01-09
MINORLOCALS

lows cleared $40 by their fair held
in that. town during the holidays.
Jos. S. Scarborough, of Pleasant
Hill, has recently lost six of his
swine from some unknown disease.
A government pension of IS per
month has been issued to Mrs.
Margaret E. Vanneman, of Port
Deposit.
An interesting meeting of the
Young Friends Association was
held in the town hall on Sunday
afternoon last.
Harry L. Hess has purchased
the "Unicorn Hotel Farm" in
Lancaster county, which contains
80 acres, for s., 440.
Rev. Sunfeld, the Wilmington
M. E. Conference evangelist, is as
sisting with revival services at
Tome M. E. Church.
Miss Elizabeth Husfelt has re-
signed as teacher of public school
No. 1, District l, to take effect at
the close of the present term.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Tyson, of
Woodlawn, recently gave a family
dinner at which thirty of their
children and grandchildren were
present.
An entertainment will be given
in Hopewell church on Thursday
evening, Jan. Is, by Prof. S. L.
Ford, elocutionist. Admission,
25 cents.
A shed on the farm of Isaac
Gibbs of Bohemia Manor, collapsed
last week killing a pair of young
mules and a bull, which were sta.
bled in it at the time.
The sixth annual session of the
Maryland Delaware Peninsula Hor-
ticultural Society was held at New
ark, DEL, on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
The first trolley car was run over
the section of track recently COM
pleted from Kenneth to Clifton
Mills, Chester county, on Jan. list,
by the Vandegritt Company.
Oscar W. Deppler, of Farming
dale, N. j., has sold to John j.
Ryan & Co., of st. Louis, the Elk
ton Stock Farm, in Cecil county,
containing LAT acres, for $4,000.
The will of the late Mrs. Cynthia
Williams, Of Port Deposit, was
filed in the Orphans Court on
Saturday. Her estate is devised
to her husband, Thos. F. Williams.
The cracked lip disease, which
some years ago made such ravages
among Kent county live stock, has
reappeared in that county and is
occasioning much alarm among
stock raisers.
James Welsh, Il brakeman on
the Columbia and Port Deposit
railroad, was severely injured Mon
day night by falling from a freight
train near Conowingo. His home
is at Columbia, Pa.
During 1902 marriage licenses to
the number of 626 were issued in
Chester county-54 less than the
year before. There were 81 divor-
ces granted in the county last year,
against 81 the year before.
Special services began in Rising
Sun M. E. church on Sunday eve
ming last, and are being conducted
each night in the week, Saturday
excepted, under the direction of the
pastor, Rev. Fl. A. G. Westerield.
The ladies of the Mite Society
cleared about $50 by their annual
turkey dinner and supper held in
the basement of the M. E. church
on Saturday last. Seventy four
dinners were severed, besides as
many suppers as the ladies could
provide for.
The pupils of Oak Grove School
will give a musical and literary
entertainment next Wednesday,
Jan. IA. The program will consist
of songs, drills and farce entitled
"Our Lysander." The opening
chorus promptly at s O'Clock. II
stormy on above date, the enter
tainment will be given the next
fair evening.
Hopewell, Chester county, Ly-
ceum will wrestle with the Monroe
Doctrine on the evening of Jan. 16.
David Cope, Granville Coates, and
Prof ]. G. Wagner will try to con
vince the judges that it should be
repealed, while Chester Campbell,
Thompson Hudson and T. K
Stubs will make the welkin ring
with burning eloquence in defense
of this great principle.
The American grocer gives the
tomato pack of the United States
for 1902 as 1902, 912 cases. Mary,
land canneries put up nearly one.
half of the entire ack-4,514, 49,
cases. The Grocer comments or